The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Già disponibile in versione digitale e in uscita il 19 febbraio quella cartacea, ecco The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, la nuova raccolta dedicata alla narrativa di una delle più importanti scrittrici del fantastico contemporaneo.

Edita da Tachyon Publications, la raccolta comprende venti racconti pubblicati tra il 2003 e il 2017, testimonianza del talento e dell’originalità della scrittrice irlandese, nota soprattutto per il romanzo The Drowning Girl.

Tra le varie tematiche presenti, centrale in molti racconti l’elemento dell’acqua, come in “Andromeda Among the Stones”, “Houses Under the Sea” (“Case sotto il mare”, Hypnos 08), “The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean” e “Tidal Forces”.

It is already available in digital edition, and soon onFebruary 19th in paper edition, The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, the new collection by one of the most important contemporary writers of modern weird and fantastic literature.

The volume, published by Tachyon Publications, contains twenty short stories already published between 2003 and 2017, some of them focusing on the element of water, like “Andromeda Among the Stones”, “Houses Under the Sea” (“Case sotto il mare”, Hypnos 08), “The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean” and “Tidal Forces”.

Annunci

Anteprima di Hypnos 8

Edizioni Hypnos annuncia la prossima pubblicazione del nuovo numero della rivista Hypnos Magazine, prevista per la seconda metà di settembre.

Hypnos 8 conterrà ben otto racconti inediti di autori internazionali e italiani: si passa dalla regina del weird contemporaneo Caitlín R. Kiernan alla talentuosa Kij Johnson, della quale la casa editrice milanese ha già pubblicato il bellissimo romanzo breve intitolato La ricerca onirica di Vellitt Boe, senza dimenticare il vulcanico T.E. Grau per poi tornare sui classici con John Meade Falkner e Heinrich Clauren. Sul fronte italiano, saranno presenti i racconti dei vincitori dell’ultimo Premio Hypnos, Materiali per una guida della Val Lemuria, di Cristiano Demicheli, e La colonia, di Giulia Massini, e un testo di Massimo Soumaré, Storia di lune, gatti e astronomi.

Non mancheranno infine gli articoli, con un testo di Franco Piccinini su E.A. Poe e un’analisi della figura del grande Alfred Kubin, e infine Weird Library, rubrica di recensioni a cura di Laura Sestri.

In anteprima, la copertina di Ivo Torello.

 

Edizioni Hypnos announced the new issue of Hypnos Magazine, Hypnos 8, with a rich choice of short stories ranging from Caitlín R. Kiernan and Kij Johnson to T.E. Grau,  John Meade Falkner, Heinrich Clauren and Italian writers like Cristiano Demicheli, Giulia Massini, Massimo Soumaré. This issue will feature also two essays on the works of E.A. Poe and an analysis of the great Artist Alfred Kubin.

Here the preview of the artwork by Ivo Torello.

I finalisti dei Locus Awards 2018

La Locus Science Fiction Foundation ha annunciato la lista dei finalisti per i Locus Awards 2018.

I vincitori saranno proclamati durante il Locus Award Weekend in Seattle, WA, previsto per il 22-24 giugno 2018.

La lista completa dei finalisti è disponibile a questo link. Segnaliamo in particolare The Changeling di Victor LaValle, Ubo di Steve Rasnic Tem e Agents of Dreamland di Caitlín R. Kiernan

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the finalists in each category of the 2018 Locus Awards.

Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 22-24, 2018.

Among the finalists, The Changeling by Victor LaValle, Ubo by Steve Rasnic Tem and Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan.

The complete list is available at this link.

Wormwood n.30

E’ stato pubblicato ieri il numero 30 di Wormood, la rivista curata da Mark Valentine ed edita da Tartarus Press, dedicata al fantastico e al soprannaturale.

In questo numero, tra gli altri interessanti contenuti, un articolo sulla scrittrice Caìtlin R. Kiernan, uno su Algernon Blackwood e un testo di Reggie Oliver.

Qui di seguito, l’indice completo:

 

 -‘The best Vitality/Cannot excel Decay’: Echoes of Literary Decadence in the Fiction of Caitlín R. Kiernan by James Goho

-Another Kind of Fairyland: Margaret Benson’s The Court of the King by Joseph Hinton

-A Scientist reads Algernon Blackwood’s The Fruit Stoners by Rebekah Memel Brown

-Phantasmion and Phantastes by William Charlton

-Impostor in the Hebrides:  The Strange History of Ada Goodrich Freer by Peter Bell

-Night-Doings in Victorian England: The Sojourn of Ambrose Bierce by Tim Foley

-Under Review by Reggie Oliver

-Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson

-Camera Obscura by John Howard

 

 

Wormood n.30 is now available. The journal, edited by Tartarus Press, is focused on fantastic, supernatural and decadent literature.

In this issue, an article about Caìtlin R. Kiernan, one on Algernon Blackwood, Reggie Oliver and much more.

See above the table or contents.

