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Review copies of Hugo, Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow’s latest anthology FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.
Ellen Datlow has long ago earned her place as the premier anthologist of fantasy and horror. Appearing in one of her unique volumes is recognized as a significant honor, and Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror is no different.
—Joe R. Lansdale, author of In the Mad Mountains
For decades, Ellen Datlow has set the bar. One of the most influential editors in the history of genre fiction, the gold standard of anthologists, and the ultimate tastemaker for Horror stories. Datlow’s career and reputation are entirely unique—there’s only one Ellen.
—Christopher Golden, author of Ararat
FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
Edited by
Ellen Datlow
ISBN: 978-1-61696-422-1 (print); 978-1-61696-423-8 (digital)
Published: September 10, 2024
Available Format(s): Trade paperback and digital
Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more. The unsettling tales explore the nature of fear as it stirs in dysfunctional families, toxic friendships, and mismatched lovers, and culminates in relentless stalkers, remorseless killers, and perpetrators of savage rituals.
Your grandfather confesses his heinous crime to you alone. You try to save a young girl from sexual assault, but she’s not really a victim. Your child is sacrificed in compensation for your social misstep. You compete in a sick game to save your loved ones. Your mom is insane, your dad is dying, your brother is not your brother, and you’re stuck in the same house until one or all of you are dead.
Far below the unlikeliness of the supernatural lives something worse: the depths of human depravity. We live in fear of the cruelties of respected leaders and of the despicable crimes of neighbors who seem normal. We live with anxiety about our innermost desires and the unforgivable things we might do in a moment of passion. Or, if we fail to curb our urges, we live with the terrible secrets of our unfettered resentments.
In this uniquely unsettling anthology, editor Ellen Datlow has unearthed twenty-one exemplary tales of what humanity fears most: People.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- “Bait” by Simon Bestwick
- “The Pelt” by Annie Neugebauer
- “A Sunny Disposition” by Josh Malerman
- “The Donner Party” by Dale Bailey
- “White Noise in a White Room” by Steve Duffy
- “Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan
- “Back Seat” by Bracken MacLeod
- “England and Nowhere” by Tim Nickels
- “Endless Summer” by Stewart O’Nan
- “My Mother’s Ghosts” by Priya Sharma
- “The Wink and the Gun” by John Patrick Higgins
- “One of These Nights” by Livia Llewellyn
- “LD50” by Laird Barron\
- “Cavity” by Theresa DeLucci
- “Souvenirs” by Sharon Gosling
- “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “The Wrong Shark” by Ray Cluley
- “21 Brooklands: next to Old Western, opposite the burnt out Red Lion” by Carole Johnstone
- “Unkindly Girls” by Hailey Piper
- “A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” by Charles Birkin
- “Teeth” by Stephen Graham Jones
More Tachyon titles appear on best of the year lists including Tobias S. Buckell’s A STRANGER IN THE CITADEL, Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE, Brandon Sanderson’s THE EMPEROR’S SOUL, Ellen Datlow’s NIGHTMARES, and Tim Powers’ THE BIBLE REPAIRMAN AND OTHER STORIES
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As coverage of 2023 winds down, several Tachyon books managed to make their way onto best reads lists. Cat Rambo for Ambling Along the Aqueduct lists Tobias S. Buckell’s A STRANGER IN THE CITADEL among her favorite reads. At Beyond the Bookshelves, C. N. Wheaton expresses similar thoughts about Marjorie Liu’s THE TANGLEROOT PALACE. According to Bookish Muggle, Brandon Sanderson’s Hugo-awarding novella THE EMPEROR’S SOUL was once again one of the top reads of the year. On Trumpetville, Peter Tennant’s best reads of 2023 includes, without comment, Ellen Datlow’s NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR and Tim Powers’ THE BIBLE REPAIRMAN AND OTHER STORIES.
Terrific world-building and a librarian questioning that world.
Ambling Along the Aqueduct
I found this collection the most consistently strong throughout. “Sympathy for the Bones” was a particular standout.
Beyond the Bookshelves
Sanderson is unbeatable in world building. I said this to him in person when I got this book signed from him at Worldcon. Soul stones and soul stamps are such cool magic tools. Magic system is top notch in this and very different from every other fantasy book I have read so far. It was interesting to learn in the Epilogue where the idea of stamps came from (in a Taiwan museum). The story was nice and different. I loved the main characters too.
Bookish Muggle
Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow
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One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1997, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005. Since 2013, Datlow has been with Tor.com, where she edited work by Jeffrey Ford, Stephen Graham Jones, Victor LaValle, Kelly Robson, and others.
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Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, fifteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”
The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won nine Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021]), seven Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018], and When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson [2021]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.
Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), Edited by (2020), BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR (2021), Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022), and Christmas and Other Horrors (2023). FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR is being published by Tachyon in the fall of 2024.
All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday! Enjoy your fireworks and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.
Tachyon well represented at the 2023 World Fantasy Convention
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Publisher Jacob Weisman, Jonathan Strahan (Editor Guest of Honor), John Joseph Adams, Marie Brennan, Ellen Datlow, Eileen Gunn, John Kessel (virtual only), Ellen Klages, Pat Murphy, Josh Rountree, Gordon Van Gelder, Izzy Wasserstein, and current World Fantasy Award nominees for their Tachyon titles, Naseem Jamnia and Sam J. Miller, are scheduled to appear at the 2023 World Fantasy Convention in Kansas City, MO, October 26-29.
GUESTS OF HONOR
- Author: Kij Johnson and Adam Troy-Castro
- Editor: Jonathan Strahan
- Artists: Elizabeth Leggett and Vincent Villafranca
- Toastmasters: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes
The World Fantasy Convention offers a massive selection of readings,
signings, and panels. To find any of these authors, check out the entire
schedule on their site.
Be sure to visit the Tachyon tables in the dealer’s room, where we’ll be hosting several signings. We’re sharing space this year with Fairwood Press.
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Get some scary tales and support HWA with Ellen Datlow’s Tales of Terror
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We’ve partnered with Bundle of Holding for Ellen Datlow’s Tales of Terror, featuring seven Datlow anthologies plus books by Lauren Beukes, Daryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Powers, and Mary Shelley.
Get into a Halloween mood with this all-new ebook fiction bundle, Ellen Datlow Presents Tales of Terror, featuring horror anthologies curated by masterful editor Ellen Datlow, as well as other fiction from Tachyon Publications. For more than three decades Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has kept her finger on the racing pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This Tales of Terror offer brings you seven fine Datlow anthologies with stories by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, and dozens more – plus a novel by Tim Powers, a best-of collection by Joe R. Lansdale, and lots more. It’s 4,700 pages of terrific reading for an unbeatable bargain price. And each title is presented in DRM-free .PDF, ePub, and Kindle versions.
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Naseem Jamnia, R. B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Lavie Tidhar, and Tachyon itself are 2023 Locus Award finalists
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Locus announced the finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards. NEOM by Lavie Tidhar (alongside the anthology The Best of World SF: Volume 2), THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jaminia, THE UNBALANCING by R. B. Lemberg (alongside their collection Geometries of Belonging), BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller, and Tachyon Publications itself all received notices. Previous and forthcoming Tachyon authors, editors, and artists John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Ellen Datlow, Julie Dillon, Kate Elliott, Eileen Gunn, Marjorie Liu, Samantha Mills, John Picacio, Alistair Reynolds, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Vess, and Sheila Williams were all honored too.
The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 24, 2023, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in downtown Oakland, California. Join Maggie Tokuda-Hall, our MC for the awards ceremony, and special guest Connie Willis for an entertaining presentation of the awards, plus program items and a catered reception. Additional virtual events include author readings, panels with leading authors, and more. Buy your ticket today!
2023 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- Sweep of Stars, Maurice Broaddus (Tor)
- The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JABberwocky)
- The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris UK)
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; Picador; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
- The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
- NEOM, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)
- Eversion, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)
FANTASY NOVEL
- The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
- When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
- Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
- Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey US; Del Rey UK)
- Fevered Star, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
HORROR NOVEL
- Saturnalia, Stephanie Feldman (Unnamed)
- Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey (Tor; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Road of Bones, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s; Titan UK)
- The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland; Wildfire)
- The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Titan UK)
- Gwendy’s Final Task, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance; Hodder & Stoughton)
- What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
- Echo, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Nightfire; Hodder & Stoughton)
- No Gods for Drowning, Hailey Piper (Agora)
- The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)
- Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
- The Scratch Daughters, H.A. Clarke (Erewhon)
- Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- Bitter, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf; Faber & Faber)
- Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet 1/23)
- Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
- Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
- Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
- An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown; Orion)
FIRST NOVEL
- Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor)
- The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
- The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor; Harper Voyager UK)
- THE BRUISING OF QILWA, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
- THE UNBALANCING, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller (Tor)
- How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow; Bloomsbury)
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang (Tor)
NOVELLA
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
- Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)
- Servant Mage, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
- “Bishop’s Opening“, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/22)
