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S. E. COONEY, FORTHCOMING FEBRUARY 2022 Mike Allen September 20th, 2021 No Comments No less an authority than Merriam-Webster describes the new-minted sf/f subgenre term “hopepunk” as stories that find “narrative motivation in the idea of optimism — embodied in acts of love, kindness, and respect for one another — as resistance.” We here at Mythic Delirium Books contend that readers who are looking for hopepunk will find it in Dark Breakers, the newest collection of short fiction from World Fantasy Award-winning author C. S. E. Cooney, which we will release into the read more... Posted in: APPEARANCES, BONE SWANS, DARK BREAKERS, SIGNAL BOOSTS AFTERMATH OF A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINATION Mike Allen July 20th, 2021 No Comments Boy, did this take an embarrassingly long time to write. I’ll be frank: I had resigned myself to the notion that, as a single drop tossed out into the world-changing tsunami of 2020, my book Aftermath of an Industrial Accident had already made all the ripples it was destined to make. In June, Anita and I took a vacation trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, celebrating our 29th anniversary, and on a day that was plagued read more... Posted in: AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, AWARDS THIS THURSDAY: A STRANGE, WEIRD AND UNCANNY READING (+ A TERRIFIC AFTERMATH REVIEW) Mike Allen July 11th, 2021 No Comments I’m delighted to share that on Thursday, July 15, at 8 p.m. EST, I’ll be taking part in the second installment of a summer reading series organized by my colleague in Weird fiction, Daniel Braum. I’m thrilled to be part of a stellar lineup of readers that includes Jeffrey Ford, Laurel Hightower and Gwendolyn Kiste! The Strange. The Weird. And the Uncanny: Summer 2021 Readings #2 will happen live on YouTube, and it will continue to live on YouTube after read more... Posted in: AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, APPEARANCES, AUDIO, REVIEWS, SIGNAL BOOSTS, UNSEAMING ALL THIS WEEK: 99¢ E-BOOK SPECIAL ON THE HISTORY OF SOUL 2065 BY BARBARA KRASNOFF Mike Allen July 5th, 2021 No Comments It’s been two years since Mythic Delirium Books brought out Barbara Krasnoff’s story collection and mosaic novel The History of Soul 2065, a haunting, stunningly beautiful, genre-blending and genre-defying work of art. These 20 tales that depict snapshots in the lives of various members of two Jewish families across multiple generations. Though all of these characters will have otherworldly encounters, some supernatural, some science fictional, most of them will never meet, and they will never know how their destinies are read more... Posted in: SIGNAL BOOSTS, THE HISTORY OF SOUL 2065 TODAY ON THE LOVECRAFT EZINE PODCAST Mike Allen June 6th, 2021 No Comments I’m thrilled to be making my first ever appearance on Mike Davis’s Lovecraft eZine Podcast today (Sunday, June 6) at 6 p.m. EST. I imagine I’ll be talking about some horror books, both those I’ve written and those of others. Catch it live on Youtube (or come back and watch it later)! Cross-posted to Descent Into Light read more... Posted in: A SINISTER QUARTET, AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, APPEARANCES, AUDIO, THE SPIDER TAPESTRIES, UNSEAMING CELEBRATING A SINISTER YEAR Mike Allen June 4th, 2021 No Comments Hello everybody! It has almost been a year since the premiere of the Mythic Delirium Books anthology A Sinister Quartet. What an astonishing and stressful year it has been — a year of tragedy and resilience. It was absolutely a challenge through that environment to call attention to the release of this odd and not-so-little book (I mean, at a time when people were shying away from dark fiction, we stuck to our course); but hands down. working on A read more... Posted in: A SINISTER QUARTET, AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, APPEARANCES, BONE SWANS, UNSEAMING COME SEE NIGHTMARES UNEARTHED THIS SATURDAY NIGHT Mike Allen March 25th, 2021 1 Comment I am proud to be a part of Nightmares Unearthed: A Contemporary Horror Reading, a literally monstrous virtual reading that’s going to happen at 8 p.m. this coming Saturday, March 27 (two days from now!) — to join, you need to register using this EventBrite link (click here). Lots more details to be found at this blog post written by our gracious host, C.S.E. Cooney — but I will do my best to convey the goodness. “Nightmares Unearthed” began with read more... Posted in: AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, APPEARANCES, AUDIO DARK, FANTASTIC, MYTHIC, DELIRIOUS E-BOOK SALE + SIGNED COPY OFFER Mike Allen March 2nd, 2021 No Comments I’m pleased to share that Mythic Delirium has found a way to further celebrate the recognition our 2020 titles received in from the latest Locus Recommended Reading List, and furthermore, that we’re able to include our other titles that have direct links to our most recent books. Starting yesterday and continuing for however long we feel like it, both the 2020 dark fantasy anthology A Sinister Quartet and the 2020 horror collection Aftermath of an Industrial Accident are on sale read more... Posted in: A SINISTER QUARTET, AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, APPEARANCES, AWARDS, BONE SWANS, SIGNAL BOOSTS, UNSEAMING SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT WINS THE 2020 MYTHOPOEIC AWARD FOR ADULT LITERATURE Mike Allen February 15th, 2021 No Comments We at Mythic Delirium Books — that is, Anita and I — want to offer our heartfelt congratulations to Theodora Goss, whose collection of fiction and poetry that we brought out way back in February 2019, Snow White Learns Witchcraft, just won the 2020 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! (See the full list of winners here.) This is the third time Dora has been nominated for the award, and clearly the third time is the charm in this case! read more... Posted in: AWARDS, IN THE FOREST OF FORGETTING, SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT, SONGS FOR OPHELIA SPECIAL DEAL ON SIGNED COPIES: A SINISTER QUARTET AND AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT Mike Allen February 6th, 2021 No Comments In celebration of both of our 2020 titles appearing on the 2020 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List and the Locus Poll, we at Mythic Delirium Books (that is, Anita and I) have put together a special deal on signed paperbacks of both books that we weren’t able to get to in those final frenzied weeks of … 2020! Just to reiterate: here’s what made the Locus list! And this is the deal — and I’m afraid we have to make read more... Posted in: A SINISTER QUARTET, AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, AWARDS, SIGNAL BOOSTS Page 1 of 2612345»1020...Last » COMING IN FEBRUARY! As featured in Publishers Weekly! 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