Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (prime-
books.com), $16.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-60701-450-8
From the seemingly bottomless reservoir of Lovecraftian pastiches and homages, Guran (New Cthulhu) has sieved 19 above-average reprints, all published between 2010 and 2014, and most tailoring their terrors to contemporary times. The monstrous...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $45 (608p) ISBN 978-1-59606-706-6
The 28 stories and one poem collected in Kiernan’s second “best-of” compilation (after Two Worlds and In Between), selected by the author as her best work written between 2004 and 2013, rise above other works of dark fantasy, distinguished by their...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean, $40 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59606-819-3
The 28 stories (most previously available only in her e-zine, Sirenia Digest) in Kiernan’s newest collection of dark fiction (after Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea) explore the human and inhuman conditions in all their filthy glory, and bravely wallow in...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean, $40 (312p) ISBN 978-1-59606-882-7
This superb collection of 19 genre-bending reprints is distinguished by gorgeous prose, haunting beauty, and visceral imagery. In “The Road of Needles,” a creepy, futuristic riff on “Little Red Riding Hood,” a sharp-toothed figure follows a woman as
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean, $45 (488p) ISBN 978-1-59606-920-6
The thirty stories in this superior collection are remarkable for showing how harmoniously Kiernan’s own visionary weird fiction resonates with the best cosmic horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Some selections, such as “Pickman’s Other Model (1929),”...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Subterranean, $40 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59606-985-5
Albino demon hunter Dancy Flammarion, who last appeared in the graphic novel Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird, cuts a righteous swath across the American South guided by a skeletal, four-headed angel in this spectacular collection of five...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-19115-1
The exceptional third supernatural thriller in Kiernan’s Tin Foil Dossier series (after Black Helicopters) evokes Frank Belknap Long’s 1929 story “The Hound of Tindalos” (regarded as the first contribution by another writer to H.P. Lovecraft’s...
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Caitlín R. Kiernan. Tachyon, $17.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-61696-302-6
This stellar collection of 20 reprints, drawn solely from Kiernan’s limited-edition publications, showcases her talent for blurring boundaries and creating distinctive sensory experiences. The Lovecraftian “Andromeda Among the Stones” is set against
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Edited by Dave McKean and William Schafer. Subterranean, $40 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-825-4
McKean’s storied career as an illustrator, comics creator, and fine artist is the basis for this magnificent anthology, which contains 12 stories inspired by specific McKean images (all of which are included), as well as a short McKean comic. High...
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