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Re: New Horror Books
Two new anthologies I recommend highly:
(edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers) (edited by Ellen Datlow) Ghosts by Gaslight offers modern spins on the Victorian/Edwardian ghostly tale; contributors include Peter S. Beagle, Gene Wolfe, Terry Dowling, Lucius Shepard, and Robert Silverberg. Blood and Other Cravings features stories of vampires and vampirism, whether they feed on blood or stranger things; contributors include Barbara Roden, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, Steve Duffy, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Cisco, and (with a reprint) Reggie Oliver. Margo Lanagan, John Langan, and Laird Barron have stories in both anthologies. My review of Blood and Other Cravings is here, and my review of Ghosts by Gaslight is here. | |||||||||||
Noonday Stars: a blog about horror fiction. Recent content includes essay on the new edition of Ligotti's The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales.
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Re: New Horror Books
I come bearing yet more recent anthologies.
A Book of Horrors is a new all-original (well, one unacknowledged reprint) non-theme anthology from Stephen Jones. With contributions from Stephen King, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Robert Shearman, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, and others, it's got a lot of big names and a great range of stories, only a couple of which are letdowns. My review is here. Unfortunately the book isn't in print in the US yet, but you can import it from The Book Depository, or get a Kindle version on Amazon.com. Stephen Jones also has a new ghost story anthology, Haunts, which mixes originals and reprints, with stories from some of the same names (Tuttle, Smith, Campbell, Oliver, Shearman). I was less impressed with this one, but my mother, also a ghost story buff, was a fan. My review is here. And finally, Jonathan Oliver's House of Fear, a set of haunted house stories. Lisa Tuttle and Shearman, who are having a busy year, show up again; there are also stories by Terry Lamsley, Stephen Volk, Joe R. Lansdale, Chaz Brenchley, and the prolific Many Others. I had tiny but important quibbles with several of the stories, but it's still an impressive anthology. My review of this one is here. House of Fear: An Anthology of Haunted House Stories | |||||||||||
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10-26-2011 | #33 | |||||||||||
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Re: New Horror Books
However, the titles "Calamari Curls " and "Jihad over Innsmouth" sounds...worrying. I'm allergic to comedy-horror crossovers...however, havn't read them just yet. | |||||||||||
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Some few others have complain'd about the humorous tales in the book, but there don't seem to be too many, and there are such great tales, classics of their kind. I, too, am allergic to Mythos tales that try to be humorous or cute -- they usually suck shoggoth. And I find it insulting to Lovecraft, as it seems to imply that he is an author one cannot take seriously, so let's poke fun. As a Lovecraftian author, I am dead serious. | |||||||||||
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10-29-2011 | #35 | |||||||||||
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And that's why I love your work, Wilum. What most people erroneously assume to be "trappings" in HPL's work were his genuine impressions of the world. He was a Gothic soul whose oneiric vision and disdain for the mundane world make him a target for ridicule by a culture that is now, more than ever, overwhelmingly mundane. Richard | |||||||||||
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11-03-2011 | #36 | |||||||||||
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I think that TERROR TALES FROM THE LAKE DISTRICT from Gray Friar Press is excellent.
Actually kind of spotty. I was swept away by Little Mag’s Barrow by Adam L.G. Nevill. | |||||||||||
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Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud’s classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud’s compelling theory of das unheimliche—or, the uncanny. Specifically designed to challenge the creative boundaries of some of the most famed and respected horror writers working today—such as A. S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matthew Holness, and the indomitable Ramsey Campbell—this anatomically precise experiment encapsulates what the uncanny represents in the 21st century. Masterfully narrated with the benefit of unique perspectives on what exactly it is that goes bump in the night, this chilling modern collective is not only an essential read for fans of horror but also an insightful and intriguing introduction to the greats of the genre at their gruesome best. Cover art by BOB EGGLETON Intro by DAVID J. SCHOW & Afterward by PHILIP HARBOTTLE DreamHaven Books 2011, 1st. US Edition Trade Paperback, 240 pages 6 x 9. This is the 1st US publication of the rare 1954 UK novelization of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON by Vargo Statten (John Russell Fearn). Copies of the first edition have sold for $1000 to $6000. Now DreamHaven Books makes this little-seen novel available to all Universal Monster fans. It’s an exciting novelization faithful to the movie with an emphasis on the view of the mysterious Gill Man. Creature connosieur David J. Schow (The Crow) provides a great new introduction on the impact of this iconic monster. Philip Harbottle ( Vulture of the Void: The LEGACY) details the life of the English pulp writer who created this terrific novel. 