Dark in the Day - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190773774X ISBN 13 : 9781907737749

Editeur : Immanion Press, 2016

Synopsis

In the blink of an eye, around the corner, The Weird is everywhere. It's in the bird that turns out to be a fluttering newspaper, that white shoe left in a ploughed field, or the curdling smoke on the windscreen of a car, caused by the fast-moving reflection of clouds overhead. Normal is often weird and vice-versa. We're used to weird dreams but what about the wide-awake weird? This collection celebrates evocative tales of oddness that span the genres of magic realism, the supernatural, the fantastical and the speculative.

Weirdness lurks beyond the margins of the mundane, emerging to dismantle our assumptions of reality. When we encounter strange intervals, our perception of the natural order is challenged and changed. It is perhaps in those moments, that we glimpse the hidden truth of all things.

Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre - the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university.

Contributors include: Martina Bellovičová, J. E. Bryant, Glynis Charlton, Danielle Collard, Storm Constantine, Louise Coquio, Elizabeth Counihan, Krishan Coupland, Elizabeth Davidson, Siân Davies, Jack Fabian, Paul Finch, Rosie Garland, Rhys Hughes, Kerry Fender, Andrew Hook, Paul Houghton, Tanith Lee, Lisa Mansell, Kate Moore, Tim Pratt, Nicholas Royle, Michael Marshall Smith, Paula Wakefield, Ian Whates and Liz Williams.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Storm Constantine: is the creator of the Wraeththu Mythos, the first trilogy of which was published in the 1980s, which was boundary-breaking science fantasy. She has since written a further 21 novels, across genres, (including Hermetech and Burying the Shadow), and is currently working on a book of 3 linked novellas. Storm has 88 published short stories, 10 full-length non-fiction titles, including Sekhem Heka and Whatnots and Curios, (both through Immanion Press) and 10 short story collections, including Splinters of Truth (NewCon Press 2016). She is the founder of Immanion Press, created initially to publish her out-of-print back catalogue, but which evolved into the thriving venture it is today. Her interests include magic and spirituality, movies, music and MMOs. She is a long-time fan of weird fiction and old ghost stories, of which she has a large collection. She lives in the Midlands of the UK, with her husband and four demanding cats. She can be found on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/storm.constantine and has a new web site, still in progress, at http: //www.stormconstantine.co.uk. She tweets so rarely it's not really worth mentioning, but has a blog she makes every effort to update now and again at https: //dreamsofdarkangels.wordpress.com/

Paul Houghton studied fine art, and then creative writing at UEA, under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. His first novel won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award and he has since published stories in magazines and anthologies such as Panurge, The Fiction Magazine, Cutting Teeth, Mouth, Gutter Magazine, You Are Here (edited by Bill Broady) and Magical (edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson). He has worked as a freelance journalist, a screenwriter and a Writer-in-Residence working in various settings: libraries, prisons, hospitals and literary festivals, as well as being the recipient of several writing fellowships in the USA: at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His short art films have been shown in the ICA, and he co-wrote, directed and produced Faith, a short weird film for Scottish TV. He is currently writing a Gothic novel under PhD supervision and working as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Staffordshire University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Immanion Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190773774X
• ISBN 13: 9781907737749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Constantine Storm
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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