Looking Back On Borderlands

"No ghosts. No maniacal slashers. Nothing that goes bump in the night. Borderlands is a horror anthology series not concerned with the traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlands is about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the '90s, Borderlands will remind you that horror can indeed be horrific." That was the back cover synopsis for the Borderlands books and it wasn't just some catchy ad copy trying to sell a few more paperbacks. The stories in the series were incredibly unique and often so strange that they were difficult to describe to other people. I was introduced to several authors who became lifelong favorites of mine and I often go back to these stories whenever I'm looking to break out of a reading rut. The image below is a cover collage of the original four books in the series (the editions put out by White Wolf). A fifth entry appeared years later, but it couldn't quite recapture the feel of those originals. I still consider Borderlands to be the best multi-author anthology series ever produced in the Horror/Weird fiction genre.