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Joel Lane (1963–2013)

Auteur de The Lost District

50+ oeuvres 337 utilisateurs 7 critiques 2 Favoris

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Comprend les noms: Edited by Joel Lane

Crédit image: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

Œuvres de Joel Lane

The Lost District (2006) 62 exemplaires
The Witnesses are Gone (2009) 36 exemplaires
The Earth Wire and Other Stories (1994) 27 exemplaires
From Blue to Black (2000) 26 exemplaires
The Blue Mask (2002) 22 exemplaires
Where Furnaces Burn (2012) 22 exemplaires
This Spectacular Darkness (2016) 16 exemplaires
Scar City (Paperback) (2015) 15 exemplaires
The Anniversary of Never (2015) 15 exemplaires
Black Country 10 exemplaires
Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism (2010) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
The Terrible Changes (2009) 9 exemplaires
Beneath the Ground (2002) 6 exemplaires
Something Remains (2016) 4 exemplaires
The Lost District 4 exemplaires
Cemetery Dance Issue 52 (2005) 4 exemplaires
Trouble in the Heartland (2005) 3 exemplaires
The Edge of the Screen (2006) 3 exemplaires
The Autumn Myth (2010) 2 exemplaires
Horror Uncut (2014) 2 exemplaires
And Make Me Whole 1 exemplaire
Beyond the River 1 exemplaire
Instinct (2015) 1 exemplaire
The Dispossessed 1 exemplaire
Do Not Pass Go : Crime Stories (2011) 1 exemplaire
Foggy, Foggy Dew (1986) 1 exemplaire
Coming Of Age 1 exemplaire
The Country Of Glass 1 exemplaire
The Silent Dance 1 exemplaire
After The Flood 1 exemplaire
The Receivers 1 exemplaire
Alouette [short story] (2008) 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

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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributeur — 234 exemplaires
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires
Year's Best Fantasy (2001) — Contributeur — 203 exemplaires
The Museum of Horrors (2001) — Contributeur — 150 exemplaires
La Petite Mort : Anthologie érotique de littérature fantastique (1995) — Contributeur — 131 exemplaires
A Season in Carcosa (2012) — Contributeur — 123 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 (2008) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) — Contributeur — 120 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997) — Contributeur — 112 exemplaires
Gathering the Bones (2003) — Contributeur — 111 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002) — Contributeur — 103 exemplaires
Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror (1996) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 25 (2014) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 (2011) — Contributeur — 78 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 (2007) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2012) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Best New Horror 3 (1992) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (2002) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 (2001) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24 (2013) — Contributeur — 65 exemplaires
The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural (1994) — Contributeur — 65 exemplaires
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen (2014) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
Best New Horror 4 (1993) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 08 (1997) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2 (2011) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Nightmare Carnival (2014) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror (2000) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
The End of the Line: An Anthology of Underground Horror (2010) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction (2008) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Psychomania: Killer Stories (2014) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2010) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Dark Terrors 4 (1998) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny (2013) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
British Invasion (2008) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Dark Terrors 6 (2002) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
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The Freezer Counter: Stories by Gay Men (1989) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2011) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
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The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10 (2013) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Summer Chills (2007) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
The Best British Short Stories 2012 (2012) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
A Hazy Shade of Winter (2004) — Introduction, quelques éditions16 exemplaires
At Ease with the Dead (2007) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
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The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies (2011) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
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Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds (2011) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
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The Elastic Book of Numbers (2005) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Shades of Darkness (2008) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Crimewave 11: Ghosts (2010) 7 exemplaires
Swords Against the Millennium (2000) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Fantasy Tales Volume 10, No. 2 (1989) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 24/25: The New and Perfect Man (2011) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Third Black Book of Horror (2008) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction (2008) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Darklands: No. 2 (1992) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Terror Tales of the Cotswolds (2012) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Blind Swimmer - an Eibonvale Press Anthology (2010) — Avant-propos — 5 exemplaires
Black Static 01 4 exemplaires
Crimewave 10: Now You See Me (2008) 4 exemplaires
The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes (2012) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Crimewave 8: Cold Harbours (2005) 3 exemplaires
Hideous Progeny: A Frankenstein Anthology (2000) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
White of the Moon (1999) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Apparitions (2009) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
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Second City Scares: A Horror Express Anthology (2013) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Scaremongers (1997) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Phantoms of Venice (2007) — Avant-propos — 2 exemplaires
Brute: Stories of Dark Desire, Masculinity, & Rough Trade (2023) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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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

