Rue Morgue October
In Poe, Hugo Award winning editor Ellen Datlow celebrates Poe’s 200th birthday by assembling nineteen original stories inspired by the master. Standout tales include Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s decidedly vicious “Flitting Away,” about a woman who is beaten and left for dead after a date rape, Laird Barron’s “Strappado,” concerning a group of aristocratic art aficionados who attend an underground exhibit and discover that they are destined to become a permanent part of the collection, and “Beyond Porch and Portal,” a rather unique entry by E. Catherine Tobler that examines Poe’s last days. Other authors offer up stories dealing with deadly plagues, scary shapeshifters, demented doppelgangers and even dead NASCAR drivers. While there are a couple of clunkers in the bunch, Poe is still worth reading cover to cover, as it’s fun trying to guess which classic story inspired which author.
--Last Chance Lance

From Karissa's reading Room:
Troll's Eye View

From the Australian group blog Not if you were the last Short story on earth
Troll's Eye View

and From The Zone
Inferno

First three readers/posters who would like Inferno, let me know now.
And if you win just email me your address at datlow at yahoo dot com
and let me know if you want the book signed.

Come and get em!

These recommended stories will be losing their eligibility at the end of the month, so if you are an SFWA member and had intended to read them and/or rec them do it NOW--I can email you a copy or you can read them through the link on the NAR.
Novelettes:
Barron, Laird -> The Forest
Hirshberg, Glen -> The Janus Tree
Thomas, Lee -> An Apiary of White Bees

Short Stories:
Ballingrud, Nathan -> Monsters of Heaven
Bear, Elizabeth -> Inelastic Collisions
Dowling, Terry -> The Suits at Auderlene
Ford, Jeffrey -> The Bedroom Light
Shepard, Lucius -> The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast

...wherein I extol the virtues of short horror fiction:
Interview of Ellen Datlow by Charles Tan

and
Sarah Monette talks about the stories in The Bone Key
Interview with Sarah Monette

Mostly with work the past day as I got almost nothing done from Wed-Friday after Wiscon. So read and edited all today until movie time this evening.

I watched two episodes of Deadwood and Stray Dog by Kurosawa and with Toshira Mifune, about a rookie cop whose stolen gun is used to commit crimes and is driven by his guilt to solve the crimes.

However...my DVD player has a glitch. The sound has gone off--as if it's recorded in a studio rather than natural sounding...Never happened before. I've gotten advice from someone on a listserve as to how to check out what might be wrong with it. Tomorrow...
ATTENTION:
Mary Robinette Kowal was over for scotch, fruit, cheese, and fig bread and fixed my DVD player--by reading the directions. It was mistaken set to reverb something or other...the cats did it. I know I certainly didn't!

And finally...
Horror World has just posted a very good review of INFERNO.
The link moves to Horror World in July.

Toodling off to bed so that I am bright eyed and bushy tailed enough for more work tomorrow. (and to fiddle with the DVD player)

I'm not familiar with this webzine but boy, does someone like the book. Thank you.


The Fantasy Times

A quote:

"Inferno is the utmost in genre goodness from the heart of the horror annals. Although there is no ‘theme’ to this anthology, there is an overarching sense of taking the best of every type of genre story, mix it with odd circumstance and then mashing it into a piece that cannot be put into a stereotype of horror fiction (zombies, cultists etc.) Instead, the anthology gives those of us who wish to send people to good examples of horror fiction a text book, of sorts, to learn from. There is something for every type of genre reader and can serve as a gateway to the dark fantasy/horror genre."