Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed "is fun and funny, scary and exciting. It contains 27 consistently engaging pieces of entertaining fiction" - Scott Manley Hadley at www.openpen.co.uk (http: //www.openpen.co.uk/happyendingnotguaranteed/)

"Fabulous fables!
'Twenty-seven tales of dark fantasy' is what the back cover blurb promises, and boy does Hogan deliver. There's not a dull page in this tight, cunning, well-chosen collection, which ranges from truly disturbing body-horror in Greenwich, Noon to sinister flirtations with faeries in Gean Canach, via smart updates of classical mythology (Time, the Devourer), modern urban weird (Bring Rope) and even a wicked riff on Dickens, in which Scrooge's generosity nearly undoes him ...
There are too many excellent stories to list, and there's humour as well as chills, but my standout favourite has the be The Sword Master - a perfectly-told fable, clever and inexorable as clockwork, which feels as though you've always known it somehow - and for an original folk tale, that is the highest compliment I can give. Buy this book for yourself, or the fantasy and/or short fiction lover(s) in your life, and you'll reap some genuinely rich fictional rewards." - Laura Lague at Goodreads (https: //www.goodreads.com/book/show/34834516-happy-ending-not-guaranteed)