Postscripts 22/23: The Company He Keeps

Postscripts 22/23: The Company He Keeps

Edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers

(PS Publishing, September 2010)

“The Company He Keeps”  by Lucius Shepard
“The Hollow Framework For The Cotton Man” by Catherine J. Gardner
“The Fishes Speak” by Michaela Roessner
“Only One Ghost” by John Grant
“The Human Element” by Eric Brown
“Adam in Amber” by Gary Fry
“Bully” by Jack Ketchum
“Ne Cadant In Obscurum” by David Hoing
“Moving Day” by Robert Edric
“Never Always Comes” by Joel Lane
“The Man Who Scared Lovecraft” by Don Webb
“The Men at the Mound” by Jonathan Thomas
“Harvesting The Moon”  by Ursula Pflug
“One Hundred Sentences About The City Of The Future: A Jeremiad” by Alex Irvine
“Marco The Magnificent”  by P. D. Cacek
“Dreamspace” by Quentin S. Crisp
“Alice Bleeding” by Rio Youers
“Sinners, Saints, Dragons, And Haints,
“In The City Beneath Still Waters” by N. K. Jemisin
“Osmotic Pressure” by Jack Deighton
“Signs Along The Road” by Richard Parks
“The Desiccated Man” by Chris Beckett
“The Figure In Motion” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Are You Sannata3159?” by Vandana Singh
“The Time Traveller’s Breakdown” by Gregory Norminton
“Pillar Of Salt” by Robert Swartwood
“The Forever Forest” by Rhys Hughes
“The Farmer’s Wife” by James Cooper
“Pages From An Invisible Book” by Darrell Schweitzer
“Of Hearts And Monkeys” by Nick Wood
“Drive-In” by Peter Hardy
“The Rescue” by Holly Phillips

(This is a split review. The first 15 stories are reviewed by Maria Lin, while the remaining 17 stories are reviewed by Robert Leishman.)

 

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