The Earth Wire
Published on 23. October 2020
256 pages
978-1-910312-58-2 (ISBN)
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'A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant.' - Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual Joel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK's foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban weird fiction. His debut collection, The Earth Wire was first published in 1994 by Egerton Press and is reissued in paperback by Influx Press for the first time in over twenty-five years. Love and death. Sex and despair. The Earth Wire is a thrilling, disturbing examination of the means and the cost of survival. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NINA ALLAN
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Joel Lane was the author of two novels, From Blue to Black and The Blue Mask; several short story collections, The Earth Wire, The Lost District, The Terrible Changes, Do Not Pass Go, Where Furnaces Burn, The Anniversary of Never and Scar City; a novella, The Witnesses Are Gone; and four volumes of poetry, The Edge of the Screen, Trouble in the Heartland, The Autumn Myth and Instinct. He edited three anthologies of short stories, Birmingham Noir (with Steve Bishop), Beneath the Ground and Never Again (with Allyson Bird). He won an Eric Gregory Award, two British Fantasy Awards and a World Fantasy Award. Born in Exeter in 1963, he lived most of his life in Birmingham, where he died in 2013.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction by Nina Allan
- Common Land
- Albert Ross
- The Clearing
- The Night Won't Go
- Thicker Than Water
- Branded
- Wave Scars
- The Death of the Witness
- An Angry Voice
- Other Than the Fair
- And Some are Missing
- The Foggy, Foggy Dew
- Waiting for a Train
- The Circus Floor
- Playing Dead
- The Earth Wire
- In the Brightness of my Day
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements (1994)
- About the Publisher
- Copyright
- CRACKING JOKES ON THE EDGE OF SUICIDE:
