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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2018 20:20:15 GMT
S. M. & Jan Stirling - The Release: Don reluctantly accompanies activist Lisa on a raid on a New York Animal-testing laboratory. Between them they release a number of baby crocodiles before escaping via the sewer. Unfortunately for them both, Lisa's vandalism of the glassware has released a deadly chemical.
Lawrence Watt-Evans - Sit!: Big Bill Benson is tired of boxing for chump change. How comes nobody every recognises him on the street? His manager, Ken de Carlo, insists Bill is big news, it's just that white folk can't tell black bro's apart. Bill borrows a mean looking dog to conduct an experiment.
Josepha Sherman - Doggedly: A battle of were-creatures. Duke the docile Doberman heroically sees off an intruder intent on eating an infant in it's cot. Everyone says how brave he is, but Duke has an ulterior motive.
S. P. Somtow - The Ugliest Duckling: A centuries old vampire in West Hollywood destroys a serial killer and gives a dying street kid a break.
Reminds me of a Marty Greenberg anthology in that, come tomorrow, I'll likely have forgotten ever having read these.
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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2018 19:07:18 GMT
Jody Lynn Nye - The Bicycle Messenger from Hell: Ms. Debbie Wurtz inadvertently traded her soul to obtain her hearts desire. With her advertising agency thriving, the Devil sends his road-hog courier to collect. Seems to be based on the urban myth that a wave of psycho cyclists were deliberately targeting pedestrians.
Laura Resnick & Kathy Chwedyk - She of the Night: Lilith doesn't care that husband Hugo Adams has left her for a blonde bimbo named Evie, she just wants her coat back before it ... hatches.
Christie Golden - The Remaking of Millie McCoy: Overweight, unloved and wondering if life has a purpose, Millie drives to Mexico on a whim. She adopts the strangest, mangiest stray dog, whereupon everything changes for the better. Not sure what this story is doing in a collection called Urban Horrors.
John J. Ordover - Tales from the White Castle: Somewhere in NYC there's a sculpture carved in plutonium.
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Post by dem bones on May 10, 2020 17:12:38 GMT
Ellen Guon - Disney on Ice: Did Walt have himself cryogenically frozen and laid beneath Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland to welch on keeping his side of a pact with Satan?
Keith R. A. DeCandido - How You Can Prevent Forest Fires ...: Why there is invariably a corpse in full scuba gear found up what's left of a tree after a forest fire. Must admit the bizarre ending caught me on the hop.
Laura Anne Gilman - Along Came a Spider...: Newt impulsively steals a pack of the latest chewing gum from the store. Big brother Robbie teases him not to swallow any as the batch is contaminated - it's since been confirmed the factory was spider infested. There's something stirring in Newt's nostril ...
Lois Tilton - My Naggilator: Michael Bixter is forever tormenting icky little sis Corrie until Mom caves in and buys her a little felt alligator from the toy store. A modicum of cosmetic surgery and Corrie's fiery 'Naggilator' is ready to take on all comers.
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Post by dem bones on May 11, 2020 8:45:59 GMT
Bill Crider - What a Croc!: Captain Hook and the faithful Willem finally catch up with the crocodile who ate his hand in the Innsbruck sewers. Tick .... tock. Tick .... tock. Good fun. Hook revealed as big fan of The Silence of the Lambs - he likes Buffalo Bill's goggles. eluki bes shahar - A Ghost of Night and Shadows: Eighty years on from the tragedy of November 1st 1918, the ghost of the five-car 'Malborne local' still rides the New York subway. Board at your peril.
Barbara Paul - Payback: Molly Showater, Dallas Herald columnist and witch, takes to the internet to avenge herself on Bobby Jo Miller, the new cowgal hotshot in the legal department. Also explodes a myth re the recipe for something called Neiman Marcus cookies.
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