David Demchuk, who attended Montreal's Blue Metropolis festival earlier this year, is the author of a Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated collection of horror short stories, The Bone Mother. This was quite an accomplishment for a horror writer, especially since writers of horror fiction are so often excluded from the literary mainstream. The Bone Mother, set in …
Continue reading Archival Hauntings: A Review of The Bone Mother by David Demchuk
The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project aims to dig up the history of weird fiction through a series of weekly posts on all 110 stories contained in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's seminal anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories.
Last week I wrote about my interview with Charles de Lint at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs. Today, I wrap up my discussion of the conference with some comments on the fantasy canon and the awards ceremony, which have of late been the subject of some controversy. My MA thesis is on fantasy …
Continue reading World Fantasy Convention 2015, Part III: Challenging the Canon
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