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The Second Black Book of Horror

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I have a story in this collection but I'm happy to admit that in all honesty mine felt like the runt of the litter.

I haven't read any horror book in a while that gripped me so much from the start. The stories seem to have an uncanny balance with each other while being very different.

Rog Pile's 'The Pit' was a special favourite, evoking something sinister and deep, with an almost indescribable overtone of pathos. I was profoundly stuck by David Sutton's 'Amygdala', which offers an image that will rest for a long and uneasy time in my head.

Having said this I have a strong feeling that I am going to immediately reread The Second Black Book of Horror and reveal that the preceding stories were not quite up to the ones I left out.

This little gem puts paid to the 'their first album was great but the second one was duff' theory.

I feel like clapping.

I had read the first volume in this series, which was unusually good, so I bought the second with, frankly, a little trepidation since sequels rarely live up to the original. I was pleased to find that Charles Black didn't let me down. A fun read for fans of the genre.