From Weird and Distant Shores is fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan's second solo short-story collection, released by Subterranean Press in 2002. Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries Dublin, Ireland) is the author of many Science fiction and Dark As with her first collection, Tales of Pain and Wonder, interior illustrations were supplied by Canadian artist Richard A. Tales of Pain and Wonder (2000 is Caitlin R Kiernan 's first short-story collection Kirk. The book includes thirteen stories (horror, science fiction, and fantasy), including a collaboration with Poppy Z. Brite and another with Christa Faust. Poppy Z Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author As Kiernan explains in the collection's introduction, most of these stories were originally written for "'shared world' and 'theme' anthologies," books wherein the authors have been asked to write stories set in the worlds of other authors or stories pertaining to some particular subject, respectively. A shared universe is a Literary technique in which several different authors create works of Fiction that share aspects such as settings or characters and that are The collection is notable in that includes Kiernan's earliest publiction short story, "Persephone. " Kiernan provides an afterword for each story.

Stories

• Preface—"Playing God in Other People's Sandboxes"
  • "Escape Artist"
  • "The Comedy of St. Jehanne d'Arc"
  • "Stoker's Mistress"
  • "Emptiness Spoke Eloquent"
  • "Giants in the Earth"
  • "Found Angels" (with Christa Faust)
  • "Two Worlds, and In Between"
  • "The King of Birds"
  • "By Turns"
  • "Persephone"
  • "Between the Flatirons and the Deep Green Sea"
  • "Hoar Isis"
  • "Night Story 1973" (with Poppy Z. In Greek mythology, Persephone ( Kore or Cora) was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld Brite)
  • "Rat's Star" (only included in the lettered edition)

ISBN

• ISBN 1-931081-27-1 (hardcover, 2002)

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