Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas

Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas

With Burnt Black Suns, Strantzas continues a trajectory into deeper darkness . . . and in some respects the odyssey has brought him closer to the primal core of the tradition and its rawest, purest essentials.-From Laird Barron's foreword

The stories of Simon Strantzas exemplify a style of horror that might be compared to the novellas of T. E. D. Klein.-Thomas Ligotti

Burnt Black Suns demonstrates Strantzas's remarkable narrative skills, his unerring, feverish sense of pace, and his absolute willingness to hurl himself into the darkest ranges of his excellent imagination.-Peter Straub

In Burnt Black Suns Strantzas casts far into time and space to find the alien, and what comes back wriggling inside his net is ghastly.-Adam Nevill

In this fourth collection of stories, Simon Strantzas establishes himself as one of the most dynamic figures in contemporary weird fiction. The nine stories in this volume exhibit Strantzas's wide range in theme and subject matter, from the Lovecraftian Thistle's Find to the Robert W. Chambers homage Beyond the Banks of the River Seine. But Strantzas's imagination, while drawing upon the best weird fiction of the past, ventures into new territory in such works as On Ice, a grim novella of arctic horror; One Last Bloom, a grisly account of a scientific experiment gone hideously awry; and the title story, an emotionally wrenching account of terror and loss in the baked Mexican desert. With this volume, Strantzas lays claim to be discussed in the company of Caitl n R. Kiernan and Laird Barron as one of the premier weird fictionists of our time.

Strantzas, Simon: - Simon Strantzas is the author of Burnt Black Suns (Hippocampus Press, 2014), Nightingale Songs (Dark Regions Press, 2011), Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, 2009), and Beneath the Surface (Humdrumming, 2008), as well as the editor of Aickman's Heirs (Undertow Publications, 2015), a finalist for both the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards, and the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He also edited Shadows Edge (Gray Friar Press, 2013), and was the guest editor of The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3 (Undertow Publications, 2016). In 2016, he co-founded the non-fiction journal, Thinking Horror, which is dedicated to exploring the literary field of horror and its various philosophies. His writing has been reprinted in a number of annual best-of anthologies, and published in venues such as Nightmare, Cemetery Dance, and Postscripts. His short story, Pinholes in Black Muslin, was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award, and his collection, Burnt Black Suns, a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. He lives with his wife in Toronto, Canada.

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ISBN 13	9781614980834
ISBN 10	1614980837
Title	Burnt Black Suns
Author	Simon Strantzas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hippocampus Press
Year published	2014-05-01
Number of pages	310
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