Anglophile Vignettes: Fifty Little Stories About Britain

Covid-19 has paused the travel plans of Anglophiles all over the world. We find ourselves cut off from the place we love the most - Britain - its culture, its history, and its landscape. But we can still go there in our minds. Out of this deep well of longing for Britain, the Anglophile Vignettes were born. This book is a series of vignettes about people, things, and places in Britain. Some are very short; some are quite a bit longer. Some of them were originally published on Anglotopia.net.; the rest were written specifically for this special little book, and you can't read them anywhere else. Each little scene or story is like a meditation on something lovely about Britain. Almost like prayers - the prayers that we're all having, hoping that we can all return to the country we love so much as soon as possible. It's still going to be a while. So, I want you to have this collection of memories, stories, and experiences to help take you there in your mind until you can go in person again.

Jonathan Thomas

Anglotopia, LLC

SYNOPSIS This sixth volume of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series demonstrates as never before how infinitely malleable are H. P. Lovecraft s weird conceptions. The twenty-two stories and poems in this book run the gamut of modes and genres, but each of them is fueled by elements large and small drawn from Lovecraft s inexhaustibly rich corpus of writing. Cosmicism is central to Lovecraft s imaginative vision, and it oftentimes is manifested in tales of archaeological horror. In this volume, stories by Ann K. Schwader, Lynne Jamneck, Don Webb, and Stephen Woodworth treat this motif in varying and distinctive ways. Lovecraft s work is also infused with a profound sense of place, as he himself was attached to the familiar locales of his native New England but also travelled widely in search of new vistas to stimulate his imagination. Here, stories by Tom Lynch, Aaron Bittner, W. H. Pugmire, and Darrell Schweitzer summon up the landscapes of diverse realms in America to tease out the horrors embedded in them. Alien creatures are featured in many of Lovecraft s greatest tales. In this volume, William F. Nolan, Nancy Kilpatrick, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, and Jason V Brock summon up multiform monsters inspired by Lovecraft s notions of hybridism and alien incursion. The forbidden book theme is deftly handled by Caitlín R. Kiernan, and the notion of other worlds lying just around the corner from our own is the subject of stories by Donald Tyson and Mark Howard Jones. Finally, David Hambling cleverly adapts Lovecraftian concepts to the locked-room detective story. In commemorating the incredible efflorescence of weird poetry in our time, this book presents poems by four leading contemporary poets Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Adam Bolivar, and D. L. Myers. Each of their works fuses skilful use of rhyme and metre with compact evocations of Lovecraftian themes. H. P. Lovecraft s work is likely to continue inspiring writers for many generations, and this volume presents a vivid snapshot of what can be said in this idiom by sensitive and talented authors.

Black Wings VI - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Literature & Fiction

Don Webb

Steve Rasnic Tem

William F. Nolan

Jason V Brock

S.T. Joshi

Nancy Kilpatrick

Lynne Jamneck

Ann K. Schwader

stephen-woodworth

Genre Fiction

PS Publishing

SYNOPSIS 
Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field. 
The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John Shirley, Lynda E. Rucker, and Reggie Oliver ring fascinating changes on it. Allied to the ghost is the haunted house, and stories by Gemma Files and Jason V Brock present highly ingenious variants on the idea. The resurrection of the dead is treated in strikingly different ways by Clint Smith, Jonathan Thomas, Michael Aronovitz, and W. H. Pugmire. 
Weird fiction has always exploited topographically remote areas of the world as a potent setting for horror. Here, tales by Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, and Stephen Woodworth take us to unfamiliar realms where the weird can manifest itself. From a very different perspective, Richard Gavin and Darrell Schweitzer infuse their tales with elements of fantasy that allow for the maximum play of the imagination. 
Science fiction has always been allied to the weird, and in this volume Nancy Kilpatrick and George Edwards Murray take us to a post-apocalyptic environment where the preservation of our very humanity is brought into question. Psychological horror, as represented here by the work of Steve Rasnic Tem and Michael Washburn, focuses on the dread that stems from mental aberration. 
The eighteen stories making up Apostles of the Weird demonstrate that weird fiction is a multifaceted genre whose emphasis on fear does not preclude pathos, poignancy, and a brooding rumination on our place in this fragile world.

