Book Review: Bell, Book & Beyond

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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P. D. Cacek
Class/Genre:   Fiction   Horror   [Short Stories]
Design Image, Nov 2000, $15.95, 286 pp.

The Horror Writers Association (known for the Stroker Award) had twenty-one affiliate members (new authors with a limited published résumé) contribute a short story centering on witches and their ilk. The tales take place in a variety of locales including common mundane venues like suburbia (the next election, pundits will follow the suburban witch crowd). The tales are all well written though some seem more magical.

Readers will enjoy this often-frightening yet somewhat satirical collection. BELL, BOOK, & BEYOND provides a glimpse of future "kings and queens" of the genre, but in an entertaining way. With no weak contribution, genre fans will obtain a taste of the destined in this witchcrafty anthology.

Harriet Klausner

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