Down These Strange Streets: Library Edition

from FCH123

Some were good, others I didn't get past the first page. And not all of them were actually Urban Fantasy (Gabaldon's Lord John in 18th century Jamaica? Dashiell Hammett and an unnamed narrator in WWII Alaska?) Enjoyable bits of mystery among the longer stuff I am reading right now. And I will def...

from JLsBibliomania

I loved this collection of short stories, which I actually "read" as a book on CD. As stated in the opening essay - there's been a lot of "urban fantasy" written recently where vampires and werewolves are alive, well and living in St. Louis or Toronto (only the fae seem to like LA) and the bump i...

from SunnySD

The short stories in this one have teeth - and they're not using them for smiling. Grabbed it for the short story "In Red, with Pearls" by Patricia Briggs featuring P.I. Warren Smith and lawyer boyfriend Kyle (which I enjoyed), and was short time to give the rest a thorough read. Skimming didn't ...

from quondame

The best mixed author collection I've read in some time. Being able to bring good, well known authors in helps a great deal.

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George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, neither of which are names I instantly associate with urban fantasy, edit this collection of short stories. Martin makes the claim in the introduction that Urban Fantasy is the bastard child of two genres: Noir and Horror. I can see his point, to a degree, ...