It’s been six years since my last (and first) collection of horror stories, Unseaming, appeared in the world and fared shockingly well on multiple fronts. My second collection of horror tales (and third story collection overall), Aftermath of an Industrial Accident, will debut July 7; and, since I’ve been too swamped to make any kind of formal announcement, most folks are finding out the book exists via the starred review posted Saturday on Publishers Weekly, a development I am incredibly

It’s not been easy, being a journalist working from home during the COVID-19 crisis; and now I’m journalist placed on unpaid furlough for a week because of the dent that same crisis has made in advertising purchases. However! One positive development is that it gives me some time to update items on my blogs that sorely need updating. Certainly nowadays folks get their very first news about creative developments from the social media accounts of the personages involved; however, such

Mythic Delirium Books is proud at last to announce our next release, A Sinister Quartet, scheduled to drop June 9, 2020. It’s the biggest book we’ve ever put together, gathering four stories that, combined, amount to more than 150,000 words of wondrously weird dark fantasy and horror. These eerie stories go long. The book begins with an original short novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories, also available from Mythic Delirium Books.

The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff Introduction by Jane Yolen Scheduled for release June 11, 2019 ISBN 978-1732644014 | $15.95 | 220 pages   “This is storytelling at the top of the heap.”—Jane Yolen, winner of the World Fantasy Awardfor lifetime achivement “Achingly familiar and wonderfully strange.”—Samuel R. Delany, Hugo and Nebula Award winner “Plunge into The History of Soul 2065, there’s nothing like it.”

The month of February began with the news that Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace, the first novel ever released by the Mythic Delirium Books imprint, made the Locus Magazine 2018 Recommended Reading List in the Best Fantasy Novel category. Congratulations to Nicole! (Click here to see the entire list.) The listing means that Latchkey is also one of the books proffered to voters in the 2019 Locus Poll and Survey. This poll is used to select the finalists for the Locus

Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss Introduction by Jane Yolen Available now! ISBN 978-1-7326440-0-7 | $15.95 | 224 pages   Order today!   Paperback: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon DE | Amazon FRBarnes & Noble | Indiebound | Powell’s Ebook: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DEAmazon AU | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play | Weightless Books   On Feb. 5, Mythic Delirium Books proudly unveiled

  UPDATE 1/13: Amazon has discounted Archivist Wasp to $2.51 per e-book!GET IT HERE: AMAZON KINDLE We apologize that Archivist Wasp was not discounted on Amazon when the sale began Jan. 12. The fault was not ours. However, we are relieved that we can proceed now as was originally planned. Kindle compatible editions are also available at WEIGHTLESS BOOKS. With Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace landing on three (so far) year-end best of 2018 lists, we at Mythic Delirium Books (all

This Wednesday (tomorrow!) Nicole Kornher-Stace will be reading at the KGB Bar in Manhattan as part of the venerable Fantastic Fiction at KGB series hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matt Kressel. Her partner in the reading will be Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife and other novels. Nicole will have copies of Archivist Wasp and Latchkey with her to sell. My understanding is that she’ll be reading a piece of fiction set in that same universe. Don’t miss

Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss Introduction by Jane Yolen Scheduled for release Feb. 5, 2019 ISBN 978-1-7326440-0-7 | $15.95 | 224 pages   Available for pre-order (so far) at the following links:   Paperback: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FRBarnes & Noble | Indiebound Ebook: Amazon | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon FR | Amazon DEAmazon AU | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play | Weightless Books   You can

Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Latchkey, the first novel ever published by Mythic Delirium Books, has accumulated a number of superlative reviews since I last did a roundup (a sinfully long time ago). We’re thrilled that the book has already earned out its advance — thanks so much, all those who have purchased it so far! — and there are other cool things that have happened that we’re not allowed to make public yet. (Though we sure will once permission is granted.) And