Book View Café is a small publishing cooperative founded in 2008 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, including the late Ursula K. LeGuin. BVC’s focus is mainly genre fiction—fantasy, mystery, romance, science fiction—though we’ve also brought out other works, including children’s books and non-fiction. We’ve published several anthologies of our authors’ short pieces in science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, romance, and more…but we had never ventured into horror. It was time we did, and here is the result.
Not that Murmurs in the Dark is particularly horror-ible. Shannon and I asked our members to contribute ghost stories of any persuasion, and what came in covers just about every flavor of that sub-genre. There are spooky stories, indeed…but there are also humorous stories, melancholy stories, stories told from the ghost’s point of view, historical stories (yes, my contribution would be in that category--how did you guess?)—in short, a marvelous spectrum of tales:
“The Summer House: a Fable” by Chaz Brenchley
“With Stars in her Eyes” by Alma Alexander
“Love in the Company of Ghosts” by Steven Popkes
“House is Where the Heart Is” by Marissa Doyle
“La Dame Blanche” by Brenda W. Clough
“Given to the Sunrise” by Dave Smeds
“Lideric” by Jennifer Stevenson
“Violence Begets…” by Paul Piper“The Nature of Things” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
“Golden Spider Beetles” by Shannon Page
“Borrowed Places” by K.E. Kimbriel
“The Waking of Angantyr” by Marie Brennan
“It All Ends With a Game of Croquet” by Jill Zeller
Murmurs in the Dark is available directly from Book View Cafe in both EPUB and MOBI formats, as well as from Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Apple Books) as well as in print from Amazon. I hope you'll give it a try in this spooky season.
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