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Morning After
Sep. 3rd, 2009 12:10 pmSlightly more sleep than usual—I managed to get myself down by 1:30 AM, and still slept until 10:30 this morning. Which I suppose I needed, yadda yadda…but it’s been a fairly useless day thus far, aside from some thinking/cleaning, and my shoulder is all jammed up. However:
Went to the World’s Biggest Bookstore on my way home from Surrey Place yesterday, and looked up Tesseracts Thirteen (ed. by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell) so that I could read what—if anything—Robert Knowlton had to say about me in his accompanying essay, “Out of the Barrens: Two Centuries of Canadian Dark Fantasy and Horror”. Here ‘tis.
A number of new talents have emerged from the burgeoning specialty press past the cusp of the millennium…The oft-cited Gemma Files [ha!] issued a series of chapbooks under her [actually Steve’s, but lay that by] Quantum Theology imprint, Soaked in Light (2000), The Narrow World (2001) and Heart’s Hole (2001), in which her “monsters” are often as not the protagonists, their moral connexion as relevant as the metaphysics of their condition, be they witch or werewolf, vampire or revenant. Monstrosity intensifies their humanity, rather than diminishing it. Her recent omnibus collections from Prime Press, Kissing Carrion (2003) and The Worm in Every Heart (2004), gather most of her stories to date, including “The Emperor’s Old Bones”, “Keepsake”, “Skeleton Bitch” and “The Diarist”, which number among the finest horror fictions produced by a contemporary Canadian writer.
So wheee, me! Yeah, that’s a lot better.;)
Amended to add: Forgot to put "Canadian" in that last sentence, first time 'round. I apologize to all other contemporary writers.
Went to the World’s Biggest Bookstore on my way home from Surrey Place yesterday, and looked up Tesseracts Thirteen (ed. by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell) so that I could read what—if anything—Robert Knowlton had to say about me in his accompanying essay, “Out of the Barrens: Two Centuries of Canadian Dark Fantasy and Horror”. Here ‘tis.
A number of new talents have emerged from the burgeoning specialty press past the cusp of the millennium…The oft-cited Gemma Files [ha!] issued a series of chapbooks under her [actually Steve’s, but lay that by] Quantum Theology imprint, Soaked in Light (2000), The Narrow World (2001) and Heart’s Hole (2001), in which her “monsters” are often as not the protagonists, their moral connexion as relevant as the metaphysics of their condition, be they witch or werewolf, vampire or revenant. Monstrosity intensifies their humanity, rather than diminishing it. Her recent omnibus collections from Prime Press, Kissing Carrion (2003) and The Worm in Every Heart (2004), gather most of her stories to date, including “The Emperor’s Old Bones”, “Keepsake”, “Skeleton Bitch” and “The Diarist”, which number among the finest horror fictions produced by a contemporary Canadian writer.
So wheee, me! Yeah, that’s a lot better.;)
Amended to add: Forgot to put "Canadian" in that last sentence, first time 'round. I apologize to all other contemporary writers.
