A Goose on Your Grave: Stories of Horror, Suspense and Fantasy

There's not much suspense or horror, but plenty of fantasy in this collection of eleven short stories. Some seem more like truncated novels - for example, the first one. 'Your Mind is a Mirror' - in that a supernatural element is introduced but not developed enough to arouse much interest, making the ending abrupt and disappointing. More successful are those stories with the flavour of folk-or fairy-tale, like 'The Snow Horse' in which a young stable-boy is rescued from his harsh employers. The last story, 'Aunt Susan', is a black comedy with a surprising twist.