Nominations for January 2021 Group Read

[Dan]

Please nominate a good book of Weird Fiction for our January 2021 group read. There are no restrictions on what can be nominated. We can alternate New and Classic after this poll. I'll take nominations the entire first half of December (to give people plenty of time since we're just starting back up) and then run the poll.

[Scott]

The Green Flash and Other Tales of Horror, Suspense, and Fantasy

[Dan]

Interesting choice, Scott. We seldom discuss Joan Aiken because most of her work was written during that dead period when Weird Tales wasn't being published regularly (1955-1987) and the Weird genre had receded into memory. Nevertheless, much of her work is definitely Weird. I think of her as one of the bridges (chronologically and stylistically) between classic and new.

[Ronald]

I nominate The Twenty Days of Turin.

The novel was first published in Italy in the 1970s and published in English in 2017. I would call it a cosmic horror novel written in a contemporary style.

I gave the book a 4 star goodreads review. Its current 3.74 goodreads rating seems about right to me.

[Dan]

I like it! We've had two good examples of continental European Weird Fiction so far in our group: I Am Behind You and The Other Side of the Mountain. If this book wins, it becomes the third.

[Dan]

Sure, those are eligible. They are like book anthologies, only instead of seeing one per year we were once so incredibly fortunate as to have twelve come out! I'd just ask that you specify one particular issue and then provide a link to it.

[Dan]

They are all available at luminist.org/archives/SF/WT.htm

[Dan]

If you have a good Weird fiction read you want to recommend as a group read for the new year, now is the time. I will close nominations at the end of Monday night to start the poll.