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Mike Davis has put together a neat gallery of his favorite weird fiction titles from 2015, complete with commentary from the authors and editors. Check out My Favorite 2015 Lovecraftian and Weird Fiction Books over at The Lovecraft eZine.

 

image via The Lovecraft eZine

My weird crime novella, , is officially released today by JournalStone. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and nice advance notice from  and Dead End Follies.

Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks to become a dreaded enforcer. His latest task? He and an entourage of expert killers are commanded to kidnap Muzaki, a retired world-renowned wrestler under protection of the rival Dragon Syndicate. It should be business as bloody usual for Nanashi and his ruthless brothers in arms, except for the detail that Muzaki possesses a terrifying secret. A secret that will spawn a no-holds barred gang war and send Nanashi on a personal odyssey into immortal darkness.

A few years ago, friends and colleagues posted a handful of (apocryphal?) stories of my secret lives. Yves Tourigny has gathered together as many of these vignettes as he could over at They Who Dwell in the Cracks.

image via They Who Dwell in the Cracks

Nightmares: A Decade of Modern Horror arrives this fall. Edited by Ellen Datlow, published by Tachyon. 

 

Per the official release:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Shallaballah by Mark Samuels
Sob in the Silence by Gene Wolfe
Our Turn Too Will One Day Come by Brian Hodge
Dead Sea Fruit by Kaaron Warren
Closet Dreams by Lisa Tuttle
Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files
Hushabye by Simon Bestwick
Very Low-Flying Aircraft by Nicholas Royle
The Goosle by Margo Lanagan
The Clay Party by Steve Duffy
Strappado by Laird Barron
Lonegan’s Luck by Stephen Graham Jones
Mr Pigsny by Reggie Oliver
At Night, When the Demons Come by Ray Cluley
Was She Wicked? Was She Good? by M. Rickert
The Shallows by John Langan
Little Pig by Anna Taborska
Omphalos by Livia Llewellyn
How We Escaped Our Certain Fate by Dan Chaon
That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love by Robert Shearman
Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Shay Corsham Worsted by Garth Nix
The Atlas of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud
Ambitious Boys Like You by Richard Kadrey

NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR haunts your dreams in Fall, 2016.

image via Tachyon Publications

Thank you to Ellen Datlow for taking my story, “Oblivion Mode,” for her up coming anthology Children of Lovecraft.

Here’s Ellen’s original announcement:

I’ve finished Children of Lovecraft, a new, all original anthology coming from Dark Horse Books this September:

Table of Contents:

Nesters by Siobhan Carroll

Little Ease by Gemma Files

Eternal Troutland by Stephen Graham Jones

The Supplement by John Langan

Mortensen’s Muse by Orrin Grey

Oblivion Mode by Laird Barron

Mr. Doornail by Maria Dahvana Headley

The Secrets of Insects by Richard Kadrey

Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Jules and Richard by David Nickle

Glasses by Brian Evenson

When the Stitches Come Undone by A.C. Wise

On These Blackened Shores of Time by Brian Hodge

Bright Crown of Joy by Livia Llewellyn

Cover below by Mike Mignola

image by Mike Mignola via Amazon

Tia V. Travis doesn’t publish nearly often enough. The Kiss is from a couple of years back. Check out this elegant stylist and master of quiet horror.

 

 

Canadian author and designer, Yves Tourigny, has created a site called They Who Dwell in the Cracks. The site dissects my various stories, novels, and collections. It’s always enlightening to see how readers interact with my work and this is that experience on steroids. I’m fascinated to see how the project develops.

“Old Virginia” image via Yves Tourigny

Stephen Graham Jones has a new werewolf novel in the wings and it sounds like a doozy.

My agent, Janet Reid, discusses author promotion on her blog. Janet’s page is treasure trove of advice for writers of all levels. Keep an eye on the comment sections–there is often good intel to be gleaned from the participants.

The Outer Dark podcast wraps its 2015 schedule with a Henry Lien interview.

image via Asimov’s and The Outer Dark