Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 Hardcover -

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Tales of darkness and inexplicable happenings have always been with us"€"and always will. In its contemporary form, this sort of story is not only alive and well, but flourishing, and it continues to speak to us in a variety of voices. Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 is the latest installment in an acclaimed anthology series, and it brings together ten voices"€"some familiar, some less so"€"that are at once distinctive, compelling, and irresistible.

The volume opens with award-winning novelist Kat Howard's "An Ordinary Progression of Hearts," an elegant meditation on the fragility of the human heart; and closes with acclaimed newcomer P. Djl Clark's "Skin Magic," a stunning account of sorcery and dark magic set in an unnamed third world country. Elsewhere in the anthology, Caitlin R. Kernan ("Cherry Street Tango, Sweat Box Waltz") offers a piece of near-future noir in which a "blackstrap" (a hired assassin) contemplates the failure of her latest murderous assignment. "At the Threshold of Your Bedchamber on the Fifth Night" by Sarah Gailey is the tale of a courtship that leads to a most unusual consummation. In "Final Course," a rare short story by rising star C.J. Tudor, the reunion of old school friends takes a savage and unexpected turn. In addition to these and other stellar tales by the likes of Bentley Little, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Gallagher and Ian R. MacLeod, Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 contains Robert R. McCammon's "Death Comes for the Rich Man," a rare novella set in Colonial America and featuring McCammon's popular "problem solver," Matthew Corbett.

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• Publishers Weekly, 05/04/2020, Page 0