Editor Karen A. Romanko announces the publication of Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy, Raven Electrick‘s newest anthology (see this article for the original announcement of the anthology).
This book “views moving pictures in all their forms, real and imaginary, from shadow plays to classic films, from videocassettes to animated tattoos. Thirty-two authors have contributed flash fiction, short stories, and poetry to the anthology, transporting readers back to a time when flames flickered and paintings waltzed on cave walls, and forward to possible futures when the heavens themselves might serve as vidscreens. Along the way, the anthology makes multiple stops in Hollywood, the one we know and the one that could never exist, from ’30s noir to extraterrestrial infiltration, from a magical ‘gangland’ to destruction after ‘the big one’.”
Contents of the volume, along with Romanko’s brief annotations noting genre/theme, are:
“Lori” by Connor Moran (fantasy-noir/gossip in old Hollywood)
“The Precinct of Night” by J.E. Stanley (poem/sf-noir/detective movies)
“Nuclear Shadows” by Simon Logan (science fiction/paparazzi)
“Creature Double-Feature” by Gregory L. Norris (horror/classic films)
“The Discovery in Roger Corman’s Trunk” by G.O. Clark (poem/sf-horror/Vincent Price)
“War at the Bijou” by Robert Borski (science fiction/transmissions into space)
“Oracle in Chains” by Rodello Santos (high fantasy/movies as prophecy)
“TV Tea” by Ruth Berman (poem/speculative/TV shows)
“Bootleg Images” by Daniel R. Robichaud (science fiction/banned movies)
“Nightmare’s Daughter” by Justin Howe (suspense/cult movies)
eventual, i” by Greg Beatty (poem/speculative/video stores)
“A Life in Pictures” by Sarah Brandel (fantasy/movies as memoir)
“Chiaroscuro” by Marlo Dianne (fantasy/pre-technology)
“Screening of a Silent Film” by J.S. Bangs (high fantasy/silent movies)
“Obmutescence” by Paul Abbamondi (dark fantasy/Los Angeles)
“Reel People: The Extra’s Lament” by Robert Borski (poem/science fiction/CGI)
“Sundowner” by Paul Milliken (suspense/Hollywood ghosts)
“Camera Obscura” by Deborah P. Kolodji (poem/science fiction/life in Hollywood)
“End of an Era” by Martha J. Allard (dark fantasy/Hollywood earthquake)
“Starshow” by Vylar Kaftan (science fiction/future technology)
“Shadowdancer” by Robert A. Desharnais (speculative/pre-technology)
“The End” by Lisa Morton (horror/cult movies)
“Cineraku” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt (science fiction/future-hybrid technology)
“The Shadow-Witch” by Tony Pi (dark fantasy/shadow plays)
“After Sundown” by Bill Ward (science fiction/movie theaters)
“Family Movie” by J.C. Runolfson (dark fantasy/3-D movies)
“Bright Square Flickering” by Alex Dally MacFarlane (poem/fantasy/movie screens)
“Lost in the Fun Factory” by Craig Wolf (dark fantasy/movie theaters)
“House 5” by Lyn C.A. Gardner (poem/horror/movie theaters)
“Something with Subtitles, Maybe” by Matt Betts (fantasy/movies as metaphor)
“Kraken’s Wake” by Cliff Winnig (science fiction/exotic location shoots)
“City of Facades” by Daniel Ausema (speculative/movie sets)