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On the ghost story
We are tired of violence; we suspect mystery. Surely, we might say to a writer set upon the supernatural, there are facts enough in the world to go round. . . . Moreover, we are impervious to fear....
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Borgesian suspiration
“If you look at theology or philosophy as fantastic literature, you’ll see that they are much more ambitious than poetry.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Pessimistic Influences
…I managed to find a certain audience in readers who still take seriously, as I do, writers like Poe and Lovecraft as well as a great many other writers whose works are related to the supernatural...
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VanderMeer on “The New Weird…?”
“New Weird is a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy, largely by choosing realistic, complex real-world models as the...
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must...
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Genius loci: Lovecraft on locale
I (PSTD’s editor-in-dexter SM) am spending a few days in Cape Cod and touring around New England before returning home to Ottawa, at which time look for updates on PSTD’s role in the upcoming CanCon...
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Waging War over the Weird:
I thought I’d re-post here some of the links that our sometime editorial-assistant Dominik Parisien has recently drawn my attention to. This may well be of interest to the PSTD community. The following...
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Caitlyn Kiernan is (not) a horror writer
Reading through some interviews with Caitlyn R. Kiernan online (I think I’m going to use her novel The Drowning Girl for my section of The Fiction of Horror in the winter), I was struck by her...
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Recognition is sweet
Our cup runneth over: Postscripts to Darkness has been honoured four times over by ChiZine Publications‘ Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. First, Christopher Willard’s “What a...
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Remodelling
Luke Spooner’s illustration for “Pushers” will appear in Volume 4. Well, a bittersweet day. Our submission window for Volume 5 closed last night, and as we rustle through the 220+ stories we received...
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Volume 4 contributors
Illustration by Teresa Tunaley It masked the should-have-been scents of everyday life. In that neighbourhood, there was no nutty aroma of rice cooking, no thorny musk of incense drifting from the...
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A midsummer night’s scream at Black Squirrel Books
Saturday, August 3, 2013 Illustration by Dominic Bercier Join us for some unsettling literary fun, odd prizes, and refreshments, and support both Ottawa’s finest purveyor of uncanny fiction and...
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Review: The Conjuring
A new review by Murray Leeder From time to time, we’ll post film and book reviews by and for aficionados of horror and the weird. Our friend Murray Leeder’s review of The Conjuring, now playing, is...
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Review: Shadows & Tall Trees 5
A new review by Sean Moreland Do you enjoy fiction that creates an atmosphere of terror and wonder through subtle, suggestive, and insidious means? Do you believe that horror and dark fantastic fiction...
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An interview with Gemma Files
Gemma Files won an International Horror Guild Award for “The Emperor’s Old Bones.” The following interview with Gemma Files, award-winning author of the Hexslinger Trilogy, first appeared in PstD...
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More love from the tastemakers
(Cover design subject to change.) For such an early incarnation of our press, Postscripts to Darkness Volume 2 sure is The Little Issue that Could. We already boasted about how Chris Willard’s “What a...
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PstD 3 – The Speculating Canada review
The very fine and very kind Derek Newman-Stille of Speculating Canada recently reviewed Postscripts to Darkness Volume 3. Here’s some of what he had to say: This will be the third Postscripts to...
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