title: Strange Brew (book)
text: # Strange Brew (book)
  
  Strange Brew is an urban fantasy short story anthology, edited by P.N. Elrod. It reached the NYTimes extended bestseller list in July 2009.
  
  ## Stories
  
  * "Seeing Eye", by Patricia Briggs
  * "Last Call", by Jim Butcher
  * "Death Warmed Over", by Rachel Caine
  * "Vegas Odds", by Karen Chance
  * "Hecate's Golden Eye", by P.N. Elrod
  * "Bacon", by Charlaine Harris
  * "Signatures of the Dead", by Faith Hunter
  * "Ginger: A Nocturne City Story", by Caitlin Kittredge
  * "Dark Sins", by Jenna Maclaine
  
  ## Reviews
  
  Rich Horton, in Fantasy Magazine, says, "Some of these stories seem rushed or rudimentary. Some lean a shade too much on a presumption of familiarity with the novels featuring the stories’ characters." He continues, "But there is a fair amount of enjoyable fiction here as well."
  
  BSCreview reviewer, amberdrake [sic], says, "For the most part, this anthology was highly entertaining", and "definitely worth picking up, especially if you like stories about witches or if some of these authors are your favorites".
  
  Strange Brew won Honorable Mention in the Pearl Award for best anthology, 2009.
  
  