To Charles Fort, With Love
10 best books like To Charles Fort, With Love (Caitlín R. Kiernan): Blood Oranges, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Map of Dreams, Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead, Supernatural Noir, White Time, Lord of Bones, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2
| Author | Kathleen Tierney |
| ISBN | 0451465016 |
My name’s Quinn.
If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1931520240 |
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.
This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
| Author | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead
| Author | Nancy Kilpatrick |
| ISBN | 1894063627 |
From this century to the next, vampires of the future will evolve!
Whatever apocalyptic events might lie ahead for our species, vampires—the eternal predators—will still be with us. How will the future unfold for both species? Are the undead capable of controlling their urges? Can we...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1595825460 |
A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret . . .
Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful...
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Anthologies are fun to read because they feature a wide variety of authors and styles. With their hit-or-miss qualities, however, they can also end up being disappointing. If I run into a real dud of a story, do I set the book aside and pick up something else or skip the...
| Author | Justine Musk |
| ISBN | 0451462203 |
Jess is a beautiful young artist whose prophetic dreams led her to Ramsey, a young teenage boy with an angel trapped inside him. Together, they stopped a demon intent on bringing about the apocalypse - but a gate was opened, and more demons have made their way into the world.
The demons need to...
| Author | Peter Straub |
| ISBN | 1598530488 |
Like its companion volume, this Library of America hardcover contains 750 pages of classic tales of horror, hauntings, terrifying obsessions, and unearthly presences. The lineup of American Gothic masters includes Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles,...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607013975 |
The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories...
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0993895115 |
Acclaimed author Kathe Koja brings her expert eye and editorial sense to the second volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. Contributing authors include Julio Cortazar, Jean Muno, Karen Joy Fowler, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Carmen Maria Machado, Nathan Ballingrud, and more. No longer the...
The mandalas have always been among us, unseen and uncalled. Those few occult masters who have encountered them have known to leave them alone, for to these unholy forces we are mere playthings, insignificant tools to be used, fed upon - and eventually discarded. — When New-Age charlatan Derek Crowe...
| Author | Serena Valentino |
| ISBN | 0943151619 |
This fun little graphic novel is a curious book to rate because although I enjoyed it, I ended up reading it thinking of other people who would not only enjoy the book but love it. It's like watching an arrow pass you by, hit your mark but fully knowing that it will hit someone else's mark. In short, this book...
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 1931081255 |
This short collaborative collection contains "The Crystal Empire," an original novella by Poppy Z. Brite, "Onion," an original novella by Caitlín R. Kiernan, and "The Rest of the Wrong Things," a brand-new collaborative story by Caitlín and Poppy set in Poppy's fictional stomping grounds of Missing...
| Author | Kelley Eskridge |
| ISBN | 1933500131 |
Dangerous Space is a collection of seven seductive stories by Kelley Eskridge, whose novel Solitaire was a New York Times Notable Book, with an introduction by Geoff Ryman (author of Was and Air). The opening story, "Strings," takes us to a world that tightly controls musical expression and values...