The Dinosaur Tourist in preorder

È disponibile per il preorder sul sito di Subterranean Press la nuova antologia di racconti della scrittrice Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Dinosaur Tourist.

Il volume, con copertina di Ray Troll e previsto per la pubblicazione a Novembre, raccoglie diciannove storie nelle quali nulla è ciò che sembra e le apparenze possono essere ingannevoli e disastrose, guidando gli incauti verso pazzia e morte.

Uno dei suoi racconti, “Houses under the sea”, sarà pubblicato prossimamente in Italia all’interno del numero 8 di Hypnos Magazine.

Qui sotto, l’indice completo dei racconti in anteprima.

 

 

In this new anthology by Caitlín R. Kiernan, nothing is only what it seems and tbe appearances can lead us all the way to madness and death and damnation. The Dinosaur Tourist collects nineteen tales of the unexpected and the uncanny and is already available for preorder on the Editor’s website.

Her story “Houses under the Sea” will be published in Italy in the next issue n.8 of Hypnos Magazine. 

Cover art by Ray Troll.

Table of Contents:

The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer
Far From Any Shore
The Cats of River Street (1925)
Elegy for a Suicide
The Road of Needles
Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still
Ballad of an Echo Whisperer
The Cripple and the Starfish
Fake Plastic Trees
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)
Animals Pull the Night Around Their Shoulders
Untitled Psychiatrist No. 2
Excerpts from An Eschatology Quadrille
Ballad of a Catamite Revolver
Untitled Psychiatrist No. 3
Albatross (1994)
Fairy Tale of Wood Street
The Dinosaur Tourist (Murder Ballad No. 11)
Objects in the Mirror

I finalisti dei Bram Stoker Awards 2017

La Horror Writers Association ha annunciato i finalisti dell’edizione 2017 dei Bram Stoker Awards, per le migliori opere di letteratura horror e dark fantasy.

La premiazione avverrà il 3 marzo, durante l’annuale StokerCon che si terrà dall’ 1al 4 marzo allo storico Baltimore Hotel di Providence, Rhode Island.

Tra le opere finaliste segnaliamo i romanzi I Wish I Was Like You di S.P. Miskowski e Ubo di Steve Rasnic Tem, il romanzo breve Agents of Dreamland di Caitlín R. Kiernan e l’antologia The Beauty of Death Vol. 2: Death by Water, pubblicata dalla casa editrice italiana Independent Legions e curata da Jodi Renee Lester e Alessandro Manzetti, quest’ultimo finalista anche con la raccolta di poesie No Mercy.

Qui si seguito l’elenco completo dei finalisti.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Golden, Christopher – Ararat (St. Martin’s Press)
King, Stephen and King, Owen – Sleeping Beauties (Scribner)

Malerman, Josh – Black Mad Wheel (Ecco)

Miskowski, S.P. – I Wish I Was Like You (JournalStone)

Tem, Steve Rasnic – Ubo (Solaris)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Cabeen, Robert Payne – Cold Cuts (Omnium Gatherum Media)
Davidson, Andy – In the Valley of the Sun (Skyhorse Publishing)

Hayward, Matt – What Do Monsters Fear? (Post Mortem Press)

Hepler, Jeremy – The Boulevard Monster (Bloodshot Books)

Thomas, Scott – Kill Creek (Ink Shares)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

French, Gillian – The Door to January (Islandport Press)
Leveen, Tom – Hellworld (Simon Pulse)

Liggett, Kim – The Last Harvest (Tor Teen)

Lukavics, Amy – The Ravenous (Harlequin Teen)

Porter, Sarah – When I Cast Your Shadow (Tor Teen)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Carey, Mike and Arvind, Ethan David – Darkness Visible (IDW)
Duffy, Damian and Butler, Octavia E. – Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Abrams ComicArts)

Ferris, Emil – My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Hickman, Jonathan – The Black Monday Murders (Image Comics)

Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 2: The Blood (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Edelman, Scott – Faking it Until Forever Comes (Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them) (Written Backwards)
Jones, Stephen Graham – Mapping the Interior (Tor.com)

Kiernan, Caitlín R. – Agents of Dreamland (Tor.com)

Taylor, Lucy – Sweetlings (Tor.com)

Waggoner, Tim – A Kiss of Thorns (DarkFuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Bailey, Michael – “I Will Be the Reflection Until the End” (Tales from the Lake Vol. 4) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Chambers, James – “A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills” (Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2) (Cutting Block Books)

Mannetti, Lisa – “Apocalypse Then” (Never Fear: The Apocalypse) (13Thirty Books)

Neugebauer, Annie – “So Sings the Siren” (Apex Magazine #101) (Apex Publications)

Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Loving You Darkly” (F(r)iction Magazine #8) (Tethered by Letters)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Hill, Joe – Strange Weather (William Morrow)
Kiste, Gwendolyn – And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe (JournalStone)

Malerman, Josh – Goblin (Earthling Publications)

Matsuura, Thersa – The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales (Independent Legions Publishing)

McGrath, Patrick – Writing Madness (Centipede Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Del Toro, Guillermo and Taylor, Vanessa – The Shape of Water (TSG Entertainment, Double Dare You Productions)
Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – Stranger Things: MadMax, Episode 02:01: Chapter One (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)

Frost, Mark and Lynch, David – Twin Peaks, Part 8 (Rancho Rosa Partnership, Inc.)

