The Pan Book of Revenge Stories | 
so-soThere are good stories in here, but too many have aged poorly, misogynistic attitudes being particularly rife.
Of the good are those by W. W. Jacobs, Jack London, Jack Cope, Arthur Gordon, A. Neil Lyons and (of course) Edgar Allan Poe. At 43% of the content, I guess that's a reasonable amount.
It is with an unsteady hand that I place this book on the Charity Shop Pile 😱 It's a species of personal growth for me to not keep *every* book I've read!
Some funny looks from the neighbours as I stood in the street taking a photo of a book and a tree! This tree is one of the loveliest in the neighbourhood, though, when it's catching the late autumnal sun 🍂☀️ The grey clouds coming in from the Atlantic hold a promise of livid skies later.
And, the book looks like it should be good, gruesome fun 🗡💀🙃
@vivastory The anthology was published in 1971, so draws mainly on older writers, many "usual suspects" in the "Pan Book of..." series.
I got the van Vogt for the Bruce Pennington cover illustration (at least I'm 95% sure it's a Pennington: it could be a Richard Clifton-Dey pastiche, but it's intricate enough to be Bruce), and found I couldn't resist the gruesome cover for the Pan Book of Revenge Stories, which has some good authors in it.
