Ursula Pflug reviews The New Weird
on IRofSF. Nice, eccentric, and nuanced review. Lots of other cool content, too. You have to sign up to get a login and password.Excerpt:And while I have given more bandwidth to some authors than to others, every story herein is nevertheless worth reading; this anthology is a must for lovers of literate dark fiction. To paraphrase Bishop, it will not represent drowned hours in a person's life, unless we take that to mean drowned in a good way.Also, after reading this anthology I had a dream in which my beautiful friend turned without warning into a Cyclopean arachnid and while this was startling to say the least, it was not an entirely bad thing, as in his new form he was able to impart metaphysical truths known by few. If one way to grade an anthology is by its ability to provide fascinating dreams, then The New Weird gets an A+.
