A review by amandamlyons
When Things Get Dark by Ellen Datlow

5.0

This anthology set out to gather some of the best writers of today to write Shirley Jackson stories in their own voices. I enjoyed them all but particularly enjoyed Skinder's Veil by Kelly Link, Quiet Dead Things by Cassandra Khaw, Refinery Road by Stephen Graham Jones, The Pear of Anguish by Gemma Files, Hag by Benjamin Percy, The Door in the Fence by Jeffrey Ford, and Tiptoe by Laird Barron, all of which stood out with their own unique spin on Jackson's tales of the ordinary and the strangeness lurking just beyond the face of that everyday world.