Let’s make it three separate Looming Low posts today, then. Here’s the table of contents, in alphabetical order by author name, courtesy of Dim Shores Editor/Publisher Sam Cowan and Editor Justin Steele.
Nadia Bulkin — “Live Through This”
Michael Cisco — “Rock n’ Roll Death Squad”
Kristi DeMeester — “The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic”
Brian Evenson — “The Second Door”
Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth”
Gemma Files — “Distant Dark Places”
Richard Gavin — “Banishments”
Craig Laurance Gidney — “Mirror Bias”
Michael Griffin — “The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun”
Lisa Hannett — “Outside, a Drifter”
Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin House”
Anya Martin — “Boisea trivittata”
Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths”
S.P. Miskowski — “Alligator Point”
Sunny Moraine — “We Grope Together, and Avoid Speech”
Scott Nicolay — “When the Blue Sky Breaks”
Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin”
Christopher Slatsky — “SPARAGMOS”
Lucy Snyder — “That Which Does Not Kill You”
Simon Strantzas — “Doused by Night”
Jeffrey Thomas — “Stranger in the House”
Damien Angelica Walters — “This Unquiet Space”
Brooke Warra — “Heirloom”
Kaaron Warren — “We Are All Bone Inside”
Michael Wehunt — “In Canada”
A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts”
I promise, this is the post for today about this book. I mean, unless they reveal the cover, of course!
Oh My Freaking God! That is a TOC to die for!
Yeah, I think most of us in the book can’t believe we’re among such great company!
Also… this world has needed a Michael Cisco story called “Rock n Roll Death Squad” and now we’ve got it!
“Rock n Roll Death Squad” is one of the shorter stories in the book, but yeah. It was necessary. Like so much of Cisco’s work, I read it once and said “Wow, that was cool.” Then I read it a second time and said “Holy shit!”
I mean, “Rock n Roll Death Squad” by Michael Cisco. That would sell the book all by itself, even if it’s short.