Kim Newman is probably an acquired taste, but it is a taste that Kevin and I have most definitely acquired. I would have read this a long time ago had I not planned to give it to Kevin for Christmas and therefore had to keep it hidden since World Fantasy. After he’d read it, I just had time to get through the final story, “Cold Snap”, which is new for the collection and therefore Hugo eligible, before I had to rush off for Darkest Somerset which is where, coincidentally, the story is set. Having got here, I am wondering whether the situation was as fully resolved as Newman reports, because it seems pretty cold here to me. I shall keep my eyes peeled for zombie snowmen.