In his review of the Peter Beagle collection We Never Talk About My Brother, Eamonn Murphy at SFcrowsnest argues that "Beagle doesn’t do bad. His range is from good to absolutely bloody marvellous.“

The problem for the purchaser of short story collections is to avoid wasting money buying the same ones twice. As mentioned, half of this collection is included in ‘Mirror Kingdoms: The Best Of Peter S. Beagle’ and, hand on heart, that is the better book, if only because it contains more of Peter S. Beagle. However, it is a limited edition and might not be available or affordable and you would miss out on ‘Spook’, which is marvellous. The canny reader will scour the contents pages of the various anthologies and decide which ones best fit the finances. Having read these two, I am sorely tempted to chase up every single word Peter S. Beagle has ever written and devour them at my leisure.

For more info on We Never Talk About My Brother, visit the Tachyon page.