Stories

• Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole

• The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer

• The Bones, by Erica Ruppertabout

• The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks

• Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook

• Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass

• The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker

• “An Autumn Settling”, by Alistair Rey

• I Know How You’ll Die, by K.G. Anderson

• Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor

• Black Aggie, by Marina Favila

• The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche

• The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister

• The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian

• A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller

• The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter

• She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci

• Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer

• A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis

• Juliet’s Moon, by D.C. Lozar

• The Gargoyle’s Wife, by Jean Graham

• The Melting Man, by Justin Boote

• Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy

• The Proposal, by J.D. Brink

• Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman

• Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards

• There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg

• Them, by Sharon Cullars

• For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry

• Beltane, by K.A. Opperman

• Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier

• The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses

• Our Family Ghost, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

• Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst

• Iconoclasm, by Adrian Cole

• Have a Crappy Halloween, by Franklyn Searight

• Early Snow, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes

• The Dollhouse, by Glynn Owen Barrass

• Elle a Vu un Loup, by Loren Rhoads

• Bringing the Bodies Home, by Christian Riley

• Restored, by Marlane Quade Cook

• Nameless and Named, by David M. Hoenig

• Playing A Starring Role, by Paul Lubaczewski

• And the Living is Easy, by Mike Chinn

• The Prague Relic, by Paul StJohn Mackintosh

• The Circle, by Matt Sullivan

• Sanctuary, by John Linwood Grant

• The Giving of Gifts, by Matt Neil Hill

• The Santa Anna, by Jack Lothian

• The Dread Fishermen, by Kevin Henry

• Blind Vision, by Andrew Darlington

• The Thirteenth Step, by William Tea

• This Godless Apprenticeship, by Clint Smith

• Waiting, by John W. Dennehy

• Pouring Whiskey In My Soul, by Paul R. McNamee

• True Blue, by Darrell Schweitzer

• The Treadmill, by Rohit Sawant

• The Veiled Isle, by W. D. Clifton

• Gila King, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (poem)

• Necro-Meretrix, by Frederick J. Mayer (poem)

• Grinning Moon, by Frederick J. Mayer (poem)

• The Burning Man, by Russ Parkhurst (poem)

• Silent Hours, by Russ Parkhurst (poem)

• The Old White Crone, by Maxwell I. Gold (poem)

Lin Carter, enthralled by the “Dreamland” tales of Lord Dunsany and others, contributed to the growing genre with a series of his own stories, dubbed “The Simrana Tales.” Some of them were published in a variety of small-press magazines and other publications, but they were never collected into a book, and many tales have never been published at all. 

Until now.

As Carter himself commented in his afterword to Lord Dunsany’s Beyond the Fields We Know, “The most Dunsanian of my fiction is the Simrana series … the name was coined many years ago and lay in my notebooks awaiting the right kind of story to occur to me.” A complete collection of his Simrana tales could hardly be called complete without including the stories that inspired him to write them in the first place: Lord Dunsany’s masterpieces of fantasy. Here at last is the complete Simrana Cycle, accompanied by outstanding stories in the genre including Dunsany’s own “The Sword of Welleran” and others; Henry Kuttner’s 1937 Weird Tales gem “The Jest of Droom-avista,” and new stories by leading authors in the field: Gary Myers, Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole, Charles Garofalo, and Glynn Barrass, as well as six ink drawings by Roy G. Krenkel, originally done for the publication of Carter’s “The Gods of Neol Shendis.”