Ursula K. Le Guin

Elizabeth Bear

Nancy Kress

Caitlin Kiernan

Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? From first encounters to life alongside aliens--and stories of the aliens' own lives--here are many futures: violent and peaceful, star-spanning and personal.

Recent Encounters

Aliens

India Morgan Phelps est schizophrène. Elle a de qui tenir, puisque sa mère et sa grand-mère souffraient toutes les deuxde troubles mentaux et ont mis fin à leurs jours. Les médicaments l’aident à garder un semblant de contrôle et pour tenter de comprendre les événements qui ont bouleversés sa vie, elle entreprend de rédiger un récit autobiographique, qui va curieusement prendre la formed’une histoire de fantômes. C’est le meilleur moyen qu’elle a trouvé pour faire partager ce qui la hante...Car India semble obsédée par sa rencontre avec Eva Manning, une femme qui ressemble trait pour trait au tableau qui l’obnubile depuis son enfance, La fille qui se noie. Elle a déjà vu Eva par le passé, sous la formed’un fantôme d’un loup-garou... A moins qu’elle ne l’ait jamais vu.Qui sait ce que sa schizophrénie lui fait voir ? Tour à tour, journal intime, autobiographie et histoire de fantôme, La Fille qui se noie est un ouvrage unique, entre réalité, imaginaire et folie.

La fille qui se noie

Twenty-six years after murderous parasites invaded fertile women's wombs and laid the world waste, 11 linked vignettes chart a New York wracked with oracles and statistical prophets, where hysterectomies are mandated and Carnival parades for the saint of miscarriage throw "carriers of contagion" and "would-be breeders" into the sea. Amid the ruins, the protagonists grapple with the past and learn to survive what remains."Kiernan (Black Helicopters) turns her virtuosic prose toward disaster, myth, and survival in this standalone postapocalyptic novella ... finely wrought, and vital." - from Publishers Weekly Starred Review of La Belle Fleur Sauvage by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Plague of the Womb

La Belle Fleur Sauvage

Ramsey Campbell

Thomas Ligotti

Ray Garton

Brian McNaughton

Mark Samuels

Edith Miniter

Donald Wandrei

Clark Smith

C. Thompson

Jonathon Thomas

W. Pugmire

Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecraft's motifs, conceptions, and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing. Beginning with a delightful parody of Lovecraft written by Edith Miniter in 1921, this anthology features "The Red Brain," a story of incalculable cosmic horror by Donald Wandrei; "The Beast of Averoigne," in which Clark Ashton Smith plays a riff on "The Dunwich Horror"; and C. Hall Thompson's "The Will of Claude Ashur," an ingenious adaptation of "The Thing on the Doorstep." Ramsey Campbell, one of the leading weird writers of today, has always maintained his Lovecraftian roots, and in "The Pattern" he utilizes Lovecraft's theme of "conflict with time" to cataclysmic effect. The pioneering Thomas Ligotti ("The Sect of the Idiot") draws inspiration from Lovecraft's early tales, while Brian McNaughton ("Meryphillia") teases out the latent sexuality in Lovecraft's use of ghouls. Caitlín R. Kiernan's "The Peddler's Tale" is one of the few successful elaborations of Lovecraft's dreamland stories, while Jonathan Thomas uses Lovecraft's native town of Providence for a tale of alien races. This volume contains previously unpublished stories by W. H. Pugmire, Mark Samuels, and Ray Garton, all of which demonstrate their authors' skill at fusing Lovecraftian motifs with their own dark vision. All in all, The Red Brain is a rich banquet of strangeness that no Lovecraft devotee will want to be without.

Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

The Red Brain

Tamsyn Muir

Nancy Kilpatrick

Marly Youmans

Sonya Taaffe

Sarah Monette

Gemma Files

Molly Tanzer

Cat Hellisen

Joyce Oates

Lucy Brady

Kelda Crich

Karen Heuler

Lois Gresh

E. Knightsbridge

Amanda Downman

Featuring authors Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lois Gresh, Gemma Files, Nancy Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Bear, Storm Constantine and others accompanied by the lavish color artwork of Daniele Serra, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror is a representation of some of the finest cosmic horror and weird fiction from female authors in the field today.

Dreams from the Witch House (2018 Trade Paperback Edition)

Caitlin Kiernan

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