Review: A sixpack of brilliance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2011
I have just finished a most remarkable collection of short stories, any one of which is worthy of standing alone within the pages of such luminaries as The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan or Redbook.  "Women and Other Monsters" is that good!  Penned with satire and humor, the twists and turns through corridors of rising suspense left this reader, more than once, with an edge to his teeth.  Looking for humor -- starkly, darkly humorous -- you need go no further than "Room Service".  If your tastes go more toward the grizzly, test your nerves against "Cold Comforts".  To this reader, easily the most profoundly powerful selection,was "Nazareth".  I defy any reader to leave that story without having his belief system tested.Mr. Schaffer is a master of his craft at young enough an age that his writing should be instrumental in bringing back the short story to its former stature.  Keep an eye on Bernard Schaffer.  I know I shall!