32 pages with dozens of behind-the-scenes photos fill out this brand-new edition, sure to thrill monster fans everywhere. MURMURATIONS Uncanny stories about birds Nicholas Royle (editor) Freud observed that birds ‘don’t seem to be submitted to the same laws of gravity as us’, although without gravity they would die, as they need it to swallow. Birds are all around us; they could not be more familiar. And yet at the same time they are alien, unheimlich – uncanny. Award-winning editor Nicholas Royle brings together previously published stories by Daphne du Maurier, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban and others with brand-new tales by contemporary writers including Bill Broady, Adam Marek, Regi Claire and many more. With a foreword by Angelica Michelis, senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. With a foreword by Angelica Michelis, senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.Contributors’ royalties and editor’s fee to be donated to the RSPB. Contents Swallows Sleep in Winter – Adam Marek For the True Anatomy – Claire Massey Sliding off the World – Bruce Gilbert The Gannets – Anna Kavan Fight or Flight – Emma Jane Unsworth Birds of Prey – Joel Lane The Egg – Alison Moore The Raven – Russell Hoban The Rhododendron Canopy – Elizabeth Stott Huginn and Muninn – Tom Fletcher When the Red, Red Robin – Regi Claire A Nestling – Jack Trevor Story Barren Clough – Neil Campbell Shrike – David Rose The Candling – Deborah Kermode A Revelation of Cormorants – Mark Valentine The Brids – Bill Broady Rarely Visits Gardens – Juliet West All Our Dead Heavens – Conrad Williams Tsipporah – Adèle Geras Dead Bird – Socrates Adams-Florou The Beautiful Room – RB Russell Gulls – Nicholas Royle Snow – Marc Werner Flight of Fancy – GA Pickin The Wounded Bird – Michael Kelly Corbeaux Bay – Geeta Roopnarine Husks – Stephen Bacon Painful Hard Ectoplasm – Laura Ellen Joyce The Birds – Daphne du Maurier | |||||||||||
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Introduction, Ross E. Lockhart Shoggoth's Old Peculiar, by Neil Gaiman Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea, by Caitlin R. Kiernan This Is How the World Ends, by John R. Fultz The Drowning at Lake Henpin, by Paul Tobin The Ocean and All Its Devices, by William Browning Spencer Take Your Daughters to Work, by Livia Llewellyn The Big Fish, by Kim Newman Rapture of the Deep, by Cody Goodfellow Once More from the Top, by A. Scott Glancy Hour of the Tortoise, by Molly Tanzer I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee, by Christopher Reynaga Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection, by Ann K. Schwader Of Melei, of Ulthar, by Gord Sellar A Gentleman from Mexico, by Mark Samuels The Hands that Reek and Smoke, by W. H. Pugmire Akropolis, by Matt Wallace Boojum, by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette The Nyarlathotep Event, by Jonathan Wood The Black Brat of Dunwich, by Stanley C. Sargent The Terror from the Depths, by Fritz Leiber Black Hill, by Orrin Grey The God of Dark Laughter, by Michael Chabon Sticks, by Karl Edward Wagner Hand of Glory, by Laird Barron. From the creator of Hellboy, Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden is an illustrated novella that brings Twilight Zone originality to the written page. In the aftermath of a critical World War II battle, Father Gaetano is assigned as the sole priest at the Church of San Domenico in the small, seaside Sicilian village of Tringale. The previous pastor has died and there is a shortage of clergy at the moment, so until another can be spared, the young priest must say all of the masses himself. Mass is not Father Gaetano’s only responsibility, however. The war has created many orphans, and thus the San Domenico rectory has been converted into an orphanage which is also his domain. The children are a joy to him, but they have lost so much, and many have begun to question their faith and their God, and his attempts to teach them catechism are in vain . . . until he finds an old puppet theatre and an ornate box of puppets in the basement. Handcrafted by the building's former caretaker, now absent, the puppets seem the perfect tool to get the children to pay attention to their lessons. But after dark the puppets emerge from that ornate box, without their strings. While the children have been questioning their faith, the puppets believe Father Gaetano's Bible stories completely. But there is such a thing as too much faith. And the children's lives will never be the same again. | |||||||||||
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Been looking forward to Book of Cthulu 2. Loved volume one, so was psyched when I first heard this was coming out. Glad it's here now.
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TERROR TALES OF
EAST ANGLIA edited by PAUL FINCH East Anglia - a drear, flat land of fens and broads, lone gibbets and isolated cottages, where demon dogs howl in the night, witches and warlocks lurk at every crossroads, and corpse-candles burn in the marshland ... The giggling horror of Dagworth The wandering torso of Hippisburgh The vile apparaition at Wicken The slavering beast of Rendlesham The faceless evil on Wallasea The killer hounds of Southery The dark guardian of Wandlebury And more chilling tales by Alison Littlewood, Reggie Oliver, Roger Johnson, Steve Duffy and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre. The book contains ten works of original horror fiction set in East Anglia, and three classic reprints. It also features the usual anecdotal tales concerning supposedly true incidents of East Anglian terror. Loose by Paul Meloy & Gary Greenwood The Most Haunted House in England Deep Water by Christopher Harman Murder in the Red Barn The Watchmanby Roger Johnson The Woman in Brown Shuck by Simon Bestwick The Witchfinder-General The Marsh Warden by Steve Duffy Beware the Lantern Man! The Fall of the King of Babylon by Mark Valentine The Weird in the Wood Double Space by Gary Fry The Dagworth Mystery Wicken Fen by Paul Finch Boiled Alive Wolferton Hall by James Doig The Wandering Torso Aldeburgh by Johnny Mains The Killer Hounds of Southery Like Suffolk, Like Holidays by Alison Littlewood The Demon of Wallasea Island The Little Wooden Box by Edward Pearce [I]The Dark Guardian of Wandlebury The Spooks of Shellborough by Reggie Oliver | |||||||||||
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