- A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow (Tordotcom)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- Tread of Angels, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris UK)
- High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)
- Ogres, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
- Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
NOVELETTE
- “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You“, John Chu (Uncanny 7-8/22)
- “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold“, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 5-6/22)
- “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors)
- “Solidity”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 9-10/22)
- “The Six Deaths of the Saint”, Alix E. Harrow (Into Shadow)
- “In Mercy, Rain“, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com 7/18/22)
- “Falling Off the Edge of the World”, Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s 11-12/22)
- “The Sadness Box“, Suzanne Palmer (Clarkesworld 7/22)
- “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, Wole Talabi (Africa Risen)
- “The Difference Between Love and Time”, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)
SHORT STORY
- “Give Me English”, Ai Jiang (F&SF 5-6/22)
- “The Goldfish Man”, Maureen McHugh (Uncanny 3-4/22)
- “Rabbit Test”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 11-12/22)
- “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
- “Master of Ceremonies“, Frances Ogamba (The Dark 5/22)
- “Beginnings”, Kristina Ten (Fantasy 4/22)
- “The Coward Who Stole God’s Name”, John Wiswell (Uncanny 5-6/22)
- “D.I.Y”, John Wiswell (Tor.com 8/24/22)
- “Inheritance “, Hannah Yang (Analog 9-10/22)
- “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy”, Hannah Yang (Apex 5/22)
ANTHOLOGY
- The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. (Tordotcom)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 6, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
- Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, Rebecca Roanhorse & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
- Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
- Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (MIT Press)
- Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tor)
- Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)
- The Best of World SF: Volume 2, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Head of Zeus)
- The Future is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)
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COLLECTION
- Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
- Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Night Shift, Eileen Gunn (PM)
- Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
- Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
- BOYS, BEASTS & MEN, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
- The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe et al. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Illuminations, Alan Moore (Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury UK)
- Our Fruiting Bodies, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct)
- The Best of Lucius Shepard: Vol. 2, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
MAGAZINE
- Apex
- Asimov’s
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Clarkesworld
- F&SF
- FIYAH
- Lightspeed
- Strange Horizons
- Tor.com
- Uncanny
PUBLISHER
- Angry Robot
- Gollancz
- Harper Voyager
- Neon Hemlock
- Orbit
- Small Beer
- Subterranean
- Tachyon
- Tor
- Tordotcom
EDITOR
- Neil Clarke
- Ellen Datlow
- Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
- Jonathan Strahan
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
- Sheree Renée Thomas
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
- Wendy N. Wagner
- Sheila Williams
ARTIST
- Tommy Arnold
- Rovina Cai
- Kinuko Y. Craft
- Galen Dara
- Julie Dillon
- Bob Eggleton
- John Picacio
- Shaun Tan
- Charles Vess
- Michael Whelan
NON-FICTION
- The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020, Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
- Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
- An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus)
- Queering SF: Readings, Ritch Calvin (Aqueduct)
- Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola)
- Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic, Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton (Routledge)
- The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter (First Fandom Experience)
- Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, Darieck Scott (New York University Press)
- Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, Bev Vincent (Epic Ink)
- Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography, Rob Wilkins (Doubleday UK)
ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK
- Visions of Beauty, Dianne Borsini-Burr, ed., art by Kinuko Y. Craft (Borsini-Burr & Imaginary Editions)
- Paintings & Drawings of Rowena, Kim DeMulder, art by Rowena (self-published)
- The Keeper, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Megascope)
- In the Black Fantastic, Ekow Eshun (Thames & Hudson; MIT Press)
- Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Two, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
- Chivalry, Neil Gaiman, art by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
- The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night, Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
- Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, art by Vic Terra (Rosarium)
- Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, George Orwell, art by Omar Rayyan (Suntup)
- Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections, Shaun Tan (Walker Studio UK; Windy Hollow; Levine Querido)
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The Book Lover’s Boudoir enjoys THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE VOLUME II: OAKLAND DRAGON BLUES AND OTHER STORIES even more than the impressive first volume.
I enjoyed THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE VOLUME II a bit more than VOLUME I. Many of the stories are grounded more in the real world with a touch of fantasy which appealed to more. Some the stories in VOLUME I were familiar to be but I hadn’t read anything in VOLUME II. I enjoyed the anticipation of wondering what I would find when I finished a story and turned the page. I loved all of the stories.
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On her blog, freshly-minted Nebula Award-nominee (for the short story “Rabbit Test”) Samantha Mills announces her novel debut, THE RISE AND FALL OF WINGED ZEMOLAI. coming in 2024 from Tachyon Publications.
I’m thrilled to be working on this book with Jaymee Goh and Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications. We’ve worked together once before (when my short story “Strange Waters” was collected into THE NEW VOICES OF SCIENCE FICTION) and it was a great experience, so I really feel that the book is in good hands.
