“Seems like everyone but me is dead. Seems like I am the only person left alive.”

How long can you live in an empty room? An empty country? A dead world? A violent universe of your own making? Excellent compiling by Coxon, I picked this up purely because of the handful of names I recognized on the cover and am walking away with several authors rocketed to the top of my search list. Good book to grab to highlight how the pandemic will affect horror literature in the decades to come. Stand out stories were “The Blind House” by Ramsey Campbell, “How We Are” by Chikodili Emelumadu, “Across the Bridge” by Tim Lebbon, and ending with Lisa Tuttle’s “Fire Above, Fire Below” was a stroke of literary genius.

Not every story held a candle to the shining stars in the list. If I have to read another “boo hoo for the family annihilator who miraculously doesn’t have enough courage to do himself during the ‘apocalypse’” my head will explode, unlike his, with misogyny.

3.5/5 Good odds you’ll find something in here for you.