To Charles Fort, With Love
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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...
, published by Subterranean Press in 2005. As the author explains in the preface, many of these stories were inspired by the writings of Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...
(1874-1932), and many of them have a Lovecraftian flavor. Two of the stories have received the International Horror Guild
International Horror Guild
The International Horror Guild was created in 1995 as a way to recognize the achievements of those who create in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy. The IHG presented the International Horror Guild Award. Nancy A. Collins, the founder of the award, felt there was a need for an award granted by...
Award: "Onion" (Best Short Fiction, 2001) and "La Peau Verte" (Best Mid-Length Fiction, 2005). Also, "La Peau Verte" and the collection as a whole were both nominated for the World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
(2005). As with Kiernan's earlier short-story collections, the book is illustrated by Canadian artist Richard A. Kirk, and the cover art is provided by Ryan Obermeyer
Ryan Obermeyer
Ryan Obermeyer is an internationally acclaimed American artist who works in photography, drawing, sculpting, and painting. He is most widely recognized for his surreal digital photographs that have often appeared on album packaging for recording artists, book jackets, and ad campaigns...
. An afterword, "A Certain Inexplicability," was provided by Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell
John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
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Contents
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- Preface - "Looking for Innsmouth"
- "Valentia"
- "Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)"
- "So Runs the World Away"
- "Standing Water"
- "La Mer des Rêves"
- "The Road of Pins"
- "Onion"
- "Apokatastasis"
- "La Peau Verte"
- "The Dead and the Moonstruck"
- The Dandridge Cycle:
- "A Redress for Andromeda"
- "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea"
- "Andromeda Among the Stones"
- Afterword: "A Certain Inexplicability" (by Ramsey Campbell)