Book Review: Night Lives: Nine Stories of the Dark Fantastic

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

[5 stars]

Night Lives: Nine Stories of the Dark Fantastic Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Phyllis Eisenstein
Class/Genre: Fantasy Fiction Horror [Short Stories]
Five Star, Apr 2003, $25.95, 290 pp.

Seven of the nine stories that make up this speculative fiction anthology were written between the mid-seventies and early eighties, insuring difficulty in finding them. The other two were furnished within the last six years. Each tale is dark as Phyllis Eisenstein shines a light on the innermost secret dreams of her varying protagonists. As the author explains in her introduction her contributions can be classified as fantasy or science fiction as she seems to have a leg in both genres. All the tales are top notch and fans of short fiction in a twilight Zone twist kind of way in which nothing is as it first seems will want to read NIGHT LIVES.

Harriet Klausner

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