Horror Short Story Collection: The Janus Tree and Other Stories
Earlier this week Ohio horror author Kealan Patrick Burke launched a new series on his blog called The Seven and he asked Glen Hirshberg seven questions about his latest projects, including The Janus Tree and Other Stories.
Well, not one to let an opportunity to shamelessly piggyback on somebody else’s work pass me by, I’m featuring that very same horror short story collection today.
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The Janus Tree and Other StoriesEditors: Hirshberg, Glen |
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Contains the winner of the 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette, The Janus Tree A young girl, lying in the way-back of a station wagon during an all-night family road trip, becomes convinced that the people up front are no longer her parents. A dutiful Jewish nephew slowly comes to understand—and fear—his aging aunts’ obsession with the exotic animals wandering loose on a nearby farm in suburban Baltimore. A Japanese immigrant, isolated in a California mountain town while caring for her dying husband, begins seeing Tall Things in the corners of her house. Whisperers. They tell her they are coming to live in her mouth. And in the Shirley Jackson Award-winning title novelette, a decaying mining town in Montana provides the backdrop for a desperate battle between a troubled, pugnacious pre-teen, the bully who has terrorized him, and the much more sinister force neither child realizes has come for them. Welcome back to Glen Hirshberg country, where griefs are at least as dangerous as ghosts. Where terror and wonder become not just inextricable but often indistinguishable. Where the worlds of imagination and everyday reality color and corrode and sometimes overwhelm each other. A country surprisingly like your own. Table of Contents:
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January 2012 (Signed Limited Hardcover — Subterranean)
January 2012 (Signed Limited Hardcover — Subterranean)
January 2012 (Signed Limited Hardcover — Subterranean)
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Horror Anthology: The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 1
Today’s horror anthology post is the first of a two volume set which I would love to own: The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 1 edited by John Pelan.
Of course, this set falls in nicely with horror author Brian Keene’s call to “Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.” (From Roots — Keynote Speech, Anthocon 2011)
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The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 1Editor: Pelan, John |
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Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two volume set to be published as The Century’s Best Horror Fiction. The ground rules were simple:
Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making! Table of Contents:
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Horror Anthology: The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2
Today’s horror anthology post is the second of a two-volume set which I would love to own: The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2 edited by John Pelan.
This is the horror anthology they’ll be talking about years from now.
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The Century’s Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2Editor: Pelan, John |
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Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned a spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan. John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two-volume set to be published as The Century’s Best Horror Fiction. The ground rules were simple:
Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making! Table of Contents:
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Dear Reader, This version of the book is not the f…
Dear Reader,
This version of the book is not the final one. I edited the content based on reader feedback. People (some) were not happy with the ambiguity of the ending and some of the overly long) descriotions of Mars. The final (I think) version is only available from Amazon, iTunes, Kindle, etc as of Aug 2010.
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Horror Short Story Collection: The Driver’s Guide to Hitting Pedestrians
Life is Full of Painful Things.
These are My Favorites.
–Andersen Prunty
Thus begins the collection of short and short short stories by Ohio bizarro and horror author Andersen Prunty.
I decided the best way to end what turned out to be a week of horror short story collections was to return to Andersen Prunty for one last look and The Driver’s Guide to Hitting Pedestrians seems like an appropriate way to close things out.
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The Driver’s Guide to Hitting PedestriansEditors: Prunty, Andersen |
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A pocket guide to the twenty-three most painful things in life, written by the most well-adjusted man in the universe. Does it make you sad to be alive? Boo-hoo. You’re living all wrong. My name is Andersen Prunty. I’m happiest while napping. I am a man with tennis shoes. They get older every time I put them on. This is how I deal with the pain of being alive. Now is our chance to deal with our pain together. You’ll thank me later. Lover and euphoria, Andersen Table of Contents:
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Horror Short Story Collection — Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror Stories
I’m still reeling from the exhaustion and fatigue from a low level of thyroid hormone. I struggle to stay awake at work and I sleep ten hours or more at home. Mornings are my best time and I snuck this post in before the fatigue washed over me.
I haven’t done anything with Ohio authors lately so I did a quick check and discovered that Ohio bizarro and horror author Andersen Prunty has been busy republishing many delightful and hard to get (or expensive to get) short stories and novellas into affordable collections.
Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror Stories is one such collection.
For instance, the novella Market Adjustment even spent time on Horror Mall’s bestseller list when it was originally published. Now it’s available again in two affordable editions.
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Hi I’m a Social Disease: Horror StoriesEditors: Prunty, Andersen |
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This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features “Room 19″, a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ song “From Her to Eternity”, appearing for the first time anywhere, and “Market Adjustment”, about one man’s battle with the wealthy, previously available only in a very limited edition. Also includes: “The Dust Season”, “The Man With the Face Like a Bruise”, “The Photographer”, “The Night the Moon Made a Sound”, and “The Funeralgoer.” Table of Contents:
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Horror Short Story Collection: The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants
To complete the H. P. Lovecraft theme I have going here, let’s look at the first horror short story collection by then new-comer Ramsey Campbell with was completely Lovecraft inspired.
This 50th anniversary edition has many qualities to recommend it including original comments from August Derleth’s comments of the first drafts of tales within.
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The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome TenantsAuthor: Campbell, Ramsey |
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The influence of H. P. Lovecraft spans the centuries. Several of his correspondents who were writers learned by imitating him. The early tales of Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner read very much like Lovecraft, while others of his friends — Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and August Derleth among them — incorporated his ideas and myths into their fiction. Bloch and Frank Belknap Long even wrote tributes to him that used him, barely disguised, as a character. After Lovecraft’s death August Derleth took control of his mythos, adding to and organising it more systematically than its creator ever had. Derleth was a jealous guardian of Lovecraft’s reputation, and insisted on vetting any stories by new writers that used the mythos. Few found his favour until 1961, when a Liverpudlian fifteen-year-old sent him the first drafts of several Lovecraftian tales. The outcome was a ten-year professional relationship and the appearance in 1964 of the first book of previously unpublished Lovecraftian fiction for five years. It was The Inhabitant of the Lake. This fiftieth anniversary edition reprints that book in full, including the original introduction. It also includes the first drafts of all the tales that were rewritten before publication and reproduces Derleth’s editorial responses to the stories. This edition is superbly illustrated by Randy Broecker in the great tradition of Weird Tales. Table of Contents:
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Horror Anthology: Medusa’s Coil and Others
Remember when I said this week’s postng may be rocky? Yeah, it got rocky. Sorry about being absent yesterday. Here is what I wanted to post:
This is the second book in S. T. Joshi’s latest project which makes H. P. Lovecaft’s collabrative stories available in a pair of attractive limited edition hardcover volumes with analysis.
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Medusa’s Coil and Others (The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H. P. Lovecraft #2)Author: Lovecraft, H. P. and others |
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Some of H. P. Lovecraft’s most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by economic survival, to ghostwrite, collaborate and revise the work of others in the field. Here Lovecraft Scholar S. T. Joshi collects the best of these revisions and collaborations in a two volume set to be published this year from Arcane Wisdom Press. Medusa’s Coil and Others is the second of these two volumes. This edition is painstakingly annotated, and includes an introduction and bibliography by S. T. Joshi. The book is a must for the Lovecraft enthusiast and scholar alike. This limited edition hardcover will be strictly limited to only 150 hardcover copies. They will be signed by Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi and will be hand numbered on a custom signature sheet, featuring artwork by Zach McCain. We expect to be shipping these in late January reserve your copy now of this unique collection. Table of Contents:
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