Petey's
Fiction Review
Borderlands 5
Edited
by Elizabeth E. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone
In the tradition of earlier Borderlands volumes, Borderlands
5 expands the literary boundaries of imaginative fiction
into territory that's guaranteed to blow your mind. The editors
Monteleone carefully selected 25 stories—by 25 writers
who are particularly adept at creating short, dark fantasy,
suspense and horror fiction—that will push you toward the
fine line that separates sanity from utter madness.
Drawn
from the darkest areas of the imagination, these short stories
explore the borderlands of rationality, cast a pale light into
shadows that obscure the outer limits of reality, and transgress
freely into the realms of the surreal. Chosen from some 700
submissions, the original short stories in this excellent anthology
represent some of the finest work by some of the best writers
contributing to the dark fantasy/suspense/horror genres today.
Contributing
authors Stephen King (Stationary Bike), Whitley Strieber
(Father Bob and Bobby), Tom Piccirilli (Around It
Still the Sumac Grows), John Farris (Story Time with
the Bluefield Strangler), Gene O'Neill (Magic Numbers),
and a score of lesser-known—a temporary condition, I assure
you—but comparably talented writers, plow virgin ground
in the fertile fields of imagination. Although the stories found
in Borderlands
5 lack the usual werewolves, vampires and traditional
ghostly villains, they still retain the power to terrify, and
then to haunt long after the terror is gone.
Borderlands
5 editors Elizabeth E. Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone,
publishers of earlier Borderlands volumes, are hard at
work on Borderlands 6.
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Review
by Phil Hanson
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