WFR article on Caitlin Kiernan

[luciferfell]

Here is a article I wrote on Caitlin Kiernan. The Melancholy of Perversion | Weird Fiction Review

[Dead as Dreams]

Scott,

Many thanks for sharing your article. Despite the fact that she’s earned critical acclaim from the likes of Joshi et al., I always feel like not nearly enough is said about Kiernan, at least in the places I tend to roam on the internet, which is disappointing.

Your analysis highlighted certain thematic and structural similarities with the short story “Bradbury Weather,” although what you point out seems to be an important psychological substrate for her oeuvre generally speaking: love as a disfiguring disease, etc.

I get the feeling that “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” is an important “Ur-text” for Caitlín’s work; I hope that someday I can ask her about that. I wonder if she’ll be in Providence this year for the Necronomicon? I think she may have relocated to the Midwest recently.

Anyhow, I recently finished A is for Alien—yeah, yeah, horribly late to the party—but I thought it was magnificent. Folks on this board might be interested to know that Drugstore Indian Press / PS Publishing is re-issuing the volume in trade paperback with new cover art by Richard Kirk.

The DIP / PS website seems to indicate that this volume should have been released in January 2015, which is either a typo or reason to worry. The website also says nothing as to whether the TB will include the fantastic illustrations by Vince Locke that appeared in the beautiful Subterranean Press hardcover edition.

Here’s a link to the webpage, for the curious: A is for Alien Trade PB by Caitlín R Kiernan

If anyone around these parts has some inside information about this project that they could share, please do!

[luciferfell]

Caitlin has said that the new edition of A is for Alien will have the Locke artwork. And Caitlin will be at NecronomiCon.. as will I.

[larrytorre]

thank you for this. sorry it took me so long to find it.