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Преподавательница Луиз Кернс растит сына-аутиста и подрабатывает кинокритиком, пытаясь связать концы с концами. Однажды на закрытом показе она находит странную пленку с обрывком немого фильма и связывает ее с личностью миссис Айрис Данлопп Уиткомб, светской дивы и собирательницы фольклора, которая таинственным образом исчезла из закрытого купе поезда в 1918 году. Надеясь упрочить свою академическую карьеру, Луиз решает доказать, что Уиткомб была первой женщиной в Канаде, ставшей кинорежиссером. Но чем глубже она погружается в исследование, тем больше понимает, что с историей экспериментального фильма тесно переплетена странная легенда о Госпоже Полудня, демоне или призраке, который всегда получает свое. И вскоре Луиз осознает, что некоторые сказки ужасающе реальны, а от зла не скрыться даже на ярком солнце, и теперь ей стоит бояться не только за себя, но и за тех, кто ей близок.

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Преподавательница Луиз Кернс растит сына-аутиста и подрабатывает кинокритиком, пытаясь связать концы с концами. Однажды на закрытом показе она находит странную пленку с обрывком немого фильма и связывает ее с личностью миссис Айрис Данлопп Уиткомб, светской дивы и собирательницы фольклора, которая таинственным образом исчезла из закрытого купе поезда в 1918 году. Надеясь упрочить свою академическую карьеру, Луиз решает доказать, что Уиткомб была первой женщиной в Канаде, ставшей кинорежиссером. Но чем глубже она погружается в исследование, тем больше понимает, что с историей экспериментального фильма тесно переплетена странная легенда о Госпоже Полудня, демоне или призраке, который всегда получает свое. И вскоре Луиз осознает, что некоторые сказки ужасающе реальны, а от зла не скрыться даже на ярком солнце, и теперь ей стоит бояться не только за себя, но и за тех, кто ей близок.
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Преподавательница Луиз Кернс растит сына-аутиста и подрабатывает кинокритиком, пытаясь связать концы с концами. Однажды на закрытом показе она находит странную пленку с обрывком немого фильма и связывает ее с личностью миссис Айрис Данлопп Уиткомб, светской дивы и собирательницы фольклора, которая таинственным образом исчезла из закрытого купе поезда в 1918 году. Надеясь упрочить свою академическую карьеру, Луиз решает доказать, что Уиткомб была первой женщиной в Канаде, ставшей кинорежиссером. Но чем глубже она погружается в исследование, тем больше понимает, что с историей экспериментального фильма тесно переплетена странная легенда о…

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns-jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis-accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, eventually putting her son, her husband and herself in danger. Experimental Film mixes painful character detail with a creeping aura of dread to produce a fictionalized "memoir" designed to play on its readers' narrative expectations and pack an existentialist punch.

Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these-in an anxiety-ridden, sleepless world such as ours, it's only ever our very worst dreams that come true. Here streets empty out and people pull themselves apart like amoebas, breeding murderous doppelgangers from their own…

Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918.

Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

Fantasmas, cine y malvadas diosas olvidadas se reúnen en esta novela, ganadora del Premio Shirley Jackson 2016 a la mejor novela.
Es una historia de fantasmas contemporánea en la que Lois Carnes, una exprofesora de cine, desempleada y al borde de la depresión, descubre la existencia y los trabajos perdidos de la que se cree que es la primera directora de cine de Canadá. Al investigar su trabajo, Lois descubre que dicha directora se veía acosada por unas fuerzas sobrenaturales que ahora amenazan con perseguirla a ella también.

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but. An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who own him; a little girl’s best friend seeks to draw her into an ancient, forbidden realm; two monster-hunting sisters cross paths with an amoral holler-witch…

Fired at almost the same time as her son, Clark, is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, former film critic turned teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced she's a failure who's spent half her adult life writing about other people's dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true. One night Lois attends a program of experimental film and emerges convinced she's seen something no one else has - a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage whose existence might prove that an eccentric early 20th-century socialite who disappeared under mysterious circumstances was also one of Canada's first female moviemakers.

