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Even though he passed over 80 years ago, H. P. Lovecraft maintains a visceral influence over a host of contemporary writers. Inspired by the Master of the Macabres more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn plus Victor LaValle, Molly Tanzer, and Masahiko Inoue. Also includes Clark Ashton Smiths 1931 The City of the Singing Flame and Lovecrafts own The Shadow Over Innsmouth as well as an extensive Introduction by leading Lovecraftian scholar Nick Mamatas.Annotation: Inspired by Lovecrafts more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn. Also includes Clark Ashton Smiths 1931 The City of the Singing Flame and Lovecrafts own The Shadow Over Innsmouth.About author(s):Laird Barron is the author of several books, including The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Swift to Chase, and Worse Angels. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Rondout Valley writing stories about the evil that men do. Nadia Bulkin writes stories, thirteen of which appear in her debut collection, She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017). Her short stories have been included in editions of The Years Best Weird Fiction, The Years Best Horror, and The Years Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in International Affairs, and lives in Washington, D.C. Fred Chappell is the award-winning author of more than twenty books of poetry and fiction, including I Am One of You Forever, Brighten the Corner Where You Are, and Look Back All the Green Valley. He has received many major prizes, including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University and the Award in Literature from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives with his wife, Susan in Greensboro, North Carolina. Michael Cisco has published ten novels including The Divinity Student, The Great Lover, The Narrator, ANIMAL MONEY, and UNLANGUAGE, and a short story collection called Secret Hours. His short fiction has appeared in: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings, Blood and Other Cravings, THE WEIRD, The Grimscribes Puppets, and Aickmans Heirs, among others. He teaches at CUNY Hostos. Masahiko Inoue (井上 雅彦) was born in Tokyo in 1960. In 1983, his submission to the Hoshi Shinichi Short-Short Contest won an award for excellence and was included in the contests best-of anthology. Drawn to the subgenre of historical dark fantasy Ryō Hanmura helped create, Inoues first novel featured a young Abraham Van Helsing hunting yōkai in Edo-period Nagasaki. In addition to his own prolific output as a novelist, he supervised the paperback horror anthology series Freak-Out Collection, running for almost 50 volumes from 1998, providing a place for countless emerging and established authors to unveil weird and macabre creations of their own. Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValles DESTROYER. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens. He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids, and teaches at Columbia University. Livia Llewellyns fiction has appeared in over forty anthologies and magazines, and reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Years Best Weird Fiction, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Her short fiction collections Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors and Furnace were both nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, and her story One of These Nights won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. You can find her online at liviallewellyn.com and on Twitter and Instagram. H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. He started his career writing poetry and essays, but turned to fiction in 1917 and found his niche as a writer of horror and the supernatural. Although he wasnt widely read during his lifetime, his reputation -- and readership -- grew quickly
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