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.
What's everyone reading coming up on this long weekend? I've got two books on the go as I often do! I'm enjoying both of these very much. Premee Mohamed's THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS just came out two weeks ago, and Sydney Hegele's debut novel BIRD SUIT comes in in May. Thanks to Invisible Publishing for the advance copy!
Your sister is running into the forest. You rush out the door, calling her name, but by the time you reach the treeline, only her light footprints remain on the soft earth.
Recent additions to my TBR pile. Never Whistle At Night, Interzone 295, Moccasin Square Gardens (Richard Van Camp), The Supply Chain (Aaron Schneider), The Pump (Sydney Hegele), Augur volume 5 Collected Edition, The Marigold (Andrew F Sullivan), and Truth Telling (Michelle Good). I leave anthologies scattered around the house so I can read a short story whenever I see one. I’m especially partial to horror stories written by Inuit authors. That’s some scary shit. @InterzoneMag@indigenousauthors@augurmag#horror#anthologies#CanLit#Indigedon#IndigenousMastodon#IndigenousFuturism#Bookstodon
In this solo TTRPG, we are a tiny wizard!
We MUST conquer the mountain of old DVDs at the end of the Valley of Unfolded Laundry in the lands of My Bedroom.
World Literature Today has published a wonderful review of Tiffany Morris's GREEN FUSE BURNING. I love the last line, highlighted in the pic: "In a 2023 interview, Morris defines her dream job as being “a forest oracle who gives cryptic messages to travelers”: Green Fuse Burning jump-starts her career."