#Lynne Jamneck

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Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. Lynne Jamneck

Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. Lynne Jamneck

Jamneck applies a broad rather than narrow criteria to both female voice and Lovecraftian horror, resulting in a diverse range of stories. …

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#Amanda Downum #anthology #Caitlín R. Kiernan #Cat Hellisen #Christine Morgan #Colleen Douglas #cosmic dread #cosmic horror #Dreams from the Witch House #E.R. Knightsbridge #Elizabeth Bear #Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror #Gemma Files #Joyce Carol Oates #Karen Heuler #Kelda Crich #Lois H. Gresh #Lucy Brady #Lynne Jamneck #Marly Youmans #Molly Tanzer #Nancy Kilpatrick #R.A. Kaelin #Sarah Monette #short story #Sonya Taaffe #Storm Constantine #Tamsyn Muir

[weirdletter]

Apostles of the Weird, edited by S.T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2020. Cover art by John Coulthart, info: pspublishing.co.uk.

Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field. The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John Shirley, Lynda E. Rucker, and Reggie Oliver ring fascinating changes on it. Allied to the ghost is the haunted house, and stories by Gemma Files and Jason V Brock present highly ingenious variants on the idea. The resurrection of the dead is treated in strikingly different ways by Clint Smith, Jonathan Thomas, Michael Aronovitz, and W.H. Pugmire. Weird fiction has always exploited topographically remote areas of the world as a potent setting for horror. Here, tales by Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, and Stephen Woodworth take us to unfamiliar realms where the weird can manifest itself. From a very different perspective, Richard Gavin and Darrell Schweitzer infuse their tales with elements of fantasy that allow for the maximum play of the imagination. Science fiction has always been allied to the weird, and in this volume Nancy Kilpatrick and George Edwards Murray take us to a post-apocalyptic environment where the preservation of our very humanity is brought into question. Psychological horror, as represented here by the work of Steve Rasnic Tem and Michael Washburn, focuses on the dread that stems from mental aberration. The eighteen stories making up Apostles of the Weird demonstrate that weird fiction is a multifaceted genre whose emphasis on fear does not preclude pathos, poignancy, and a brooding rumination on our place in this fragile world.

Contents: Introduction – S. T. Joshi Death in All Its Ripeness – Mark Samuels Sebillia – John Shirley Come Closer – Gemma Files Widow’s Walk – Jonathan Thomas The Walls Are Trembling – Steve Rasnic Tem Trogs – Nancy Kilpatrick The Zanies of Sorrow – W.H. Pugmire This Hollow Thing – Lynda E. Rucker The Outer Boundary – Michael Washburn Black Museums – Jason V Brock The Legend of the One-Armed Brakeman – Michael Aronovitz Lisa’s Pieces – Clint Smith Everything Is Good in the Forest – George Edwards Murray Three Knocks on a Forsaken Door – Richard Gavin The Thief of Dreams – Darrell Schweitzer Axolotl House – Cody Goodfellow Night Time in the Karoo – Lynne Jamneck Porson’s Piece – Reggie Oliver Cave Canem – Stephen Woodworth

#book #anthology #weird fiction #horror fiction #dark fiction #dark fantasy

[tazmuir]

Every day I worry all day about what’s waiting in the bushes for us. I’m really thrilled to link to another reprint -- this time my horror story The Woman in the Hill, a piece of Kiwi Lovecraftiana set in the hills, plain and bush of turn-of-the-century Tauranga. (Having grown up in Whitford, please do not take this as a savage attack on the place, as the worst thing that happened to me there as a child was that I once dropped an egg and a dog ate it).

I wrote this for excellent editor Lynne Jamneck’s Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror and can’t recommend the full book enough. As ever, I also can’t recommend Nightmare Magazine enough -- they published my debut horror story Chew back in the day and if you would like to purchase a scary gift for yourself or your loved ones there is a button linked there to do so. This month’s line-up of December spooky stories is incredible, and I have to particularly recommend Nino Cipri’s Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out! if you want to laugh, feel bad, and also not sleep well that night.

