When I was a child, Mum used to order books from the Doubleday publishers catalogue, and I remember lovingly poring over each month's pages then eagerly awaiting the package in the mail. This book came in a set of three along with Asimov's Monsters and Asimov's Extraterrestrials (not sure why we didn't get Asimov's Mutants) and they featured a colour-coded dragon symbol to signify the recommended reading age; in this case, '8 years upwards'. I loved looking at the covers, but I never read them as a child. Or a teenager. In fact, not until now, as I hit my late 30s, have I deigned to pick up this book and actually read it. That's probably a good thing because, despite featuring children, these are not stories for children. I probably would've been bored to tears as a child. Or baffled by the language. Some of the stories are a bit quaint, and the most recent is an adaptation of a Twilight Zone episode from 1985. I did enjoy 'Lost Hearts' by M.R. James and 'A Pair of Hands' by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, but most of the others are forgettable, unlike the ghost stories I recently inhaled in Kate Mosse's Mistletoe Bride. Still, I'll read the other two anthologies I have now, to make good on Mum's mail-order prezzies from 30 years ago.
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020 prompt: An anthology