Book review

I've had "Masters of Horror" lying around the house for years and finally picked it up to read the other day.
It was a good decision.
The book is a collection of nine short stories, including short works by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Ray Bradbury. There's not a bad tale in the lot and I judged four of them to be exceptional.
My favorites were "The Were-Wolf" by Clemence Housman, "The Women in the Wood" by A Merritt, "Blind Man's Buff" by H.R. Wakefield and "The Candy Skull" by Bradbury.
Book editor Alden Norton declares "The Were-Wolf" to be the best lycanthrope story of all time and I would certainly put it at the top of a rather small list. "The Candy Skull" is one of Bradbury's stories set in Mexico. a favorite locale for the great author. "Blind Man's Buff" is a nifty ghost story with a lot of tension jammed into five pages. "The Women in the Wood" is an odd fantasy piece with a brutal touch.
"Dracula" author Stoker is represented by the short "Dracula's Guest" which was originally the first chapter of the great novel. It was edited from that book and Stoker salvaged it as a short story.
I see "Masters of Horror" at a lot of used book stores but I am sure it can be had cheaply on-line as well.