Due to my own greasy need for self-gratification I can’t pass up the opportunity here to link The Woman in the Hill being discussed here on Tor by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth as part of their Lovecraft reread. If you want to survey some incredibly intelligent discussion of the debt that The Woman in the Hill owes to H.P., and in general get some fantastic story recommendations and Lovecraftian legacy discussion in your eyeballs, do click through to this and the whole series. You might want to read it after you’ve read my story, though, because it is spoilers.

Thank you for reading me this year whatever you have read, and I hope you enjoy my own take on Lovecraftian protagonists driven demented by things they cannot understand! Happy holidays!!

#publications #reprint #horror #the woman in the hill #nightmare

[thetheoryofkaylah]

--- Lynne Jamneck

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We All Speak Black, by Lynne Jamneck

We All Speak Black, by Lynne Jamneck

“Something moved beyond, in the water, behind a swell of oversized waves. Whales? I looked down and saw my naked legs dangling in shadowy green water that fathomed into infinity. A vast shadow undulated below me, came into focus and it was not a whale at all. Grotesquely bloated, it began surfacing, blooming in size.”

It was hard not to be excited when I first heard about the “Ashes and Entropy”…

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One of the best bits from my thesis report:

"One of the most impressive things about this thesis is that, without actually setting out to do so, it makes such a good case for taking Lovecraft as seriously as we now take Poe. I regard this as a sign of considerable accomplishment." Booya Howie!

#lovecraft #cthulhu #poe #lynne jamneck #thesis

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Nox Pareidolia, edited by Robert S. Wilson, Nightscape Press, 2019. Cover art by Don Noble, internal illustrations by Luke Spooner, info: nightscapepress.pub.

From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of the 2018 This is Horror Anthology of the Year, Ashes and Entropy, comes a new vision of weird and horrific ambiguity. Nox Pareidolia includes tales by Laird Barron, S.P. Miskowski, Brian Evenson, Gwendolyn Kiste, Micheal Wehunt, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Ropes, Zin E. Rocklyn, Paul Jessup, Doungjai Gam, Don Webb and Duane Pesice, K.H. Vaughan, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, and more.

Contents: Watch Me Burn With the Light of Ghosts by Paul Jessup Immolation by Kristi DeMeester Her Eyes Are Winter by Christopher Ropes 8X10 by Duane Pesice and Don Webb Bag and Baggage by Greg Sisco The Dredger by Matt Thompson Hello by Michael Wehunt Gardening Activities for Couples by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Lies I Told Myself by Lynne Jamneck The Unkindness by Dino Parenti Merge Now by Kurt Fawver When We Were Trespassers by Doungjai Gam Rum Punch is Going Down by Daniel Braum Unmoored by Sean M. Thompson Just Beyond the Shore by Elizabeth Beechwood The Schoolmaster by David Peak The Past You Have, The Future You Deserve by K.H. Vaughan Herr Scheintod by L.C. von Hessen The Room Above by Brian Evenson Sincerely Eden by Amelia Gorman Wild Dogs by Carrie Laben The Moody Rooms of Agatha Tate by Wendy Nikel Salmon Run by Andrew Kozma The Little Drawer of Chaos by Annie Neugebauer When the Nightingale Devours the Stars by Gwendolyn Kiste Far From Home by Dan Coxon Birds by Zin E. Rocklyn Strident Caller by Laird Barron The Taste of Rot by Steve Toase Venom by S.P. Miskowski In the Vastness of the Sovereign Sky by S.L. Edwards

#book #anthology #weird fiction #horror fiction #dark fiction

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Ashes and Entropy, edited by Robert S. Wilson, Nightscape Press, 2018. Cover art by Pat R. Steiner, internal illustrations by Luke Spooner, info: nightscapepress.pub.

Stand on the precipice and prepare to dive down through the event horizon into the bleak and mind-shattering void of both the cosmos and of humanity. Nightscape Press is proud to present Ashes and Entropy edited by Robert S. Wilson, an anthology of cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir. Ashes and Entropy is beautifully illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes brand new stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Nadia Bulkin, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max Booth III, Lynne Jamneck, Greg Sisco, Lisa Mannetti, Nate Southard, Erinn L. Kemper, Matthew M. Bartlett, Autumn Christian, and more.

