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     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 202.174.163.204 |
Today is the official release date of The Children of Old Leech. A tribute to Laird Barron. Edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steele. - Introduction: Of Whisky and Doppelgängers by Justin Steele - The Harrow by Gemma Files - Pale Apostle by Jesse Bullington & John Glover - Walpurgisnacht by Orrin Grey - Learn to Kill by Michael Cisco - Good Lord, Show Me The Way by Molly Tanzer - Snake Wine by Jeffrey Thomas - Love Songs From The Hydrogen Jukebox by Ted E. Grau - The Old Pageant by Richard Gavin - Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" by Paul Tremblay - Firedancing by Mike Griffin - The Golden Stars at Night by Allyson Bird - The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of Yesterdays by Joe Pulver - The Woman of the Wood by Daniel Mills - Brushdogs by Stephen Graham Jones - Ymir by John Langan - Of a Thousand Cuts by Cody Goodfellow - Tenebrionidae by Scott Nicolay & Jesse James Douthit-Nicolay - Afterword by Ross E. Lockhart http://wordhorde.com/books/the-children-of-old-leech/ | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 202.174.163.204 |
A few words on the anthology from J.T.Glover.. 'Two short, claustrophobic pieces that rely very much on their narrators’ interior experience of the horrors of the carnivorous cosmos are Allyson Bird’s “The Golden Stars at Night” and Michael Cisco’s “Learn to Kill.” Allyson’s story focuses on a young archer, a storm, and a looming sense of dread. Laird’s protagonists generally get some spark of knowledge about what consumes their lives before it does, but it’s unclear whether Allyson’s does, and the onrushing sense of dread perfectly characterizes what an unknowing person might find before Old Leech’s servitors and handmaidens come crawling along. “Learn to Kill” comes from the perspective of someone most definitely not intended to survive his encounter with Old Leech, and I can honestly say that I don’t understand everything that happens to him, but I understand his experience of it, which Michael depicts with verve that smack to me as much of the pinnacles of Modernism as anything else.' http://jtglover.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/release-the-leeches/ | ||
| Lincoln (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 120.17.128.118 |
My copy arrived yesterday - very nice book, with some cool 'extras'. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 85.255.234.148 |
I must get round to reading that collection you sent, Lincoln. Still hopelessly hooked on the horror anthos these days. Best New Horror 4 is a corker. Really enjoying it. |