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The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms

By Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner
The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms by Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner digital book - Fable

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A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms.

In your hands is a guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan and hollows hidden deep within a forest in Pennsylvania, strange things can happen no matter where you are. You can become lost in a city crowded with people, haunted within your own home, and slip from one reality into another in the space of a step.

With twenty-two stories by authors such as Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, and KS Walker, editors Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where weird things happen. Places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be.

Welcome to The Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk.

Table of Contents

This Is the Map, Let's Get Lost (Introduction) - Linda D. Addison
Girlboss in Wonderworld, USA - Vivian Chou
Blood in Coldwater - Danian Darrell Jerry
This Side of the Living - VH Ncube
Hulderhola - Oliver Ferrie
Silverheels - Rebecca E. Treasure
The Salt - Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv
Three Ways to Break You - Beth Dawkins
Place of Lost Stories - Rich Larson
All Praise the Durians - Joshua Lim
A Realm Alive After Dusk - Ai Jiang
Salt - K.S. Walker
When I Cowboy in Puuwaawaa - Ferdison Cayetano
Development/Hell - Samit Basu
The (Lost) Tribe of Ishmael - Maurice Broaddus
Inviting the Hollow Bones - Octavia Cade
Chuckle Wet, Chuckle Low - R.L. Meza
Codewalker - G.M. Paniccia
In Nobody's Debt - Jenny Rowe
The Death of Black Fatima - Muhammed Awal Ahmed
Notes Towards a History of LeHorn's Hollow - Brian Keene
The Promised Void - Dimitra Nikolaidou
You Have Eaten of Our Salt - Fatima Taqvi

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3.5
Thinking Face“received an advanced copy through NetGalley. I felt very mixed about these stories as a whole. Most of them I liked a lot, the environment was really interesting as was the way that the characters interacted with it. However, there were some where I felt that the environment was a little loser or not developed as well as others. There were also some where the story just ended not in a satisfying way. This story collection isn’t focused on happy ending which is fine but some of the stories just seemed to stop instead of ending. Overall, I thought that the stories were overall interesting though some were a little long and lack-luster.”
“Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. Well, like a lot of anthologies, some worked and some didn’t. My favorites were: - Girlboss in Wonderworld, USA - Three Ways to Break You - All Praise the Durians - Development/Hell - Inviting the Hollow Bones I absolutely LOVED Development/Hell by Samit Basu. It was such a cool concept and I could have followed the rabbit hole of horror layers down and down. Someone give me this movie now! I added a whole star just for this one. Overall it was a fun read and some were genuinely unsettling”

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