#Lynda E. Rucker

[nettirw]

PRISMS - PRE-ORDER

PRISMS – PRE-ORDER

PRISMS, an anthology of dark science fiction and fantasy co-edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey, is now available to pre-order. This anthology was previously published in limited hardcover by PS Publishing in March 2021, but will be made available in a wider release by Written Backwards on March 21st, 2023. Features cover artwork by Ben Baldwin. Prisms are instruments, mirrors,…

[kelcipher]

"Supernatural Tales 50: Autumn 2022" by Helen Grant, Sam Dawson, Steve Duffy, Lynda E. Rucker, S. M. Cashmore, Chloe N. Clark, Paul Crosby, David Longhorn.

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[moviesandmania]

The Ghost Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (play, 2016)

The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (play, 2016)

The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore is a 2016 British portmanteau horror play, bringing to the theatre the flavour of vintage Amicus film anthologies such as Tales from the Crypt and Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors. The Bad Bat production, produced by Ellen Gallagher and Steve Jordan, is presented from 7 – 19 March at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London.

The play features segments written by…

[witchyfashion]

For the fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, here comes a new illustrated children's horror anthology with works by Neil Gaiman, Sephen King, and more. You have been warned!

The stories in this book are scary.

Real

scary! After reading these horrible tales and staring at the creepy drawings, don’t complain that you couldn’t sleep or they started haunting your dreams—we warned you!

If you love ghosts and monsters and enjoy getting goosebumps, this spine-chilling book is for you! Inside, you will find:

A creature that lives in the dark and feeds on those who do not pay attention

A monster created by the descendant of Doctor Frankenstein

A haunted house at Halloween

A big cat that snacks on schoolteachers

A boy who is afraid of what will come down the chimney at Christmas

A school with very strange pupils

A decidedly odd zombie costume

A puzzle set by a ghost

And more!

Compiled by award-winning horror editor Stephen Jones and featuring the authors Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Neil Gaiman, Charles L. Grant, Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Lynda E. Rucker, Robert Shearman, Michael Marshall Smith, and Manly Wade Wellman, this book is filled with nightmarish illustrations by acclaimed artist Randy Broecker.

So, whether you’re reading this book alone or with friends, get ready to be afraid.

Very

afraid!

https://amzn.to/3zJx7x1

[weirdletter]

Crooked Houses: Tales of Cursed & Haunted Dwellings, edited by Mark Beech, Limited Edition, Egaeus Press, 2020. Cover art by Fritz Schwimbeck, info: egaeuspress.com.

Alas! Is there a theme in supernatural fiction more prone to cliché and cozy familiarity than the haunted house story? With this mammoth new anthology, Egaeus Press aims to reclaim that supremely primal tradition, not only from glossy movies, cartoons and television-era ghost hunters, but also from the Victorians, and the great, academic spook story authors of the 20th Century who, by their nature, sought to calibrate, anthro- pomorphise and provide justification for acts by forces which might hitherto have been considered beyond the scope of human comprehension. Crooked Houses takes its cue from this earlier age. Though many of the stories presented are set in the modern world, the forces which pervade are primeval, unquantifiable; the stuff of folk-tales, family curses and collective nightmares. These houses have very deep roots. These houses have teeth.

Contents: Your House, Any House. That House — Rebecca Kuder The Sullied Pane — Richard Gavin The Sheperd’s House — Colin Insole The West Window — Helen Grant The Psychomanteum — Steve Duffy The Crumblies — Reggie Oliver The Devil Will Be At the Door — David Surface The House of the Mere — John Gale Fairest of Them All — Albert Power Miasmata — Lynda E. Rucker The Readers of the Sands — Mark Valentine Doll’s House — Carly Holmes At Lothesley, Montgomeryshire, 1910 — James Doig In Cromer Road — Rebecca Lloyd House of Sand — Katherine Haynes Mythology — Jane Jakeman The Piner House — Timothy Granville

[rustbeltjessie]

reading list: end of summer 2018

An incomplete list of some of the many, many things that inspired me over the course of the spring and summer.

