Lucy A. Snyder

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About Lucy A. Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of 14 books:

* Sister, Maiden, Monster

* Halloween Season

* Exposed Nerves

* Garden of Eldritch Delights

* While the Black Stars Burn

* Spellbent

* Shotgun Sorceress

* Switchblade Goddess

* Soft Apocalypses

* Orchid Carousals

* Sparks and Shadows

* Chimeric Machines

* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Ohio. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com

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Shadowed Souls Nov 1, 2016

by Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes

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Featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman, this dark and gritty “must-read anthology for UF fans”(RT Book Reviews) proves that nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil...

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s Cold Case, Molly Carpenter—Harry Dresden’s apprentice-turned-Winter Lady—must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you’re a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad...

New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s Sleepover finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything “weird.” They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie.

In New York Times bestselling Kevin J. Anderson’s Eye of Newt, Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble’s latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner...

And New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman’s infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals wih some overdue—and nightmarish—vengeance involving some quite nasty Impossible Monsters.

ALSO INCLUDES STORIES BY

Tanya Huff * Kat Richardson * Jim C. Hines * Anton Strout * Lucy A. Snyder * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Erik Scott de Bie *

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Hellbound Hearts Sep 27, 2009

by Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Mike Mignola, Kelley Armstrong, Barbie Wilde

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Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites -- in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart. Featured here is the graphic work "Wordsworth," from bestselling author Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, who unlock an explicit way to violate innocence -- one torturous puzzle at a time.... New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong logs on to a disturbing website for gamers, where the challenge is agonizing, and the solution beyond painful. When his father disappears, an Oxford student returns to his family's mansion, where a strange mechanism in the cellar holds a curious power, in a haunting illustrated work by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola.

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Do Not Go Quietly May 21, 2019

by Fran Wilde, E. Catherine Tobler, John Hornor Jacobs, A. Merc Rustad, Maurice Broaddus, Nayad Monroe, Brooke Bolander, Cassandra Khaw, Jason Sizemore, Lesley Conner

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Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying “No.”

Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is the time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
FICTION
John Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia"
A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague"
Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants"
Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer"
Brooke Bolander - "Kindle"
Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love"
Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning"
Rich Larson - "Scurry"
Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today"
Sheree Renée Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song"
Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp"
Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine"
Meg Elison - "Hey Alexa"
Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House"
Veronica Brush - "Face"
Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth"
Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue"
Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth"
E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)"
Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea"

POETRY
Annie Neugebauer - "To Write"
Jeremy Paden - "The Skeleton Archer Speaks"
Mary Soon Lee - "If the Fairy Godmother Comes"
Lucy A. Snyder - "Permian Basin Blues"
Christina Sng - "The Dolls"
Joshua Gage - "#greenlivesmatter"
Alethea Kontis - "Witch's Star"
Bianca Spriggs - "Plot Twist"

Cover art by Marcela Bolívar.

Includes 4 interior original black & white illustrations by the cover artist.

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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 5 Aug 27, 2013

by Lucy Taylor, Ramsey Campbell, Margo Lanagan, Laird Barron, Dan Chaon, Ellen Datlow

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Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, readers have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildly imaginative new generation of dark dreamers is carrying on in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft and King, crafting exquisitely disturbing literary nightmares that gaze without flinching into the abyss—and linger in the mind long after.

Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow knows the darkest corners of fiction and poetry better than most. Once again, she has braved the haunted landscape of modern horror to seek out the most chilling new works by both legendary masters of the genre and fresh young talents. Here are twisted hungers and obsessions, human and otherwise, along with an unsettling variety of spine-tingling fears and fantasies. The cutting edge of horror has never cut deeper than in this comprehensive showcase of the very best the field has to offer. Enter at your own risk.

