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copyright acknowledgements
“Too Much Is Never Enough” by Don Bassingthwaite. Copyright © 2012 Don Bassingthwaite. First published in Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero, Blindsided Books, 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“What I Learned at Genie School” by Jocko Benoit. Copyright © 2012 Jocko Benoit. First published in Midnight Screaming, Volume 4, #4, 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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“Bigfoot Cured My Arthritis” by Robert Colman. Copyright © 2012 Robert Colman. First published in Little Empires, Quattro Books, 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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about the editors
SANDRA KASTURI is a writer, editor, book reviewer and the co-publisher of World Fantasy Award-nominated ChiZine Publications and co-creator of the children’s animated series,Sinister Horde. Sandra’s work has won several prizes for writing, including the Whittaker Prize and first prize in ARC Poetry Magazine’s 10th Annual Poem of the Year Contest. Her book reviews have appeared in The Globe & Mail, The National Post and The Toronto Star. She has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Animal Bridegroom (2007), which featured an introduction from Neil Gaiman, and Come Late to the Love of Birds (2012), both from Tightrope Books. Sandra’s fiction and poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire; CV2; On Spec; Taddle Creek; various Tesseracts anthologies, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology; Northern Frights 4; Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks; Shadows & Tall Trees; Evolve; Evolve 2; Chilling Tales; and Chilling Tales Two. She is fond of Manhattans without the cherry, and Michael Fassbender, who can have a cherry or not, as he likes.
SAMANTHA BEIKO has worked in the Canadian publishing industry for the past three years in various capacities, first in marketing and publicity, and now in editorial and layout design. She has had the opportunity to acquire and edit some remarkable books, and is thrilled to have been able to edit Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, with Sandra Kasturi. Samantha is also an emerging author, and her first book, a YA fantasy novel called The Lake and the Library, came out with ECW Press in Spring 2013. She currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is working to broaden the speculative fiction community there through her writing and publishing work.
IMAGINARIUM 2012
THE BEST CANADIAN SPECULATIVE WRITING
EDITED BY SANDRA KASTURI & HALLI VILLEGAS
INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN ERIKSON
ARTWORK BY COREY BEEP & SAMANTHA BEIKO
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THE INNER CITY
KAREN HEULER
Anything is possible: people breed dogs with humans to create a servant class; beneath one great city lies another city, running it surreptitiously; an employee finds that her hair has been stolen by someone intent on getting her job; strange fish fall from trees and birds talk too much; a boy tries to figure out what he can get when the Rapture leaves good stuff behind. Everything is familiar; everything is different. Behind it all, is there some strange kind of design or merely just the chance to adapt? In Karen Heuler’s stories, characters cope with the strange without thinking it’s strange, sometimes invested in what’s going on, sometimes trapped by it, but always finding their own way in.
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GOLDENLAND PAST DARK
CHANDLER KLANG SMITH
A hostile stranger is hunting Dr. Show’s ramshackle travelling circus across 1960s America. His target: the ringmaster himself. The troupe’s unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year-old hunchbacked midget devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances that come to him in his dreams. But as they travel through a landscape of abandoned amusement parks and rural ghost towns, Webern’s bizarre past starts to pursue him, as well.
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THE WARRIOR WHO CARRIED LIFE
GEOFF RYMAN
Only men are allowed into the wells of vision. But Cara’s mother defies this edict and is killed, but not before returning with a vision of terrible and wonderful things that are to come . . . and all because of five-year-old Cara. Years later, evil destroys the rest of Cara’s family. In a rage, Cara uses magic to transform herself into a male warrior. But she finds that to defeat her enemies, she must break the cycle of violence, not continue it. As Cara’s mother’s vision of destiny is fulfilled, the wonderful follows the terrible, and a quest for revenge becomes a quest for eternal life.
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ZOMBIE VERSUS FAIRY FEATURING ALBINOS
JAMES MARSHALL
In a PERFECT world where everyone DESTROYS everything and eats HUMAN FLESH, one ZOMBIE has had enough: BUCK BURGER. When he rebels at the natural DISORDER, his marriage starts DETERIORATING and a doctor prescribes him an ANTI-DEPRESSANT. Buck meets a beautiful GREEN-HAIRED pharmacist fairy named FAIRY_26 and quickly becomes a pawn in a COLD WAR between zombies and SUPERNATURAL CREATURES. Does sixteen-year-old SPIRITUAL LEADER and pirate GUY BOY MAN make an appearance? Of course! Are there MIND-CONTROLLING ALBINOS? Obviously! Is there hot ZOMBIE-ON-FAIRY action? Maybe! WHY AREN’T YOU READING THIS YET?
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THE MONA LISA SACRIFICE
BOOK ONE OF THE BOOK OF CROSS
PETER ROMAN
For thousands of years, Cross has wandered the earth, a mortal soul trapped in the undying body left behind by Christ. But now he must play the part of reluctant hero, as an angel comes to him for help finding the Mona Lisa—the real Mona Lisa that inspired the painting. Cross’s quest takes him into a secret world within our own, populated by characters just as strange and wondrous as he is. He’s haunted by memories of Penelope, the only woman he truly loved, and he wants to avenge her death at the hands of his ancient enemy, Judas. The angel promises to deliver Judas to Cross, but nothing is ever what it seems, and when a group of renegade angels looking for a new holy war show up, things truly go to hell.
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THE ’GEISTERS
DAVID NICKLE
When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend—a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her, becoming a thing of murder. Now, as she embarks on a new life married to successful young lawyer Michael Voors, Ann believes that she finally has the Insect under control. But there are others vying to take that control away from her. They may not know exactly what they’re dealing with, but they know they want it. They are the ’Geisters. And in pursuing their own perverse dream, they risk spawning the most terrible nightmare of all.
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THE SUMMER IS ENDED
AND WE ARE NOT YET SAVED
JOEY COMEAU
Martin is going to Bible Camp for the summer. He’s going to learn archery and swimming, and he’s going to make new friends. He’s pretty excited, but that’s probably because nobody told him that this is a horror novel.
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CELESTIAL INVENTORIES
STEVE RASNIC TEM
Celestial Inventories features twenty-two stories collected from rare chapbooks, anthologies, and obscure magazines, along with a new story written specifically for this volume. All represent the slipstream segment of Steve Rasnic Tem’s large body of tales: imaginative, difficult-to-pigeonhole works of the fantastic crossing conventional boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, bizarro, magic realism, and the new weird. Several of these stories have previously appeared in Best of the Year compilations and have been the recipients of major F & SF nominations and awards.
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TELL MY SORROWS TO THE STONES
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
A circus clown willing
to give anything to be funny. A spectral gunslinger who must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. A lonely widower making a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife. A faded Hollywood actress out to deprive her ex-husband of his prize possession. A grieving mother who will wait by the railroad tracks for a ghostly train that always has room for one more. A young West Virginia miner whose only hope of survival is a bedtime story. These are just some of the characters to be found in Tell My Sorrows to the Stones.
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THE DELPHI ROOM
MELIA MCCLURE
Is it possible to find love after you’ve died and gone to Hell? For oddball misfits Velvet and Brinkley, the answer just might be yes. After Velvet hangs herself and winds up trapped in a bedroom she believes is Hell, she comes in contact with Brinkley, the man trapped next door. Through mirrors that hang in each of their rooms, these disturbed cinemaphiles watch the past of the other unfold—the dark past that has led to their present circumstances. As their bond grows and they struggle to figure out the tragic puzzles of their lives and deaths, Velvet and Brinkley are in for more surprises. By turns quirky, harrowing, funny and surreal, The Delphi Room explores the nature of reality and the possibilities of love.
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