{"id":92,"date":"2018-03-26T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roberthoodwriter.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-03-26T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:08:09","slug":"a-man-totally-alone-wont-be-alone-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roberthoodwriter.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"“A Man Totally Alone” Won’t Be Alone For Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just revealed by editor Stephen Jones is the cover for The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories<\/em>, due out next Halloween from Skyhorse in the US.<\/p>\n

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The really good news is my story “A Man Totally Alone” will be included in the book, as part of a Table of Contents jam-packed with top-tier writers of horror and weird fiction:<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction: When Churchyards Yawn\u201d
\n\u201cOctober in the Chair\u201d \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/a>
\n\u201cReflections in Black\u201d \u2013 Steve Rasnic Tem<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Halloween Monster\u201d \u2013 Alison Littlewood<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Ph\u00e9nakisticope of Decay\u201d \u2013 James Ebersole
\n\u201cMemories of D\u00eda de los Muertos\u201d \u2013 Nancy Kilpatrick<\/a>
\n\u201cFragile Masks\u201d \u2013 Richard Gavin<\/a>
\n\u201cBone Fire\u201d \u2013 Storm Constantine<\/a>
\n\u201cQueen of the Hunt\u201d \u2013 Adrian Cole<\/a>
\n\u201cThe October Widow\u201d \u2013 Angela Slatter<\/a>
\n\u201cBefore the Parade Passes By\u201d \u2013 Marie O’Regan<\/a>
\n\u201cHer Face\u201d \u2013 Ramsey Campbell<\/a>
\n\u201cA Man Totally Alone\u201d \u2013 Robert Hood<\/a>
\n\u201cBleed\u201d \u2013 Richard Christian Matheson<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Ultimate Halloween Party App\u201d \u2013 Lisa Morton<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Folding Man\u201d \u2013 Joe R. Lansdale
\n\u201cI Wait for You\u201d \u2013 Eygl\u00f3 Karlsd\u00f3ttir<\/a>
\n\u201cDust Upon a Paper Eye\u201d \u2013 Cate Gardner<\/a>
\n\u201cNot Our Brother\u201d \u2013 Robert Silverberg
\n\u201cThe Scariest Thing in the World\u201d \u2013 Michael Marshall Smith<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Nature of the Beast\u201d \u2013 Sharon<\/a> Gosling
\n\u201cThe Beautiful Feast of the Valley\u201d \u2013 Stephen Gallagher
\n\u201cIn the Year of Omens\u201d \u2013 Helen Marshall<\/a>
\n\u201cThe Millennial\u2019s Guide to Death\u201d \u2013 Scott Bradfield<\/a>
\n\u201cWhite Mare\u201d \u2013 Thana Niveau<\/a>
\n\u201cPumpkin Kids\u201d \u2013 Robert Shearman<\/a>
\n\u201cLantern Jack\u201d \u2013 Christopher Fowler
\n\u201cHalloween Treats\u201d \u2013 Jane Yolen<\/p>\n

The title \u201cA Man Totally Alone\u201d derives from the Nordic saga Hervarar saga ok<\/em><\/strong> Hei\u00f0reks konungs\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>and a passage translated by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum as:<\/p>\n

Foolish he seems to me, who goes there,
\na man totally alone, through dark night\u2026<\/p>\n

The story is set in the Australian outback, where there is a distinct lack of snow as October\/November is summer-time and temperatures run high, and where Halloween lacks most of the familiar iconography common to seasonal tales set in Europe and the US. Even so, it seems the dead are just as restless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just revealed by editor Stephen Jones is the cover for The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, due out next Halloween from Skyhorse in the US. The really good news is my story “A Man Totally Alone” will be included in the book, as part of a Table of Contents jam-packed with top-tier writers of horror … <\/p>\n

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