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Liminal Spaces: An Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction by [Kevin Lucia, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kelli Owen, Michael Wehunt, Todd Keisling, Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Robert Ford, Joshua Palmatier, Chad Lutzke]

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Liminal Spaces is a quiet horror anthology from Cemetery Gates Media featuring stories from well-known dark fiction writers such as: Joanna Koch, Jessica McHugh, Mark Allan Gunnells, Anthony J. Rapino, Gwendolyn Kiste, Michael Wehunt, Bob Ford, Kelli Owen, Richard Thomas, Todd Keisling, Chad Lutzke, Kristi DeMeester, Joshua Palmatier, and Norman Prentiss.

“The word ‘liminal’ comes from the Latin root limen. It means ‘threshold.’ A liminal space is a ‘crossing over’ space–a space where you have left something behind, yet you are not fully in something else. It’s a transition space.

“This is my favorite kind of horror and speculative fiction. Fiction which takes place in that ‘crossing over’ space. Stories about characters who have–wittingly or unwittingly–crossed a threshold. Those who have left something behind, yet are not quite somewhere or something else. They are in-between, and are neither one thing, nor another. Classic anthologies like Shadows, edited by Charles L. Grant epitomize these kinds of stories, as did Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, the work of Charles Beaumont and T. M Wright, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, and the ‘strange stories’ of Robert Aickman.”

-Kevin Lucia, Editor

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September 23, 2021
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09H3RRMHH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cemetery Gates Media; 1st edition (September 23, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1132 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 237 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #55,181 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #34 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #78 in Horror Anthologies (Books)
- #185 in Fiction Anthologies

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Gwendolyn Kiste
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Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, from Trepidatio Publishing; And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, from JournalStone; and the dark fantasy novella, Pretty Marys All in a Row, from Broken Eye Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shimmer, Black Static, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, LampLight, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye, among others. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com
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Kelli Owen
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Kelli Owen is an American author, editor, reviewer, podcaster, and indie film producer, who has spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA regarding both her writing and the field in general. While her nonfiction has appeared in various places—including the Bram Stoker Award-winner It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life—she is primarily known for her fiction.
As a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers, she has published over a dozen books, including THE HEADLESS BOY, TEETH, and WILTED LILY (a YA series). Her short fiction has appeared alongside Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, F. Paul Wilson, and Josh Malerman, among others, and was in both Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies Arterial Bloom (2020) and Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (2018).
A logophile from a young age, Kelli spent a decade as a reviewer and editor, while running a large genre website, before returning to her roots behind the keyboard. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in the dark woods of Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit her website at kelliowen.com
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Nat Rosen

Great anthology!

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2021

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This is a must-read for any short horror fan. You get a bunch of great stories by some of the best writers in the field today, with some real standouts and not a single dud. Kudos to the authors and the editor!

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Alex Pearson

Powerful TOC!

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2021

LIMINAL SPACES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARK SPECULATIVE FICTION is filled with such an impressive lineup of authors that you can't NOT get this one. Not only am I impressed with the caliber of authors listed in the TOC, but I am even more blown away at how my extremely high expectations (which probably isn't fair) were met story after story after story. It's extremely rare for me to find an anthology that totally blows me away cover to cover, but this one does it in spades.

According to the summary, ‘liminal’ means ‘threshold' and so a liminal space is a ‘crossing over’ space (or a space where you've left something behind, yet you aren't totally in something else) It’s a transition space - an in-between space. Some of these stories I was able to distinctly make that connection whereas others I had to think about some (and there's no right or wrong way to go about that). All the authors brought forth their own interpretations and all the stories are just so good. Like... SO GOOD!

I alluded earlier that not all anthologies are a solid knockout from beginning to end, but this one is for me. Every story had me totally invested. Some stories were more quiet than others while some were quirky, fast-paced, and right in your face. I did love every single story here and if rated individually, they all get a 5 star from me. But below are my personal favorites:

"Written in Water" - Robert Ford
"Phoenix" - Mark Allan Gunnells
"Sharp Echoes" - Kelli Owen
"Womb With a View" - Chad Lutzke
"Back to One" - Jessica McHugh

This anthology is one to be read with as few distractions as possible. Turn off the TV. Put your phone somewhere else. And just cozy up with your beverage of choice, a blanket, and maybe your furbaby... and really let these stories be absorbed. An anthology this good with all these authors in one place should almost be illegal. Lucky for us it isn't.

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Paul Preston

Tales from the darkside

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2021

“My life has become a sum of all the ways a person can be powerless.” -Kristi DeMeester from her story The Animal of Our Bodies
Sometimes it feels like we are there, in between, in a liminal space. A transitional space where we are neither one thing or another.
Disturbing and dark, these are stories of places you don’t want to find yourself. Reminiscent of the old Tales From the Darkside where regular people slip off the path of normality.
Wander into the drive-in, the parking garage, the delivery room, the bar, or the cat cafe- however, you won’t walk out the same, assuming you walk out at all.
Great writing with a wide variety of settings and styles that come together to create a nice collection of suffering.

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Emily

Spooky

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2021

Chilling stories about what happens when life takes a turn into a unexpected place. Where anything can happen . Ordinary people and places can become something else altogether. Come visit the dark places these talented authors created. I received a complementary copy and left a voluntary review.

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