The Ammonite Violin & Others is Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including seven novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes, and numerous scientific papers.- Overview :Born in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States...

's sixth short story collection. The twenty stories included first appeared in issues 1-23 of Sirenia Digest, Kiernan's monthly digest of weird and dark fiction. It was published by Subterranean Press

Subterranean Press

Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction...

 in July, 2010. The cover features an illustration by Richard A. Kirk

Richard A. Kirk

Richard A. Kirk is an artist currently residing in Canada. Kirk works as a visual artist and illustrator. His art work is centered on images that explore the liminal space between imagination and reality; a pictorial space where a personal iconography manifests in protean forms that challenge...

, who has provided artwork for several of Kiernan's other collections. Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...

 will be providing an introduction.

"A Child’s Guide to the Hollow Hills" and "The Hole With a Girl In Its Heart" originally appeared as "Untitled 23" and "Untitled 26," respectively.

Contents

• • Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...
    
    
  • "Madonna Littoralis"
  • "Orpheus at Mount Pangeum"
  • "Bridle"
  • "For One Who Has Lost Herself"
  • "Ode to Edvard Munch"
  • "The Cryomancer’s Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)"
  • "A Child’s Guide to the Hollow Hills"
  • "The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)"
  • "The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer"
  • "Metamorphosis A"
  • "The Sphinx’s Kiss"
  • "The Voyuer in the House of Glass"
  • "Metamorphosis B"
  • "Skin Game"
  • "The Hole With a Girl In Its Heart"
  • "Outside the Gates of Eden"
  • "In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection"
  • "Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert"
  • "Scene in the Museum (1896)"
  • "The Madam of the Narrow Houses"