![]() ![]() But if Looming Low, Volume 1 presents itself as widely representative of contemporary weird fiction, then questions immediately arise as to the choice of authors-who was selected and who was not selected. I am far from being an advocate of “theme” anthologies, for in a distressing number of cases the volume’s “theme” is so narrow and artificial that it causes its lugubrious authors to turn all manner of somersaults in accommodating their ideas to it. The chief editor, the young Justin Steele, writes: “The twenty-six stories in this anthology were selected by Sam and I to give readers a look at some of the brightest voices in weird fiction today.” Well, that’s a pretty broad purview. ![]() ![]() There is, at the very outset, a lack of clarity as to what this book is actually meant to achieve. This bulky volume comes with a great many advance plaudits, mostly from the authors included in it but there is reason to doubt whether it is the be-all and end-all of contemporary weird anthologies. ![]()
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