New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird

Marc Notes: Many of the best weird fiction writers have been profoundly influenced by the genre and the mythos H. P. Lovecraft created eight decades ago. Lovecraft's themes of cosmic indifference, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history - written with a pervasive atmosphere of unexplainable dread - are more relevant than ever as we explore the mysteries of a universe in which our planet is infinitesimal and climatic change is overwhelming it. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 04/06/2015 (EAN 9781607014508, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Langan, John John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Library, a collection of more than a hundred new and classic stories. Contributor Bio:  Barron, Laird Laird Barron is the author of several books, including?The Croning, Occultation, ?and?The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan, Barron currently resides in Upstate New York. Contributor Bio:  Bear, Elizabeth Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. This, coupled with a tendency to read the dictionary as a child, doomed her early to penury, intransigence, friendlessness, and the writing of speculative fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in central Connecticut with the exception of two years (which she was too young to remember very well) spent in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, in the last house with electricity before the Canadian border. She's a second-generation Swede, a third-generation Ukrainian, and a third-generation Transylvanian, with some Irish, English, Scots, Cherokee, and German thrown in for leavening. Elizabeth Bear is her real name, but not all of it. Her dogs outweigh her, and she is much beset by her cats. Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Monette, Sarah Sarah Monette is the author of "Melusine" and "The Virtu", and with Elizabeth Bear is co-author of "A Companion to Wolves". She was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2006. Contributor Bio:  Shirley, John John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection "Black Butterflies" and is the author of numerous novels, including "Demons", "City Come A-Walkin'", and "Bleak History". Contributor Bio:  Stross, Charles Charles Stross, born in 1964, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella ( The Concrete Jungle ), Stross has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. He has worked as a pharmacist, software developer, and tech-industry journalist. Contributor Bio:  Vaughn, Carrie Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons, her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado. Contributor Bio:  Guran, Paula Guran is the editor of horror fiction books. She writes most of the DarkEcho.