Standout Stories: “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts,” “Exhalation #10”Īpple | Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBoundįord’s collections are always a welcome addition to the year, and while Big Dark Hole might see him experimenting with gentler, more innocuous starts and more grounded premises, he still flings you straight down the rabbit hole when he wants to. Wise walks a brilliant line between muted and vivid, eerie and downright wrenching, and it’s gorgeous to read. There’s a bee-like hivemind that worms its way into an extraction team, a woman changes into a bird halfway through a fall off the Hoover Dam, an odd drowning spirit who keeps appearing to teenagers obsessed with an AR ghost-hunting app–and that’s just in the first few stories. That isn’t to say it’s all muted, though. Wise matches that mood perfectly, layering on an eerie, liminal feel, a kind of quiet melancholy that persists even in the brightest of moments. Not every story in the collection might be about ghosts, but it’s clear that all these characters are haunted–by ghosts, by horrible things that happened in the past, by the consequences of their decisions, by trauma, grief, and sometimes just by a collective wrongness. Standout Stories: “Open Call” by Askel Dadswell “The WXXT Podcast, episode 23: Leeds High School” by Tom Breenīookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBoundĪn unusual collection with the general theme of “haunting,” The Ghost Sequences is a slow burn, but a rewarding one. It’s weird, but it’s also incredibly heartfelt and a lot of fun to experience. What follows is a very strange, personal and touching tribute to one of horror’s weirder voices, as authors weave their own personal experiences into odd metafictional stories about Bartlett’s work, make their own bizarre additions to the Leeds mythos, and in general blend fiction, metafiction, myth, and reality to talk about the ways Bartlett’s unusual voice creeps into everything we love so much. In tribute to his twisted genius, a group of today’s horror luminaries took their own trips to Leeds, MA, serving up their own twisted spins on Bartlett’s mythos. From his humble DIY beginnings publishing psychedelic short stories about a fictional eldritch radio station on Livejournal to his cult-classic smash Gateways to Abomination to his consistently high-quality short story and chapbook work, his influence radiates outwards like WXXT’s creeping radio waves. Bartlett is an author whose work has resonated through recent decades of modern horror, sometimes as much felt as it is seen (and if you like this collection, The Stay-Awake Men, his most recent one, also dropped recently). Hymns of Abomination: Secret Songs of Leeds, ed. Standout Stories: “Core Rules,” “To Oppose Evil is to Live: A Brief Oral History of Behold the Undead of Dracula the Video Game”Īpple | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound It’s a peek into a very strange version of our world, and one you won’t return from unchanged. While this sounds like a lot, Raab is never exhausting, with background references and recurring motifs tying the collection together in its own off-kilter universe and a nice overall flow from one story to the next. Spookshow sees Raab at his best and most versatile, delivering bizarre tales of drug-dealing wizards, ghostly military listening posts, roleplaying games that summon cosmic horrors, and clown-masked cultists in every style and tone imaginable. His short stories are the equivalent of getting slightly baked late at night while watching a playlist of conspiracy and horror videos, blending together stories of haunted video games, fictional documents, cursed cable access shows, weird phenomena, and the fears and paranoid worries of the modern world. No one does psychedelic horror like Jonathan Raab. Rejoin the adventures of the Jedi and Padawans, Pathfinders and Path members, heroes and villains ahead of the launch of Phase III.The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations, Jonathan Raab
The High Republic authors share unmissable short stories that bridge Phases, resolve mysteries, and offer tantalizing hints of what is to come.
#Tales from the void anthology book series
Thrilling short stories featuring fan favorite characters from the beloved High Republic series each written by a New York Times bestselling author. The stories in the anthology will be set in all three phases of the The High Republic Series. The High Republic: Tales of Light and LifeĪn anthology of young-adult short stories and part of the Star Wars: The High Republic Phase.
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