Angela Slatter's Blog, page 113

S P Miskowski’s Knock Knock and the Skillute Cycle

SP Miskowski is one of the finer voices in modern horror fiction. Her work is tense, beautifully paced, and deeply, deeply perceptive as to the human condition and all its foibles, faults and perfections. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for me about her debut novel, Knock Knock,
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John Ajvide Lindqvist: Come Unto Me

Today’s Fearie Tales post is from the astonishingly talented Mr John Ajvide Lindqvist, talking about trolls, changelings, doppelganger, and the dead returning to the living

FOR THE SECOND time in less than a month, Annika was walking up the aisle of the church with Robert. This time they didn’t continue as far
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Angela Slatter: By the Weeping Gate

And today I, errr, interview myself about my Fearie Tales story, “By the Weeping Gate”.

SEE, HERE?

This house here in Breakwater, this one, by the Weeping Gate where men and women come to wait and weep for those lost to the sea. This house is very fine, given the notoriety of the
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Also, art happened

What I look like now if you’re looking for me at WFC.

What I would look like if I was an awesome kind of Norse Brunhilde, with sword and shield.

My dear sister was kind enough to dye my hair and hide all the
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Genre Con Oz 2013 – Where Stuff Didst Happenst

So, from Friday 11 Oct through to Sunday 13 Oct, I was embedded in Genre Con Oz at SLQ … in the manner of an especially happy tick in the neck of a particularly juicy bullock.

My photo of Lisa

 

My photo of Lisa’s
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Fearie Tales beginnings

First paragraphs of the Fearie Tales stories from Masters Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Robert Shearman, and Markus Heitz.

Ramsey Campbell: Find My Name

DOREEN WAS AWAKE at once and trying to hear why. A dog barked on the far side of the tennis courts, and another yapped from the direction of the golf
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Joanne Harris: The Silken People

Snurched from The Guardian

The lovely Joanne Harris talks about The Pied Piper, how horror lurks in the shadows of fairy stories, and the language of the subconscious.

ONCE THERE WAS a little girl, who lived in a village by a wood. She was very curious and always
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Peter Crowther: The Artemis Line

On Fearie Tales duty today is the lovely Mr Peter Crowther. He talks about fairy traps, ‘The Musician of Bremen’, and goblins stealing babies. Huzzah!

‘A certain mother had her child taken out of its cradle

by the elves, and a changeling with a large head and

staring eyes, which would do
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The Dark, Issue 1: reviewed

Another great review of the first issue of The Dark, this time from Terry Weyna at Fantasy Literature!

Go here.

Reggie Oliver: The Silken Drum

The delightful and erudite Mr Reggie Oliver talks about Fearie Tales, Christina Rossetti’s  “Goblin Market”, doppelgangers, and spiritual possession.

Fly, fiend! Over the Western SeaFollowed by cries of hate from the Afterworld

—Aya no Tsuzumi, The Silken Drum,Japanese No Play, origin and author unknown.

‘SHE’S JAPANESE,’ SAID Karen from the estate agents. I noticed
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