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Coming Soon!

Posted by Administration On August - 31 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Coming soon, a new original anthology from a new type of publisher: Portents, edited by  “Master Anthologist” (Booklist) Al Sarrantonio, editor of acclaimed collections 999: New Stories of Horror and the Supernatural, Redshift: Extremes of Speculative Fiction, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, and Stories (with Neil Gaiman).

In the tradition of Charles L. Grant’s Shadows series, Portents will present 19 brand-new tales from some of today’s most accomplished dark fantasy writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Joe R. Lansdale, Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell and Christopher Fowler.

Issued in a strictly limited edition of 1,000 copies, each signed and hand-numbered by Al Sarrantonio himself, and with a beautiful color cover by Alan Clark and a foreword by the distinguished Stephen Jones, Portents will only be available for purchase online from the publisher, Flying Fox Press.

Portents is sure to sell out quickly, and, since it will be the first book ever published by Flying Fox Press, will become an instant collector’s item.  Please watch this space for updates, and for information on how to reserve or purchase your copy at an extremely reasonable price.

Stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio

Posted by Administration On August - 6 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

From Booklist

The editorial collaboration of fantasy superstar Gaiman and brilliant anthologist Sarrantonio seemingly ensures a most distinguished sf-fantasy-horror collection. Mainstream and mystery stars (Roddy Doyle, Jodi Picoult, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jeffery Deaver, Walter Mosley, Chuck Palahniuk) as well as big sf-fantasy-horror names, including all-ages luminaries Diana Wynne Jones and Richard Adams, all contribute. Yet most of these stories are tepid; a few are unreadably bad. Joe R. Lansdale’s “The Stars Are Falling” proves absorbing, though (and because) its characters, plot, and setting strongly recall those of Robinson Jeffers’ searing antiwar poem, “The Double Axe.” Gene Wolfe’s space-exploration tale “Leif in the Wind” is a tersely worded treat, Joe Hill’s “Devil on the Staircase” is cleverly shaped (literally: the paragraphs look like flights of stairs), and Michael Moorcock’s memoirlike “Stories,” while neither sf, fantasy, or horror, is wonderfully affecting. And Elizabeth Hand’s awe-inspiring “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon,” in which three men and two teen boys replicate the flight of a pre–Wright brothers airplane, is as magical and beautiful a light fantasy as anyone has ever written. –Ray Olson