The Outcast Hours by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (co-editors)

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour of The Outcast Hours, which is an anthology of short stories all about the hours after dark and events that might happen in the night, co-edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin.



Including stories by Marina Warner, China Miéville, Frances Hardinge, Will Hill, Sally Partridge, Jesse Bullington, Jeffrey Alan Love, Kuzhali Manickavel, Amira Salah-Ahmed, Cecilia Ekbäck, Celeste Baker, Karen Onojaife, Daniel Polansky, Genevieve Valentine, Indrapramit Das, Leah Moore, Sam Beckbessinger, Sami Shah, Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Yukimi Ogawa, Lavie Tidhar, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Genevieve Valentine, Maha Khan Phillips, William Boyle, S.L. Grey, M. Suddain, and Omar Robert Hamilton.. (less)

About the book from Goodreads

Bold new anthology from the acclaimed editors of The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

We live our lives in the daylight. Our stories take place under the sun: bright, clear, unafraid.

This is not a book of those stories.

These are the stories of people who live at night; under neon and starlight, and never the light of day.

These are the stories of poets and police; writers and waiters; gamers and goddesses; tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.

These are their lives. These are their stories. And this is their time: The Outcast Hours.

My thoughts

I was really happy that I had the chance to take part in the Blog Tour for this book. Short stories are great they keep the reader engaged for a brief amount of time and are the perfect thing to pick up in between longer books to cleanse the literary palette. Co-edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin they have collected a wide range of short stories based on the hours after dark, known as The Outcast Hours.

The short stories cover a wide range of genres and some are not suitable for the faint hearted, but the beauty of reading an anthology of short stories is that should you not like one of them for whatever reason, there are plenty of others that might whet your literary whistle. 

I enjoyed the majority of the short stories, but a couple of them were not up my street. It was the subject matter of the story that I wasn't keen on that's all. There was one thing in common though they were all well written.

I gave this an 8/10 or 4 stars. My thanks to Tracy Fenton of TBConFB for organising the tour.

Finally a Competition

I was sent an e-book and also a tree book version of this book. So if you fancy a chance of reading this anthology for yourself, I am offering the tree book in a giveaway.

To enter the competition all I ask is that you visit my twitter account @Wyres67 and follow the rules of the pinned tweet to enter.