If you happen to be in or around London on the 20th of October, pop down to the Yorkshire Grey (Theobald’s Road, London, WC1X) to celebrate the launch of The Extinction Event and say farewell to Jurassic London.
I’ll be there as well as some of the other featured authors to sign your books and talk shit.
The evening’s activities will include The Extinction Event (including signing by all the contributors present), a silent auction for charity and plenty of drinks!
RSVP and stay up to date with the Facebook event.
Here’s a full list of contributors:
- Chrysanthy Balis – “Valentine’s Day”
- Rose Biggin – “The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour”
- Archie Black – “Uncle Smoke” (Stories of the Smoke)
- Jesse Bullington – “Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb” (The Book of the Dead)
- David Bryher – “Lost in Music”
- Becky Chambers – “Chrysalis” (Pornokitsch)
- Amy Coombe – “The Life of Her Mother” (Pornokitsch)
- Kim Curran – “Genius in the Walls”
- Charles Dickens – “Mary Anning”
- Anna Katharine Green – “The Golden Slipper”
- S.L. Grey – “We’ll Always Be Here” (The Lowest Heaven)
- Will Hill – “Three Memories of Death” (The Book of the Dead)
- Charlie Human – “The Doctrine of the Whisper”
- Matt Jones – “The Comet’s Tale” (The Lowest Heaven)
- Rebecca Levene – “The Knowledge” (Stories of the Smoke)
- Kirsty Logan – “Four Feet”
- Sophia McDougall – “Not the End of the World” (Stories of the Apocalypse)
- Simon Morden – “Never, never, three times never” (Thy Kingdom Come)
- Den Patrick – “People, Places, and Things”
- Adam Roberts – “Martin Citywit” (Stories of the Smoke)
- Henrietta Rose-Innes – “The Bronze Age”
- R.M. – “A Chronicle of Crows”
- Robert Sharp – “(0,0)” (Crossroads)
- James Smythe – “The Last Escapement” (Irregularity)
- E.J. Swift – “The Spiders of Stockholm” (Irregularity)
- Sam Sykes – “Wish for a Gun” (A Town Called Pandemonium)
- Molly Tanzer – “Genius Without Education”
- Lavie Tidhar – “Fealty to Apollo”
- Osgood Vance – “Closer” (Stories of the Apocalypse)
- Joe Vaz – “Front Row, Centre”
- J.Y. Yang – “Ya-Ya Papaya”
The Damage Museum is the first book that features the art of Vincent Sammy, a freelance illustrator who hails from South Africa and specializes in horror, science fiction and the macabre. This collection includes work that has been printed in publications such as Interzone, Black Static, Something Wicked, Beware the Dark and many other magazines and books. He has provided cover artwork for publishers as varied as NewCon Press, Rosarium Publishing and Thunderstorm Books.
Volume Two marks the official transition of Something Wicked from magazine to annual anthology, featuring 25 brand new stories by writers from South Africa and abroad; seasoned veterans and first-timers brought together in a single book containing tales of post-apocalyptic dystopias, alternate realities, far-future science fiction and good old-fashioned blood-chilling horror, edited and compiled by the doting godparents of South African genre fiction, Joe Vaz and Vianne Venter. Let your mind wander across distant galaxies, down darkened alleys, and across oceans of floating cities and let Something Wicked be your guide.