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Any book in which William F. Buckley Jr. cohabits with camp king Forrest J Ackerman is nothing if not diverse. Indeed, the theme of entombment takes many shapes in the 21 stories and one poem (Ackerman's goofy intro defies classification) that comprise this satisfying anthology that embraces a variety of genres and prose styles. Some of the tombs, like a jukebox containing someone's ashes in Michael Bishop's witty "Epistrophy" or the belly of a fantastic whale in Stewart von Allmen's "He on Honeydew," are literal. Others, as in Buckley's "The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey," are more metaphorical, dealing with characters trapped by fate or their own natures. Most stories have some touch of horror; although in Charles de Lint's "Heartfires" and Ian McDonald's "The Time Garden," the mythic and the frightening become delightfully homey. Some authors inject elements of science fiction (Ben Bova, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Colin Greenland); some call on the supernatural (Lisa Tuttle, Nancy A. Collins, S.P. Somtow); some conjure exotic adventure (Michael Moorcock, Storm Constantine); and some stick to realism (Larry Bond and Chris Carlson's "Burial at Sea" is an emotionally effective story about a submarine accident). This is agreeable grab bag of claustrophobic, mortifying pleasures.

• Tomb Swift - essay by Forrest J. Ackerman
• In Trust - short story by Ben Bova
• The Amber Room - novelette by Ian Watson
• The Butterfly Effect - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Epistrophy - short story by Michael Bishop
• No Ordinary Christian: A Tale of the Far Magrib - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• White Lady's Grave - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Burial at Sea - short story by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson
• The Unchained - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• The Time Garden: A Faery Story - novelette by Ian McDonald
• He on Honeydew - short story by Stewart Wieck [as by Stewart von Allmen ]
• City Deep - short story by Jeremy Dyson
• But None I Think There Do Embrace - short story by S. P. Somtow
• Tales of Britannica Castle: Ginansia's Ravishment - novelette by Christopher Fowler
• Heartfires - short story by Charles de Lint
• Drowning With Others - short story by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Station of the Cross - short story by Colin Greenland
• Queen of Knives - short story by Neil Gaiman
• God's Bright Little Engine - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• The Darkest Doctrine - short story by Brad Linaweaver
• The Land of the Reflected Ones - short story by Nancy A. Collins
• The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey - novelette by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Blue Flame of a Candle - novelette by Storm Constantine

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