From a wizard allergic to magic to a psychotic Father Christmas, from talking machines to yodelling toilets, from a computer salesman in fairyland to a vampire football match, this anthology turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem.
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" 'Mike Ashley collects 35 stories that amply demonstrate the breadth of the sub-genre, and, by the gods, it's funnyl' Stan Nicholls, Time Out 'Fine addition to any fan's library... The quality of the works that are included is quite superb.' Sharon Gosling, SFX Magazine 'A bargain read in which to browse, with repeat visits almost a reader requirement. Ashley deserves a medal.' Birmingham Evening Mail 'A splendid collection of bizarre comic fantasies.' Publishing News"
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Mike Ashley is author and editor of several bestselling Mammoths including The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Fantasy and The Mammoth Book of Sorcerer's Tales.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A good, long collection, but nothing outstanding.
Oct 5 1998
By A Customer
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Upon seeing this in a bookstore my reaction was "hmm... this looks pretty damn good", and upon seeing it contained a Pratchett short (one I already have admitedly) I thought 'hmm... couldn't be too bad' and purchased it. I had pretty high expectations and to be honest it didn't meet them- but I did still like the collection. I wouldn't really describe this personally as a humourous collection- there were *very* few 'laugh out loud' moments. I would however describe it as a comical collection. Depending on your tastes you might enjoy it better than I- but personally I think as a humourous collection it fails, but just as an interesting anthology with a sense of the comical it was a decent read- there were very few stories that were actually outstanding, but even less that were below par- it just kind of skims along.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Two or three good stories can't save this book...
Feb 8 2001
By Sarah Calkins
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I love Fantasy. I love Comedy. I saw this and thought "This is the book for me!"
No.
A couple of bright spots (Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's stories, both of which I believe are available elsewhere) aren't quite enough to save this wheezing collection. Many of the stories aren't particularly funny at all, they just aren't serious High Fantasy. Others are just groaningly bad. Reading the first story, "Peregrine: Alflandia" by Avram Davidson, made me feel like I was trapped next to a particularly stupid and obnoxious person on a plane. Maybe that was the "funny" part, but if so that's the kind of comedy I can live without. Most of the rest of the stories were better, but too many are better by too little.
Maybe the editor's sense of humor is just much different from mine, but something tells me that that is probably not so. I'll say it just in case I've missed something that's readily apparent to everyone but me, though. I personally would stay away from this one.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some great stories, some terrible... most in-between
April 15 2006
By Blake Petit
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This is one of the many, many volumes in Carroll & Graf's "Mammoth" series of short fiction compendiums. (Other volumes have held mysteries, vampire stories, Sherlock Holmes stories and many, many other subjects.) Basically, it's 500 pages of comedic fantasy, sci-fi and horror tales, and as you would have to expect with a book of this sort, the quality varies wildly. Some -- such as Tom Holt's "Pizza To Go," Neil Gaiman's "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" and R.A. Lafferty's "Been a Long, Long Time" are fantastic reads. Others are almost painful in their lack of humor. Most fall somewhere in that gray area in-between. As someone who likes reading anthologies in the hopes of finding new authors, it was worth a read for me, and I've already read one of the three sequels (The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II). I intend to pick up the other two (The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy and The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy) as well -- I expect those, like the other two, will vary in quality, but to me it's worth slagging through some of the boring stories to find the gems.
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