Joel Lane (1963–2013)
Auteur de The Lost District
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Œuvres de Joel Lane
Black Country 10 exemplaires
Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism (2010) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
The Lost District 4 exemplaires
And Some Are Missing [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
Power Cut [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Like Shattered Stone [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
The Hunger of the Leaves 2 exemplaires
Common Land [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
And Make Me Whole 1 exemplaire
Beyond the River 1 exemplaire
The Dispossessed 1 exemplaire
Coming Of Age 1 exemplaire
The Country Of Glass 1 exemplaire
The Silent Dance 1 exemplaire
The Drowned Market (in Nemonymous 10 - LEWIS) 1 exemplaire
After The Flood 1 exemplaire
City of Night {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Drowned (in Nemonymous 2 - LEWIS) 1 exemplaire
All the Shadows [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Receivers 1 exemplaire
The Foggy Foggy Dew 1 exemplaire
Still Water 1 exemplaire
Thicker Than Water 1 exemplaire
My Stone Desire 1 exemplaire
Mine 1 exemplaire
The Moon Never Changes 1 exemplaire
Feels Like Underground 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributeur — 234 exemplaires
La Petite Mort : Anthologie érotique de littérature fantastique (1995) — Contributeur — 131 exemplaires
Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction (2008) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch (2009) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Rustblind and Silverbright: A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories (2013) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Black Static 01 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Date de décès
- 2013-11-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
editor
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 89
- Membres
- 337
- Popularité
- #70,620
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 38
- Favoris
- 2
The Witnesses are Gone is a seriously weird read in a really good way. It feels like you’re reading in the world between wakefulness and sleep with a touch of drug induced haze. I found it really interesting in its exploration of the way that obsession can colour how we see our lives. It’s a short story, 96 pages in the paperback ARC into a life of depression, obsession and later drug haze.
Martin discovers some old videos in his shed, which he watches. (I would do exactly the same) One of them is a movie by a French movie director Jean Rien who specialises into the weird and surrealist, and the movie ends up taking over his life. Martin starts to loose touch with the reality around him, and see things from the movie in his real life, and has an altered perception of things that are happening. In the middle of the book, Martin and his girlfriend Judith went to Scotland to find the village were one of the Rien movies was reportedly filmed, and on the way back a train crash leads to the death of Judith which Martin blames on his obsession and ultimately Rien. From there, he hands in his notice at work, sells his house and gets on a boat to Mexico following the death of an Mexican director that seemed to be Rien. On the boat out he meets a woman who is also looking for information regarding a Rien movie her and her late boyfriend were in. They take a LOT of heroin together, and this ends with the woman collapsing into nothing, just bones and a dress. Martin collapses, found on the road by locals and taken to a hospital. Martin uses this experience to reconstruct how he views the world, and reality, which leads to the quote at the top.
Obviously, this is only a quick summation and has left out a lot of details about the book but it is an incredible read. This is unlike anything I’ve ever read before and I really enjoyed it.… (plus d'informations)