I like trains well enough. I have an uncle and a friend who are both mad about them, and honestly, there are worse things to be obsessed with. There are some train trips around the world that would go on my bucket list, but none of them are featured here: as much as I like the idea of an anthology of train horror stories, I don't actually want to be trapped in a train car with vampires or ghosts or what have you.

I liked most of the fifteen stories here, though I think it's fair to say that none of them filled me with any great sense of surprise. I did think that the collection felt a little repetitive in places, but perhaps that's just a result of having such a narrow theme. That said, with the exception of the two older stories - from Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle respectively - they all zipped along at a nice pace, which I enjoy in an anthology. My favourites were "Weeping Waters" by Lee Murray (it's always nice to see a NZ-based story in collections like this!) and "All Aboard" by Christopher Golden, which were both more sad than horrifying, but then I like sad horror so that worked for me.