Though it raises her spirits and revitalizes her creatively, Lois' headlong quest to discover the truth about Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb almost immediately begins to send her much further than she ever wanted to go, revealing increasingly troubling links between her subject's life and her own. Slowly but surely, the malign influence of Mrs. Whitcomb's muse begins to creep into every aspect of Lois' life, even placing her son in danger.

But how can one increasingly ill and unstable woman possibly hope to defeat a threat that's half long-lost folklore, half cinematically framed hallucination - an existential nightmare made physical, projected off the screen and into real life?

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns-jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis-accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to investigate how Mrs. Whitcomb's obsessions might have led to her mysterious disappearance, Lois unwittingly invites the forces which literally haunt Mrs. Whitcomb's films into her life, eventually putting her son, her husband and herself in danger. Experimental Film mixes painful character detail with a creeping aura of dread to produce a fictionalized "memoir" designed to play on its readers' narrative expectations and pack an existentialist punch.

Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercoverwith one of the weird West's most dangerous outlaw gangs the troop ledby ""Reverend"" Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned ""hexslinger,"" and hisnotorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow's task: get close enoughto map the extent of Rook's power, then bring that knowledge back to helpProfessor Joachim Asbury unlock the secrets of magic itself. Caught between apassle of dead gods and monsters, hexes galore, Rook's witchery, and theruthless calculations of his own masters, Morrow's only real hope of survivallies with the man without whom…

There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness . . .Who are the STRANGERS AMONG US?We are your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. We staff your stores, cross your streets, and study in your schools, invisible among you. We are your outcasts and underdogs, and often, your unsung heroes.Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and mental illness; how the interplay between our minds' quirks and the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, or become unlikely strengths.We find troubles with Irish fay, a North Korean cosmonaut's fear of flying, an aging maid dealing with politics of revenge, a mute boy and an army of darkness, a sister reaching out at the edge of a black hole, the dog and the sleepwalker, and many more.After all, what harm can be done…AUTHORS:  Kelley Armstrong, Suzanne Church, A.M. Dellamonica, Gemma Files, James Alan Gardner, Bev Geddes, Erika Holt, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Derwin Mak, Mahtab Narsimhan, Sherry Peters, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Lorina Stephens, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, Edward Willett, A.C. Wise.Introduction by Julie E. CzernedaEdited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. LawPraise for Strangers Among Us"Strangers Among Us . . . is important, shining a much-needed spotlight on issues that get far too little attention.  A wonderful anthology, one of the major SF&F books of the year.  Bravo!"-- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night"The writing is excellent throughout, and even the few not-as-strong stories make for a good read. This is a unique collection that should attract readers of all genres. -- Foreword Reviews"The stories in Strangers Among Us are as varied in tone and approach as their authors. The power of the collection derives from this variety; while each story can be read in isolation, the assemblage of outsiders feels, on a whole, exultant. There is, indeed, strength in numbers, when each individual is accorded space and respect." -- Quill & Quire"VERDICT: Mental illness is an exciting theme for an anthology, leaving plenty of room for variety" -- Library Journal The anthology is recommended in Kirkus Reviews as one of "The August 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You'll Want to Read.""Though this book has some shortcomings, readers who have mental illnesses may find themselves somewhere in these pages and as a result may no longer feel so alone or isolated."--School Library JournalAwards and Honorable Mentions2017 Aurora Awards Winner (Best Related Work)2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Winner (Speculative Fiction Book of the Year)2017 Aurora Awards Winner (Best Short Fiction) and 3 other Best Short Fiction finalists2017 Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (Short Story category): one short story finalistThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu): one honorable mentionThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (edited by Gardner Dozois): six honorable mentionsWilde Stories 2017: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (edited by Steve Berman): one story included2016 Foreword INDIES Awards finalist (Anthologies)