Review for Pandora's Nightmare: Horror Unleashed from Pill Hill Press, edited by Jessica A. Weiss

I am a big fan of anthologies.  Well, I’m a big fan of books in general, but anthologies in particular.  I love being able to get a taste of multiple writers’ styles.  Sometimes you get an anthology full of 15 or 20 stories and get 2, maybe 3, really good ones.  It’s a little disappointing.  Sometimes, though, you get an entire book full of fantastic stories from very talented authors.

On a similar note, sometimes you get an anthology that reads like the editor didn’t even know how to use spell check.  That’s not the case with this book, either.  While there may be a few errors, it’s obvious that the editor took great care.  I have, after all, found editing errors in books from major publishers, and I’m willing to overlook a lot of mistakes.

As far as the actual stories go, we get a fantastic collection of very diverse stories from authors with very diverse writing styles.  Pill Hill Press puts out some great anthologies and this one is no exception.  What a great idea for an anthology theme, when we usually get the same stuff, like zombies, vampires, serial killers, aliens, whatever.  Not that I’m saying that I have a problem with those, but just the uniqueness of the topic of this book was a nice change of pace for me.

Again, it’s very refreshing to see a unique idea for an anthology in the horror genre.  Very well done and worth checking out!