When Joe Pulver approached S. T. Joshi about doing an anthology like his now-famous tome Black Wings, only for Robert Chambers' King in Yellow, Joshi had only one thing to say: "You do it, Joe." So he did. And here it is: A Season In Carcosa. H.P. Lovecraft. Karl Edgar Wagner. Peter Straub. Those are a few of the names that stand tall in our genre and when it comes to Robert W. Chambers and his King in Yellow they agree, Chambers' beguiling tales of the King In Yellow and Carcosa are among the best in "weird" fiction. Miskatonic River Press and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. are proud and delighted to present an anthology of all new tales inspired by Chambers. In haunted and splintered minds… Minds shackled to lonely places… In the unbound shadows infesting hearts of beautiful woman with frantic sensations… In an old house where biblical thrived… In threadbare truths, disturbed by despair, cobwebbed with illusions… In far cold Carcosa… Lies madness. In A Season In Carcosa readers will find the strange and mysterious places of heart and mind that spring from madness, and those minds and the places touched by it are the realms that are mined. Chambers' legacy of the worms and soft decay that spring from reading the King In Yellow play stir both new and established talents in the world of weird fiction and horror to contribute all new tales that pay homage to these eerie nightmares. In Carcosa twilight comes and minds lost in the mirrors of lust and fear, are awash in legacies of shadows, not mercy. . . Haunting the pages of this tome are the following voices: Joel Lane "My Voice is Dead" Simon Strantzas "Beyond the Banks of the River Seine" Don Webb "Movie Night at Phil's" Daniel Mills "MS Found in a Chicago Hotel Room" Gary McMahon "it sees me when I’m not looking" Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two" Cate Gardner "Yellow Bird Strings" Edward Morris "The Teatre & Its Double" Richard Gavin "The Hymn of the Hyades" Gemma Files "Slick Black Bones and Soft Black Stars" Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. "Not Enough Hope" Kristin Prevallet "Whose Hearts are Pure Gold" Richard A. Lupoff "April Dawn" Anna Tambour "King Wolf" Michael Kelly "The White-Face at Dawn" Cody Goodfellow "Wishing Well" John Langan "Sweetums" Pearce Hansen "The King is Yellow" Laird Barron "D T" Robin Spriggs "Salvation in Yellow" Allyson Bird "The Beat Hotel"
Authors
Joel Lane was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He received the World Fantasy Award in 2013 and the British Fantasy Award twice. Born in Exeter, he was the nephew of tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott. At the time of his death, Lane was living in south Birmingham, where he worked in health industry-related publishing. His location frequently provided settings for his fiction.
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman (Word Horde 2016) and House of Windows (Night Shade 2009), and two collections of stories, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Hippocampus 2013) and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (Prime 2008). With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (Prime 2011). He's one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. John Langan lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and many, many animals. He teaches at SUNY New Paltz. He's working toward his black belt in the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do.
Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction, and author of Undertow and Other Laments, and Scratching the Surface; as well as co-author of the novel Ouroboros. His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including All Hallows, Best New Horror, Black Static, Dark Arts, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and Weird Fiction Review. Michael is a World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Nominee.
Robin Spriggs is the author of Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist, Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny, The Dracula Poems, Capes & Cowls: Adventures in Wyrd City, and over 200 short stories and poems that have appeared in a wide variety of publications. His work has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, Pushcart Prize, and multiple Rhysling Awards. As an actor, Spriggs has appeared as Captain Franco in NBC's Revolution, Chris Amante in USA Network’s Necessary Roughness, and as affable sociopath Alfonse Duncan in the rural noir Sinkhole. He is currently attached to the romantic comedy The Genesis of Lincoln and the horror film The Ballad of Jimmy Hallows.
Pearce Hansen is the author of Street Raised//https://www.amazon.com/Street-Raised-.... Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay. He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.
Laird Barron, an expat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do. Photo credit belongs to Ardi Alspach Agent: Janet Reid of New Leaf Literary & Media
