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PRISMS - PRE-ORDER

PRISMS – PRE-ORDER

PRISMS, an anthology of dark science fiction and fantasy co-edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey, is now available to pre-order. This anthology was previously published in limited hardcover by PS Publishing in March 2021, but will be made available in a wider release by Written Backwards on March 21st, 2023. Features cover artwork by Ben Baldwin. Prisms are instruments, mirrors,…

[valdevia]

Lot 6: Indonesian Statue of Unknown Deity.

"In his journals, Moertono described the statue as "hideous" and "shapeless" and "malformed," indicating it was but a deeply-imperfect attempt at capturing something else, some shape beyond the mastery of human hands or human eyes."

This is one of the illustrations I made for the Dagon Collection book, along with an extract from the accompanying story, written by Nadia Bulkin! You can get the book here:

[brokehorrorfan]

Bound in Blood will be published in hardcover and e-book on September 10 via Titan Books. The 357-page anthology of cursed stories is edited by Johnny Mains.

It features stories by Adam Cesare, Eric LaRocca, Zin Rocklyn, Nadia Bulkin, Isy Suttie, Charlie Higson, Angeline Morrison, A.G. Slatter, Priya Sharma, A.K. Benedict, Guy Adams, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Ramsey Campbell, Alison Moore, Laura Mauro, Reggie Oliver, Anna Taborska, and Kim Newman.

A terrifying and chilling anthology of over 20 original stories by award-winning writers exploring cursed and haunted books; featuring malevolent second-hand books, cursed novelizations, unsettling journals and the end of the world. You find it hidden in the dark corner of the bookstore; tucked away in a box in the attic, desperate to be read; lurking on your bookshelf, never seen before. Crack the spine, feel the ancient pages. Read it aloud, if you dare. This anthology brings together horror’s best and brightest to delve into the pages of cursed books, Eldtritch tomes and haunted bookstores.

Pre-order Bound in Blood.

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The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world—yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse. From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season. Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry... Featuring stories   Nadia Bulkin Terry Dowling Tananarive Due Jeffrey Ford Christopher Golden Stephen Graham Jones Glen Hirshberg Richard Kadrey Alma Katsu Cassandra Khaw John Langan Josh Malerman Nick Mamatas Garth Nix Benjamin Percy M. Rickert Kaaron Warren

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Review: Cassilda's Song

Cassilda's Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers King in Yellow Mythos was one of the anthologies on the further reading list in the back of my copy of The King in Yellow. Specifically, it's a collection of stories by women writers interacting with the concepts and beats from the foundational text. I got around to reading through it yesterday, so this is just going to be a quick review!

Overall: hits and misses. I categorically resent the fact that so many collections of fiction by women are entirely absent of stories that don't involve sexual abuse, or conflate womanhood with suffering or mystify the experience of women as entirely alien. My sister put it really well when we were talking about it: depictions of women's sexuality aren't subversive if they posit it as either 1) nonexistent without assault or 2) inherently abnormal, and a lot of stories in this collection do that. I was not surprised that many of the author bios mentioned dark fantasy. Outside of this trend, I enjoyed most of the stories when I considered them individually.

Spotlight on my favorites from this collection (in the order that they appear):

Nicole Cushing's "Yella": Checked every unsanitary box, very difficult for me to get through given my personal compulsions but mercifully very short. Absolutely fantastic character work in such a limited page count, really visceral and physically grounded.

Helen Marshall's "Exposure": Immediately grabbed me with its modern style and the vitality of its (bigoted, judgemental) narrator. Loved the way that it initially demystifies the cosmic locations before bringing all the incomprehensibility back in.

Maura McHugh's "Family": Really interesting weaving of interpersonal dynamics that hits on a lot of the unreliability of the original text. Very solid character voice and grounded set dressing.

Nadia Bulkin's "Pro Patria!": This story has no equal in the collection. Only author to really grapple with the colonial implications of the mythos, horror is frighteningly realistic and I'm fascinated by how the cosmic elements act only as a backlight for the mundane. I'm highly tempted to scan the whole thing in so that everyone can read it.

E. Catherine Tobler and Damien Angelica Walter's "Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning": Both authors contributed a story each to the collection on their own, but I didn't like either nearly as much as I liked this one. The jumping put me in mind of This is How You Lose the Time War, and its approach to the power-of-language idea that's so present in Chambers was excellent. Will say however that I was extremely thrown off by the inclusions of real historical figures- that did not work for me. The creation myth it establishes is a high point.

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Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu and many more.

The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world—yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse.

From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season.

Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry...

Featuring stories from: 

Nadia Bulkin Terry Dowling Tananarive Due Jeffrey Ford Christopher Golden Stephen Graham Jones Glen Hirshberg Richard Kadrey Alma Katsu Cassandra Khaw John Langan Josh Malerman Nick Mamatas Garth Nix Benjamin Percy M. Rickert Kaaron Warren

Review:

Come one come all for some holiday horrors! This is a really fun anthology filled with holiday horror stories based on winter solstice traditions around the world. These are short and sweet and perfect for little horrors for the winter time.

