''From Weird and Distant Shores'' is fantasist
Caitlin R. Kiernan's second solo short-story collection, released by
Subterranean Press in 2002. As with her first collection, ''
Tales of Pain and Wonder
''Tales of Pain and Wonder'' is Caitlín R. Kiernan's first short story collection. The stories are interconnected to varying degrees, and a number of Kiernan's characters reappear throughout the book, particularly Jimmy DeSade and Salmagundi De ...
'', interior illustrations were supplied by Canadian artist Richard A. Kirk. The book includes thirteen stories (horror, science fiction, and fantasy), including a collaboration with
Poppy Z. Brite and another with
Christa Faust. As Kiernan explains in the collection's introduction, most of these stories were originally written for "'
shared world
A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, chara ...
' and 'theme' anthologies," books wherein the authors have been asked to write stories set in the worlds of other authors or stories pertaining to some particular subject, respectively. The collection is notable in that includes Kiernan's earliest published short story, "Persephone." Kiernan provides an afterword for each story.
Contents
**Preface - "Playing God in Other People's Sandboxes"
**"Escape Artist"
**"The Comedy of St. Jehanne d' Arc"
**"Stoker's Mistress"
**"Emptiness Spoke Eloquent"
**"Giants in the Earth"
**"Found Angels" (with Christa Faust)
**"Two Worlds, and in Between"
**"The King of Birds"
**"By Turns"
**"Persephone"
**"Between the Flatirons and the Deep Green Sea"
**"Hoar Isis"
**"Night Story 1973" (with Poppy Z. Brite)
**"Rat's Star (A Fragment)"
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2002 short story collections
Fantasy short story collections
Short story collections by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Subterranean Press books
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