Very nice!
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| Author: | Craig Cook [ Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Taverns of the Dead |
Tom Piccirilli has a copy of this for sale on eBay that I am keeping an eye on. I wasn't even aware of this anthology, or that you edited it, but wow - what a lineup! |
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| Author: | KealanPatrick [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taverns of the Dead |
I had dreamed of doing that book for about ten years, Craig, and it came out exactly the way I wanted to. It's still my favorite of all my books. Nobody knew me from a hole in the ground when I first proposed it, but Rich at CD, as well as that incredible cast of contributors took a chance on me, and it paid off big time. Here was the review that ran in Publishers Weekly at the time of its release: "Burke (Quietly Now) offers an intoxicating blend of original and reprint fiction in an anthology with an all-star cast of contributors who know that the damnedest stories come out in bar settings, where inhibitions are low and emotions run the gamut from hilarity to despair. An Irish pub whose air is supernaturally tainted by the political hatreds of its patrons infects musicians who gig there with the will to kill in Chet Williamson's "The Smoke From Mooney's Pub." Paranoia runs deep in Ramsey Campbell's "The Winner," where a wanderer who makes his way into a local watering hole misinterprets the customs of the locals and finds cryptic bar talk leading him to a dismal fate. In Gary Braunbeck's haunting "The King of Rotten Wood," a tavern is just a convenient locale where the dead lecture the living about the proper way to remember them. There are stories to suit just about every taste here, ranging from the comic Lovecraftian inflections of Neil Gaiman's "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" to the light dark fantasy of Charles L. Grant's "Friday Night at the Wicked Swan." There's even a spectacularly choreographed barroom brawl in Norman Partridge's "Bucket of Blood," a straight-no-chaser shot of dark suspense. Horror readers who appreciate both vintage and nouveau will find this book well stocked and well worth tapping. (starred review)" Kealan |
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| Author: | Craig Cook [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Taverns of the Dead |
Very nice!
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