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This is a must-read for any short horror fan. You get a bunch of great stories by some of the best writers in the field today, with some real standouts and not a single dud. Kudos to the authors and the editor!

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Mixed Bag

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2022

I liked Written in Water, Phoenix, Womb with a View, and Midnight in the Southland. Did not enjoy the other stories at all.

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Alex Pearson

Powerful TOC!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2021

LIMINAL SPACES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARK SPECULATIVE FICTION is filled with such an impressive lineup of authors that you can't NOT get this one. Not only am I impressed with the caliber of authors listed in the TOC, but I am even more blown away at how my extremely high expectations (which probably isn't fair) were met story after story after story. It's extremely rare for me to find an anthology that totally blows me away cover to cover, but this one does it in spades.

According to the summary, ‘liminal’ means ‘threshold' and so a liminal space is a ‘crossing over’ space (or a space where you've left something behind, yet you aren't totally in something else) It’s a transition space - an in-between space. Some of these stories I was able to distinctly make that connection whereas others I had to think about some (and there's no right or wrong way to go about that). All the authors brought forth their own interpretations and all the stories are just so good. Like... SO GOOD!

I alluded earlier that not all anthologies are a solid knockout from beginning to end, but this one is for me. Every story had me totally invested. Some stories were more quiet than others while some were quirky, fast-paced, and right in your face. I did love every single story here and if rated individually, they all get a 5 star from me. But below are my personal favorites:

"Written in Water" - Robert Ford
"Phoenix" - Mark Allan Gunnells
"Sharp Echoes" - Kelli Owen
"Womb With a View" - Chad Lutzke
"Back to One" - Jessica McHugh

This anthology is one to be read with as few distractions as possible. Turn off the TV. Put your phone somewhere else. And just cozy up with your beverage of choice, a blanket, and maybe your furbaby... and really let these stories be absorbed. An anthology this good with all these authors in one place should almost be illegal. Lucky for us it isn't.

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Paul Preston

Tales from the darkside

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2021

“My life has become a sum of all the ways a person can be powerless.” -Kristi DeMeester from her story The Animal of Our Bodies
Sometimes it feels like we are there, in between, in a liminal space. A transitional space where we are neither one thing or another.
Disturbing and dark, these are stories of places you don’t want to find yourself. Reminiscent of the old Tales From the Darkside where regular people slip off the path of normality.
Wander into the drive-in, the parking garage, the delivery room, the bar, or the cat cafe- however, you won’t walk out the same, assuming you walk out at all.
Great writing with a wide variety of settings and styles that come together to create a nice collection of suffering.

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Emily

Spooky

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 26, 2021

Chilling stories about what happens when life takes a turn into a unexpected place. Where anything can happen . Ordinary people and places can become something else altogether. Come visit the dark places these talented authors created. I received a complementary copy and left a voluntary review.

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Allonah

Not Disappointed at All!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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I loved all of the stories in this anthology. Of course, I had favorites too. Maybe one or two I didn't really understand, but I liked them too.

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