Fearful Symmetries by Thomas F. Monteleone

Author:Thomas F. Monteleone [Monteleone, Thomas F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9781587670534
Goodreads: 363010
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
Published: 2004-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

There is a very sweet and wonderful couple living in a northern section of Baltimore known as Roland Park. The neighborhood is full of gigantic trees and large Victorian homes, and looks like it fell through a time-warp from an earlier era. Much like the couple themselves—John and Joyce Maclay, are as gentle and warmly intelligent as a husband and wife could be. John has been a writer for as long as I’ve known him, but he and Joyce are also publishers of fine small press books.1 Maclay & Associates has published a variety of non-fiction books about the cultural side of Baltimore, and also an impressive array of horror and dark fantasy anthologies, edited by John and Joyce, and a handful of others in the field.

When John invited me to contribute to a limited edition anthology he was putting together, to be published by his own small press in Baltimore2, I jumped at the chance to work with him again. Entitled Voices from the Night, it was not a theme anthology; in fact, John was not looking for any particular kind of story. He just wanted his contributors to write a story that was “dark,” I think was his exact word to me.

When I sat down to do the following piece, I wasn’t sure what I would come up with because I was in the middle of a novel (like, when am I not?), and it is sometimes hard to “switch gears” and downshift to the short fiction mode from all that lengthy exposition of the book-length manuscript. No, strike that from the record—it is always hard to change modes. But I always make the attempt because I love the short story form, and I love the endless challenge of writing them. So anyway, I start staring at my keyboard and I think Maclay, and I think of Baltimore, and I decide to set the story in that city, and my protagonist will write for the Baltimore Sun, and let’s see…let’s make him a real son-of-a-bitch-bastard of a guy…

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