Apparitional Experience is built by twelve writers investigating on their own terms, examining nostalgia and risk, and how these elements can reconfigure our perceptions of self against place, how we’re sometimes duped into rationalizing our own existence. Here, our ghosts are not the reappearing spectral dead. Our ghosts take the shape of people and relationships once lost or forcibly forgotten, faded missions and feelings, and motivations no longer there. The writers of Apparitional Experience have written something for the fallen dreams, in a sense, for the very possibility of loss of control in our everyday lives, and the isolationist thoughts that possibility might bring.

Fiddleblack Annual #1: Apparitional Experience

Literature & Fiction

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Genre Fiction

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Fiction. The Andersons are a hardtack sort, built from gravel and loam and the echoes of Brigham Young's voice shot out from the canyons. But the sermons do not land clearly. Instead we watch as Karin vacillates between intellectual and pioneer woman, Latter-day Saint and woman veering toward outer darkness. She marries and starts a family. With her husband growing more and more distant, even perversely hostile, they tumble together, wits against arms, for a better foothold at the base of the Wasatch Range.

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Anderson, Karin

You are here in the depths. Neither the ocean nor space, not some physical body at all. You are here in external stillness. There is no light save for what passes in from the street or the porch on the house next door. You are awake and you will forever be awake. At least until morning. Because you are here in the night and there are two simple ways out. Keep still or collapse. No, do not continue to lie here and worry. That thing you're thinking of, it was never there and it will never be. Nights Like These is the second volume in Fiddleblack's Annual series. We released our first annual edition in February of 2013 and we're continuing that tradition (a little later now) with a collection of smart new work by eleven brilliant, generous authors. For each story, these authors have captured what it means to truly know the self at night. There are participants, bystanders, conversations left unsaid. There is an absence of light. There is a short panic when you see the time on the clock. There are many untested moments in time. Fiddleblack Annual#2: Nights Like These is a brief encapsulation of all the anxiety and effort required to push through a short eight hours and rise again to be a person.

Fiddleblack Annual #2: Nights Like These

Justin Thurman

Fiction. Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in Mason's absence. As Mason and Lavada each set forth to recover themselves, they remain entrenched in the rural and rugged landscape that bore them and their own haunted histories. This moving story tells of the families we're born into, the families we make for ourselves, and how tightly woven are the ties that bind. "Charles Dodd White's writing is dark, gothic and steeped in a voice that is all his own. A SHELTER OF OTHERS confronts what it means to be human."—Frank Bill "It would be easy to draw comparisons to Harry Crews, Ron Rash, or James Salter, but to do so would overlook a voice uniquely his own. Charles Dodd White whittles language down to its most beautiful form. His prose has been pared to poetry. Simple as that."—David Joy

A Shelter of Others

White, Charles Dodd

The book's thirteen essays explore Wendigo mythology from a cryptozoological point of view, where the being has been portrayed as a ferocious yeti-like monster, a half man-half stag creature, a troll or the wind itself. 'Sudden Storm' features full-color artwork by prominent illustrators, bringing many iterations of the elusive creature to the page, implicitly posing the question: How do we conceptualize both the malevolent and benevolent aspects of the Wendigo? It's a fun read for monster and horror fans, Larry Fessenden fans and people that like pop-culture things. In fact, there's probably not another cool book dedicated to the subject.

Sudden Storm: A Wendigo Reader

Victoria Nelson

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Larry Fessenden

Alison Nastasi

Carter Meland

Bernice M. Murphy

Samuel Zimmerman

Sheldon Lee Compton

Chris Hibbard

Nathan Carlson

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