LORE edited by Rod Heather and Sean O'Leary (2011 The Lore Firm, LLC / 199 pp / tp)
As a brief history of this "quaint and curious volume of selected stories," LORE was a NJ-based horror fiction magazine that ran for 9 issues in the late 1990s. The editors have decided to re-launch the magazine in 2011, and as a preview have released this 15-story "best-of" from LORE's initial run to whet readers' appetites.
Among the best here are Harlan Ellison's 'Chatting With Anubis,' a Bram Stoker AND Deathtrealm Award-winner about two explorers who discover deep cosmic secrets underneath the sands of the Sahara; 'The Mandala' by Kendall Evans, where a doctor is reunited with a most unusual young woman in Amsterdam; Brian Lumley's 'The Vehicle,' where tiny aliens use a brutal escaped convict to help them out of a sticky predicament, and 'The Challenge From Below,' a four-author collaboration that shares the history of an Indian Shaman that turns into a dark lesson on the ancient gods.
LORE is a high-quality collection, despite several familiar-feeling tales. Whether this helps LORE magazine 2.0 succeed is yet to be seen, but if its offerings are anything like those on display here, it should do fine.
Among the best here are Harlan Ellison's 'Chatting With Anubis,' a Bram Stoker AND Deathtrealm Award-winner about two explorers who discover deep cosmic secrets underneath the sands of the Sahara; 'The Mandala' by Kendall Evans, where a doctor is reunited with a most unusual young woman in Amsterdam; Brian Lumley's 'The Vehicle,' where tiny aliens use a brutal escaped convict to help them out of a sticky predicament, and 'The Challenge From Below,' a four-author collaboration that shares the history of an Indian Shaman that turns into a dark lesson on the ancient gods.
LORE is a high-quality collection, despite several familiar-feeling tales. Whether this helps LORE magazine 2.0 succeed is yet to be seen, but if its offerings are anything like those on display here, it should do fine.
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Good names in there!
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