SMFS list member James D.F. Hannah’s short story, Road
to Nowhere, appears in the new anthology, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Crime
Fiction Incited by the Songs of the Talking Heads. Published by Shotgun
Honey, the anthology is available at the publisher,
Amazon, and other vendors.
Publisher Description:
Twelve of today’s most innovative crime fiction authors bring
the songs of the Talking Heads to life in this blistering collection.
A charity
anthology to benefit the fight against climate change, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
is a dazzling exploration of what crime fiction can entail — deftly mixing
grimy crime, small-town grit lit, literary noir, and tales that blend crime
with speculative fiction, sci-fi, road trip comedy, magical realism, and
horror.
In this
collection, readers will meet musicians desperate to escape their dying towns,
con men with violent histories, detectives haunted by the ghosts of the past,
women who refuse to be defined by the narrow expectations placed upon them,
slimy magicians poised for a final vanishing act — and even a magic talking
guitar. They will traverse back alleys populated by the desperate and the
violent, attend desert weddings gone horribly wrong, unravel murders wrapped in
ambiguity, visit alternate futures defined by ecological collapse and resurgent
fascism, travel back to the turn of the 20th century, and experience visions
where the very ideas of truth and reality collapse in on themselves.
This
collection will delight, challenge and inspire crime readers of all kinds with
stories from exciting up-and-comers and award-winning veterans — including Best
American Mystery and Suspense-selected author and Shamus Award-winner James
D.F. Hannah; World Fantasy Award-winner and Bram Stoker Award-winner P.D.
Cacek; Derringer Award-winner Bobby Mathews; Shamus Award-winner Libby Cudmore;
and Alex Award-winner Gregory Galloway.
