A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons

The stories were definitely sympathetic with one another, but in a more varied and expansive way than most stories in themed anthologies are. What followed was a constellation of well-written stories that went their own distinct direction but still felt like part of a larger, ongoing conversation. From the first story, Stephen Graham Jones’ stunning “Father, Son, and Holy Rabbit,” I was hooked. Indeed, many of the stories are shaded into horror and the fantastic. The Weird was part of it, and darkness of various kinds, sometimes crime-related and sometimes not. Some of these dark places were quite different from what we usually think of when we think of noir. For Richard, it wasn’t simply a matter of contemporary writers imitating the conventions of noir, but of writers using noir and hard-boiled fiction as a springboard to get to their own unique, dark places. What intrigued me about that anthology was how expansive his definition of neo-noir was. I honestly think this is some of my best work to date.įoreword for Spontaneous Human Combustionīefore I knew Richard Thomas as a writer, I knew him as the editor of a neo-noir anthology called The New Black. If this sounds like your cup of tea, please pick up a copy, out tomorrow (2/22/22) with Turner Publishing. So here is the entire foreword, for your enjoyment. Brian’s writing has been a huge influence on my work, as much as Stephen Graham Jones, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Gaitskill, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, and Will Christopher Baer. To say that it was a dream come true to have Brian Evenson write the foreword to this collection, well, that is an understatement. Spontaneous Human Combustion Foreword, by Brian Evenson

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A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons