Dark North: Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, Kate Maruyama

Deep in the City of Subdued Excitement (and newly crowned Least Sunny Spot in the U.S.), under cover of the mist blowing in off the bay and out of the old-growth forests, something is stirring. Village Books, in collaboration with Shirley Jackson Award-winning Bellingham author Glen Hirshberg, presents Dark North, a new semi-annual reading series showcasing some of the best in contemporary speculative fiction. Expect low light, good company, and tales suffused with dread worth treasuring and sharing. Debut show October 26th.
Glen Hirshberg's novels include The Snowman's Children, Infinity Dreams, The Book of Bunk, and the Motherless Children trilogy. He is also the author of six widely praised story collections, the most recent of which is Tell Me When I Disappear. His fiction has earned him three International Horror Guild Awards (including two for Outstanding Collection), five World Fantasy Award finalist nominations, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Bellingham with his family and cats.

From the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Infinity Dreams, an elegiac new collection of tales about what we're losing. And what that will cost. And what might be circling back for us.

"Hirshberg is an amazing writer...grandly sweeping, capable of tremendous reach, and open to all aspects of human experience."—Peter Straub

Peter Atkins is the author of the novels Morningstar, Big Thunder, and Moontown and the screenplays Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III, Hellraiser IV, and Wishmaster. His short fiction has appeared in several award-winning anthologies and has been selected eight times for one or more of the various "Year's Best" books. His newest book is the story collection All Our Hearts Are Ghosts. His previous collection, Rumors of the Marvelous, was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award. He can be found on Facebook under his own name and on Twitter and Instagram as @limeybastard55.

From award-nominated and critically-acclaimed author Peter Atkins comes a new collection of exquisitely rendered nightmares. What is that unearthly howling coming from a small suburban house in Liverpool? Why is the headless corpse in a Manhattan penthouse sitting so calmly with its legs crossed? What's with that unusual trinket a high-schooler bought on a whim, and why is an agent of a covert government department so interested? The answers to these and other unsettling questions await you within the pages of the extraordinary All Our Hearts Are Ghosts.

"One of the smartest, sharpest writers around" - Neil Gaiman

Kate Maruyama writes, teaches, edits, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles.

She is a member of the SFWA and the HWA where she serves on the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee, where she helps edit The Seers' Table. She has served as a juror for the Bram Stoker Awards and twice for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She is currently serving on the working board of Women Who Submit.

The Selected Papers for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena is pleased to present two tales of family misadventures penned by Kate Maruyama. These compelling explorations of dark family secrets fearlessly delve into some of today's most relevant and troubling issues. In Safer, Maruyama explores what parents will do for a child, and what happens to outsiders in unsafe houses, while Family Solstice addresses the dangers of tradition, inheritance and the sins of the father.

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