{"id":1519,"date":"2017-07-29T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:13:31","slug":"behold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/behold\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vSX2CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders<\/em><\/a> was just released by Crystal Lake Publishing, and it&#8217;s already a bestseller on Amazon. It contains my story &#8220;Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies&#8221; and I&#8217;m excited to be sharing a table of contents with authors such as\u00a0Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Stephanie M. Wytovich, John Langan, Erinn L. Kemper, John F.D. Taff, Patrick Freivald, Kristi DeMeester, Sarah Read and Richard Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>When editor Doug Murano approached me for a story, I was excited about the premise for this anthology. He says, &#8220;I wanted this book to encompass a lot of the things I love about weird fiction, fantasy and horror\u2014as well as give a tip of my cap to some of the things I loved growing up. So, it\u2019s not exclusively a horror anthology, though you\u2019ll find there\u2019s plenty of darkness and dread throughout the book. It was important to me that the stories throughout the anthology embraced and celebrated the odd\u2014so you&#8217;re not going to find stories of big-top exploitation or carnival freak shows here. Some tonal touch-points for much of the book are actually Jim Henson&#8217;s work \u2014 like <em>Labyrinth<\/em> and <em>The Dark Crystal<\/em> \u2014 particularly in the Undefinable Wonders section. I also drew tonal influences from Guillermo del Toro\u2019s filmography, especially his Spanish-language films like <em>Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em> and <em>The Devil\u2019s Backbone<\/em>. As in those films, there\u2019s terror and darkness here, but there\u2019s beauty, wonder, and magic, as well. In other words, the book is willfully bizarre, wide-ranging, and beautifully strange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My story &#8220;Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies&#8221; is deliberately odd and was inspired by <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,<\/em> <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, and my own experiences as an author at a large gaming convention. I hope my readers enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>For space reasons, I&#8217;ve mostly transitioned to ebooks, but I&#8217;m going to love having this one on my shelf. The cover art by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Coulthart<\/a> is just about perfect. I appreciate excellent covers that are gorgeous, intriguing, and accurately convey the contents of a book. This one is stellar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The new anthology Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders was just released by Crystal Lake Publishing, and it&#8217;s already a bestseller on Amazon. It contains <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/behold\/\" title=\"Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[156,20],"tags":[110,111],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-books","category-publishing","tag-clive-barker","tag-neil-gaiman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/behold.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8qT6f-behold","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1781,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/the-thief-of-always\/","url_meta":{"origin":1519,"position":0},"title":"The Thief of Always","author":"Lucy A. 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