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April 7, 2014
Screaming Elk, MT
A couple of new stories are on the way this fall. “Screaming Elk, MT” appears in Nightmare Carnival. It’s another in the Jessica Mace series. My monster tale, “the worms crawl in,” was picked up for Fearful Symmetries. Both anthologies are edited by Ellen Datlow. Thanks, E!
Hour of the Leech
Word Horde’s latest anthology, The Children of Old Leech, is up for preorder. Quite a cast of horror stars coming into my house and wrecking the joint.
April 3, 2014
Jaws of Saturn Snap Shut
Here is the creepy cover of the Best Horror of the Year, Volume 6. My novelette, “Jaws of Saturn” is in there. The story was an original in The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Thank you to Ellen Datlow for reprinting this one.
Cover art by Pierre Droal
March 30, 2014
Final ToC of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume One
“Success” by Michael Blumlein, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov./Dec.
“Like Feather, Like Bone” by Kristi DeMeester, Shimmer #17
“A Terror” by Jeffrey Ford, Tor.com, July.
“The Key to Your Heart Is Made of Brass” by John R. Fultz, Fungi #21
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“A Cavern of Redbrick” by Richard Gavin, Shadows & Tall Trees #5
“The Krakatoan” by Maria Dahvana Headley, Nightmare Magazine/The Lowest Heaven, July.
“Bor Urus” by John Langan, Shadow’s Edge
“Furnace” by Livia Llewellyn, The Grimscribe’s Puppets
“Eyes Exchange Bank” by Scott Nicolay, The Grimscribe’s Puppets
“A Quest of Dream” by W.H. Pugmire, Bohemians of Sesqua Valley
“(he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror” by Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Lovecraft eZine #28
“Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron” by A.C. Wise, Ideomancer Vol. 12 Issue 2
“The Year of the Rat” by Chen Quifan, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August.
“Fox into Lady” by Anne-Sylvie Salzman, Darkscapes
“Olimpia’s Ghost” by Sofia Samatar, Phantom Drift #3
“The Nineteenth Step” by Simon Strantzas, Shadows Edge
“The Girl in the Blue Coat” by Anna Taborska, Exotic Gothic 5 Vol. 1
“In Limbo” by Jeffrey Thomas, Worship the Night
“Moonstruck” by Karin Tidbeck, Shadows & Tall Trees #5
“Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks” by Paul Tremblay, Bourbon Penn #8
“No Breather in the World But Thee” by Jeff VanderMeer, Nightmare Magazine, March.
“Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us?” by Damien Angelica Walters, Shock Totem #7.
art by Santiago Caruso
March 21, 2014
March 20, 2014
Lucius Shepard 1943-2014
Lucius Shepard has gone ahead of us. He was a big, big-hearted man and one of the leading lights in our field. My sympathies to his family and friends; my sympathies to all of us, because this is a hell of a loss.
Giant Among Us: Lucius Shepard
photo via Strange Horizons
Lucius Shepard 1947-2014
Lucius Shepard has gone ahead of us. He was a big, big-hearted man and one of the leading lights in our field. My sympathies to his family and friends; my sympathies to all of us, because this is a hell of a loss.
Giant Among Us: Lucius Shepard
photo via Strange Horizons
March 17, 2014
Rebutting Futility
Brandon Bell and This Inscrutable Light. A rebuttal of Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
March 15, 2014
Mass Media On The “Cosmic Horror Revival”
Lots and lots of True Detective media coverage has led to a significant amount of attention on the weird and horrific in literature. Gotta love it.
Crows N’ Bones talks cosmic horror revival
image courtesy HBO
Matt Barone at COMPLEX points out recommended reading for TD fans.
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J. Simpson has a nice essay on the topic at Amazing Stories.
image courtesy HBO
March 14, 2014
LIGHTSPEED & Michael Shea
The April issue of LIGHTSPEED is up for preorders. It will run Michael Shea’s hellaciously good novella The Autopsy.
courtesy LIGHTSPEED
