About this ebook
—Publishers Weekly
“One of those rare long-term survivors of the small-press landscape…contributes mightily to the health of our genre.”
—Locus Online
Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity.
Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a quest for the weird, lowercase, here is a book where you can find it. And likely The Weird as well.”
This international anthology of beautiful prose and strange verse features Saira Ali, Michele Bannister, Alicia Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Gwynne Garfinkle, Brady Golden, Adam Howe, John Philip Johnson, Jamie Killen, Swapna Kishore, Margo Lanagan, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, C.S. MacCath, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Lynette Mejía, Virginia M. Mohlere, Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, Dominik Parisien, Jessy Randall, Wendy Rathbone, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, Natalia Theodoridou, Sheree Renée Thomas and Jane Yolen. Cover art by Hugo Award winner Galen Dara.
About the author
Mike Allen (Publisher, Mythic Delirium Books) is the editor of Mythic Delirium and Clockwork Phoenix. He’s author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated horror story collection Unseaming, as well as a finalist for the Nebula Award for short fiction and a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for poetry. Find out more about his latest writings at DescentintoLight.com, and follow him on Twitter at @mythicdelirium.
Anita Allen (Assistant Publisher, Mythic Delirium Books) is assistant editor for Clockwork Phoenix and Mythic Delirium, and co-editor of the Mythic Delirium paperback anthologies. Her paintings and assemblages have appeared in juried art shows and on the covers of past issues of Mythic Delirium. Beyond the Borders, her first solo exhibition, was a sculpture show full of modern monsters. It took place in October 2015 in the Liminal: Alternative Artspace gallery in Roanoke. You can see more of her works at her Facebook art page The Fairie Emporium.
