Ian Watson's "The Eye Of The Ayatollah" is an sf/horror tale involving Muslim extremists, the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and a missing eye replaced with a circuitized glass one that connects the owner to a surveillance satellite. Another solidly told Westall piece (love the double cross title) with a creepy, sinister threat and his usual adroit handling of children characters. "The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneux" by Robert Westall - a school-outing to an ancient church leads to the release of something old and unwholesome from a crypt, a tattered something which leaves insulting graffiti scrawled on the various tombs in it's own dead tissue and which menaces the children. Some placeholder reviews, as while this entire collection hasn't been gotten to yet in my exhaustive reading schematic, I reading a handful of Robert Westall and Ian Watson stories, and this volume happens to contain pieces by both.
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