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

Name: The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms
Rating: 3.208 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9781955765343

By Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner

Publisher Description

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

3.0

Samantha H.

Created 8 months ago

“The Map of Lost Places is a horror anthology of 22 short stories. This one took me a while. Girlboss in Wonderworld, USA is my absolute favorite of the bunch. With such a strong start, I did expect to enjoy the rest of the book more than I did. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.”

Sarah Jenkins

Created 12 months ago

“Thank you so much to Apex and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title!! This collection of short stories was at times enough to make me stop reading, put down my kindle, and just think about what I’d read - I find it truly amazing the abilities some writers have to convey so much thought, emotion and feeling in so few words. However, a few too many of the stories just didn't feel cohesive to the theme that is meant to bind the stories together, and took me out of the enjoyment for a moment. There were also one or two of the stories that were just slightly Unpleasant in general to read. Overall I enjoyed this collection, I just wish it would've trended more slightly to staying on topic!”

Shaggy Shepherd Books

Created about 1 year ago

“I absolutely love the idea of this. I love how varied the stories are and how they're based in so many different countries, with various cultures being represented. But while I did really enjoy a handful of the stories, overall the collection didn't quite hit the mark for me. I really struggled to get invested in some of them and some of the ones I did still like just felt too short. While short stories are a fun way to read about something new, not every story can be as detailed as I'd like them to be in that format so sometimes I was left wanting more plot, more emotion, or more world building. I do know I'm very picky with short stories though, so if this is a format you find yourself liking often, the variety in this collection is likely to be a good fit for you then!”

Sydney Carothers

Created about 1 year ago

“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.”

Megan Soileau

Created about 1 year ago

““In the end, we all become stories.” The Map of Lost Places is a short story collection featuring tales of off the beaten path locations and what you might find there. It’s full of surprises and twists and will keep you entertained. They are long enough to have some substance but short enough to keep your attention for a quick read. Recommended if you like: mystery/thrillers, science fiction, short story anthologies I received an advanced copy of this short story collection via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.”