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Weirdbook Annual #2: The Third Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK Feb 15, 2019

by Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole, Paul Dale Anderson, Doug Draa

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The Weirdbook Annual returns featuring a Cthulhu Mythos theme. Stories abound featuring our favorite squamish elder god! Full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:

•The Shining Trapezohedron, by Robert M. Price

•A Noble Endeavor, by Lucy A. Snyder

•Ancient Astronauts, by Cynthia Ward

•The Thing in the Pond, by John R. Fultz

•Enter The Cobweb Queen, by Adrian Cole

•Tricks No Treats, by Paul Dale Anderson

•Ronnie and the River, by Christian Riley

•Cellar Dweller, by Franklyn Searight

•Yellow Labeled VHS Tape, by R.C. Mulhare

•Tuama, by L.F. Falconer

•Mercy Holds No Measure, by Kenneth Bykerk

•Treacherous Memory, by Glynn Owen Barrass

•The Hutchison Boy, by Darrell Schweitzer

•Dolmen of The Moon, by Deuce Richardson

•Lovecraftian Limerick, by Andrew J. Wilson

•A Wizard’s Daughter, by Ann K. Schwader

•The Shadow of Azathoth is your Galaxy, by DB Spitzer

•Ascend , by Mark A. Mihalko

•The Solace of the Farther Moon, by Allan Rozinski

•The Stars Are Always Right, by Charles Lovecraft

•Daemonic Nathicana, by K.A. Opperman

•Asenath, by Ashley Dioses

•The Book of Eibon/Le Livre D’eibon, trans. by Frederick J. Mayer

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Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors Feb 18, 2020

by Josh Malerman, Theodora Goss, Victor LaValle, Nadia Bulkin, Lisa Morton, Laird Barron, Bracken MacLeod, Doug Murano, Michael Bailey, Alma Katsu

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*** Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology***
What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring a foreword by Alma Katsu, and illustrations throughout by HagCult.

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Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird Sep 25, 2017

by Remy Nakamura, Cody Goodfellow, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Evenson, Desirina Boskovich, Nadia Bulkin, Joseph S. Pulver, Tim Curran, Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski

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The newly hybridized Mirai seeks to bring her newfound salvation in Leng to her home world. Space marines Bea and Joe find themselves with incredible new powers to take to the front lines. Students make an amazing discovery on an alien asteroid but are forced to leave one of their own behind. Chydi must find their own path, no matter the wishes of their admiral father. A richly storied comet returns on its 1,000-year orbit, bringing both hope and doom.

Explore the fringes of the known. Fly away with us to the deeps of space for action and adventure, alien intrigue and bloody surprises. Join us out here where all things alien and weird flow freely. Dive headlong into spaceships and monsters, tentacles and insanity, determined struggle and starborne terror. Whether sprawling across civilizations or tightly focused and personal, these tales paint a psychedelic vision of strange proportions and wondrous possibility.

Where space opera meets the weird. An anthology of 29 illustrated short stories that blend the weird cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos with the star-spanning vistas of space opera by a diverse array of all-star authors...

Remy Nakamura • Lucy A. Snyder • J.E. Bates • Gord Sellar • Brian Evenson • Heather Hatch • Desirina Boskovich • DaVaun Sanders • D.W. Baldwin • J. Edward Tremlett • D.A. Xiaolin Spires • Tom Dullemond • Premee Mohamed • Wendy N. Wagner • Kara Dennison • Brandon O'Brien • Heather Terry • Wendy Nikel • Robert White • Ingrid Garcia • Richard Lee Byers • Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. • Tim Curran • Angus McIntyre • Ada Hoffmann • Bogi Takács • Wendi Dunlap • Cody Goodfellow • Nadia Bulkin

You'll meet soldiers and scientists, starship captains and intrepid explorers, each with secrets to hide and a story to tell. And then there's the aliens. So many aliens. Some friendly, some monstrous, but all of them exciting.

Engines full. Course set. We're going in.

