The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities

Award-winning poet Kyla Lee Ward invites you to whistle past the graveyard and get on your dancing shoes! Inspired by the fourteenth century “Danse Macabre” (the Dance of Death), The Macabre Modern transcends time and updates for contemporary readers the allegorical, medieval concept of the universality of death. Defy death with the doctor. Mourn with the soldier. Indulge in the rich, weird traditions of Ancient Egypt and the Victorians, as you trip over the unspeakable at your own front door. Chuckle at the grotesque and the fallible but remember—the last laugh will be on you! With a sharp wit, compelling satire, and fervent, feverish imagination, Ward generates fiendishly compelling vignettes of the human drama, and offers a profound reflection on life. “Have your absinthe glass and your favourite memento mori at hand as you savour this, Ward’s breathtaking new volume of vers fantastique.” Leigh Blackmore, editor Terror Australis. “What a great collection, fantastically illustrated by the author.” Marge Simon, Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) Grand Master. “Kyla Ward’s poetry is accessible, immediate, gripping. And she is bold enough to use traditional rhyme.” Peter Cannon, Senior Reviews Editor Publishers Weekly (New York). “Kyla Lee Ward puts satisfying meat on the Gothic’s bones. A must for aficionados of literary dark verse.” Ann K. Schwader, SFPA Grand Master, Rhysling winner, and HWA Bram Stoker finalist. “With each new work she produces, Kyla Lee Ward makes clear why she should be regarded as one of the preeminent exemplars of contemporary weird poetry.” S. T. Joshi, multiple award-winning literary critic, author I Am Providence, and editor Supernatural Literature of the World.

Arts & Photography

JOSHI, S.T.

Ward, Kyla Lee

POLACK

History & Criticism

P'rea Press

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Premier Press

<p>About the Author\nGillian Polack is a writer, editor, historian and critic based at the Australian National University. Her main research interests are cultural development and transmission in both the Middle Ages and the contemporary period. She has published several novels and seventeen short stories and has edited two anthologies. One of her stories won a Victorian Ministry of the Arts award and three more have been listed as recommended reading in the international lists of world’s best fantasy and science fiction short stories. Her non-fiction includes work on historiography, the Middle Ages, Arthurian studies and literature.\nShortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review<br />
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s relationship with history and fiction – often using writers’ own words – as well as the role history plays in fiction.<br />
Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in their fiction and how they incorporate historical research. The book also addresses the related topic of world building using history, discussing the connections between the science fiction writers’ notion of world building and the scholarly understanding of story space and explaining the mechanics of constructing the world of the novel. This book places the writing of fiction into a wider framework of history and writing and encourages dialogue between writers and historians.</p>

History and Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Peter Lang

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Comics & Graphic Novels

Bouilhac Claire

Manga

DUPUIS

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