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     Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.62.159 |
From PS Publishing in late 2009, early 2010: BLACK WINGS, edited by S.T. Joshi Pickman's Other Model (1929)" - Caitlín R Kiernan "Desert Dreams" - Donald R Burleson "Engravings" - Joseph S Pulver, Sr. "Copping Squid" - Michael Shea "Passing Spirits" - Sam Gafford "The Broadsword" - Laird Barron "Usurped" - William Browning Spencer "Denker's Book" - David J Schow "Inhabitants of Wraithwood" - W H Pugmire "The Dome" - Mollie L Burleson "Rotterdam" - Nicholas Royle "Tempting Providence" - Jonathan Thomas "Howling in the Dark" - Darrell Schweitzer "The Truth about Pickman" - Brian Stableford "Tunnels" - Philip Haldeman "Violence, Child of Trust" - Michael Cisco "Lesser Demons" - Norman Partridge "Black Brat of Dunwich" - Stanley C Sargent "An Eldritch Matter" - Adam Niswander "Susie" - Jason Van Hollander (lineup may include additional authors) From M Press, October 2009: LOVECRAFT UNBOUND, edited by Ellen Datlow "Houses Under the Sea," Caitlin R. Kiernan "The Din of Celestial Birds," Brian Evenson "In the Black Mill," Michael Chabon "Commencement," Joyce Carol Oates "One Day, Soon," Lavie Tidhar "Catch Hell," Laird Barron "Machines of Concrete Light and Dark," Michael Cisco "Leng," Marc Laidlaw "Sight Unseen," Joel Lane "Vernon, Driving," Simon Kurt Unsworth "Marya Nox," Gemma Files "That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable," Nick Mamatas "Sincerely, Petrified," Anna Tambour "The Tenderness of Jackals," Amanda Downum "The Office of Doom," Richard Bowes "Mongoose," Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear "Cold Water Survival," Holly Phillips "The Recruiter," Michael Shea "The Crevasse," Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud "Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love," William Browning Spencer | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Be lovely to get invited to sub to these things.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Of the two, the Datlow one excites me more. And Joel has a story in it.  | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.62.159 |
The Joshi has a Royle. That evens it for me. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
I am reading 'The Lost District' right now and enjoying it immensly. Seems to be a good time for short stories. Just finished Strantza's Beneath the Surface' and that was great as well. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
Hard to say which excites me more - they both have Kiernan, Shea, Spencer and Barron, for one thing. Perhaps the Joshi is the slighly more intriguing of the two, as there are a couple of unfamiliar names in the lineup ... academic anyway, as I'll sure as hell be buying both of 'em. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I'll take a Lane over a Royle any day. Throw in a Ballingrud and I'm anyone's.  | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.62.159 |
I don't find a qualitative difference between Joel and Nick. I admire both. Ballingrud is impressive as well. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Marc Laidlow, eh? A Ramsey Campbell discovery, him. Last I heard he was writing storylines for compoota games - Half-Life, for one. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
The Half-Life series is fantastic. I wonder if Laidlaw was responsible for the Antlions? It's fine when they're bursting out of the sand to attack you, but once you gain the ability to control them, and a bunch of 'em flock to you and just sit there, waiting, watching you ... creepy as hell, that's all I can say. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
In Half-Life 1, Laidlaw's name is graffitied on a wall. That's how I found him. Haven't played any games for a few years now since Doom used to give me nightmares. I also used to go through Bradford indoor market and imagine myself straddling along the aisles, picking off old ladies . . . Can't be good for your brain. | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.62.159 |
"Can't be good for your brain." Perfect! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
I still think that the original Quake is the greatest first person shooter ever made- despite the beautiful newer Doom, Bioshock, Castle Wolfenstein, AVP etc. No time to play any of them! | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 70.31.58.51 |
Laird, Congratulations! They both look great. I love everything of Ballingrud's I've read. I'm hoping we'll see a collection, or two, some day. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
Nice to see Don Burleson back in an antho. He's a great writer. I see his wife's there, too. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Congratulations, Laird and Joel. This anthology looks solid. Gemma Files kindly allowed me to read her contribution and it's great. No doubt you two fellers produced excellent tales as well. Both anthos have great rosters: Stableford, Kiernan, Cisco, etc. They're both sorely lacking my name and Zed's name, of course, but I'm sure that was simply an editorial oversight. ;-) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.76.118 |
Cogratulations Laird and Joel! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.76.118 |
No edit button :>( sounds like I have a cold. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Congratulations to Laird and Joel. Good work (I presume), fellas. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
"Just finished Strantza's Beneath the Surface' and that was great as well" Thanks Karim (you're forgiven for the misspelling) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Right sorry about the spelling! Enjoyed the collection. :-) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.195.121 |
These both look promising. Nice to see some familiar names there, too. Joel, I read your story 'Still Water' just before going to bed last night, and enjoyed it a lot. I'm not sure whether I dreamed the figure emerging from my mouldy bedroom wall, or whether those strange grey tubes that I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye when using the bathroom in the middle of the night were just a figment of my imagination... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.255.67 |
