Proposed collection

Hey, all, a question. But first some context.


 


In 2007 my first collection, “Scratching the Surface,” appeared from a small press in Wales, which promptly folded. In 2009 my second collection, “Undertow and Other Laments,” appeared from Dark Regions Press. My third collection was provisionally accepted for publication in 2015, but was dropped when the press changed ownership. I made little attempt to place it elsewhere. Mostly I have been busy on the publishing side of things. So, I’m toying with the idea of releasing the collection myself. It would contain previously uncollected material, plus 3 new stories.


 


Would anyone be interested in such a thing?


 


It would collect the following:


 


‘Some Other You’ originally appeared in Shadows Edge, ed. Simon Strantzas, Gray Friar Press, 2013.


 


‘The Wounded Bird’ originally appeared in Murmurations, ed. Nicholas Royle, Two Ravens Press, 2011.


 


‘The Face That Looks Back’ at You originally appeared in Supernatural Tales #18, ed. David Longhorn, 2010.


 


‘A Crack in the Ceiling of the World’ originally appeared in Postscripts 24/25: The New and Perfect Man, ed. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, 2011.


 


‘A Guttering of Flickers’ originally appeared in Dark Horizons, ed. Peter Coleborn, Summer 2011.


 


‘A Quiet Axe’ originally appeared in Nightscript #1, Oct. 2015


 


‘All the Things We Never See’ originally appeared in the very limited 26-copy edition of ‘Undertow & Other Laments, ed. Joe Morey, Dark Regions Press, 2010.


 


‘Dead Man’s Chest’ (NEW).


 


‘Pieces of Blackness’ originally appeared in The Grimscribe’s Puppets, ed. Joe Pulver Sr., 2013.


 


‘These White Sorrows’ (NEW)


 


‘The Woods’ originally appeared in Tesseracts 13, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & David Morrell, 2009. Reprinted in Best New Horror #21.


 


‘Hark at the Wind’ originally appeared in Space & Time #113, ed. Gerard Houarner, 2011.


 


‘Turn the Page’ originally appeared in Black Static #33, ed. Andy Cox, 2013.


 


‘The White-Face at Dawn’ originally appeared in A Season in Carcosa, ed. Joseph S. Pulver Sr., 2012.


 


‘This Red Night’ originally appeared in Weird Fiction Review #4, January 2014, ed. S.T. Joshi.


 


‘Bait’ originally appeared in Jamais Vu #1, January 2104.


 


‘Absolution’ originally appeared in Postscripts to Darkness #4, Summer 2013.


 


‘Other Summers’ (with Ray Cluley) originally appeared online at readshortfiction.com, Summer 2013.


 


‘Blink’ originally appeared in Tesseracts 16, ed. Mark Leslie Lefebvre, 2012.


 


‘Conversations With the Dead’ originally appeared in Postscripts 26/27: Unfit for Eden, ed. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, 2011.


 


‘The Beach’ originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Psycho-Mania! ed. Stephen Jones-Editor, 2013.


 


‘October Dreams’ originally appeared in Supernatural Tales #22, ed. David Longhorn, 2012. Reprinted in Best New Horror #24.


 


Chrysalis (NEW)


 


‘Desert of Sharp Sorrows’ (with Jonathan William Hodges) originally appeared in Reflections Edge, 2007.


 


‘3000 Grey Balloons in a Bright Blue Sky’ originally appeared in Hint Fiction, 2010.


 


So, if there is interest, what should I call the collection. I can’t choose from the following:


 


The Face That Looks Back at You


These White Sorrows


Conversations With the Dead


Pieces of Blackness


Some Other You


All the Things We Never See


 


Cheers!


 


-Mike

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