Description
2020
Locus Recommended Reading List, Best AnthologyContains "The Twice-Drowned Saint" by C.S.E. Cooney, 2020
Locus Recommended Reading List, Best First Novel
"With fiction from C.S.E Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, and Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium's excellent new anthology, A Sinister Quartet, provides further evidence that long-form genre fiction is not just alive and well but thriving."
-Locus, Ian Mond
"Mythic Delirium is one of the smaller presses which sustains our field . . . This is lovely and fascinating . . . Really fine work."
-Locus, Rich Horton
"Easily one of the best things I've read this year . . . 'The Twice Drowned Saint' alone is worth five times the cost of the collection."
-The Little Red Reviewer
Behind the walls of an invulnerable city ruled by angels, old movies provide balm for the soul and a plan to escape risks grisly retribution. A princess discovers a passage to a nightmarish world of deception and blood-sealed enchantment. A woman who has lost everything meets a man of great wealth and ominous secrets. In a town haunted by tragedy, malevolent supernatural entities converge, and the conflict that ensues unleashes chaos.
A Sinister Quartet gathers original long-form wonders and horrors composed in unusual keys, with a short novel by World Fantasy Award winner C. S. E. Cooney and a new novella from two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen joined by debut novellas from rising talents Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick. All four offer immersions into strange, beautiful and frightening milieus.
About the Author
Mike Allen is Professor in the Department of Communication at UW-Milwaukee. Mike received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, his MA from the University of Wyoming, and his BA from Lewis and Clark College. His primary research interest is in the area of social influence in which he has more than 150 published works. The International Communication Association awarded him the John E. Hunter memorial award for life time achievement in communication research using meta-analysis. He is past editor of Communication Studies and current editor of Communication Monographs.
C. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of novel Saint Death's Daughter and collection Bone Swans, Stories. Her other work includes The Twice-Drowned Saint, Dark Breakers, Desdemona and the Deep, and poetry collection How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, containing her Rhysling Award-winning poem "The Sea King's Second Bride." Her short fiction and poetry can be found in such places as Jonathan Strahan's anthology Dragons, Ellen Datlow's Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the forthcoming Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, edited by Julie C. Day Cooney is also a voice actor and game designer, who has narrated over 120 audiobooks, as well as short fiction and D&D actual plays for podcasts. Negocios Infernales, a TTRPG she co-designed with her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez, is out now from Outland Entertainment.
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