Angela Slatter's Blog, page 105
June 10, 2014
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Very happy to announce that I’ve got a story in this inaugural volume from Spectral Press and edited by the redoubtable Mark Morris!
Look at that ToC!
ON THE TOUR – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
THE DOG’S HOME - ALISON LITTLEWOOD
FUNERAL RITES – HELEN MARSHALL
SLAPE – TOM FLETCHER
THE NIGHT DOCTOR – STEVE RASNIC TEM
DULL FIRE – GARY McMAHON
THE
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June 9, 2014
The Witch’s Scale – WiP
Hard at work on my Spectral Press novella, The Witch’s Scale, purely because the idea sprang forth fully formed the other week. It details an episode in the history of Patience Sykes (one of my favourite characters) in between the action of “Gallowberries” and “Sister, Sister” in Sourdough and Other Stories. Selke
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June 8, 2014
Metropolitan Magic – Part Four
Alchemy • Lucy Sussex
Three figures walked in single file in the evening heat haze besides the Euphrates River, heading homewards.
All women, shawled, hunched by the baskets on their backs. The last, youngest and smallest, was further slouched by the year-old baby riding on her hip.
As if the sun had blinked, now
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June 5, 2014
Metropolitan Magic – Part Three
The Land of Heart’s Desire • Holly Black
If you want to meet real-life members of the Sidhe—real faeries—go to the café Moon in a Cup, in Manhattan. Faeries congregate there in large numbers. You can tell them by the slight point of their ears—a feature they’re too arrogant to conceal by
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June 4, 2014
Metropolitan Magic – Part Two
Seeing Eye • Patricia Briggs
The doorbell rang.
That was the problem with her business. Too many people thought that they could approach her at any time. Even oh dark thirty even though her hours were posted clearly on her door and on her website.
Of course answering the door would be something to
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June 3, 2014
Papercuts
One of the things I love about working with Kathleen Jennings is that when she’s mid-creative flow she sends me texts with images of what she’s doing. So imagine my delight the other night when I received these three, all for my Black-Winged Angels collection (Ticonderoga Publications).
Loud squeeeing noises ensued.
Melusine
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Metropolitan Magic – Part One
A new reprint anthology from Prime Books and the wonderful Paula Guran is here.
As Paula says in her her Introduction to Magic City: Recent Spells, “Without reality, there was no magic. The real and the unreal coexisted and were mutually dependent. Without the natural, there could be no supernatural; no paranormal without
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May 30, 2014
Over at Schlock Magazine …
Teodor Reljic reviews Home and Hearth most kindly:
As evidenced in her collection THE GIRL WITH NO HANDS – in which Slatter adapts and re-imagines various folk and fairy tales – the author is excellent at creating tightly-woven conceits that unspool with tension and precision. Our fears are calibrated keenly: it’s Caroline’s growing
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May 25, 2014
Happy Day
I finished a fairly dreadful and wobbly first draft of “Crossroads” last night; it’s now in the bottom drawer to percolate. Tomorrow I will start on a story called “Let the Words Take You” for a Le Fanu tribute anthology. Today I had a lovely lunch with my parents and my sister, whose birthday it was. Nice and relaxing. And
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May 23, 2014
More Crossroads
Rossetti’s Pandora
‘And how does she look?’
‘Like me once, but not anymore. She’s a mass of burns and rotting flesh.’ Bethany shrugs. ‘Gods know, she may be dead already. If so, then I’ll pay your fee just to bring me the news.’
‘That’s very generous, Madame Lawrence. So generous, in fact,
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