Like life, both horror and fantasy fiction can run the gamut of humour to romance to tragedy, and you can find examples of all of those here. This one begs to be read aloud, though you'll find yourself halted by laughter more than once along the way. The author is a five-time British Fantasy Award winner and it's easy to see why in this smoothly written story. Sometimes a story isn't surprising for its content so much as where the editors gleaned it from. Mood and memory combine neatly in this story of lost dreams and deja vu, building tension to a genuinely nasty end.
Folk tales are also present here in theme and subject in good number.
Fortunately he was wrong. Her work has also appeared in Aboriginal SF , Amazing Stories , Dark Regions , MZB's Fantasy Magazine , and other genre magazines.