The Best of Three Crows

A short story anthology with a focus on weird science fiction and fantasy - and this does creep into other areas of speculative fiction with a distinctive horror tilt to some of the stories. Weird is definitely a good descriptor for a lot of the stories here. As with any anthology there is an unevenness to the quality, with some stories definitely superior to others. In the end it was the more well known and familiar authors who produced the stories I enjoyed the most - RJ Barker and Anna Smith Spark's efforts were the two highlights for me, with Barker exploring a strange circus with some kind of monstrous riggers for the bigtop, and Anna Smith Spark returning to the world of ‘A Court of Broken Knives' and telling the story of one of the bystanders within the world.

An interesting read, and most of the stories were pretty short and easy to digest.