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Waiting on a Bus and Other Stories by English fantasy author John Whitbourn (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), who incidentally is being reprinted by Orion's Gollancz imprint, a collection of short tales in his Binscombe universe which is some kind of supernatural British thing set in a countryside village.
The title story was originally published in 1987 and appeared in volume 14 of DAW's The Year's Best Fantasy Story series, and the blurb for this collection lists a lot of quoted praise for the author from UK newspapers and other British sfnal authors.
In the quiet English village of Binscombe you will encounter:
- the shopkeeper who’s in a world of his own – literally;
- the car with some devilish backseat drivers;
- the fisherman whose wife is making his life a living hell – even after death;
- and the bus that arrived three decades late.
Explore these and other suburban oddities in the company of baffled new resident Mr Oakley and the wise, enigmatic and somewhat scary Mr Disvan.