Recent Acts of Weirdness
Jan. 8th, 2015 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ankh_hplOver the recent holidays, a couple of contributors’ copies landed in my mailbox – one of them lightly, one with a resounding thump. Since both might appeal to fellow readers of the weird, I’m sharing a few details.
The Starry Wisdom Library, edited by Nate Pedersen (PS Publishing, December 2014) is a facsimile edition of “the catalogue of the greatest occult book auction of all time” – i.e., the abortive 1877 sale of the Church of Starry Wisdom’s impressive collection. It offers descriptions of 44 lots, in the form of short essays by a wide range of Lovecraftian & weird writers (with era-appropriate biographies, of course!). Mine is on Robert Bloch’s Black Rites.
This was the contrib that landed lightly: a slender (176 pp.) jacketed hardcover, with vintage-looking endpapers. Quite a lovely thing.
The TOC / full list of Learned Personages can be found here
Ordering info can be found here
The Weird Fiction Review #5 (Centipede Press, Fall 2014) , edited by S.T. Joshi, offers a bumper crop of weirdness for the aficionado. There are several interviews, scholarly essays & articles, columns, short fiction by both notables & newer writers, full-color art, even a good selection of poems. Two of these --“Frost Ghosts” and “Fatal Constellations” -- are mine.
This one contributed the resounding thump. It’s a massive (just over 300 pp.) annual, listed on Centipede’s site as “sewn paperback.” Think slick trade paperback with upscale production values, big enough to last through a long snowed-in weekend.
Further particulars & ordering info can be found here
The Starry Wisdom Library, edited by Nate Pedersen (PS Publishing, December 2014) is a facsimile edition of “the catalogue of the greatest occult book auction of all time” – i.e., the abortive 1877 sale of the Church of Starry Wisdom’s impressive collection. It offers descriptions of 44 lots, in the form of short essays by a wide range of Lovecraftian & weird writers (with era-appropriate biographies, of course!). Mine is on Robert Bloch’s Black Rites.
This was the contrib that landed lightly: a slender (176 pp.) jacketed hardcover, with vintage-looking endpapers. Quite a lovely thing.
The TOC / full list of Learned Personages can be found here
Ordering info can be found here
The Weird Fiction Review #5 (Centipede Press, Fall 2014) , edited by S.T. Joshi, offers a bumper crop of weirdness for the aficionado. There are several interviews, scholarly essays & articles, columns, short fiction by both notables & newer writers, full-color art, even a good selection of poems. Two of these --“Frost Ghosts” and “Fatal Constellations” -- are mine.
This one contributed the resounding thump. It’s a massive (just over 300 pp.) annual, listed on Centipede’s site as “sewn paperback.” Think slick trade paperback with upscale production values, big enough to last through a long snowed-in weekend.
Further particulars & ordering info can be found here
