Sunday Miscellany: Books, Crutches, Mantels

(The FTC can stick this where the sun don't shine. This caption would've been more effective a couple days ago.)Interiors from the Centipede Press edition. You want a full blog post on this book, no?A new book by one of our Clarion students (he sold it before Clarion) and, er, the infamous antho arrived.Deluxe Lenore...Glad to see the horror half of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror still alive. Not so happy to see Ellen Datlow's sloppy reading of New Weird in her summary of the year, citing writers included who've been around forever like Mike Moorcock and Clive Barker and using them to discount the idea of New Weird. Um, yeah--that's because those writers are in the precursors section. We don't define them as New Weird. But, nice try...also, man, Night Shade, your margins suck. Your interior layouts are just functional. Compare The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror to this volume and you'll see the diffference. I'm sure it saves money, but it also makes books like this one look ordinary inside.Two very cool books.Great new CDAll the books I haven't gotten to yet. Sigh.Stuff on our mantel makes me think...we might have too much stuff...The crutches are still on our neighbor's roof.