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Synopsis
The latest bumper Postscripts anthology, with new stories from twenty five of today s finest speculative fiction writers: Danel Olson Preface: On Dark Gifting Margo Lanagan Blooding the Bride Adam L.G. Nevill Pig Thing Kaaron Warren The Lighthouse Keepers Club Reggie Oliver The Look Lucy Taylor Nikishi Simon Kurt Unsworth The Fourth Horse Stephen Dedman The Fall Tunku Halim In the Village of Setang David Punter Carving Genni Gunn Water Lover Robert Hood Escena de un Asesinato Steve Rasnic Tem The Old Man Beset by Demons David Wellington Atacama Isobelle Carmody Metro Winds Terry Dowling Mariners Round Paul Finch Oschaert Ekaterina Sedia Helena Anna Taborska Rusalka Nick Antosca Candy Joseph Bruchac Down in the Valley Cherie Dimaline Wanishin Brian Evenson Grottor E. Michael Lewis Such a Man I Would Have Become Scott Thomas The Unfinished Book Stephen Volk Celebrity Frankenstein
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About the Author
Danel Olson is an American professor of Gothic literature & film, and Shirley Jackson Award & World Fantasy Award-winning editor of a six volume original fiction print series, Exotic Gothic. His other edited works in print include 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Fiction Since 2000, as well as The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film. His forthcoming publication is Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film featuring new pre-production art from the Director never published before.
Review
"Neo-Gothic stories, ... this collection emphatically rejects the romanticizing, the domestication of the traditional tropes, which of course makes me regard it favorably. Overall, what we have here is very dark stuff, although the range of settings and styles is very wide... But that isn't really a problem, because there's some good dark fantasy here, whatever the label. The stories are divided not thematically but geographically, ... [and] there is a definite theme linking many of them: colonialism and the resistance of indigenous peoples." -Lois Tilton, LOCUS (2012)
"The Gothic tradition as it was meant to be, but updated and fresh for modern readers ... set in places of the world we either least associate with 'gothic' or fail to even consider in the genre... [Dominating are] themes of cultural oppression, the evil claws of colonialism still deeply embedded in the back of certain nations, feminine sacrifice to ancient traditions with hidden shackles, ... elavat[ing] them beyond mere horror stories, ... deftly weaving the haunting siren songs of Gothic (pain, madness, illusions, fear) within a modern framework." -HorrorNovelReviews.com (2013)
"Danel Olson provides an enthusiastic philosophical preface ... notably introduced with the remark: 'What it means to get a something you don't know how to use, and didn't ask for, and which may put your body and soul in peril.' ...A sumptuous package [with stories] sensuous, skewed and grotesque, passionate, and ambiguously ghostly. [Subjects include] an enormously powerful occult force, a redemptive mythic fantasy, though a very dark one, and a poetic dark fable... A fine, richly varied anthology of macabre delights. I highly recommend it." -Dead Reckonings magazine (Print, 2013)
"[These] stories by a distinguished group of genre experts, set in different locations, addressing a diversity of themes [still share] the character of modern gothic fiction.... Fans of the new gothic who have enjoyed the first three volumes won't be disappointed with this fourth installment, which confirms once again that horrific and weird atmospheres are not confined within the walls of Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses but can be found anywhere in the world." -Mario Guslandi, Thirteen O'Clock (Web, 2012)
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- PublisherPS Publishing
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1848633335
- ISBN 13 9781848633339
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages422
- EditorDanel Olson
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