Stuff I Read on the Interwebs

Essays/CNF

Abject Permanence, by Larissa Pham

An Hourglass Figure: On Photographer Francesca Woodman, by Ariana Reines

Corpse Logic, by Emma Hyche

Every Day, Another Language Dies, by Heather Altfeld

Hank Williams Is Sacred, by Alex DiFrancesco

How Do We Write Now, by Patricia Lockwood

Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls, by Kate Folk

The Patronizing Questions We Ask Women Who Write, by Meaghan O’Connell

Picturing America, by Greil Marcus

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Corpse, by Heather O’Neill

Sick Woman Theory, by Johanna Hedva

Under the Influence, by Michelle Lyn King

Why Writing Matters In the Age of Despair, by Lyz Lenz

You have eternity to be dead so just wait, by Luke O’Neil

Fiction/Drama

The Burned House, by Lynda E. Rucker

Fentanyl, by Bud Smith

Thorn and Kiss, by Jen Rouse

Poetry

I read so much poetry online that it would be impossible to even scratch the surface here. So I’m just gonna suggest you go check out the Summer 2018 Micro-Chap Series from Ghost City Press. If you want more of my poetry recommendations, follow me on Twitter @ rustbeltjessie.

Writing Resources

Two things that have helped me get past stuck places in my own writing this summer are Emilia Phillips’ blog and Caits Meissner’s (free to download!) workbook, Reaching.

Books, Chapbooks, and Zines I Read

Poetry

Allegiance, by Francine J. Harris

Apocalyptic Swing, by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

The Book of Nightmares, by Galway Kinnell

Citizen, by Claudia Rankine

Coeur de Lion, by Ariana Reines

The Fall of America, by Allen Ginsberg

Housewifery, by Carly-Anne Ravnikar

Saudade, by Traci Brimhall

Self-Portrait As Wikipedia Entry, by Dean Rader

SkateFate, by Juan Felipe Herrera

Tanka & Me, by Kaethe Schwehn

Trickster Feminism, by Anne Waldman

Virgin, by Analicia Sotelo

Witch Wife, by Kiki Petrosino

Non-Fiction

Betwixt and Between: Some Essays on the Writing Life, by Jenny Boully

By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry, edited by Molly McQuade

Dead Girls, by Alice Bolin

Don’t Piss Down My Back and Tell Me It’s Raining, by Julia Eff

Fixer Eraser #s2-5, by Jonas

The Grand Permission: New Writings On Poetics and Motherhood, edited by Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman

Letter to a Future Lover, by Ander Monson

Fiction

Awayland, by Ramona Ausubel

The Vanishing Princess, by Jenny Diski

[devhak22]

Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity

Edited by Scott Gable & C.Dombrowski

This is a collection of some very odd and eerie stories, with the setting for most at the very sudden end of human civilization, which is a somewhat suiting theme during this pandemic era in which we are currently entering. The civilization-ending circumstances in this paperback represent quite varied causes, some technological, some alien, and some supernatural.

I wasn't expecting this book to be as immersive as it turned out to be. Each story is written superbly and vastly differs from its kin.

Notable quotations:

"Just because technology makes things easier now doesn't make us better than those old pioneers. Don't let the familiarity of amazing things fool you. We are constantly rewriting the fine print of the universe—and that's big." ~ p. 22, Renee's father (Beige Walls by Joshua Hood)

'It began when the autumn was too damn hot, and it was much too late to deny climate change or the things crawling out of the melting icecaps, and the country was too polarized to do anything, and the sciences groped in all directions and the search engines pieced together all dissociated knowledge.' ~ p. 33-4, Val (The Five Hundred Days of Ms. Between by Joshua Alan Doetsch)

'I smoked a vitamin-supplemented e-cigarette and complained to the bartender that a vice without self-destruction spoils the poetry.' ~ p. 34, Val (The Five Hundred Days of Ms. Between by Joshua Alan Doetsch)

