If for nothing else this encouraged me to look at reading more Ray Bradbury. This is a collection in honour of him and most of the stories have serious stings in their tails.

By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain written by Joe Hill it's a story of two children who find a strange creature and then have to deal with what happens afterwards.

Neil Gaiman's The Man who forgot Ray Bradbury is touching and strange and quite eerie, and made me think of people in my life who I've forgotten.

Audrey Niffenegger's story of a cruise and about past, present and future. Quietly sad.

Live Forever by Sam Weller is one of those stories that creeps up on you and left me slightly twitchy.

Harlan Ellison's Weariness is just plain weird.

Who Knocks by Dave Eggers I could see what was going to happen and I felt that failure to be able to do anything about the inevitable.

Charles Yu's Earth: A gift shop is so inevitable that it's scary.

Altermor, where the dogs dance by Mort Castle is just heartbreaking and sweet at the same time. A grandfather talks to his grandson about death.

I loved Conjure by Alice Hoffman, a story of quiet life and a helpful librarian and a betrayal that isn't and I loved Chris Evenhuis's art.

An interesting collection that's somewhat bleak but also interesting. There also seem to be a few different editions of this, I haven't left out any of the stories. ( )