A contentious retelling of the early days of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, interesting and well written but not entirely convincing.

Interesting to read about the events that lead up to the [author_link_718] film "Aliens", released in 1986.

Ghost hunting using modern Police techniques.

Strictly speaking not all the stories are Ghost Stories and are closer to being Gothic Tales.

Dated Gothic fiction that can can be difficult for the contemporary reader to follow.

Reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant

It started well but soon the story became reliant on coincidences and happy chance, many of the characters are one dimensional and some of the plot developments are just ridiculous.

Overall a very mediocre book.

A fairly dark story with a twist at the end.

Pacifist science fiction for a change.

An esoteric collection of weird fiction that deserves to be better known than it is.

Not an easy book to comprehend.

The Palleseen’s relentless pursuit of Perfection and Correctness continues with a few twists and turns along the way, possibly providing a clue has to how the series will conclude.

This novel provides the background story of Sage Invigilator Angilly and whilst it is not essential to have read it before Days of Shattered Faith I'm glad that I had.

Another excellent anthology from the British Library featuring stories from relatively obscure authors who all deserve to be better known.

If I had to pick a favourite it would be "The Underbody" by Alison V. Harding.

An eclectic collection of stories some of which are ridiculous by today's standards but are worth reading just to appreciate how ideas have changed.

The stand out story is"Dead Centre" by Judith Merrill which concentrates on the heroes family but worthy contributions are also made by Edmond Hamilton, Paul Ernst and Gordon R Dickson.

Mike Ashley's Introduction is also very good and clearly well researched

A great many Sherlock Holmes stories have been written since the passing of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but very few authors have managed to capture his style happily David Stuart Davies has done just this. Both stories are extremely well written and could very easily pass for the work of Conan Doyle were it not for the fact that they contain a supernatural element, in “The Shadow of the Rat” Holmes encounters a European Baroness with psychic powers and in “The Tangled Skein” he crosses swords with the Prince of Darkness himself. Stuart Davies has written several other Holmes stories including “The Scroll of the Dead” which despite the promising title the antagonist proves to be no more spectral than the Sussex Vampire or the Hound of the Baskervilles.

Recommended to anyone who just cannot get enough Sherlock Holmes.

An Alien Invasion story with a difference, rather than destroy the planet they try to buy it.

There is a certain similarity with The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney but there is also an element of social commentary and its a great pity it was never made into a film back in the 1960s as it could have been one of the Film Noir Sci-Fi classics.

Recommended to lovers of the original Twilight Zone series.