Contents: The Gray Room by Tim Waggoner The Head On the Door by Erinn Kemper Flesh Without Blood by Nadia Bulkin Scraps by Max Booth III Yellow House by Jon Padgett What Finds Its Way Back by Damien Angelica Walters We All Speak Black by Lynne Jamneck Ain't Much Pride by Nate Southard The Choir of the Tunnels by Matthew Daniel Birkenhauer Amity In Bloom by Jessica McHugh Red Stars/White Snow/Black Metal by Fiona Maeve Geist Shadowmachine by Autumn Christian The One About Maggie by Greg Sisco Breakwater by John Langan For Our Skin, A Daughter by Kristi DeMeester Houdini: The Egyptian Paradigm by Lisa Mannetti Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron Dr. 999 by Matthew M. Bartlett Leaves of Dust by Wendy Nikel The Kind Detective by Lucy A. Snyder The Levee Breaks by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy I Can Give You Life by Paul Michael Anderson

#book #anthology #weird fiction #dark fiction #horror fiction #cosmic horror #neo-noir

[lynnejamneck-blog]

Queer sf Anthology Re-released

It's here! The Lambda Award shortlisted anthology of sf I edited and compiled for Lethe Press in 2008 has now been re-released by Untreed Reads in a host of e-book formats. You can buy Periphery direct from the publisher, as well as amongst others Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple iBookstore, Scribd, All Romance Books and DriveThru Fiction. Description: Periphery is as much about the female perspective of the future as it is an exploration of individual identity in a world increasingly dominated by technology. How do we define our humanity, if not by the way we connect to others? Yet, even in the realm of the physical and the sensual, technology continues to change perspectives on what it means to be human. Through the stories collected in Periphery, we experience the intersection between a number of possible futures, and how we will continue to discover through our fallible emotions what it means to be human. Reviews (refers to the 2008 paperback edition): "An exceptional collection of 14 stories of remarkable and wondrous erotic science fiction. While exploring the spectrum of human emotions, the quintessential hallmark of great storytelling, the various talented authors take the reader on a magical and sensual sojourn. A captivating and compelling reading experience awaits those who dare to venture beyond the ordinary. . . . Well worth the time to enjoy. There is something to satisfy everyone within these covers. . . . A genuine galactic jewel. . . . Offers an odyssey which will fascinate, excite, and enlighten any reader." -- Arlene Germain, Contributing editor, The Crown Works on all three facets: as erotica, as Lesbian literature, and as science fiction. Many of the stories emphasize one or two of those facets over others, but a few manage to balance all three with thrilling results. This is also a fine sampling of work from today's prominent writers of queer and speculative fiction. . . . Fans of dystopic science fiction will be especially delighted. This would make an ideal textbook for a class on queer literature or dystopic fiction. Grab a copy before the fundies set them on fire. -- Sheela Ardrian, Reviewer, Fearless Books TOC: Origins | Marianne de Pierres The Voyage Out | Gwyneth Jones They Came From Next Door | Kristyn Dunnion Ishtartu | Lyda Morehouse Mind Games | Tracey Shellito The Rocky Side of the Sky | Melissa Scott Angels Alone | Carolyn Ives Gilman Devulban Dreams | Jean Stewart Diplomacy | Catherine Lundoff Silver Skin | Elspeth Potter The Spark | Cecilia Tan Sideways | Sharon Wachsler

#science fiction #queer #feminism #periphery #lynne jamneck

[lynnejamneck-blog]

today might be a fail day for thesis. have to look after neutered kitty. good excuse for LANning Age of Empires.

#lynne jamneck #age of empires

[lynnejamneck-blog]

not a lot done today, but in my defense, i did knock off late last night and then, during the day i was a slight bit groggy and the kitty had to be taken to the vet for a snip. then i ate some delicious home-made pizza and had red wine and watched a movie. WIN.

i DID however write a vague semblance of an abstract, even if it is only three (maybe four) sentences long. just so i can stop feeling that everything i write is floundering in a vague miasma of something-something, about to drift into a dead hobbit. because really, that's the last thing you want to find in a swamp.

#lynne jamneck #thesis

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459 words. 2:25am. sleepy time. 

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