*Thanks Netgalley and Titan Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[mypralaya]

thinkin bout Red Goat Black Goat by Nadia Bulkin and “The Goat is our real mother, SHE IS EVERYONE’S REAL MOTHER” and the positive depictions of submissive yielding earth mothers, from the Mesopotamian Kishar to the Virgin Mary, even Gaia can only strike back by giving birth to monstrous children who will, to the wicked monster mothers like Tiamat and Echidna who are themselves dangerous monsters and how Haven kinda walks the line because she had all the traits of the former but in practice was the latter even if it was not her true nature idk where I’m going with this

[kelcipher]

Currently Reading – "There Is No Death, There Are No Dead: Tales of Spiritualism Horror" by Kathe Koja, Gemma Files, Lee Murray, Laird Barron, S.P. Miskowski, Gwendolyn Kiste, Helen Marshall, Chesya Burke, Lisa Morton, David Demchuk, Seanan McGuire, Catherine Lord, Nadia Bulkin, Michelle Belanger, Crystal Lake Publishing, Jess Landry, Aaron J. French.

Start reading it for free: https://a.co/aCzZnwy

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13 Bizarro Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Elaine by Ben Arzate

Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral 

She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin

The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert by Rios de la Luz

Technicolor Terrorists by Andre Duza

Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez & Mark Williams

Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias

Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones

Not Seeing Is A Flower by Erhu Kome

Wet and Screaming by Shane McKenzie

Jah Hills by Unathi Slasha

Notes from the Guts of a Hippo by Grant Wamack

Vegan Zombie Apocalypse by Will-vary

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Truth is Order and Order is Truth, by Nadia Bulkin

Truth is Order and Order is Truth, by Nadia Bulkin

“You live in a monster’s empire. You’re only upset because you’re not the biggest monster anymore.”Nadia Bulkin, “Truth is Order and Order is Truth” “Regarding the setting for tales—I try to be as realistic as possible.”—H.P. Lovecraft to Emil Petaja, December 29, 1934 Last year I had the pleasure of reading some of the stories contained in the Valancourt BOOK OF WORLD HORROR STORIES, VOL. 1,…

[nettirw]

PRISMS

Prisms (co-edited by Darren Speegle and yours truly) is now available by PS Publishing. Available in trade hardcover or limited signed / numbered hardback (only 100, signed by all). Instruments, mirrors, metaphors, gateways humankind must pass through in order to achieve, to overcome, to realize, to become. Contained herein are nineteen transformative tales from some of speculative fiction’s…

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Get Ellen Datlow’s must-have anthology LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS for $1.99!

Ellen Datlow’s acclaimed anthology LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS is a Kindle Daily Deal for Friday, December 13.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

“Some of the best Lovecraftian short fiction of the past 30 years.” —Washington Post

Behold these newly-illustrated legends of modern horror’s most wicked progeny. In LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, H. P. Lovecraft’s famous creations—Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, and more—are celebrated in all their terrifying glory. Contributors include such literary luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Karl Edward Wagner, Elizabeth Bear, and Nick Mamatas. The monsters are lovingly rendered in spectacular original art by World Fantasy Award–winning artist John Coulthart (The Steampunk Bible).

“If you like Lovecraft even a little bit, this collection is a must.” —Book Riot

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ellen Datlow

Foreword by Stefan Dziemianowicz

“Only the End of the World Again” by Neil Gaiman

“The Bleeding Shadow” by Joe R. Lansdale

“Love Is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl” by Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Bulldozer” by Laird Barron

“A Quarter to Three” by Kim Newman

“Inelastic Collisions” by Elizabeth Bear

“That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable” by Nick Mamatas

“Red Goat Black Goat” by Nadia Bulkin

“Jar of Salts” and “Haruspicy” by Gemma Files

“Black as the Pit From Pole to Pole” by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley

“I’ve Come to Talk With You Again” by Karl Edward Wagner

“The Sect of the Idiot” by Thomas Ligotti

“The Dappled Thing” by William Browning Spencer

“The Same Deep Waters as You” by Brian Hodge

“Remnants” by Fred Chappell

“Waiting at the Cross Roads Motel” by Steve Rasnic Tem

“Children of the Fang” by John Langan

“Ellen Datlow’s second editorial outing into the realm of Lovecraft proves even more fruitful than the first. Focusing on Lovecraftian monsters, Datlow offers readers sixteen stories and two poems of a variety that should please any fans of the genre.” —The Arkham Digest

For more information on LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS, visit the Tachyon site.

Cover and illustrations by John Coulthart

[ruhin1art]

A bear inspired by the story “There is a bear in the woods”, by Nadia Bulkin.

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She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin My rating: 4 of 5 stars A debut collection of haunting short stories that are not only scary but truly politically astute and human. She creates very real characters and settings even when the most unreal, dark, or weird situations happen. I look forward to more of Bulkin's work in the future as she is a strong voice in the horror and weird genres. View all my reviews

[lordbaumeister]

Reviewing the Pages: Lovecraft's Monsters

Reviewing the Pages: Lovecraft’s Monsters

This deliciously creepy and loving tribute to the master of modern horror features riveting illustrated stories of his wicked progeny. In the century since the master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft, published his first story, the monstrosities that crawled out of his brain have become legend: the massive, tentacled Cthulhu, who lurks beneath the sea waiting for his moment to rise; the demon Sultan…