A review by shalot
The Secret History of Fantasy by Octavia E. Butler, Kij Johnson, T.C. Boyle, Yann Martel, Peter S. Beagle, Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, David G. Hartwell, Michael Swanwick, Gregory Maguire, Patricia A. McKillip, Francesca Lia Block, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, Terry Bisson, Robert Holdstock, Aimee Bender, Jeffrey Ford, Steven Millhauser, Maureen F. McHugh

3.0

This collection was just alright. I didn't find myself reaching for it out of interest but I wanted to get through it since I owned it. The stories that I thought were the best were 'Lady of the Skulls' by Patricia A. McKillip, 'The Barnum Museum' by Steven Millhauser, 'The Empire of Ice Cream' by Jeffrey Ford, and 'John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner' by Susanna Clarke. The one nice surprise from the book is that Yann Martel's story was 4 stars: amazing because I hated 'Life of Pi' so much.