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Loading... 1 | None | 7,849,597 | None | None | In the blink of an eye, around the corner, The Weird is everywhere. It's in the bird that turns out to be a fluttering newspaper, that white shoe left in a ploughed field, or the curdling smoke on the windscreen of a car, caused by the fast-moving reflection of clouds overhead. Normal is often weird and vice-versa. We're used to weird dreams but what about the wide-awake weird? This collection celebrates evocative tales of oddness that span the genres of magic realism, the supernatural, the fantastical and the speculative. Weirdness lurks beyond the margins of the mundane, emerging to dismantle our assumptions of reality. When we encounter strange intervals, our perception of the natural order is challenged and changed. It is perhaps in those moments, that we glimpse the hidden truth of all things. Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre - the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university. Contributors include: Martina Bellovičov , J. E. Bryant, Glynis Charlton, Danielle Collard, Storm Constantine, Louise Coquio, Elizabeth Counihan, Krishan Coupland, Elizabeth Davidson, Si n Davies, Jack Fabian, Paul Finch, Rosie Garland, Rhys Hughes, Kerry Fender, Andrew Hook, Paul Houghton, Tanith Lee, Lisa Mansell, Kate Moore, Tim Pratt, Nicholas Royle, Michael Marshall Smith, Paula Wakefield, Ian Whates and Liz Williams.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions In the blink of an eye, around the corner, The Weird is everywhere. It's in the bird that turns out to be a fluttering newspaper, that white shoe left in a ploughed field, or the curdling smoke on the windscreen of a car, caused by the fast-moving reflection of clouds overhead. Normal is often weird and vice-versa. We're used to weird dreams but what about the wide-awake weird? This collection celebrates evocative tales of oddness that span the genres of magic realism, the supernatural, the fantastical and the speculative. Weirdness lurks beyond the margins of the mundane, emerging to dismantle our assumptions of reality. When we encounter strange intervals, our perception of the natural order is challenged and changed. It is perhaps in those moments, that we glimpse the hidden truth of all things. Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre - the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university. Contributors include: Martina Bellovičov , J. E. Bryant, Glynis Charlton, Danielle Collard, Storm Constantine, Louise Coquio, Elizabeth Counihan, Krishan Coupland, Elizabeth Davidson, Si n Davies, Jack Fabian, Paul Finch, Rosie Garland, Rhys Hughes, Kerry Fender, Andrew Hook, Paul Houghton, Tanith Lee, Lisa Mansell, Kate Moore, Tim Pratt, Nicholas Royle, Michael Marshall Smith, Paula Wakefield, Ian Whates and Liz Williams. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - Introduction / Storm Constantine
- Wide church of the weird / Paul Houghton
- For(uh)m / Lisa Mansell
- The house of my grandfather / Krishan Coupland
- The strange case of Quentin Wilde / Paul Houghton
- Cup and table / Tim Pratt
- Lift / Kate Moore
- Listen / Louise Coquio
- A life in plastic / Andrew Hook
- A woman talks to her flesh as it meets the ground / Lisa Mansell
- Meta-wife / Kerry Fender
- The hide / Liz Williams
- A new womann / Jack Fabian
- An end to empire / Rosie Garland
- The secret gallery / Storm Constantine
- In touch / Paula Wakefield
- Carnivory / Lisa Mansell
- Brian / Glynis Charlton
- Post partum / Siân Davies
- Catafalque / Lisa Mansell
- The dummy / Nicholas Royle
- The piano song / Ian Whates
- Wallace / Danielle Collard
- The virgil / J.E. Bryant
- The beast and the beauty / Tanith Lee
- Wicken Fen / Paul Finch
- Erkling and crocodile / Elizabeth Counihan
- Perhaps their parents were at fault / Martina Belloviĉová
- Pyramid and Thisbe / Rhys Hughes
- The long leather boot / Elizabeth Davidson
- City in the dusk / Matt Colborn
- Angels of anarchy / Lisa Mansell
- The dark land / Michael Marshall Smith
- Around the apple tree / Jessica Gilling
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