Review of George R. Galuschak and Chris Cornell, eds., Abandoned Places, (Shohola Press, 2018) — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
This anthology is the inaugural publication of newly launched “Purveyors of Fine Genre Fiction”, Shohola Press, and what a fine way to launch it is.
This is a collection of stories about places which are “forgotten but not gone,” of “the lonely, the rejected, and the uninhabited” (to quote the back of the book). Some of the stories are classics, written by greats such as Poe and Bradbury. But many more of them are new tales, by a variety of contemporary writers both familiar and new. In the editor’s introduction they say that “we especially wanted to introduce audiences to strong voices who haven’t yet received the widespread distribution they deserve”. Since one of the reasons I was motivated to start SFFReviews was so that I could broaden my reading horizons and learn about new authors (whether actually new or merely new to me), I was incredibly excited to receive a review copy of this beautiful book.
Below is the table of contents, and the review for each story will be linked from here as it is published:
- “Cardinal Skin” by Bo Balder
- “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
- “Glitch” by Lauren C. Teffeau
- “Making Friends” by Steve Kopka
- “A Strange Heart, Set in Feldspar” by Maria Haskins
- “Deleted Scenes” by Chris Cornell
- “Two Tails” by Ransom Noble
- “The Astrologer of the Fifth Floor” by Karl Dandenell
- “Mark Twain’s Daughter” by Cath Schaff-Stump
- “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allen Poe
- “Episode 14” by Shannon Ryan
- “The Last Light” by Miranda Suri
- “Nothing Save His Anger” by Chris Bauer
- “The Treasure of Abbot Thomas” by M. R. James
- “The Stories We Tell to Sleep At Night” by Anna Yeatts
- “A Jangle of Bells and Voices” by Chia Lynn Evers
- “The Lost” by Doug Engstrom
- “The Money Book” by Laura Kristin Herndon
- “Fishing Village of the Damned” by George R. Galuschak
- “The Inheritance” by BethAnn Ferrero
- “The Parthian Shot” by Dashiell Hammett
In his introduction, Cornell says that “If you discover at least one new writer who speaks to you in these pages, we have accomplished our goal, dear reader.” I discovered not one, but many. The collection is well balanced and every individual piece is stellar. Even the ones not entirely to my taste left me glad to have read them.
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