Datlow, Ellen (ed) - Children of Lovecraft / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Дети Лавкрафта [2023, epub, ENG]

Nesters / Поселенцы short story by Siobhan Carroll Little Ease / Стеснённая пустота novelette by Gemma Files Eternal Troutland / Вечная Форелия novelette by Stephen Graham Jones The Supplement / Восполнение short fiction by John Langan Mortensen's Muse / Муза Мортенсена short story by Orrin Grey Oblivion Mode / Режим забвения novelette by Laird Barron Mr. Doornail / М-р Дорнейл short story by Maria Dahvana Headley The Secrets of Insects / Тайны насекомых short story by Richard Kadrey Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille / Фигуры для эсхатологической кадрили novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan Jules and Richard / Жюль и Ричард novelette by David Nickle Glasses / Очки short story by Brian Evenson When the Stitches Come Undone / Когда швы расходятся novelette by A. C. Wise On These Blackened Shores of Time / На этих обугленных берегах времени novelette by Brian Hodge Bright Crown of Joy / Сияющая корона радости novelette by Livia Llewellyn

I saw it happen, watched the street open up and swallow my son whole. I understand human stress response, how it works. When violent chaos hits you without warning, the mind has to catch up. It lags behind to make sense of things. Four seconds, on average. Your world can end in those four seconds. When I replay the moment in my head, in those four seconds I do superhuman deeds. I spring into action a nanosecond after the pavement starts to buckle. I cross the cul-de-sac at the end of our street in a blur. I catch Drew’s car by the bumper, so it teeters on the brink long enough for him to scramble out and jump to safety before I let go, then hold him tight as we watch the taillights plummet down the sinkhole. In those four seconds, I’m not a former special agent with the Bureau. I never went into the private sector for the money, giving corporate seminars on better business through reading body language. None of that. In those four seconds, I’m the superhero my boy grew up believing me to be. . . .