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A review by holly_117
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows by Bruno Schulz, John Herdman, Chris Adrian, Kate Bernheimer, Karin Tidbeck, China Miéville, Jonathan Carroll, Karen Russell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Steve Stern, Marjorie Bowen, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Dean Paschal, Marjorie Sandor, Felisberto Hernández, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Edgar Allan Poe, Kelly Link, Ambrose Bierce, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Namwali Serpell, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Joan Aiken, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Aimee Bender, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Yōko Ogawa, Steven Millhauser
3.0
As with any short story collection, some stories were better than others. This collection was more good than bad, though there were a couple of stories I really disliked - namely The Sand-man, The Stoker, and The Usher.
I particularly enjoyed Berenice, On The Water, Pomegranate Seed, The Waiting Room, Paranoia, The Jesters, Phantoms, On Jacob's Ladder, Old Mrs. J, Stone Animals, Foundation, Reindeer Mountain, and Haunting Olivia. (That seems like a lot, but there are 32 short stories in this book.)
Overall, this was a pretty good collection. I'd recommend it if you're looking for stories that are kind of eerie, but not TOO scary.
I particularly enjoyed Berenice, On The Water, Pomegranate Seed, The Waiting Room, Paranoia, The Jesters, Phantoms, On Jacob's Ladder, Old Mrs. J, Stone Animals, Foundation, Reindeer Mountain, and Haunting Olivia. (That seems like a lot, but there are 32 short stories in this book.)
Overall, this was a pretty good collection. I'd recommend it if you're looking for stories that are kind of eerie, but not TOO scary.