The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels
Hippocampus Press:
New York: 2020
Trade paperback, New,
270 pp.
Cover artwork by: Aeron Alfrey
Great stuff here. “This volume features seventeen of Samuels’s best weird stories. Several display his fascination with technology, advertising, and urban horror, as in ‘Apartment 205’ and the title story. Other tales speak of the writing of weird fiction itself as a potentially hazardous and supernatural enterprise, as in ‘The White Hands’ and ‘Vrolyck.’ In several of his lengthier narratives—notably ‘The Gentleman from Mexico’ and ‘The Crimson Fog’—Samuels draws upon H. P. Lovecraft’s pseudomythology to venture into realms of cosmic horror. ‘The Black Mould’ and ‘My World Has No Memories’ are distinctively existential tales of undeniable potency.” This is a print-on-demand edition. #66918
Price: $20.00