Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 5 from Samhain / Fall 2012 has started to show up on all the digital shops and streaming platforms!
It's always been on Bandcamp, but it's now (over) 10 years old, so to celebrate I'm letting it loose on the world!
It joins MMR1–4 and MMR 12, with more to come as I catch up on 10 year anniversaries!
The Hermetic Library Anthology Album — Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the release for Equinox 2014, Sun in Libra, Anno V 0 (for some reason I wasn't releasing these on the anniversary of the library's birth in December yet), has started showing up in all the places online, streamers and shops, beyond Bandcamp!
The Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 11, the anthology release from 2015, has started showing up on all the streamers and in the digital shops.
Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and...
The Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 9, the Samhain / Fall 2013 issue, the final issue of 2013, released 10 years ago on November 7th, and the final 4th issue of the last year when I did 4 seasonal releases each year, is now starting to show up in all the digital shops and players beyond Bandcamp!
"A compilation so good i had to write to the publisher and tell them what an outstanding piece of work this is." ~ Goodreads reviewer, Mitchell.
This Fresh Hell is in the wild and finding its readers! If you'd like to see what the fuss is about, head to Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney on 30 September for its NSW launch, with several of the authors there to talk about his new anthology of fresh takes on horror tropes!
Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 6 from Imbolc / Winter 2013 has started to show up on all the digital shops and streaming platforms!
It's always been on Bandcamp, but now (over) 10 years old. It joins MMR1–5 and MMR 12, with more to come as I catch up on 10 year anniversaries!
Wow! Almost 300 people have entered the Goodreads giveaway for the Kindle edition of "The Spiral and The Threads." Clearly, folks are already excited but for those who missed it, here's the link:
Northern Nights is a proposed horror/dark fiction anthology in the vein of previous anthologies of Canadian speculative fiction — Northern Stars (Hartwell & Grant, eds.); Northern Suns (Hartwell & Grant, eds.) — and the 5 volume Northern Frights series (Don Hutchison, ed).
Black glassy lakes. Dark woods. Ancient pines and maples. Abandoned highways. Ghost towns. Preternatural light. The Midnight Sun. Uncanny valleys. An indigo sky spiked with bright white stars. The darkening garden. The sting of the whooshing north wind. The killing cold. A cry in the dark. It’s another night in the Canadian north. Night and all its torments.
Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe....
!!! Sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter for this super cool Ukrainian SFF anthology launches! Many stories, both translated from Ukrainian and written originally in English.
For the month of August, I'm doing a social media and Patron giveaway of three copies of Tarot: Mirror of the Soul by Gerd Ziegler, courtesy of the publisher Weiser Books Details on the library blog, and in posts on the library's Patreon, Threads, and Mastodon.
My queer Lovecraftian folk horror story “Incantation on a Summer Night” is now available in LONELY HOLLOWS: 15 TALES OF FOLK HORROR, along with stories by lots of other awesome authors! Check it out:
Last few weeks until the Sept 30 deadline! Read the call for submissions to the Anthology Project in 2023 for Magick, Music and Ritual 18 and This Is Not An Hermetic Library Anthology Album -5 on the blog, and then get in touch!
Only a few more anthology albums before the last one in 2026 on the library's 30th anniversary!
Looking for your very own copy of horror anthology This Fresh Hell? Readings at Emporium still has it, tucked into an Anthology shelf next to Australian Fiction
Have you got something to share? If you've created something, send it in for the Hermetic Library Zine! If you've got an upcoming event, let's add it to Hermetic Library Calendar! Head to the blog for submission information.
The wonderful Katya de Becerra spoke on TripleR radio today about our anthology, This Fresh Hell - they loved talking with her so much they've posted 10 minutes of the interview as a highlight!
Listen here for Katya's insights on the revival in modern horror and how its challenging old tropes and bringing in new voices!
In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage....
In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Project Gutenberg (free) (www.gutenberg.org)
Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and...
The Year's Best Science Fiction - 1st annual collection - 1984 - featuring the work of George R.R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Poul Andersen, Greg Bear, and Bruce Sterling (pdfhost.io)
Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe....
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 3rd Annual Collection - 1989 - featuring Greg Bear, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Bruce Sterling, Jane Yolen and Emma Bull (pdfhost.io)
In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage....
Year's Best Science Fiction - Second Annual Collection - 1985 - Featuring the work of William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Robert Silverberg, Fredrick Pohl and Tanith Lee (pdfhost.io)
In spite of its ominous literary associations, 1984 proved to be a rather quiet year for SF. There were no major scandals like 1983’s infamous Great Timescape Fiasco, no SF lines driven into oblivion by corporate greed and shortsightedness, no major editorial shakeups … but if you looked closely enough, in the right places,...