'The whirring of the 3D printer woke me up even though it had already been going for hours. It's a waste. All this expensive tech tucked away at the bottom of the world. One government funded a whole bunch of upgrades, top of the line stuff. The next one swooped in and took all the money away, made climate research damn near illegal. Now all the fancy machines and equipment are rotting away, and private eyes and dollars are on space.' ~ p. 57, narrator (Tekeli-Li, They Cry by AC Wise)

'I think he would be smart under normal circumstances, but Risi only brought him along because she wants something to fuck.' ~ p. 58, narrator (Tekeli-Li, They Cry by AC Wise)

'Her people, the Invisible College, the only group of humans that clung to civilization in this world ravaged by Deep Ones, valued reason above revenge, civility above anger. Its members had escaped the superstitions of race, gender, nation, and religion Hidden for centuries because so many leaders valued war and greed over the delights of science and exploration, the group clung to the best characteristics of humanity.' ~ p. 159, narrator (Innsmouth Redemption by Joette Rozanski)

'He had figured out when he was thirteen that the church was stuck in the past when it came to issues of sexuality and race. And as for its treatment of women . . . well, what could you expect from a faith born out of a paranoid New England man's fear of female genitalia?' ~ p. 164, narrator (Church of the Renewed Covenant by Shannon Fay)

'For some reason, one that was not explained to us, we had been quarantined. Nothing from earth would be let beyond the boundary.' ~ p. 168, narrator (Church of the Renewed Covenant by Shannon Fay)

'Eden, you were absolutely right about some things. You wrote that the reason SanMorta denies that its GMOs cause genetic drift in humans isn't blind stupidity or bureaucratic incompetance. You said they're doing it delibrately and they want it to spread.

This is true.

You almost even grasped the reason why. You wrote that it was for population control, that the group you're in touch with believes the intruder genes will make everyone more docile, more vulnrable to disease, more dependent on government.' ~ p. 247, Amisha (Drift from the Windrows by Mike Allen)

'...so what did I care about some new boogieman? Yet another something that heralded the collapse of civilization as we knew it? We all had a cultivated nihilism about us, wore meaningless cloaks of ironic laughter: who cares, we're all going to die.' ~ p. 263-4, narrator (Testimony XVI by Lynda E. Rucker)

'But for some reason I felt like I had to start telling her and Jess about what it had been like here before everything changed: how there would be festivals or they'd show the World Cup final or a movie on the big screen and thousands of people would throng into the square. Back before it was forbidden for crowds that size to gather.' ~ p. 266, narrator (Testimony XVI by Lynda E. Rucker)

'Old folks joke about my generation live-tweeting the Apocalypse. I'm counting on the fact that, hells yeah, we will, or this will never work. If it doesn't, prettymuch everyone in the world dies in the next forty-eight hours.' ~ p. 274, Casilda Carter (The World Ends in Neon Yellow by LA Knight)

'Wasn't it Goethe who said that any time a person speaks and someone else understands is a little miracle? I grew up watching so much shit on TV where aliens spoke our language. The first time I met aliens, I was terrified beyond belief to discover they had their own language, their own thoughts, their own utterly inscrutable way of perceiving the world, themselves, you. The impulse to crush them as something offensive never quite goes away.' ~ p. 281, narrator (Nimrod's Tongue by Cody Goodfellow)

'Approximately three hundred miles off the coast—farther and deeper than any aquatic research facility before—the underwater research lab exists, officially, to study the creatures and habitats of the marine environment and the ocean floor. To map the die-outs, record extinction rates, and chart the mutations, all happening faster than we can scare up the manpower to observe them. It's the great dying of the Holocene epoch, the sixth mass extinction in geological history. ~ p. 296, Mia (The Great Dying of the Holocene by Desirina Boskovich)