Palmer, Chase, Fukunaga, Cary, and Dauberman, Gary – It (New Line Cinema)

Peele, Jordan – Get Out (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment)

Shyamalan, M. Night – Split (Blinding Edge Pictures, Blumhouse Productions)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Brooks, Kinitra, PhD., Addison, Linda D., and Morris, Susana, PhD. – Sycorax’s Daughters (Cedar Grove Publishing)
Datlow, Ellen – Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Pegasus Books)

Maberry, Jonathan and Romero, George A. – Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Manzetti, Alessandro and Lester, Jodi Renee – The Beauty of Death Vol. 2: Death by Water (Independent Legions Publishing)

Murano, Doug – Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities & Undefinable Wonders (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Brittany, Michele – Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre (McFarland)
Brooks, Kinitra D. – Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror (Rutgers University Press)

Hendrix, Grady. Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction (Quirk Books)

Jones, Stephen – The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)

Mynhardt, Joe and Johnson, Eugene – Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre – (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Frazier, Robert and Boston, Bruce – Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Manzetti, Alessandro – No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Simon, Marge and Turzillo, Mary – Satan’s Sweethearts (Weasel Press)

Sng, Christina – A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

The Horror Writers Association announced the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. HWA is the premier organization for writers of horror and dark fantasy.

The presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards will occur during the annual StokerCon at the historical Baltimore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, during the gala dinner on March 3rd.

We would like to point out the novels I Wish I Was Like You by S.P. Miskowski and Ubo by Steve Rasnic Tem, the short novel Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan and the anthology The Beauty of Death Vol. 2: Death by Water, published by  Independent Legions and edited by Jodi Renee Lester and Alessandro Manzetti, who is also a finalist with the poetry collection No Mercy.

See above the complete list of the nominees.

The Ammonite Violin and Others, di Caítlin R. Kiernan

Continua con The Ammonite Violin, la ristampa delle principali antologie di Caítlin Kiernan per PS Publishing, dopo A is for Alien e Tales of Pain and Wonder.

Un’antologia di racconti pieni di sogni, incubi, strani mondi ed esseri oltre il velo della morte.

Disponibile a questo link.

 

 

PS Publishing presents a reprint of The Ammonite Violin & Others, by Caítlin R. Kiernan, following  the previous collections Tales of Pain and Wonder and A is for Alien.

In this collection the reader will discover strange lands and beings existing beyond the veil of death, dreams and nightmares and much more.

The volume is available at this link. 

Storie da incubo

Dopo “Shining in the Dark” e “Il Libro degli Orrori”, una nuova importante antologia è stata annunciata da Indipendent Legions. Si tratta di STORIE DA INCUBO, antologia a cura di Stephen Jones, in uscita quest’anno negli Stati Uniti con il titolo Nightmare Stories.

Tra i protagonisti alcune delle voci più importanti del fantastico moderno e contemporaneo come Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite, Tanith Lee, Dennis Etchison, e Harlan Ellison.

L’illustrazione di copertina è di Wendy Saber Core. Il volume, già prenotabile, sarà disponibile a partire da dicembre 2018.

 

Independent Legions announced a new horror anthology, to be published in December 2018 but already available for preorder, Storie da Incubo (Nightmare Stories). The book will present the works of fantastic literature by many modern and contemporary Authors, as Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite, Tanith Lee, Dennis Etchison, and Harlan Ellison. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.

Le novità 2018 di Edizioni Hypnos

Edizioni Hypnos annuncia un nuovo anno denso di pubblicazioni, con la presentazione del proprio piano editoriale per la prima metà del 2018.

Un programma che spazia, come è ormai tradizione per la casa editrice milanese, dai classici del fantastico (come Arthur Machen e William H. Hodgson)  alle voci più moderne del weird contemporaneo,  sia italiane (Ivo Torello) che straniere (Kij Johnson, T.E. Grau,  Caitlín Kiernan, ecc.).

Per maggiori dettagli sui titoli di prossima pubblicazione, potete consultare questo link sul sito ufficiale di Edizioni Hypnos.

 

Varieties of the weird tale

 

E’ disponibile da maggio 2017 il volume Varieties of the weird tale, della Hippocampus Press, saggio di S.T. Joshi sul weird classico e contemporaneo, da Ambrose Bierce a Caitlin R. Kiernan, passando da H.P.Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, William Hodgson, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti e molti altri.

A cura di S.T. Joshi e copertina Wallace Smith.

 

Varieties of the weird tale is a volume by Hippocampus Press, edited by S.T. Joshi, with his essays on weird literature, from Ambrose Bierce to Caitlin R. Kiernan, H.P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, William Hodgson, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and many more.

Cover art by Wallace Smith.