Sixteen new stories from some of today’s most renowned authors. All inspired by the master storyteller Tanith Lee. Drowning cities and unicorns. Burning deserts and forgotten gods. Golems, elf warriors, and inner-Earthers. Alien lifeforms and museum workers. Ancient plagues and the future of humanity. The familiar and the fantastical. Each story in this anthology is both unique and compelling: from fairy-tale retellings to romance-tinged high fantasy, from nihilistic horror to gripping science fiction. Immersive, wide-ranging, and sublime, Storyteller features worlds and characters that are sure to travel with you long after the last page has been read. Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Rocío Rincón Fernández, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Getty Hesse, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Starlene Justice, Amelia Mangan, Michael Yuya Montroy, Marisca Pichette, Nisi Shawl, KT Wagner, Martha Wells Foreword by John Kaiine. Afterword by Ann VanderMeer.
Authors
Julie C. Day's novella THE RAMPANT (Aqueduct Press) is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her genre-bending debut collection, UNCOMMON MIRACLES (PS Publishing, 2018), contains some of her most beloved work. She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of the charity anthology WEIRD DREAM SOCIETY (Reckoning Press, 2020) and the forthcoming DREAMS FOR A BROKEN WORLD (2022). Julie is currently working on the mosaic novel STORIES OF DRIESCH (Vernacular Books). She’s published over forty stories in magazines such as Interzone, Split Lip Magazine, Black Static, Podcastle and the Cincinnati Review. John Crowley describes her fiction as "strongly strange, whether happening in a sort of now in this country or in a weirdly altered past. These stories seem to be what the term American Gothic was meant for." Some of her favorite things include loose teas, standing desks and the tricolored prevost's squirrel.
