Gestern durfte ich auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, die bei uns an der Uni Kassel stattfand, ein kurzes Panel zu Weird Fiction moderieren dürfen (https://www.uni-kassel.de/tagung-konferenz/gff2024/programm). Darin warf Endre Hárs einen enorm spannenden Blick auf die ungarische Weird Fiction, etwa von Attila Veres, die leider so gut wie nicht übersetzt ist. Diese Sammlung von Veres gibt es aber auf Englisch. Kennt die jemand?
The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
Autor: Attila Veres
Mit einer Einleitung von Steve Rasnic Tem
Verlag: Valancourt Books (3. Oktober 2023)
Taschenbuch, 309 Seiten
ISBN-10 : 1954321708
ISBN-13 : 978-1954321700
Klappentext:
Attila Veres, Hungary's leading horror writer, makes his English debut at last in this groundbreaking new collection featuring ten of his finest tales. The volume opens with 'To Bite a Dog', in which a man's budding relationship is jeopardized by his girlfriend's bizarre and macabre habit involving dogs. 'Fogtown' tells of a legendary '90s rock band whose music nobody has ever actually heard but which might nonetheless spell doom for a man obsessed with finding their recordings. 'Multiplied by Zero' is a wry travelogue in which a man recounts his hellish experiences on a holiday tour exploring Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story 'The Black Maybe', which Steve Rasnic Tem calls 'one of the weirdest tales I've read in years', a girl and her family escape the city bustle to experience farm life, only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there.
These tales showcase a range of genres and styles, from weird fiction to folk horror to cosmic horror, and reveal a dazzlingly original new writer whose stories are thrilling, frightening, often blackly humorous, and totally unlike anything you have read before.
Verlagslink: https://www.valancourtbooks.com/attilaveres.html