Lovecraft Unbound
Great news. Ellen Datlow just announced that M Press will be putting out her Lovecraft Unbound collection in October of 2009 instead of 2010 as initially planned. These were to be stories under the influence of Lovecraft, but without overt references–i.e., no tentacles.
Here is the table of contents:
“Houses Under the Sea,” Caitlin R. Kiernan (reprint)
“The Din of Celestial Birds,” Brian Evenson (reprint)
“In the Black Mill,” Michael Chabon (reprint)
“Commencement,” Joyce Carol Oates
“One Day, Soon,” Lavie Tidhar
“Catch Hell,” Laird Barron
“Machines of Concrete Light and Dark,” Michael Cisco
“Leng,” Marc Laidlaw
“Sight Unseen,” Joel Lane
“Vernon, Driving,” Simon Kurt Unsworth
“Marya Nox,” Gemma Files
“That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable,” Nick Mamatas
“Sincerely, Petrified,” Anna Tambour
“The Tenderness of Jackals,” Amanda Downum
“The Office of Doom,” Richard Bowes
“Mongoose,” Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
“Cold Water Survival,” Holly Phillips
“The Recruiter,” Michael Shea
“The Crevasse,” Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
“Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love,” William Browning Spencer