Review: Still good, but you may already own much of it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2012
I really liked volume-one but noted in my review that much of its content was probably already owned by readers of this genre. That is even more likely to be the case with volume-two. Unlike v.1 which only once or twice had more than 2 or 3 stories by the same author (though Lovecraft is one author who had 4), this occasionally has FOUR (by Howard, Le Fanu, Machen, & Seabury Quinn) and even FIVE (by Lovecraft &  C. A. Smith) stories by the same author--this in addition to still having 2 or 3 stories each by some other authors. For this reason, v.2 is far more likely to contain titles you already own in previous ebook purchases. Therefore, the person new to this type of literature will likely value this particular volume more highly than the widely-read individual to whom much less of this volume will be new and hitherto unread. I even returned this same publisher's Seabury Quinn collection (which I had purchased only several days before this volume appeared) since most of the titles in that Seabury Quinn collection were duplicated in these two volumes of "Weird Tales." Now, having said all that, please don't misunderstand me. This is still a VERY good collection offered at a fair price. Some readers will request a sample, examine the contents and jump for joy. Others, for the reason I've already given, may decide there isn't enough new in this 2nd volume to justify its purchase.ADDENDUM: There are now additional volumes in this expanding series as well as 3 related series: "Weird Science Fiction Tales," "Weird Mystery Tales" and "Weird Tales Novels." Sample before buying to determine which stores are included in each volume, because some stories from this series ARE repeated in the others. (It's a shame that the publisher, Civitas, doesn't make each of its "Weird Tales" sets unique. Repeating content within its own product line doesn't make much marketing sense and will only serve to discourage some folks from purchasing some or all of the new Civitas series.)