It’s a mixed bag, but most anthologies are. I still recommend it. I always do bad news first, so let’s start with my least favorites. Most of the stories I didn’t like were unfair, bad guys won, good guys lost, world was screwed. Some of them were creepy, but just not worth another read because of the disappointing endings. My three least favorites were Russian Dollhouse, Last Call At the Sudden Death Saloon and Justin’s Favorite. Justin was a nice guy who had taken care of his family when necessary and while a little bit frightening, it didn’t end at all well for me. The Dollhouse wasn’t nice at all. Not the beginning. Not the end. And I have a serious fear of worms and this story was disgusting. The Sudden Death Saloon was by far my least favorite though, but since I don’t want to spoil it outright, I’ll just say that there is no point. It’s like, here’s the good, here’s the bad, the end. Nothing really happens to give the story a point for being a story at all.
The stories I think are good, are good because there’s justice or comeuppances and very often, incredibly creepy. I have several I want to mention and here I go. Cool for Cats is cool because I love cats and justice tastes like milk. Bettor’s Edge is about a man who bets on anything and literally, everything, even death. But the real story is about a dead girl. Trust me, it’s good. The Glimmer Girls is also, coincidentally, a story about dead girls, but this one is even scarier. I loved the ending. Haunted World is a story about all those dumb people that assume they know everything about ghosts, including the fact that they cannot hurt you. My absolute favorite though, was The Putpocket. Never realized the opposite of a pickpocket could be so much more terrible. But this story had horror and heart. I really dug it.