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Over all, a really fantastic collection of short stories. While the collection is over a decade old, I was pleased to find that I hadn't read anything in it before. (Or, if I had, I don't remember and thus it was new again.) My favorite, I think, was Joyce Carol Oates. I'm not recalling the title, but the language is still haunting me (forgive the pun), which always means a very strong story to me. Mad Dog Summer, now it's the author I'm forgetting, was also really memorable as it felt a bit like Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor somehow; and while not a supernatural horror story, it was horror all the same. The story I liked least was William Peter Blatty's Elsewhere. I recently re-read the Exorcist and found it lacking. Elsewhere was, I suppose, predictable. Again, another annoying female character that just made me want to skip over any part where she appeared. It felt like a cheap version of Shirley Jackson's novel, Hell House, and The Others (yeah, that Nicole Kidman film). So, definitely worth reading for nearly every story. Just skip the last.