Strange Stars & Alien Shadows

Strange Stars & Alien Shadows: The Dark Fiction of Ann K. Schwader.

Ann K. "Ankh" Schwader is a well-known science fiction, fantasy, and horror poet, but she is also a prose writer. Here at last is a collection of her dark fiction, including all her Cthulhu Mythos tales to date. Included are "Home Visitor" and "Twenty Mile", both of which have received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as "Mail Order Bride" and "Lost Stars", possibly her best work to date. With a preface by the author, a foreword by Robert M. Price, and cover and interior artwork by Steve Lines. Edited by Kevin L. O'Brien.

Contents:

• Preface: Reclaiming the Tradition by Ann K. Schwader
• Introduction by Kevin L. O'Brien
• Promethes: Pandora's Box by Robert M. Price
• The Tulu Jar
• Balancing
• In the Airlock
• Body of Work
• Scrawler
• Fade Away
• Twenty Mile
• Experiencing the Other
• Home Visitor
• Old Glass
• The Gazing-Globe
• Mail Order Bride
• If He Calls
• The Matthias Critical Method
• Tattered Souls
• Meeting Mr. Marmalade
• Objects from the Gilman-Waite Collection
• The Prince of Perfect
• Lost Stars
• Afterword: Epimethes by Kevin L. O'Brien
• Bibliography