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Ashes and Entropy Dec 11, 2018

by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Nadia Bulkin, Jon Padgett, Kristi DeMeester, Matthew M. Bartlett, Lucy A. Snyder, Luke Spooner, Robert S. Wilson

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Winner of the 2018 This is Horror Award for Best Anthology!

“The editor’s claim that the first season of True Detective was a big inspiration for this anthology is evident: Ashes and Entropy sports a finely balanced mixture of grit, crime and blood along with the irrational, occult and weird.”–Rue Morgue

Stand on the precipice and prepare to dive down through the event horizon into the bleak and mind-shattering void of both the cosmos and of humanity.

Nightscape Press is proud to present ASHES AND ENTROPY edited by Robert S. Wilson, an anthology of cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir. ASHES AND ENTROPY is beautifully illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes brand new stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Nadia Bulkin, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max Booth III, Lynne Jamneck, Greg Sisco, Lisa Mannetti, Nate Southard, Erinn L. Kemper, Matthew M. Bartlett, Autumn Christian, and more.

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Halloween Season Oct 5, 2020

by Lucy A Snyder

( 118 )

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Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn’t finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it’s an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on.
Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you’ll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty.
One of the best things about Halloween is you don’t have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two … you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun.
In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!

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Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror Apr 11, 2017

by Tim Curran, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Cody Goodfellow, Jeffrey Thomas, William Meikle, Scott T. Goudsward, Don Webb, Christine Morgan, Scott R Jones

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Featuring all new stories of cosmic and Lovecraftian horror based pre, during and post the apocalypse by authors Jeffrey Thomas, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Curran, Pete Rawlik, Sam Gafford, Christine Morgan, Cody Goodfellow and many more, Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror continues the Dark Regions Weird Fiction line with 19 original stories from some of the best authors in Lovecraftian horror and weird fiction today.

Return of the Old Ones will only have one signed edition (deluxe slipcased hardcover) and will feature a similar stamp design to the popular Cthulhu head stamping featured on the World War Cthulhu hardcovers. It will be signed by all contributors and will feature the original color cover artwork by Vincent Chong as color end sheets.

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Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 2 Jul 31, 2019

by Grimscribe Press, D. P. Watt, Robin Gow, Eden Royce, Christi Nogle, Lucy A. Snyder, Deborah Bridle, Trent Kollodge, Danielle Hark, Jon Padgett

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Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.

Contents

Clematis, White and Purple

D. P. Watt

like crickets

Robin Gow

not other’s tongues

Robin Gow

types of knife blades:

Robin Gow

The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm

Eden Royce

The Pelt

Christi Nogle

Silences

Lucy A. Snyder

Visions of the Gothic Body in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories

Deborah Bridle

Eyestalk

C. M. Crockford

Daddy’s Departure

Danielle Hark

The Sprite House

Trent Kollodge

Sirens in the Night

Paul L. Bates

Thomas Ligotti: The Abyss of Radiance

S. C. Hickman

The Milk Man

Alana I. Capria

Trans Woman Gutted

Valin Paige

What Found Nevaeh

Donyae Coles

art by Giuseppe Balestra, Tatiana Garmendia, and Danielle Hark (including cover art)

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A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods Apr 22, 2019

by Jennifer Brozek, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Premee Mohamed, Weston Ochse, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, J C. Koch, Douglas Wynne, Wendy N. Wagner

( 5 )

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NEW WARRIORS IN AN ANCIENT FIGHT…

The ongoing battle against the immortal Elder Gods enters the modern age. Magic, mayhem, and murder no longer reign in dusty books discovered in decrepit libraries. Today’s monsters can be called by more than uncanny rituals in candlelit basements. Madness lurks on the internet and lives in the locker room. It breeds in the mall and ambushes its victims outside the club.

But those who fight this vast evil have also moved into the modern age. Teenagers from every walk of life use whatever they can to defend our world. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they lose. Sometimes…they give into the temptations of eldritch power.

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