A collection of contemporary fantasy by Charles de Lint; for the most part I really enjoyed his mixing of resurgent classic European and, to a lesser extent, North American folk mythology into a modern environment. The best stories have well-sketched characters and interesting ideas.
It’s not all strong, though; de Lint does fall into clunky prose and caricature in some stories, and his fondness for writing female characters occasionally turns into a fairly simple-minded dislike of his male ones; on balace, though, I was glad I picked this up on a whim, and I’ll probably grab more of his fiction.