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Critiques

“if the truth of our lives is nothing, then the only reality is the one we bring to life”

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.
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AlwaysTurninPages | 1 autre critique | Jul 17, 2022 |
Probably one of the most depressing books I have ever read.

A batch of marginally supernatural stories set in a near future dystopian England. The stories are about brokenness: physical, mental, interior, exterior. England is a grey mass of broken factories, mines, tenements, streets and shops. The streets are full of Clockwork Orange type youth and skinheads and the police run wild. Both urban and rural landscapes are in ruins. Amidst the backdrop are individuals groping for meaning and contact that they rarely find and is usually lost even when found. Most of the relationships are Gay which is not a criticism, just the authors preference. Relationships are sometimes caring and sometimes sordid.

Take these a bit at a time because they can be both depressing but the sameness of the stories tends to also make them run together at times. And hide the razorblades.
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
Beautifully bleak. That is an excellent way of describing Lane's collection of short stories. They are beautiful to read, extremely poetic in the way that images are quickly and lovingly portrayed. I was continually amazed at how well portrayed the stories were. But at the same time the subject matter is brutal, harsh, emotionally honest and blunt. These are not stories to lightly parse over and continue reading back to back to back. About halfway through the collection, I had to stop and read another book in order to break the grim feelings. I remember when I read Harlan Ellison's DEATHBIRD STORIES the introduction for that collection warned about not reading the book in one continual string. The same thing should be said here. The stories are dark and creepy. For fans though who like facing their own horrors and being honest about what affects them (emotionally and sexually), then this collection is for them. While an occasional story might be missing a plot (at least in my opinion), all of the stories invoke strong images and themes. My favorites are below.

"The Bootleg Heart" - A story summed up by the first line: "My first love was a girl I never actually met."
"The Only Game" - A man's girlfriend dies on him again and again.
"Beyond The River" - A writer takes a reporter into the world of her books.
"Reservoir" - A con visits the victim of his cellmate.
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dagon12 | 1 autre critique | Nov 30, 2013 |
I initially bought this book because other dark literary connoisseurs I know gave it very high marks. I'd never read anything by Lane before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Thankfully I was pleasantly surprised.

Joel Lane lives in Birmingham, England, the setting for most, if not all, the stories in the collection. Trust me, after reading this book you'll NEVER want to visit Birmingham, ever. I suspect he didn't make any local friends by writing this book. He really makes Birmingham out to be an incredibly bleak, violent, dirty and corrupt place; a place with an eternal dark cloud over it; a place where dreams go to die. Each of the stories are amazingly powerful in a subtle way. Most aren't "horror" in a traditional sense; rather, they're more darkly weird and surreal, but with purpose. I really like his writing style. He has a very imaginative way with words, some of which are laugh-out-loud hilarious. He's not afraid to tell it like it is using simple, if not crude, examples. For example, when a character describes how ugly a certain girl's dreadlocks are he describes them as, "hanging like dog turds".

The book has a very autobiographical feel to it.

Two gripes: they have nothing to do with Lane's writing. First, the typesetting; the body of text comes less than an inch from the top of the page. I prefer healthy margins. Secondly, no art. Not even a sketch at the beginning or end of a chapter. His publisher, Nightshade Books, often has art. I don't know why they didn't this time, though the cover is great. I think a smattering of art would have greatly enhanced the book's effect. One good thing though, I didn't catch a single typo -- something really rare these days.
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Dead_Dreamer | 1 autre critique | Jan 8, 2010 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
50
Aussi par
89
Membres
337
Popularité
#70,620
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
7
ISBN
38
Favoris
2

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