With Burnt Black Suns, Strantzas continues a trajectory into deeper darkness . . . and in some respects the odyssey has brought him closer to the primal core of the tradition and its rawest, purest essentials.-From Laird Barron's foreword

The stories of Simon Strantzas exemplify a style of horror that might be compared to the novellas of T. E. D. Klein.-Thomas Ligotti

Burnt Black Suns demonstrates Strantzas's remarkable narrative skills, his unerring, feverish sense of pace, and his absolute willingness to hurl himself into the darkest ranges of his excellent imagination.-Peter Straub

In Burnt Black Suns Strantzas casts far into time and space to find the alien, and what comes back wriggling inside his net is ghastly.-Adam Nevill

In this fourth collection of stories, Simon Strantzas establishes himself as one of the most dynamic figures in contemporary weird fiction. The nine stories in this volume exhibit Strantzas's wide range in theme and subject matter, from the Lovecraftian Thistle's Find to the Robert W. Chambers homage Beyond the Banks of the River Seine. But Strantzas's imagination, while drawing upon the best weird fiction of the past, ventures into new territory in such works as On Ice, a grim novella of arctic horror; One Last Bloom, a grisly account of a scientific experiment gone hideously awry; and the title story, an emotionally wrenching account of terror and loss in the baked Mexican desert. With this volume, Strantzas lays claim to be discussed in the company of Caitl n R. Kiernan and Laird Barron as one of the premier weird fictionists of our time.

Canadian writer Simon Strantzas has long been recognized as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary weird fiction. Gifted with a prose style that can evoke both terror and wonder, he endows his stories with an emotional resonance that sets them apart from much of the work in this field.

In this new collection, Strantzas presents eleven tales, long and short, that display the wide array of motifs he utilizes. In the Event of Death tells of what a man finds when he explores his dead mother's house. Circle of Blood is one of several stories that distinctively fuse a hard-boiled crime scenario with the weird. Antripuu relates what four hikers find in a remote forest. Clay Pigeons is an expansive novella set in Port Said, drawing upon the tradition of film noir in its suggestion of horrors amidst the parched desert of Egypt.

Throughout his work, Strantzas finds weirdness in the complexities of human relationships just as much as in the terrifying monsters he puts on display. His complex, brooding characters are the ideal recipients of the bizarre.

Edited by Simon Strantzas, Aickman's Heirs is an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern visionaries of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories. Editor and author Strantzas, an important figure in Weird fiction, has been hailed as the heir to Aickman's oeuvre, and is ideally suited to edit this exciting volume. Featuring all-original stories from Brian Evenson, Lisa Tuttle, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Michael Cisco, and others.

Nothing is Everything' is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strantzas. With elegant craftsmanship Strantzas delicately weaves a disquieting narrative through eerie and unexpected landscapes, charting an uncanny course through territories both bleak and buoyant, while further cementing his reputation as one of the finest practitioners of strange tales.

CONTENTS

In This Twilight (new)

Our Town's Talent (new)

These Last Embers

The Flower Unfolds

Ghost Dogs (new)

In the Tall Grass

The Fifth Stone

The Terrific Mr. Toucan (new)

Alexandra Lost

All Reality Blossoms in Flames (new)

Advance praise for Nothing is Everything

Simon Strantzas captures the creepiness of small town Ontario; there is something of Seth, of Alice Munro in his work, wonderfully tangled with the likes of Aickman and Jackson. Uncanny as a ventriloquist's doll, but with a real, beating heart.

-Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet

Welcome to Nothing is Everything, the latest collection by Simon Strantzas. Taking the paths less traveled to the human heart and mind, and excavating the strangeness that abides therein, Strantzas is one of the most striking writers working today.
-Angela Slatter, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

Simon Strantzas is Shirley Jackson-grade eerie, creating stories that are as unsettling as they are elegant.

-Kij Johnson, author of At the Mouth of The River of Bees

The unexpected has arrived, and has brought with it the unknown. Simon Strantzas' stories arrive without warning, to offer those unknown gifts and sidelong glimpses that bring mystery close enough to touch.

-Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, and Christopher Wild

Simon Strantzas's compelling stories unfold across a liminal landscape of small towns and ordinary situations where encounters with the uncanny are often revelatory. With his latest collection, he further cements his place as a significant voice among a wave of writers who are redefining the boundaries of genre, blending a literary sensibility with a powerful sense of the possibilities for transcendence in the everyday.

-Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, and You'll Know When You Get There

'Nothing is Everything' is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strantzas. With elegant craftsmanship Strantzas delicately weaves a disquieting narrative through eerie and unexpected landscapes, charting an uncanny course through territories both bleak and buoyant, while further cementing his reputation as one of the finest practitioners of strange tales.

CONTENTS

In This Twilight (new)

Our Town's Talent (new)

These Last Embers

The Flower Unfolds

Ghost Dogs (new)

In the Tall Grass

The Fifth Stone

The Terrific Mr. Toucan (new)

Alexandra Lost

All Reality Blossoms in Flames (new)

Advance praise for Nothing is Everything

Simon Strantzas captures the creepiness of small town Ontario; there is something of Seth, of Alice Munro in his work, wonderfully tangled with the likes of Aickman and Jackson. Uncanny as a ventriloquist's doll, but with a real, beating heart.

-Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet

Welcome to Nothing is Everything, the latest collection by Simon Strantzas. Taking the paths less traveled to the human heart and mind, and excavating the strangeness that abides therein, Strantzas is one of the most striking writers working today.
-Angela Slatter, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

Simon Strantzas is Shirley Jackson-grade eerie, creating stories that are as unsettling as they are elegant.

-Kij Johnson, author of At the Mouth of The River of Bees

The unexpected has arrived, and has brought with it the unknown. Simon Strantzas' stories arrive without warning, to offer those unknown gifts and sidelong glimpses that bring mystery close enough to touch.

-Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, and Christopher Wild

Simon Strantzas's compelling stories unfold across a liminal landscape of small towns and ordinary situations where encounters with the uncanny are often revelatory. With his latest collection, he further cements his place as a significant voice among a wave of writers who are redefining the boundaries of genre, blending a literary sensibility with a powerful sense of the possibilities for transcendence in the everyday.

-Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, and You'll Know When You Get There

Since the dawn of mankind, we have always made our own monsters: the terrors of capitalism and corruption, the things between the cracks, the ghosts of self...terrible beasts of desire, debt, regret, racism...of family ties, and the things that get in the way of our aspirations...the familiar monsters of our own faces, of tradition, rejection, and the darkness that lives deep inside our own hearts... Can you identify the component parts of your own monster? Can you afford to pay the dreadful price of its construction?