Not So Few Monstrosities

Well, since Laird Barron mentioned it, the wrapper of secrecy is officially off Ellen Datlow’s forthcoming anthology, Lovecraft Unbound (due in 2010 from M Press). (2010 is the most fun date to type since 2001.) I’ve been waiting to say something about it, since I wrote a story specifically for this collection. The title is “Leng.” If you believe it to have been inspired by my recent travels, you’d be correct.

Issue #4 of Rudy Rucker’s Flurb is now live. With the kind permission of John Pelan, Rudy is running my story “The Vicar of R’lyeh,” which was written for John’s anthology The Cthulhuian Singularity. Every now and then, writing a Cth-Mythos story is a way of remembering my roots; it must be a little like playing covers or doing remixes of songs you love, if you’re a musician. I’ve got at least one more I’m mind-tinkering with, concerning Egyptian archaeology, Egyptian terrorism and the Beloved of Nyarlat.

There’s great stuff in this issue of Flurb, including work by John Kessel, Kim Stanley Robinson and Kathleen Ann Goonan. Also, Gustav Flurbert, which was the first attempt to do a multi-part collaboration using Googledocs. This splattery composition, “Irene Leaves the Werehouse,” was rather constrained, but I hope to orchestrate more ambitious works, with a lot more simultaneous collaborators, in the future. Maybe on this very site.