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There's a genuine gentleness in Joel's prose. A soft rawness. Honest. Real. Pure. My first introduction, I'll definitely be seeking out more.
Back in print! Finally!In his introduction, Nicholas Royle quotes a line from email sent by the author to the editor: The Anniversary of Never is a group of stories concerned with the theme of the afterlife and the idea that we may enter the afterlife before death, or find parts of it in our world."Sight Unseen" appeared earlier in Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft Unbound anthology. It's an affecting tale about the narrator dealing with his father's death, with a few hints of cosmic horror that are rath...
John Peel once said of The Fall that they're always different and always the same, and in some respects this could be applied to Joel Lane's short stories: decayed urban landscapes, the fragility of relationships, loneliness amongst people, a matter-of-fact oddness breaking the veil between worlds. This is completely different from stating they are repetitive, of course, Lane manages to bring something different to the table each time, his characters are well-defined, the sadness they inhabit be...
In general, Joel Lane's short stories do a better job of conveying what it felt like to be alive in England in the years around the millennium than anything else I've read. That sense of having your life shaped by unsympathetic historical forces of which you only have the most tentative understanding. Tolstoy talks about this sort of thing in a very abstract way at the end of War and Peace but does not attempt to capture the visceral experience. Is there really any supernatural element in any of...
An under-the-skin, Lane-like threnody, where various people, two in particular who hook up, hear cries of despair in various place, but they don’t mention the g- word. Sounds too glib or gauche to do so, I guess, to describe these important cries for help, all to the backdrop of the serious urban city riots also shown in ‘Bitter Angel’ and — “At least winter meant things would stop changing…” — the encroaching omissions between reality of “The Anniversary of Never.” Those riots started with “eye...
This is copy 52 of 100 numbered copies from a total print run of 350. The book also contains a numbered postcard in an envelope.Contents:v - Introduction by Nicholas Royle1 - "Sight Unseen"14 - "Crow's Nest"23 - "All the Shadows"32 - "Midnight Flight"43 - "Ashes in the Water" with Mat Joiner54 - "For Their Own Ends"61 - "Bitter Angel"66 - "After the Fire"76 - "The Annniversary of Never"81 - "The Messenger"89 - "For Crying Out Loud"99 - "All Dead Years"111 - "Some of the Fell"129 - Acknowledgemen...
"'Eamonn, did you ever, you know... hear one of those voices again, the cries?"The white head shook slowly.'Me neither. But why?' Mike realised his voice had risen, though no-one reacted.The old man drained his glass, his eyes closed. He beckoned Mike to lean over, then said very softly: 'I don't know. But I think... they called. That was all. They called and nobody answered.'"I went into reading this collection, my first by Joel Lane, expecting more of a horror collection. What I got, after my
