A review by carriethis
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense by Nick Gevers, Jack Dann

4.0

Personally I care not at all what the proper steampunk story might be. This collection introduced me to a fine new cadre of horror, speculative, supernatch storytellers, and I'm grateful. To name my favorites: Rose Street Attractors/Shepard; Christopher Raven/Goss; Blackwood's Baby/Barron. My biggest pleasant surprise was Peter S Beagle's Music, When Soft Voices Die. I'd heretofore thought of him as merely "the unicorn guy" (I'm sorry!!!), but this story is exquisite, dark, and haunting. Now that I returned the book to the library, I wish I could read that story again. At least, as fate would have it, mere days after reading and appreciating my first Beagle, I had the great luck to hear his story El Regalo read on the wonderful Podcastle. Seek that out, you should.