This is a fun, well written collection. There are some great authors here, some of whom I know well and some I am completely unfamiliar with. Thanks to this anthology I have a few new authors I will look into, now that we are introduced. No stories were "skip-worthy". They are all also satisfyingly weird. ( )

The Drifter - Jane Lindskold. Fairly average story about a sister who needs to find her brother before he causes more trouble.

Our Lady of the Vampires - Nancy Holder. An orphanage during the depression has an interesting group of protectors. I liked it.

Best Friends - Lilith Saintcrow. A stepfather may, or may not be, a vampire. Hijinks occurs. I quite enjoyed this story.

Elizabeth and Anna's Big Adventure - Jeanne C. Stein. Home invasion, saved by the babysitter. Its a cute, fairly average story.

Lupercalia - Anton Stout. I liked it. God of Love gets beat up by the woman he scorned.

Murder She Workshopped - Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Death comes to a book writing workshop. Fairly standard story.

Heart of Ash - Jim C. Hines. A nymph becomes what the people she bonds to wants, and revenge is all she can have when her last love gets killed. Another story that I enjoyed reading.

Jiang Shi - Elizabeth A. Vaughan. A woman is surprised to find out is the dragon, a wise one elder of an ancient Chinese Mythology. The story is a bit all over the place and hard to follow.

No Matter Where You Go - Tanya Huff. I've read the series with these characters. This a short story set in that world.

Signed in Blood - P.R. Frost. I liked this one. A pooka is trapped in a wold not his own.

Broch De Shlang - Mickey Zucker Reichert. This is the story that made this collection a 3 to a 2.5. This story is absolutely despicable, and should not have been written. A child with no brain is used as sacrifice to break a curse.

The Wooly Mountains - Alexander B. Potter. A supernatural creature is stirring up trouble in Vermont. I would actually read longer stories in this universe. This is my favorite story in the collection.

Invasive Species - Nina Kiriki Hoffman. The only science fiction story in the bunch. An exterminator needs to rid a spaceship of metal eating mites, only to find something much bigger. ( )

More feminist than I expected. ( )

This book has a great title, doesn't it? It does. Unfortunately, the title is the best part of the book. I love good short stories, but these stories are mostly on the mediocre side. ( )