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Shortlisted for best anthology in the Shirley Jackson Awards. From the greatest names in fantasy and horror comes an anthology of stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Join Alice as she is thrown into the whirlwind of Wonderland Within these pages you'll find myriad approaches to Alice, from horror to historical, taking us from the nightmarish reaches of the imagination to tales that will shock, surprise and tug on the heart-strings. So, it's time now to go down the rabbit hole, or through the looking-glass or... But no, wait. By picking up this book and starting to read it you're already there, can't you see? Brand-new works from the best in fantastical fiction M.R. CAREY MARK CHADBOURN GENEVIEVE COGMAN JONATHAN GREEN ALISON LITTLEWOOD JAMES LOVEGROVE L.L. McKINNEY GEORGE MANN JULIET MARILLIER LAURA MAURO CAT RAMBO LILITH SAINTCROW CAVAN SCOTT ROBERT SHEARMAN ANGELA SLATTER CATRIONA WARD JANE YOLEN RIO YOUERS
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A very mixed bag. A lot of the stories didn't have much to do with Alice in wonderland other than a random name drop or an out of place quote that everyone uses all the time. A couple of the stories also made 0 sense, even without tying it to wonderland.
I think there was only really 1 story I enjoyed. It was set in Osaka, Japan and felt like it was more based on the film Spirited Away rather than Alice.
For any other dyslexics, one of the stories towards the end has a... Unique.. Writing style, it got very hard to read and I ended up mostly skipping past it after a page. Bad grammar and sentence flow was constant in it.
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