Claude Lalumière (born 1966) is an author, book reviewer and has edited numerous anthologies. A resident of
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
, Quebec, he writes the
''Montreal Gazette's'' Fantastic Fiction column. He also owned and operated two independent book stores in Montreal. He and
Rupert Bottenberg are co-creators of lostmyths.net.
Lalumière's own fiction consists mostly of short stories tending to
dark fantasy
Dark fantasy, also called fantasy horror, is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror fiction, horror ...
. In a review of his first collection, ''Objects of Worship'' in
Strange Horizons
''Strange Horizons'' is an online magazine, online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and non-fiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables.
History and profile
It was launched in S ...
,
Anil Menon
Anil Menon is an Indian computer scientist and writer of speculative fiction. He has authored research papers and edited books on evolutionary algorithms. His research, in collaboration with Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka, ...
characterised the title story and two others as generating "that wondering disquiet so hard to achieve with other literary genres" and noting that they were already being studied in writing courses.
Bibliography
Collections
* Objects of Worship (2009) ChiZine Publications;
* The Door to Lost Pages (2011) ChiZine Publications;
* Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes (2014) Infinity Plus Books
Anthologies
* Telling Stories: New English Stories from Quebec (2002)
Véhicule Press
The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris, who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and European ...
;
* Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction (2003)
Red Deer Press
Red Deer Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Leaside, Ontario. It issues trade titles in children's fiction, literary fiction, poetry, drama, belles-lettres, and creative nonfiction focusing on the Canadian Prairies.
Red Deer Press was ...
;
* Witpunk (2003)
Running Press
Running Press is an American publishing company and member of the Perseus Books Group, a division of the Hachette Book Group. The publisher's offices are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with many of the corporate functions taking place in ...
;
* Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (2004) Véhicule Press;
* Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec (2005) Véhicule Press;
* Lust for Life: Tales of Sex and Love (2006) Véhicule Press;
* Tesseracts Twelve (2008) EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing;
* ''Super Stories of Heroes & Villains ''(
Tachyon Publications
Tachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies ...
, August 2013)
References
External links
Home pageStory behind Super Stories of Heroes and Villains by Claude Lalumiere - How I Came to Select These Super StoriesStory behind Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes by Claude Lalumiere*
Living people
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male short story writers
Canadian book editors
21st-century Canadian short story writers
1966 births
21st-century Canadian male writers
Novelists from Montreal
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