Fear Itself Ottawa Launch June 28

I’m very excited to launch my Lethe Press collection Fear Itself at Ottawa’s Perfect Books on Wed., June 28.

Doors open, 6:00 p.m. 
Reading and Q&A, 6:30-8:00 p.m. 
Host: Dr. Sean Moreland.

Special guest: Sean McKibbon

Perfect Books. 258A Elgin St.
More accessibility via walkway from Somerset St.
Free.

Delighted to announce my host for the launch is none other than Dr. Moreland, aka Sean Moreland, my fellow co-founder of the Little Workshop of Horrors writers’ group, which we began back in fall 2012. In fact, most of the stories in Fear Itself Mr. Moreland saw in their nascent (or “drafty”, as we called them) form. I’m thrilled to reconnect with them after such a long absence of not connecting face-to-face. How I’ve missed them, and their perspectives. 

Fear Itself is a special blend of mainly horror, with a soupçon of fantasy and sci-fi with ten stories in all, which Publishers Weekly calls “unsettling”. But find out for yourself, fair reader.

Here’s Dr. Moreland’s bio.

Sean Moreland teaches at the University of Ottawa. Their essays, primarily focused on Gothic, horror and weird fiction in its literary, cinematic, and sequential art guises, have most recently appeared in Horror Literature Through History and The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. They recently edited The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and New Directions in Supernatural Horror: The Critical Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft (Palgrave, 2018). They are working on a monograph tentatively titled Repulsive Influences: 350 Years of Cosmic Horror and occasionally blog about weirdness at Postscripts to Darkness.