One of the current StoryBundles got my attention and my pocketbook's.
Jeff VanderMeer's Weird Fiction Bundle is running for 20 more days and includes these titles:
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
The Traitor by Michael Cisco
Tainaron by Leena Krohn
The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar
It Came From the North by Desirina Boskovich
Pay more than $12 and you also get
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
The Tyrant by Michael Cisco
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
The anthology It Came from the North (Finnish speculative fiction) and Tidbeck's collection Jagannath were on my oughta-take-a-look list, and some of the others look both interesting and not something I've seen from a dozen previous bargains.
Don't quote me 'cause I ain't an expert, but "Weird Fiction" is, loosely, fantastic fiction shading into other genres and determinedly uninterested in traditional fantasy tropes.
DRM-free in ePub and Mobi formats. There are three other bundles running right now, the Cosmic SF bundle mentioned in last month's thread, a Fantasy Music bundle that includes - surprise! - music as well as books, and an International Crime bundle.
Quote:
Jagannath - Karin Tidbeck
"For you, dear reader, something wonderful — and weird — is going to happen if you open this book. It's waiting for you." – NPR's All Things Considered
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals - Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
"Funny and thoughtful and totally absurd ... This book is the most fun I've had in a while." – San Francisco Book Review
The Third Bear - Jeff VanderMeer
"A fine introduction to one of our very best contemporary practitioners of the fantastic." – Publisher's Weekly
The Honey Month - Amal El-Mohtar
"A delightful debut collection whose poems and short stories are more than just an aesthetic pleasure; they are a rich sensual indulgence." – Andy Humphrey
The Tyrant - Michael Cisco
"Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." – Thomas Ligotti
The Traitor - Michael Cisco
"The Traitor stands out... due to its vivid imagery and the masterful way that Cisco uses the deranged first-person narrative to create a world that is full of shadows (light as well as darkness), hinting at a profoundness that goes deeper than the narrator's own twisted pathway to a personal hell of his own making." – OF Blog
Tainaron - Leena Krohn
"The novel contains scenes of startling beauty and strangeness that change how the reader sees the world. Krohn effortlessly melds the literal with the metaphorical, so that the narrator's exploration of the city through its inhabitants encompasses both the speculation of science fiction and the resonant symbolism of the surreal." – Locus
It Came From the North - Desirina Boskovich
"Imaginative, eclectic, well-written unexpected twists. A little dark at times but a pleasure to be outside the mainstream." – Amazon Review
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