Turning of the Seasons A Dark Almanac

by Doubinsky, Seb; Breukelaar, J.S.

• ISBN13: 9781922856104
• ISBN10: 192285610X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-01
• Publisher: IFWG Publishing International

Summary

Seasons have always been connected with the passing of time and the changes of life, inspiring myths, folklore, poems, and songs. In this short collection award-winning J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky have decided to pay tribute to the old tradition of yearly almanacs, which contained short pieces of lore and traditions. Keeping with the short format, they have renewed the genre by infusing it with a modern-day setting, pushing the boundaries of the folk-horror uncanny into the borders of our cities. A succession of disturbing stories and vignettes, sometimes poetic, sometimes funny, but always gruesome, Turning of The Seasons will surely be an almanac you will never forget.

Author Biography

Seb Doubinsky is a bilingual French dystopian writer and poet. He is the author of the “City-States Cycle”, comprising, among others, The Babylonian Trilogy, The Song Of Synth, Missing Signal, The Invisible and Paperclip. Missing Signal, published by Meerkat Press, won the Bronze Foreword Reviews Award in the Best Science-Fiction Novel category in 2018. He lives in Denmark with his family and teaches literature, history and culture in the French department of Aarhus University.
J.S. Breukelaar is an Australian-American author of three novels and one collection of short stories. Her work has won or been nominated for multiple Aurealis and Ditmar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and others. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in magazines and anthologies worldwide, including The Dark, Black Static, Fantasy Magazine, Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror, and several Years’ Bests. Her recent publications include the Bridge and Collision: Stories, and she is currently at work on a new novella among other projects. She lives in Sydney with her family and you can also find her at www.thelivingsuitcase.com and twitter @jsbbreukelaar.

Table of Contents

Introduction (by Priya Sharma) SPRING The Ring Song The Bear, the Witch Prayer Fragment The Innocent Child Avian Medicine Friedlichstadt Eye For An Eye 212 The Collector SUMMER Taz The Comet Fireproof The Wedding Ring A Wild Dog Yellow A Bunch Of Roses The Mountain The House In The Window On The Beach FALL Wranglers In Love The Fairy Wood Saint Hubertus Chronicles From Hell Shitty Vampire Nine Silver Nails The Gift The Widower The Herbarium Devil’ s Luck WINTER Endless Reflections Eternity The Godless Rabbi The Crying Tree Lifeline The Kiss The Lover The Hand Of Glory