Stumble into darkened alleyways, tree groves under alien skies, strange deserts and fetid jungles. Lurch through backwoods rituals to forgotten deities, through the neon glow of futures that will never be, and into histories of other realms. This is where Hickey and Jacobs make their home.
Here the ley lines of horror, fantasy, science fiction and a dozen other genres converge and form a tangle, and it is from that chaos that these stories have been woven. Icy northern fantasy shares a vast living space with Arabian myth, academic horror, weird noir, bloodstained cyberpunk, and more.
Here are twelve tales cultivated over the years since their last anthology, That Weird City. In that anthology they kept their scope narrowed to the eldritch and the cosmic, here they expand it to encompass stories from across many times and dimensions. From "Icaro," where a man's drug-fueled spirit quest leads him through a shifting dreamscape of existential quandaries, to "Shadows of the Stone Tree," where two travelers in a strange desert find themselves tracking one imaginary being while being pursued by other ones. From "Our Lady of Atlantis," where a woman's quest for artistic freedom dredges up old and forgotten powers, to "Terra Pinguis," where an arson investigator must try to explain fires that don't obey the laws of science. These stories and many more await you, featuring an introduction and foreword by Eric Heisserer, the horror and science fiction connoisseur behind the scripts for Lights Out and The Arrival.
Here the ley lines of horror, fantasy, science fiction and a dozen other genres converge and form a tangle, and it is from that chaos that these stories have been woven. Icy northern fantasy shares a vast living space with Arabian myth, academic horror, weird noir, bloodstained cyberpunk, and more.
Here are twelve tales cultivated over the years since their last anthology, That Weird City. In that anthology they kept their scope narrowed to the eldritch and the cosmic, here they expand it to encompass stories from across many times and dimensions. From "Icaro," where a man's drug-fueled spirit quest leads him through a shifting dreamscape of existential quandaries, to "Shadows of the Stone Tree," where two travelers in a strange desert find themselves tracking one imaginary being while being pursued by other ones. From "Our Lady of Atlantis," where a woman's quest for artistic freedom dredges up old and forgotten powers, to "Terra Pinguis," where an arson investigator must try to explain fires that don't obey the laws of science. These stories and many more await you, featuring an introduction and foreword by Eric Heisserer, the horror and science fiction connoisseur behind the scripts for Lights Out and The Arrival.
