Michael Shea

Lovecraft Unbound

Starred Review for The Best Horror of the Year in Publishers Weekly

Edited by Ellen Datlow

After 22 years of pulling the horror content for the now-discontinued Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series, Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) goes solo with this stellar start to a new “best of” annual. As in the past, her picks confirm that “horror” is a storytelling approach with endlessly inventive possibilities.

In E. Michael Lewis’s “Cargo,” a haunting Twilight Zone–type tale, an airplane picks up something otherworldly as part of its latest transport. Euan Harvey’s creepy “Harry and the Monkey” turns an urban legend into reality. R.B. Russell’s “Loup-garou” is a highly original shape-shifter story with a subtle psychological twist, and Daniel LeMoal’s “Beach Head” a bracing conte cruel with a Lord of the Flies cast.

In addition to the richly varied stories, Datlow provides her usual comprehensive coverage of the year in horror in an introduction that’s indispensable reading for horror aficionados.

The Autopsy and Other Tales

Collectors can now own a 563 page single author collection – a massive tome packed with superb stories by Michael Shea, an introduction by Laird Barron.

This collection of his finest fantasy, science fiction, horror and Cthulhu Mythos tales includes the two short novels “I Said the Fly” and “The Color Out of Time” as well as “Fat Face,” “Grunt 12 Test Drive,” “The Rebuke” and may others.

ONLY 500 limited edition cloth copies are available from Centipede Press!

Michael Shea has graced the field of the fantastic for more than thirty years, and it’s time we celebrated him. His prose is as rich and inventive as his considerable imagination, and the range of his tales is enviable, from sardonic witty fantasy to monstrous horror.

The Autopsy and Other Tales is a feast of deliciously literate fantasy and terror, and a book that should be on the shelves of every reader who cares for either field. Shea enriches both.

Locus

Click here to open a PDF file with an wonderful review Faren Miller of The Autopsy and Other Tales.

This review was published in the November 2008 Locus Magazine.

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