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Super science, madness, transhumanism. This is the dawn of posthumanity, and some things can’t be unlearned. This is our stranger tomorrow. These are transhumanist, near-future science fiction horror stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos. They exist in our world of the coming decades, an era of big science and—what is that? We’ll be right back… Labs gleam and servers hum as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mystery, the universe stares back. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some give in, some are destroyed, and still others are becoming… more. The human and the inhuman are becoming more challenging to distinguish. Mankind is changing, whether it wants to or not, with brand new ways of thinking. What havoc is wreaked by those humans trying to harness and control their discoveries? As big science progresses and the very fundamentals of this universe are understood, what stories are being hushed up? Authors: Daria Patrie, Molly Tanzer, Joshua L. Hood, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Kaaron Warren , AC Wise, Clinton J. Boomer, Damien Angelica Walters, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, Samantha Henderson, SJ Leary, Richard Lee Byers, Thomas M. Reid, Jeff C. Carter, Joette Rozanski, Shannon Fay, Pete Rawlik, Adam Heine, Bruce R. Cordell, Nate Southard, Simon Bestwick, Robert Brockway, Darrell Schweitzer, Mike Allen, Matt Maxwell, Lynda E. Rucker, LA Knight, Cody Goodfellow, Desirina Boskovich

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[ownerzero]

New Record Set in Ultramarathon

This is incredible. https://t.co/ss1OexCgpm — Lynda E. Rucker (@lyndaerucker) February 20, 2019 The Spine is an ultramarathon, a 268-mile footrace up the backbone of England to Scotland. In January. This year, Jasmin Paris became the first woman to win the race ever. She ran for three and a half days with only three hours of […]

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[risingshadownet]

Review: Resonance and Revolt by Rosanne Rabinowitz

Rosanne Rabinowitz's Resonance and Revolt was published by Eibonvale Press in March 2018. Information about Rosanne Rabinowitz in her own words: "I started writing when I produced ‘zines in the 1990s like Feminaxe and Bad Attitude, contributing articles, reviews and interviews. Then I began to make stuff up. My fiction has since found its way into anthologies and magazines and I completed a creative writing MA at Sheffield Hallam University. My novella Helen's Story was a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for achievement in the ‘literature of the dark fantastic’. I live in South London, an area that Arthur Machen once described as "shapeless, unmeaning, dreary, dismal beyond words." In this most unshapen place I engage in a variety of occupations including care work, copywriting and freelance editing. I spend a lot of time drinking coffee and listening to loud music while looking out my tenth-floor window. Sometimes it's whisky." Click here to visit her official website. Information about Resonance and Revolt: "Unfulfilled desires transmit themselves across the years in unfathomable ways..." - From Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces A sect of sensual medieval heretics stumbles upon the secrets of quantum entanglement, a centuries-old wanderer thrives on rebellion as well as blood in the ruins of post-WWI Munich. Anti-austerity demonstrations lead to haunting connections with past and parallel events, while quantum computing meets 'welfare reform' in our near-future. Meanwhile, persecuted Jews in early 20th century Russia must decide whether extraterrestrials are allies or the schnorrers out of space. The stories of Rosanne Rabinowitz span the centuries in a remarkable mixture of European history and the familiar world of modern Britain – as well as some all-too-likely near futures. These stories are rooted in the spirit of resistance and rebellion without ever feeling didactic. They are coloured with a sense of the fantastic, the surreal and even the mystical – rubbing shoulders with the reality that arises from every street, every shout of fury or peal of laughter, every dizzying glimpse of human possibilities. "All together as they are here, they weave a cyclical sense of the ebb and flow of power and tyranny and resistance, yet the end result is not hopeless but quite the opposite. Just like so many of the characters in Rosanne’s writing, as we read these stories gathered in one volume, we begin to see ourselves as living with echoes of and surrounded by the past. That the struggle is ongoing does not make it seem futile; instead, we are connected, for as one character notes, “what we call time, and history, exists in layers all around us. And I should be able to see every one of them.” Reading Rosanne’s stories feels like standing in the ruins of a thousand-year-old fortress where you can almost hear the past breathing around you, or in some other liminal place: a magical wood, perhaps, but sometimes the most ordinary of city streets, where you might slip into somewhere else before you realize what’s happened." - From the Introduction by Lynda E. Rucker "I will always raise my voice and write things down so people will know about them. I will never be like a bell without a tongue." - From The Bells of the Harelle REVIEW: RESONANCE AND REVOLT BY ROSANNE RABINOWITZ Read More ... https://www.risingshadow.net/articles/reviews/897-review-resonance-and-revolt-by-rosanne-rabinowitz

