Black Feathers
By Ellen Datlow
3.5/5
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Ellen Datlow
ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep, Echoes, Final Cuts, Body Shocks, and When Things Get Dark. She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar.
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Reviews for Black Feathers
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an interesting and varied collection of avian themed stories. Some are subtle in their horror, but they are all dark tales.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a deeply uncomfortable and metaphorical book. The stories are all very well written, but if you're looking for fantasies about killer birds or supernatural birds, there's only a bit of that here. Most of the tales are stories of helplessness, despair, and all-too-real tragedy. The greatest theme is women's fear of men - that men will harm or kill them, or harm or kill children. There are a few stories that break this theme, but if you're not comfortable reading about women and children at the mercy of insane or unfathomable violent men, you may not want to pick this book up. This is not to say this is a book full of sexual violence - it's all very metaphorical, symbolic, and dreamlike. I would say my favorite story in the book is one that broke this mold - a tale of birds acting as psychopomps (ferrying the souls of the dead to the afterlife).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book received from Goodreads Giveaways.This was pretty good. There were some really creepy stories in this anthology starting with the poem that starts the whole thing. I think the one that got me the most was the one with the husband being obsessed with owls. I believe that one stuck out for me since most of the stories revolve around the family Corvidae, mainly crows, magpies, and ravens. I have read other books that Ellen Datlow has had a part of but I think this is my favorite. If you want a good creepy book on a rainy night, but one that's not too scary, this is a good book for you.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I have officially given up on this anthology of “Dark Avian Tales”After attempting to read 7 of the stories, I DNF’d 4 of them because they were either boring, drawn out, unnecessarily Info dumping or written in an interview style (yah I didn’t like that one a lot)I was so excited to read some stories that were marketed as dark and centered around birds as I absolutely love and adore birds. But out of the 7, only one actually hit that Dark vibe and that was the 2nd storyThe Obscure Bird by Nicholas Royle,the tale was just so intriguing and then the very last page gave it that creepy dark twist and oh was it so good.After that each story just plummeted in keeping me interested or entertained, I only made it through two others all the way and one was a poem and the other was basically about a dude on drugs the whole time, so that wasn’t dark at all, it was just a dude making poor life choices, I finished it and was like“Well that my friends is why I don’t do drugs”After trying for 7 stories and only truly liking one, and just getting more and more frustrated with the next tale, I’m giving up. This isn’t what I had hoped it would be and I’m sad for that.