These beautiful things arrived today from Swan River Press.
Dreams of Shadow and Smoke is a tribute anthology for J. S. Le Fanu, he of Carmilla and Uncle Silas fame (among many, many others).
And it contains my story “Let the Words Take You”, a riff on “The Child that Went With the Fairies”.
Contents
“A Preliminary Word”
Jim Rockhill & Brian J. Showers
“Seaweed Tea”
Mark Valentine
“Let the Words Take You”
Angela Slatter
“Some Houses — A Rumination”
Brian J. Showers
“Echoes”
Martin Hayes
“Alicia Harker’s Story”
Sarah LeFanu
“Three Tales from a Townland”
Derek John
“The Corner Lot”
Lynda E. Rucker
“Rite of Possession”
Gavin Selerie
“A Cold Vehicle for the Marvellous”
Emma Darwin
“Princess on the Highway”
Peter Bell
“Story Notes”
“Biographical Notes”
“Acknowledgements”