Here we are again. Thanks to everyone who's sent their sympathies about my mother's stroke. She's still in hospital, doing okay, but needs physio and is waiting for a place in a special unit. I'm optimistic, but it's early days yet.
I'm working on ST17, using my little netbook, as my old laptop seems to be dead. I may be able to recover stuff from the C drive without paying a hundred quid to some 'expert', but we shall see. Point is I've not had to rebuild the ST files as I cunningly backed them up just before Christmas.
So, ST17 will contain the following stories:
The Tunnel - Peter Bell
Mr Nousel's Mirror - Michael Keyton R
The Dress - Elizabeth Brown
13 Nassau St - Martin Hayes
Cabin D - Ian Rogers
The Language of the Nameless Region - Richard Gavin
Lessons - Katherine Haynes
Quite a spread here. Most have contemporary settings, but some are 'historical' and 'The Dress' is anyone's guess, time wise. Likewise some are traditional ghost stories, but others - notably Richard Gavin's story - owe more to Lovecraft and perhaps Machen or Blackwood. All in all it's a pretty good spread, and I'm lining up reviews and a nice bit of non-fiction from Colin Westney.
So, readers be not afeard. The only thing I really regret about ST is not being able to make it a quarterly, there's so much good writing out there. But the work, ah the work...
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2 comments:
David,
Firstly, all best wishes for your mother. Here's hoping she continues to steadily improve.
ST17 looks great. I'm looking forward to reading it.
And to harken to your previous posting, I really love Dark City, warts and all. I think, despite its flaws, that it is very well-intentioned and has a lot of heart.
-Mike
Thanks Michael. She is indeed improving.
Dark City does indeed have it's heart in the right place. I much prefer it to The Matrix, which is just slick and silly. Midway between the two is The Thirteenth Floor, which has a similar retro-setting as Dark City but a very different sci-fi rationale.
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