Prisms

Michael Marshall Smith

Written Backwards, Mar 20, 2023 - Fiction - 334 pages

An anthology of dark science fiction and fantasy co-edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey. Prisms are instruments, mirrors, metaphors, gateways humankind must pass through in order to achieve, to overcome, to realize, to become. Contained herein are nineteen transformative tales from some of speculative fiction's most brilliant minds. So open your eyes and let the light pass through . . .

About the author

Michael Bailey is a recipient and eight-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, a four-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, a multiple recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, and over two dozen independent publishing accolades. He has authored numerous novels, novellas, novelettes, and fiction & poetry collections. Recent publications include Agatha's Barn, a tie-in novella to Josh Malerman's Carpenter's Farm, a collaborative novella with Erinn L. Kemper called The Call of the Void, and Sifting the Ashes, a poetry collection with Marge Simon. His manuscript for a nonfiction book Righting Writing is used as curriculum for writers at Manuscripts LLC.Along with being the screenwriter for Madness and Writers: The Untold Truth, he runs the small press Written Backwards and has edited and published twelve anthologies, such as The Library of the Dead, Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, and the Chiral Mad series.He lives in Costa Rica where he is rebuilding his life after surviving one of the most catastrophic wildfires in California history, which is explored in his memoir Seven Minutes.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Prisms
• Author: Michael Marshall Smith
• Editors: Michael Bailey, Darren Speegle
• Publisher: Written Backwards, 2023
• ISBN: 9798986748870
• Length: 334 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)