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Night Light: Midnight Street Anthology 3
This is the third Midnight Street anthology to include innovative writing from some of the best writers around. The stories and poems here delve into the dark recesses of the mind, investigate the horrors there and promise unforgettable characters and shocking revelations. From supernatural manifestations to psychological trauma and dark fantasies, the contents of this book are not for the faint-hearted and reward the seeker of the horrific and unexplained, that crawl between the cracks of the reality we know and the depthless void beyond.
In the tradition of Midnight Street magazine and Roadworks before it, this anthology and its predecessors light the way into worlds of darkness, where ghosts haunt highways and everything you thought you knew is subverted and your perceptions are altered beyond recognition.
Let the Night Light guide you along the Midnight Street...
"These stories scare, confuse, confound. We walk along the street at midnight when all else is silent and dreaming. Dripping in moonlight after showers. That street holds the coolness of rain, the bitter cold of frost, the quiet of graves. That street awaits us all. When we pass from this heated, maddening world we pass along the midnight street and sink beneath its stones into whatever lies beyond, or into nothing at all."
The full line-up:
Stephen Laws
Ralph Robert Moore
Tony Richards
Rhys Hughes
Simon Clark
Andrew Hook
Susan York
Maria V A Johnson
Robert D Richards
Alexander Zelenyj
Gary Couzens
Ian Steadman
Michael Washburn
Terry Grimwood
Allen Ashley
Yvonne Chamberlain
David Turnbull
Andrew Darlington
Stephen Faulkner
Mat Joiner
In the tradition of Midnight Street magazine and Roadworks before it, this anthology and its predecessors light the way into worlds of darkness, where ghosts haunt highways and everything you thought you knew is subverted and your perceptions are altered beyond recognition.
Let the Night Light guide you along the Midnight Street...
"These stories scare, confuse, confound. We walk along the street at midnight when all else is silent and dreaming. Dripping in moonlight after showers. That street holds the coolness of rain, the bitter cold of frost, the quiet of graves. That street awaits us all. When we pass from this heated, maddening world we pass along the midnight street and sink beneath its stones into whatever lies beyond, or into nothing at all."
The full line-up:
Stephen Laws
Ralph Robert Moore
Tony Richards
Rhys Hughes
Simon Clark
Andrew Hook
Susan York
Maria V A Johnson
Robert D Richards
Alexander Zelenyj
Gary Couzens
Ian Steadman
Michael Washburn
Terry Grimwood
Allen Ashley
Yvonne Chamberlain
David Turnbull
Andrew Darlington
Stephen Faulkner
Mat Joiner
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 3, 2018
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December 30, 2019
Disclaimer: my short story, "Shipwrecked In The Heart Of The City", appears in this anthology.
Anthologies are inevitably a mixed bag with different pieces appealing to different readers, so I won't dwell on the stories that didn't work for me and will focus instead on those that did.
"The Ostracons of Inclusion" by Rhys Hughes - really a conglomerate of flash pieces which made me smile and sigh in equal measure.
"The Little Lighter Girl" by Susan York - an excellent re-telling of the Little Match Girl story and quite possibly the best story here (remarkably this is her first published work).
"Now We Are Grown-Ups" by Gary Couzens - a great past-catching-up kind of love story
"Feather and Twine" by Ian Steadman - taxidermy taken to a logical conclusion
"Other Voices" by Mat Joiner - a fantastical beast story underwritten with a distinctive musical score
In conclusion, the book is worth your time for the above alone.
Anthologies are inevitably a mixed bag with different pieces appealing to different readers, so I won't dwell on the stories that didn't work for me and will focus instead on those that did.
"The Ostracons of Inclusion" by Rhys Hughes - really a conglomerate of flash pieces which made me smile and sigh in equal measure.
"The Little Lighter Girl" by Susan York - an excellent re-telling of the Little Match Girl story and quite possibly the best story here (remarkably this is her first published work).
"Now We Are Grown-Ups" by Gary Couzens - a great past-catching-up kind of love story
"Feather and Twine" by Ian Steadman - taxidermy taken to a logical conclusion
"Other Voices" by Mat Joiner - a fantastical beast story underwritten with a distinctive musical score
In conclusion, the book is worth your time for the above alone.
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