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Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North
Tesseracts Thirteen Chilling Tales of the Great White North Author:Nancy Kilpatrick (Editor), David Morrell (Editor) Tesseracts Thirteen invites you to delve into literature's shadowy side! This, the newest and most unusual of the popular and award-winning Tesseracts anthologies, utilizes the mysterious and bewitching number 'thirteen' to explore a new realm of innovative, thought-provoking and disturbing fiction. Award-winning authors and ed... more »itors Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell have unearthed twenty-three stories of horror and dark fantasy that reflect a melange of Canada's most exciting known and about-to-be known writers. These eerie-genre tales range from the unsettling to the sinister.
Inside you will find stories featuring:
- The young, but not always innocent - ghosts; multiple births; comic book characters come to life
- Romance gone terribly wrong - curses; mournful spirits; bringing back the dead
- Creepy and twisted realities - mummies; windigos; post apocalyptic Canada
The authors in Tesseracts Thirteen span the country, from east to west coast, applying a particularly Canadian stamp to a classic and revered genre. Following the stories, expert-in-the-field Robert Knowlton provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the history of horror and dark fantasy writing and publishing in Canada.
Contents:
Time Lapse • essay by David Morrell
Time Capsule • essay by Nancy Kilpatrick
Stone Cold / Kevin Cockle
Striges / Daniel Sernine
Kids These Days / Rebecca Bradley
Quints / Edo van Belkom
An Abandoned Baby Carriage / Kevin Kvas
Silence / Stephanie Short
The Weak Son / Matt Moore [as by Matthew Moore]
Billy and the Mountain / Jason S. Ridler
The Tear Closet / Suzanne Church
Little Deaths / Ivan Dorin
His One True Love / Catherine MacLeod
Eurydice in the World of Light / Andrea Schlecht
Bed of Scorpions / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Overtoun Bridge / Bev Vincent
Dead to Me / Kelley Armstrong
Viaticum / Katie Harse
A Patch of Bamboo / Jill Snider Lum
The Radejastians / David Nickle
The Woods / Michael Kelly
The Language of Crows (2001) / Mary E. Choo
Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers (2009) / Gord Rollo
The Night Before the Storm / Jean-Louis Trudel
End in Ice / Alison Baird
Out of the Barrens: Two Centuries of Canadian Dark Fantasy & Horror • essay by Robert Knowlton