Dark Duets: All-New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy
Seasoned fantasy/horror writer Golden set up this anthology to explore the potential of writers who have never collaborated before, joining forces to produce horror or dark fantasy short fiction. The result covers the entire spectrum of those genres, including paranormal romance, a recent addition to short fiction after a flourishing career at novel length. Some are between well-knowns and unknowns, some between comparative unknowns, and at least one is among three women, whose skill has turned what might have been a didactic bore into an absorbing exploration of gender working their way around one another. The level of both concept and execution is consistently high. And this volume also serves as a respectable introductory volume to its fields for smaller collections. --Roland Green