It is slated for release in early 2024. We’ll get a firmer date dialed in once I’ve gotten through initial edits — at which point I will of course be shouting it from the rooftops. ;D
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As part of their survey of the 2022 Splatterpunk Award nominees, Doris V. Sutherland at Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny, praises 2022 Splatterpunk Award winner BODY SHOCKS, edited by Ellen Datlow.
Reading BODY SHOCKS feels like experiencing the Splatterpunk Awards by way of the Hugo Awards. Compared to most of the books on the ballot, the writing is polished with more care, the narrative styling more pronounced, and the satirical elements given a stronger feminist slant. Yet the macabre weirdness that we have come to expect from the Splatterpunk Awards is present and correct.
Over on Talking About Books, Suroor Alikhan likes THE PECULIARITIES by David Liss.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable fantasy. David Liss has a way of creating atmosphere and a sense of menace.
In an exclusive, Denise Petski of Deadline reports that Tubi has started principle photography on The Thicket, based on Joe R. Lansdale’s novel of the same name.
EXCLUSIVE: Tubi has begun principal photography on dark western thriller The Thicket, based on Joe R. Lansdale’s novel of the same name, starring and produced by Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage. Production is underway in Calgary, Canada.
A longtime passion project for Dinklage, The Thicket also stars Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets), Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Levon Hawke (The Crowded Room), Leslie Grace (In The Heights), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Old Man), Macon Blair (I Care A Lot), James Hetfield (Metallica), Ned Dennehy (Peaky Blinders), Andrew Schulz (Infamous), and Arliss Howard (Mank).
Set at the turn-of-the-century, The Thicket follows an innocent young man, Jack (Hawke), who goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula (Creed-Miles) after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill (Lewis) and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones (Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave (Akinnagbe), and a street-smart prostitute (Grace). The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.
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Andrew Wheeler on his The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. praises Lavie Tidhar’s NEOM.
This is a smart, open-hearted, short SF novel deeply steeped in the history of the robot and mechanical man in SF, and that has plenty of its own changes to ring on those ideas, set, as I said, in a deep, complex, interesting universe of its own.
The LAPL Blog interviews Tidhar.
What was your inspiration for Neom?
It was really, I think, our second lockdown over here, in the middle of winter, and I was supposed to be writing this big historical epic, Maror, which is out now in the UK…But I just couldn’t concentrate. And I had this image that came into my mind, of a robot holding a flower. I didn’t know anything else about it, so I wrote what I thought was a small story about the robot, and then realised I had no idea what it was doing, so wrote more to find out, and eventually realised I was writing a novel! The city I explored earlier in a short story, “Neom,” that is more or less the first chapter here, and the whole idea of the Ghost Coast and the Green Caravanserai came from a visit to the Sinai quite a long time ago, when the whole coastal area seemed half-built and abandoned. And I woke up for the sunrise as it emerged from behind the Saudi mountains on the other side of the Red Sea, and I thought, you know, I’d love to go there. So I did, even if it’s in the far future of my own imagination.
Kate Sherrod on Kate of Mind enjoys THE PECULIARITIES by David Liss.
I would read many more volumes of stuff set in this world, whether the hero be Thomas, Esther, Ruby (a wolf-girl who helps them quite a bit) or even some brand new characters. Like the aforementioned Tim Powers, Liss has created a truly original and intriguing magical system and thus a world with room for many more cool adventures. Crossing my fingers for more of this!
On his feuilleton journal, book designer John Coulhart discusses THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIMES STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE.
The stories may be described as crime but quite a few of them are dark enough to be included in horror collections. Things do, indeed, get ugly. The intersection between crime and horror fiction isn’t exactly new, the two genres have been entangled since The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the boundaries remain permeable to this day. The most well-known piece in the new collection is Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, a story that was filmed for TV by Don Coscarelli for the Masters of Horror series, and which also opened the first season in 2005. Coscarelli’s adaptation is even nastier than its source but not everything in the collection is unrelentingly grim. Lansdale has a flair for black comedy which is to the fore in another story, Driving to Geromino’s Grave, in which two Depression-era children have to bring home the rotting body of their deceased uncle. This may not be everybody’s idea of an amusing read but the witty dialogue made me laugh.
David Sandner and Jacob Weisman talk about Hellhounds for My Favorite Bit.
Jacob:
Hellhounds is part of a larger collaborative project between David Sandner and myself. The larger story cycle follows the adventures of two brothers, Kenny – also known as The Prophet — and his older brother Lamond.
There’s two of us involved with this story, and while David may have a favorite bit all his own, I suspect we share the same favorite, and that is the character of Lamond that we discovered while writing this story.
Tachyon and Humble Bundle combine forces for Sanderson, Liu, Sterling and More Great SF&F bundle in support of Gameheads
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