“Hill House itself, not sane, stood alone against its hills, holding darkness within.”

Shirley Jackson’s the Haunting of Hill House

Genius Loci: a person who is a place, a cluster of will and thought inhabiting a location. A sentient desert, forest, or street. Hiveminds and personifications, protectors and hungry predators.

Place-as-person has been a cherished theme of religion and fiction for many years. Genius Loci will be a collection of new stories dealing with genius loci and sentient geography.

Genius Loci funded successfully on Kickstarter and is now in copyediting and production. Huge thanks to all of the backers!

Table of Contents

Santa Cruz–Andy Duncan And the Trees Were Happy—Scott Edelman Blackthorn—B. Morris Allen Ouroboros in Orbit—Jason Batt Reef—K.C. Norton Scab Land—Wendy Wagner The Forgetting Field—Caroline Ratajski The Town the Forest Ate—Haralambi Markov Imperator Noster—Sonya Taaffe The Other Shore—Rebecca Campbell The South China Sea—Z.M. Quynh Iron Feliks—Anatoly Belilovsky Forest For the Trees—Steven S. Long Drowning Again—Ken Scholes and Katie Cord The Grudge—Thoraiya Dyer Twilight State—Gemma Files Coaltown—Heather Clitheroe In the Water, Underneath—Damien Angelica Walters Afterparty—Chaz Brenchly The Gramadevi’s Lament—Sunil Patel Blue & Grey and Black & Green—Alethea Kontis Heartbeat—Laura Anne Gilman Long Way Down—Seanan McGuire The Snow Train—Ken Liu The City–Vivienne Pustell The Crooked Smile Killers—James Lowder Threadbare Magician—Cat Rambo Serenity Eternal–Steven Silver Beer and Pennies—Rich Dansky The Sleck–Keris MacDonald The Transplant Specialist–Sarah Goslee Cactus Flowers and Bone Flutes–Mercedes M. Yardley

So, by my count, we have 14 men and 18 women, and a bunch of stories set in non-North American spaces, which is fantastic. Carrie Sessarego will be writing introductions to each story, as well as a little about the history of genius loci as a concept. Lisa Grabenstetter and Evan Jensen will be providing some amazing interior art.