A review by tregina
The Shadow Over Portage And Main by Richard Crow, Daria Patrie, Dustin Geeraert, Zacharie Montreuil, Brock Peters, John Elizabeth Stintzi, Christina Koblun, David Annandale, Josh Moore, Keith Cadieux, Elin Thordarson, Géza A.G. Reilly, Joanna Graham, Jeremy R. Strong, Jonathan Ball, Eric Bradshaw

4.0

I was deeply impressed by the quality of fiction in this anthology, which was consistently high. Maybe I felt it was more so because the vast majority of stories were definitely to my taste, but there wasn't a dud in the bunch. I picked up the book because of the setting, because there is a certain thrill to recognising bits and pieces of a place you know, but it just ended up being so much more than that. Winnipeg IS strange and a little gothic and these stories captured that often without even naming it. And I have to say, that preface is one of the most bleak and perfect things I've ever read about the city.