Apostles of the Weird

Gemma Files

John Shirley

Cody Goodfellow

Reggie Oliver

Clint Smith

Darrell Schweitzer

Richard Gavin

W.H. Pugmire

Lynda E. Rucker

Michael Aronovitz

SYNOPSISH. P. Lovecraft (1890 1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These works have been triggered by the incredible amount of knowledge we have on the writer his family, his friends, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities as found in his thousands of surviving letters. This anthology takes the figure of Lovecraft and enmeshes him in a series of bizarre and supernatural adventures. Darrell Schweitzer focuses on Lovecraft s childhood, when he was plagued with dreams of night-gaunts and was left bereft by the early death of his father. John Shirley depicts Lovecraft as a gawky teenager evolving his notions of cosmicism, while Scott Wiley emphasises Lovecraft s devotion to cats. Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange. Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures. Mark Samuels focuses on Lovecraft s creation of imaginary tomes of forbidden lore, while the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft s revolutionary motifs. While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence. H. P. Lovecraft s work has captured the imaginations of millions and now he himself has become no less fascinating. In every sense of the word he was, as Vincent Starrett said of him, his own most fantastic creation.

His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories about H. P. Lovecraft

Simon Strantzas

Donald Tyson

Donald R. Burleson

David Hambling

Scott Wiley

Harry Houdini

Mark Samuels

Mission & Vision: Thomas Charles

Religion & Spirituality

Day One Publications

This second instalment of S. T. Joshi s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of The Hound, while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of The Outsider. Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft s seminal story, The Call of Cthulhu. Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of The Whisperer in Darkness. The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft s fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft s most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft s media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft s life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror. All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century s greatest writer of the supernatural.

Black Wings II [jhc]

JOHN LANGAN

Nicholas Royle

Tom Fletcher

Nick Mamatas

Melanie Tem

Jason C. Eckhardt

Brian Evenson

Rick Dakan

Caitlin, R., Kiernan

SYNOPSIS This fourth instalment of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series features seventeen stories that continue to elaborate upon the conceptions, motifs, and imagery of H. P. Lovecraft, the most influential writer of weird fiction of the past hundred years. One of Lovecraft s favourite themes was the tale of archaeological horror, where venturesome explorers unearth hideous secrets of the ancient past that cast a baleful light on the fragility of our own existence. In this volume, a major new novella by the award-winning novelist and poet Fred Chappell, Artifact, treats this theme with his customary panache and subtlety, while other writers such as Richard Gavin, Lois H. Gresh, Ann K. Schwader, and Donald Tyson broach the same theme in their own distinctive and diverse ways. The cosmicism that was at the core of Lovecraft s vision finds vivid realisation in stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cody Goodfellow, and Melanie Tem. John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey have co-written a vivid novelette fusing horror and science fiction, while Will Murray s tale of governmental espionage leads to a conclusion that bodes ill for the fate of the human race. Lovecraft was skilled at evoking the terrors inherent in the history and topography of his native New England, and several writers in this volume notably W. H. Pugmire and Jonathan Thomas do the same. Jason V Brock finds Lovecraftian terror in Prague, just as Gary Fry locates it in the British countryside. Lovecraft s patented motif of the forbidden book that reveals secrets too horrible to contemplate is the focus of Darrell Schweitzer s story of what can be found in an out-of-the-way bookstore, while stories by Simon Strantzas and Stephen Woodworth elaborate on the Lovecraftian themes of immortal gods and of dreams that reveal unwelcome truths about ourselves. The book s final contribution, by Charles Lovecraft, is nothing less than a recasting of Lovecraft s early tale The Lurking Fear in a cycle of twelve sonnets. Black Wings IV shows that H. P. Lovecraft continues to inspire some of today s leading writers of weird fiction.

Black Wings IV - More Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Lois H. Gresh

Gary Fry

History

Europe

Visions of Anglotopia

Travel

End to End: Britain From Land's End to John o'Groats

Jonathan and Jackie Thomas, founders of the world's largest Anglophile website Anglotopia.net, set off on their biggest adventure yet as they drove from Land's End to John o'Groats (aka LeJog), ticking off the top item on their 'Great British Bucket List.' End to End is a new exploration of Britain from the southernmost tip of Cornwall to the northernmost tip of Scotland. Along the way, they explore stately homes, ruins, castles, the Queen's private yacht, unique attractions, a bookshop or two, and even a motorway rest stop! This journey takes them over 900 miles through some of the most breathtaking scenery in the UK and to many special places that they've never been to before. Along the way, they encounter fascinating characters, experience unexpected challenges, and discover the true spirit of adventure as they get to know Britain in a they've never experienced. The journey also serves as a personal pilgrimage for the couple as they reflect on their lives, their business, their passions, and their love for each other. This inspiring and heartwarming tale showcases the beauty of the British countryside and the resilience of the adventurous human spirit. Join Jonathan and Jackie on their unforgettable journey and discover the magic of the UK like never before.

End to End: Britain from Land's End to John o'Groats

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