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I just discovered the first review of Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, my new original anthology out from Solaris in January.
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Edited by Ellen Datlow. Solaris (www.solarisbooks.com), $15 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-84416-595-7
This anthology's title notwithstanding, the 19 original stories commissioned for it seem largely devoid of the Poe principle. Kim Newman (“Illimitable Domain”) contributes a gleefully subversive alternate history in which Poe movie adaptations take over American culture; John Langan (“Technicolor”) offers an incisive deconstruction of Poe's “Masque of the Red Death” that also functions as a magnificently creepy horror tale; and Delia Sherman (“The Red Piano”) proffers a horror romance whose villain is clearly modeled on Poe's sound-sensitive Roderick Usher. For the most part, however, readers will have to work toward the explanatory note each author provides at the story's end to see which Poesque resonance he or she intended. Still, Datlow (Inferno) has assembled an all-star lineup and chosen inventive stories whose quality are certainly an extension of Poe's tradition of excellent weird fiction. (Jan.)
Good review overall but very thin--and I hope readers will not read the anthology trying to figure out what Poe story/poem/essay inspired each story as they read it--that's why the afterwords are there. Another note-- this was obviously not the same reviewer of Peter Straub's recent excellent all-reprint anthology of contemporary horror, Poe's Children, which has nothing to do with Poe or his writing at all.
You can preorder the book at amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/55bhl8
Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Edited by Ellen Datlow. Solaris (www.solarisbooks.com), $15 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-84416-595-7
This anthology's title notwithstanding, the 19 original stories commissioned for it seem largely devoid of the Poe principle. Kim Newman (“Illimitable Domain”) contributes a gleefully subversive alternate history in which Poe movie adaptations take over American culture; John Langan (“Technicolor”) offers an incisive deconstruction of Poe's “Masque of the Red Death” that also functions as a magnificently creepy horror tale; and Delia Sherman (“The Red Piano”) proffers a horror romance whose villain is clearly modeled on Poe's sound-sensitive Roderick Usher. For the most part, however, readers will have to work toward the explanatory note each author provides at the story's end to see which Poesque resonance he or she intended. Still, Datlow (Inferno) has assembled an all-star lineup and chosen inventive stories whose quality are certainly an extension of Poe's tradition of excellent weird fiction. (Jan.)
Good review overall but very thin--and I hope readers will not read the anthology trying to figure out what Poe story/poem/essay inspired each story as they read it--that's why the afterwords are there. Another note-- this was obviously not the same reviewer of Peter Straub's recent excellent all-reprint anthology of contemporary horror, Poe's Children, which has nothing to do with Poe or his writing at all.
You can preorder the book at amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/55bhl8