My favourite story was Jon McGregor's. Close behind were pieces by Jo Lloyd, Winterson, MacLeod, and Robert Shearman. Several others were good reads too, in different ways - Tinker, Powell, Gough, Lane, Michael Marshall Smith. The only piece whose inclusion I didn't understand (every anthology needs one, though readers disagree over which one it is) was Adams'.
Ramsey Campbell was a name from the past. He built up a mood by using many comparisons to sad childhood memories and spooky things - p.136 has "put him in mind of" twice and "not unlike" once as an attempt not to over-use "like" or "seemed to".
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