I think what I like about her Best of Horror anthologies is that they’re more what I would call dark fantasy, or perhaps literary horror, mixed in with a few more extreme, graphic stories–which my stomach can only take so much of (I used to watch E.R. every week, and had to squint my eyes closed during the surgery scenes).

Plus I’ve discovered some really amazing writers. In volume 2 alone, just finished Norman Prentiss’s “In the Porches of My Ears”, which was outstanding. And from reading her summation of the year, in the Collections section, saw her call Barbara Roden’s “Northwest Passages”, “One of the best collections of the year.” She also noted that one of the stories was in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror volume 19. I have them all on my bookshelf, but haven’t read most of them yet. I pulled that one out to read the Barbara Roden story, and it was beautifully written and very interesting. Already bought the eBook of the collection.