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Джоэл Лейн

Joel Lane

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  • Scar City Джоэл Лейн
    Год издания: 2015
    Издательство: Eibonvale Press
    Язык: Английский
    A new collection from one of the most powerful voices in slipstream and horror writing is a significant event. This collection of twenty two stories was one of the last that Joel Lane put together before his death in 2013. Frequently taking the form of dark urban fantasy, with his home city of Birmingham as their nucleus, these are intense and often painful stories that linger in the mind for a long time.

    These stories are populated by troubled people living troubled lives in troubled places. A pervasive melancholia overhangs the tales, and seeps its way into their fabric (in tandem with the copious amounts of alcohol imbibed by their complicated characters trying to make sense of and otherwise cope with their circumstances). These tales, then, wear their scars plainly, and it’s this fragile, fractured quality which imbues them with their beauty. They are difficult stories, but then they have to be, considering their subject matter.
  • Where Furnaces Burn Joel Lane
    ISBN: 978-1848634862
    Год издания: 2012
    Издательство: PS Publishing
    Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands: A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life. Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence. Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country? A series of inexplicable deaths lead the police to uncover a secret cult of machine worship. When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own. Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims. Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape. Joel Lane has quietly and prolifically built up a body of work that has brilliantly chronicled lives led in the wastelands of the UK, as well as charting some of the awful territories that exist within all of us. Conrad Williams
  • The Terrible Changes Джоэл Лейн
    ISBN: 978-9737764195
    Год издания: 2009
    Издательство: Ex Occidente
    Язык: Английский
    In midwinter, an aspiring politician finds himself suddenly deprived of human contact. A group of newcomers to a town are strangely reminiscent of people lost in a recent flood. In a world where grief is forbidden, a young man builds a mound to commemorate his lover. An obsessive reader of Poe enters the world of his idol's stories. Demonstrators on a peace march see the faces of sleeping children in the snow. A failed musician meets his own ancestors getting off a midnight train.

    Joel Lane's short stories combine the supernatural with themes of human loss, passion, solitude and despair. The complexity of the urban landscape provides a background to stories in which nothing can be relied upon. Ghosts and visions are an inevitable part of a reality where facts are uncertain, loyalties are divided, and the unknown is always close at hand. In Lane's fiction, the weird is a symbolic language that expresses the chilling beauty, sadness and mystery of real life.

    From "The Brand" (written in 1983) to "Alouette" (written in 2008), these stories are selected from a quarter-century of writing. Twelve previously uncollected stories are reprinted from magazines and anthologies, bridging various strands of the weird fiction genre: urban horror tales, elegiac ghost stories, erotic reveries and psychological fugues. Two brief new tales offer different perspectives on the theme of mortality. Influences on these stories include Robert Aickman, John Metcalfe, Ramsey Campbell, M. John Harrison, Jean Genet, Sylvia Plath and Robert Smith.

    The Terrible Changes is a journey through a shadow-realm between reality and dream, between clarity and madness, between the living and the dead. Enjoy.
  • The Witnesses Are Gone Joel Lane
    ISBN: 1906301255, 978-1906301255
    Год издания: 2009
    Издательство: PS Publishing
    Язык: Английский
    Is the story of a man possessed. The man is Martin Swann, our melancholy, introspective protagonist, who has always “felt I was living backwards—the future seemed more real than the past,” and has grown to feel “as if ordinary people no longer existed.” His obsession begins when he stumbles across a film he finds eerily compelling, by an obscure French director named Jean Rien. Martin senses that the movie touches the edge of some awful, crucial significance; he feels driven to seek out more of Rien’s work. He soon finds, though, that Rien’s films are more than merely obscure—they are maddeningly elusive, impossible to find, and the closer he seems to get to a lead on Rien, the more harshly it is snatched away from him.
  • От голубого к черному Джоэл Лейн
    ISBN: 978-5-17-047040-2, 978-5-93827-107-4
    Год издания: 2007
    Издательство: АСТ, Компания Адаптек
    Язык: Русский

    Рок-н-ролльный роман "От голубого к черному" повествует о жизни и взаимоотношениях музыкантов культовой английской рок-группы "Triangle" начала девяностых, это своего рода психологическое погружение в атмосферу целого пласта молодежной альтернативной культуры.

  • The Lost District and Other Stories Joel Lane
    ISBN: 978-1597800396
    Год издания: 2006
    Издательство: Night Shade Books
    Язык: Английский
    In "The Lost District," Simon relates his two grungy, teen couplings with a girl from a terminally down-at-the-heels neighborhood and the hard time he has years later finding the scenes of their passion. The story resembles Lane's corrosively memorable novel, The Blue Mask (2003), in that it's dark and creepy but no more supernatural than, say, The Silence of the Lambs. The other 23 stories are more fantastic. They disclose passages to existential cul-de-sacs that are hard to leave intact and that give hard answers to profound questions, as in "Exposure," where the truth revealed about the afterlife is enough to make atheists despair. This is dark fantasy informed by political anger. In actuality just barely fantastic, it makes China Mieville seem cheery.

    Ray Olson
    Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved
  • The Blue Mask Джоэл Лейн
    ISBN: 978-1852426880
    Год издания: 2003
    Издательство: Serpent's Tail
    Birmingham, England, university students Neil and Matt fall out after Matt beds his ex while celebrating Labour's 1995 electoral triumph, and Neil goes cruising. He picks up some damn rough trade, and his movie-star face gets slashed. As scarred psychologically as physically, Neil drops his doctoral studies, gives up political activism, leaves Matt, and adopts an alter ego named Jason. He goes in search of his assailant, thinking he just wants to come to an understanding, but he is really losing his soul as he trolls Birmingham's gay pubs. Finally, three years after the attack, he gets solid information about the slasher when he--not the slasher--is taken in for murder. By then, Neil is no longer Jason, thanks to a week's role-playing with an S & M guy, and he has a new lover, sort of. Neil's salvation via sexual healing is hard to swallow, but Lane's gay roman noir otherwise possesses immense authority, steeped as it is in those staples of decadent youth--leftist politics, rock, booze, drugs, and edgy sex.

    Ray Olson
    Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
  • From Blue to Black Joel Lane
    ISBN: 1852426187, 978-1852426187
    Год издания: 2000
    Издательство: Serpent's Tail
    Язык: Английский

    In the early 1990s, in England's 'Black Country', a band called Triangle are a cult item on the post-punk music scene. Karl is the brilliant but troubled vocalist, haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between chasing fame and desiring oblivion, between men and women, music and silence. David is the bass player with a record collection, struggling to make sense of Karl's unhinged reality. As the band make waves through London, Dublin and Amsterdam, with the obligatory drink, sex and blurred reality, Karl starts to come apart.

  • The Earth Wire and Other Stories Джоэл Лейн
    ISBN: 978-0951852026
    Год издания: 1994
    Издательство: Egerton P.