Barbara D'Amato, Sue Henry, Jill Churchill, and Alan Russell are a few of the authors in this collection of mysteries. The stories are short and there is information about each author and the books they've written at the end of each story. I think the Malice Domestic series offers the best story selection of any of the anthologies I've read

After enjoying "Holmes for the Holidays", I was glad that the editors were putting out a second volume of Christmas stories involving Holmes and Watson. Some of the writings in this book were better than those in the first version, and some weren't that great. One of my favorites was "The Adventure of the Second Violet"--I thought it was very clever!

A Newbery Halloween is a collection of short, humorous stories with plenty of fantasy. It is filled with great spell binding stories for the whole family!

Nice, consistent collection of horror short stories.

Having just finished Pharaoh Fantastic in just over 2 days I can safely say that it's a fun, lively vacation book and perfect for a bit of light reading. It has a variety of stories, some better than others. They include:

·Succession by Tanya Huff- ****One of the best stories in this novel, it shows that magic exacts a price, especially when one is greedy*****
·The Voice of Authority by Jody Lynn Nye
·Beneath the Eye of the Hawk by Jane Lindskold
·A Light in the Desert by Rosemary Edghill
·The Scroll of Wisdom by Josepha Sherman
·Whatever was Forgotten by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
·Let Our People Go by Michey Zucker Reichert
·To See Beyond the Darkness by Bill McCay
·A Lion Set Loose Upon the World by Brendan DuBois **** Not only one of the best stories in this novel, it's a chilling horror story featuring the Lion goddess Sekhmet****
·Games of Fate by Fiona Patton
·The Spin Wizard by Laura Resnick ****This story is laugh out loud funny!****
·That God Won't Hunt by Susan Sizemore **** Susan Sizemore delights again in what is my favorite story in the book! Definitely check this one out!****
·Basted by Alan Dean Foster

... looking for a great, easy read, then check this one out for sure. ...

I've read all the dinosaur fiction collections by martin h. greenburg and this book is one of the better ones, though a couple of the stories are a little hard to follow, they all turned out great, and it has more of a lighter side than his other anthologies( based on dinosaurs), you can also try his other books, DINOSAURS, DINOSAURS 2, and DINOSAUR FANTASTIC, the only thing that bugged me was that some stories are republished in other volumes, good dino fiction is hard to come by, and this is it.

Reading the list of authors that have contrbuted to this book is like reading a Who's Who in the world of fantasy fiction. In "Treasures of Fantasy" you will find stories that make you shiver, cry, or laugh, stories that open new doors of imagination.

While one or two of the authors' styles can be confusing within the context of the others (and boy! do some of these stories make a person really think!), on the whole this is a wonderfully diverse collection of adventures for the reader to join.

From a magic valley that seems to alter the fabric of space, to a child who can do anything simply because no-one's told him he can't, to the rediscovery of mankind's ancient "little people" on a planet far from Earth, this book captured my imagination and my heart.

A must-read for all fantasy/sci-fi fans!

Compiled by Martin H. Greenberg this is an anthology of 21 mysteries involving cats. Previously published short stories by Lilian Jackson Braun, of the famous "Cat Who" mysteries; Bill Crider and 19 others most of the short stories are interesting. They, for the most part, are quick reads, for this reader wanted to get to the next cat tale.

When I first saw this book I was amused, but doubted that I would find any really good horror inside. The first two stories were pretty dreadful, and not in a good way. But once I start a book, I can't put it down so I kept reading. I'm glad that I did.

Once you get past the first few stories, this book is full of some very good horror stories that just happen to involve the White House or the office of President. But the stories themselves are well crafted and terrifying. Some of the best are:

Night of the Vegetables by Edward Lee- this story was so funny that I was laughing out loud. Not a very scary story, but great, nonetheless.

Creature Congress by Terry Beatty and Wendi Lee- Do not pass up this story! It has some great dialog and is good horrific fun.

Jack Be Quick by Graham Masterson is go good and spooky that it is now one of my favorite horror stories of all time. One of the best and most original takes on the JFK assassination that I have ever read.

This anthology contains 16 short stories by a wide range of authors. So if you're looking for a smart, fun horror anthology, give White House Horrors a try. You won't be disappointed.

If the title of "The Best Alternative History Stories of the 20th Century" is truly accurate, then there must be a shortage of great stories in this particular subgenre. To start with, there are a total of only 14 stories in the 415 pages of text. Two of them, Ward Just's Civil War time travel saga "Bring the Jubilee" and Brad Linaweaver's Nazi nuclear victory space exploration story "Moon of Ice" take up close to half of the book.

The rest are a mixed bag. Allen Steele's entertaining, "The Death of Captain Future" was my personal favorite, but it read like straight science fiction to me, I couldn't detect any "alternative history" in it. Most of the others feature history changes that are trivial (Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Lucky Strike," Susan Shwartz's "Suppose They Gave a Peace") or just not enough of a twist to be truly interesting. My overall impression was that the stories in the book are just not as compelling as the many recent collections of speculative historical essays (the "What If" books, for example).

This is a mostly enjoyable collection of innovative stories, but the title of the anthology is far from accurate. Of course anyone can argue about what the "best" stories are in a certain category, but the bigger problem here is that this collection is not entirely Alternate History (AH). This is surprising for a collection compiled by Turtledove, who of course is one of the great practitioners of that genre. This appears to be an editorial challenge as the publisher may have requested a collection applied to the "category" of AH, only to reveal that this is a very difficult label to define. Some tales like Jack L. Chalker's "Dance Band on the Titanic," Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner's "Mozart in Mirrorshades," and others are merely time travel stories with the familiar don't-alter-the future theme. "The Death of Captain Future" by Allen Steele is a fun story but an inexplicable addition to this anthology, as it is straight sci-fi without the slightest hint of AH.

The stories that really are AH are high quality and make this collection mostly a success, but they only make up a distressingly small percentage of the book. In fact, the story of his own that Turtledove contributes to this book (perhaps suspiciously), "Islands in the Sea," is one of the best and actually sticks most closely to the supposed theme of AH. Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Lucky Strike" is surely a classic of straight-up AH, while the most enjoyable story here is William Sanders' "The Undiscovered," a comic tale of Shakespeare trying to put on a production of Hamlet with an adopted tribe of New World Indians. Rest assured that most of the stories here are good and even great, but the title of the anthology is not entirely accurate.

It is a very good book.
Some of it may not be exactly A/H but it's close enough interesting enough and certainly written well enough by all of the authors to be called Very Good A/H.
I won't go into detail about all of the story's because there is enough on the books page that describes it well, however I will say that I found Niven's "All The Myriad Ways " a disturbing but new way for me to look at parallel universes and good enough for me to say it is the best story in the book (to me).