[nettirw]

PRISMS

Prisms (co-edited by Darren Speegle and yours truly) is now available by PS Publishing. Available in trade hardcover or limited signed / numbered hardback (only 100, signed by all). Instruments, mirrors, metaphors, gateways humankind must pass through in order to achieve, to overcome, to realize, to become. Contained herein are nineteen transformative tales from some of speculative fiction’s…

[kammartinez]

This is what happens if you're just a bit too genre-savvy for your own good: it spills over into your real life and makes things happen. Or maybe it can save your life - if you'd listen to your genre-savvy instincts.

[weirdletter]

Black Static #77, edited by Andy Cox, TTA Press, November-December 2020. Cover art by Ben Baldwin, info: ttapress.com.

Black Static #77 contains new modern horror fiction by Philip Fracassi, Steve Rasnic Tem, Françoise Harvey, David Martin, Shaenon K. Garrity, and Eric Schaller. The cover art is by Ben Baldwin, and interior illustrations are by Joachim Luetke and others. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by Alexander Glass, Mike O’Driscoll, David Surface, Georgina Bruce, Andrew Hook, and Daniel Carpenter who also talks to Kate Reed Petty about her novel True Story; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.

Fiction The Guardian by Philip Fracassi The Dead Outside My Door by Steve Rasnic Tem The Rabbit: A Memory or a Dream by Françoise Harvey Fossil Light by David Martin The Bride by Shaenon K. Garrity Hell and a Day by Eric Schaller, illustrated by Joachim Luetke

Columns Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore

Reviews Case Notes: Book Reviews Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens

[weirdletter]

Black Static #76, edited by Andy Cox, TTA Press, September-October 2020. Cover art by Richard Wagner, info: ttapress.com.

The September-October 2020 issue contains new cutting edge horror stories and novelettes by Rhonda Pressley Veit, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Abi Hynes, Tim Cooke, and Stephen Hargadon. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, and others. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by David Surface, Georgina Bruce, Daniel Carpenter, Philip Fracassi, and Laura Mauro who also interviews Chris Kelso; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.

Fiction Fatal Memory by Rhonda Pressley Veit, illustrated by Ben Baldwin Resting Bitch Face by Lucie McKnight Hardy, illustrated by Richard Wagner Phantasmagoria by Abi Hynes Nights at the Factory by Tim Cooke, illustrated by Vincent Sammy The Stationery Cupboard by Stephen Hargadon

Columns Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore

Reviews Case Notes: Book Reviews Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens

[weirdletter]

Black Static #75, edited by Andy Cox, TTA Press, May-June 2020. Cover art by Ben Baldwin, info: ttapress.com.

The May-June 2020 issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Simon Avery, Danny Rhodes, Kristina Ten, Cody Goodfellow, and Daniel Carpenter. The cover art is by Ben Baldwin, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, Kai Martin, and others. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by Mike O'Driscoll, Laura Mauro, Andy Hedgecock, David Surface, Georgina Bruce, and Daniel Carpenter, who also interviews Kay Chronister; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.

Fiction The Black Paintings by Simon Avery, illustrated by Richard Wagner The Stonemason by Danny Rhodes, illustrated by Ben Baldwin Alseep in the Deep End by Cody Goodfellow, illustrated by Kai Martin Roots by Daniel Carpenter Except for the Down Below by Kristina Ten, illustrated by Richard Wagner

Columns Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore

Reviews Case Notes: Book Reviews Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens

[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