The Nine Muses

by Forrest Aguirre (Editor), Deborah Layne (Editor), Elizabeth Hand (Contributor)

Edited by Forrest Aguirre and Deborah Layne, this anthology includes new stories from some of today's best women writers along with Elizabeth Hand's provocative essay, “The Beckoning Fair Ones: Some Thoughts About Muses.”

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2005

About the author

Forrest's short fiction has appeared in over fifty venues, including Asimov's, Gargoyle, Apex, and Vasterien. He is a World Fantasy Award winner for his editorial work, with Jeff VanderMeer, on the Leviathan 3 anthology. His novel, Heraclix & Pomp was published October, 2014 by the Underland Press imprint of Resurrection House press. His shorter work has been collected in Fugue XXIX (Raw Dog Screaming Press), and is also available at the Kindle store or on Smashwords at:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...

Reviews

[Ursula Pflug · Rating 4 out of 5]

My short story, "The Eyes of Horus," is in this wonderful anthology edited by Forrest Aguirre. The premise is that each of the muses is invoked by an author, all women fantasists.

I'd discuss the book in more detail, except I seem to have given away my two contributor's copies as birthday presents.

The ever smart, interesting and cool Mathew Cheney said really nice things about a few of the stories, including "Horus" in his Mumpsimus blog.

http://mumpsimus.blogspot.ca/2005/12/...