Cheers, Huw. It's hard to type with hollow fingers you know. But easy to do other things. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Joel, I've been reading a story a day from your collection 'The Lost District', reading it mostly on the way to work in the mornings this week. Its really amazing.Good books this week. First the Strantzas, then the new Michael Marshall thriller 'Bad Things'(signed from Goldsboro), and 'Crooked Little Vein' by Warren Ellis (Hilarious) and now I'm drifting through the Lost District. And now these two anthologies above. Bring on the bloody Credit Crisis! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
In general I am wary of lovecraftian anthologies, most seem written by and for acne-suffering teenage boys, and they can be pretty bo-o-oring. But the author list on these 2 books are more convincing. In the name of the old gods, let these be anthologies worth reading! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
They'd better be, given what the authors sacrificed to be in them. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Karim, thanks. THE LOST DISTRICT only had two print reviews, one of them minging, and has pretty well shared the fate of its eponymous locale. Hope you continue to enjoy. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.92.189 |
It's hard to believe that about the review on THE LOST DISTRICT. Had the reviewer completely lost his marbles or something? Crazy. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Thanks Joel. I'm four stories in and they have all been really powerful stories--And I'm looking forward to reading all of them. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
BTW folks, the PS Publishing website now has full details of my forthcoming novella and a thumbnail of the weird, brooding cover by Vincent Chong. The book itself will be out very soon. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Ally... I always feel uncomfortable when authors argue back with negative reviews in a public forum. It's not dignified. Face to face, however, it's another story. Ask me about the Foundation review when we next meet and I'll gladly discuss with you my feelings about the reviewer and the horse he rode in on. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I'm sure it's a nice horse. Even if it does have black wings. Which are rarely a positive fashion statement. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I've seen the cover on Vinny's wensite, and it's brilliant. As usual for him, I must say. I can't wait for this one. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Er, that wasn't a reference to the anthology. I'd better just shut up. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Joel, have you see the utterly vicious review of Subtle Edens online at Strange Horizons...? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
That's great news on the novella Joel. Very much looking forward to that. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.19.103.122 |
Ordered! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Gary, just read the review. Face. Bothered? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.92.189 |
Spilt my coffee laughing, again. Okay I'll pin you in a corner next time about it. I'm going to hop off to PS and then to Strange Horizons. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
I was going to email the reviewer and shout at him, but in the event I decided to take your advice. I'm heading off to his house this evening with an axe, five black bin-liners and a shovel. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
The novella sounds great, Joel. I'm ordering it. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Shoot! I pre-ordered Joel's novella ages ago. I suppose we know who the real fans are at times like these, hm? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I see the contents of SPOOK CITY are listed on the PS website too now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like it only has reprints from Barker, Atkins, and Campbell. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Again with the list comma, Simon! Is it a Canadian thing? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I believe in the Oxford comma, Joel. My apologies for the amount it bothers you, but I think it aids in clarification at best, and at worst plays no role whatsoever. I can't say the same for all sentences that are missing it. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
>>>Shoot! I pre-ordered Joel's novella ages ago. I suppose we know who the real fans are at times like these, hm? You're anyone's bitch, you. >>>it only has reprints from Barker, Atkins, and Campbell. The first Campbell entry is a new autobiographical essay, I believe. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.27.151 |
> BTW folks, the PS Publishing website now has full details of my forthcoming novella and a thumbnail of the weird, brooding cover by Vincent Chong. The book itself will be out very soon. I just read the blurb. It reminded me a bit of John Carpenter's ok TV movie "Cigarette Burns". And it seemed interesting enough for me to preorder it. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
Congratulations to Laird and Joel. I'll no doubt be plumping for both these anthologies. I love the Laidlaw story from a few years ago about the man on his cellphone in the rain. Forgot the name. Is there a definitive answer to the Oxford comma? It looks wrong without it. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.202 |
Steve I agree with you- the Laidlaw story 'Cell Call' which I've got in the PS book 'By Moonlight Only' is superb, and so memorably punchy that whenever I'm at formal dinners and I get asked 'Go on then - tell me a scary story' I often tell a version of that one. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
John, that's it - Cell Call. What a great tale. Thanks for that. I would've been raking through the corridors of my brain all night without you. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.202 |
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| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.134.53 |
'Raking Through the Corridors of My Brain All Night Without You' – greatest story/album title ever, Steve. Now get on and write the rest. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.47 |
I can just picture the video, Joel; a scantily-clad woman gyrating on the bonnet of a car. In the rain. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.137.129 |
Not quite what I had in mind, but fair enough. However, if that turns out to be your imagined video to accompany every piece of music, I'd be worried. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Sometimes it's in the snow not in the rain, and sometimes it's a Harley Dividson not a car... |