Datlow, Ellen (ed) - The Cutting Room / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Монтажная [2014, epub, ENG]

The Cutter short story by Edward Bryant The Hanged Man of Oz short story by Steve Nagy Deadspace novelette by Dennis Etchison Cuts novelette by F. Paul Wilson Final Girl Theory short story by A. C. Wise Lapland, or Film Noir / Лапландия, или Фильм-Нуар short story by Peter Straub The Thousand Cuts / Монтаж short story by Ian Watson Occam's Ducks short story by Howard Waldrop Dead Image / Мёртвая копия novelette by David Morrell The Constantinople Archives short story by Robert Shearman each thing i show you is a piece of my death novelette by Stephen J. Barringer and Gemma Files Cinder Images short story by Gary McMahon The Pied Piper of Hammersmith short story by Nicholas Royle Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of 'Fitzcarraldo' short story by Garry Kilworth Onlookers novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck Recreation poem by Lucy A. Snyder Bright Lights, Big Zombie novelette by Douglas E. Winter She Drives the Men to Crimes of Passion! short story by Genevieve Valentine Even the Pawn short story by Joel Lane Tenderizer short story by Stephen Graham Jones Ardor novelette by Laird Barron Final Girl II: The Frame / Окончательная девушка-2: рамка poem by Daphne Gottlieb Illimitable Dominion novelette by Kim Newman

A GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Our initial purpose is to discuss the effect, the feeling tone of headlights reflected on wet urban streets in Lapland, Florida. This is central to our discourse, the feeling tone of those reflections. By implication, then, rain; cars veering at great speed around sharp corners; unholstered pistols, brandished; desperate men; a sick, thrilled sense of impendingness. The immediate historical context plays a central role, as does a profound national sense of the shameful, the squalid, matters never acknowledged in the golden but streaky Florida light. You’d need a spotlight and a truncheon to beat it out of these people. Florida, it will be remembered, tends toward the hot, the dark, the needy, the rotting, the “sultry.” The stunted and unnatural. Lapland, i.e., someone’s (theoretically) warm yet not really comfortable, in fact impossibly dispossessing. . . . . . .