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About T.E. Grau
T.E. Grau is a Shirley Jackson Award- and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose books include I Am The River (nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel), They Don't Come Home Anymore, The Mission, and The Nameless Dark (nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection). His work has been published around the world, translated into Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Japanese. Grau lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and is represented by Kim Yau (film/TV - Los Angeles) and Katelyn Dougherty (literary - New York) at Paradigm Talent Agency.
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Blog postCover created and designed by Ives HovanessianAfter a "fluid" official release day dating back to June (timing issues), today - October 3rd, in this the year of our blind and faceless and imaginary lord 2018 - arrives as the official release date of my debut novel I Am The River.
Aside from the joy of putting another book into the stream of civilization, this is an auspicious occasion on a personal level for several reasons, the most superficial of which is the attainment1 year ago Read more -
Blog postCover by Ives Hovanessian
I never know how long a story is going to be when I begin writing it. I have a rough idea, based on the scope of the plot and complexity of the narrative, but that’s always vague and never completely predictive. I only truly find out when it’s complete. Maybe I don’t have the proper control over the work I’m doing, or perhaps it’s more about trusting the story to tell me what it wants to be, how it wants to present itself to the world.
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Blog postSome writers predict the future. Those working in fantastical, dystopian, and science fiction have been doing it for years. Jules Verne foresaw the development of advanced submarine technology. H.G. Wells saw much, including atomic weaponry, tanks, motion-sensor doors, voicemail. Arthur C. Clarke wrote about the rise of electronic media, virtual reality video games, the reliance upon communication satellites, and space tourism. George Orwell, the proliferation of NSA spying on its citizenry. Wil3 years ago Read more
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Blog postI am happy to announce that my newest novella, I Am The River, will be published in October/November of 2017 by Lethe Press, the same outfit that released my debut collection in 2015.
Moreover, I am proud to release the cover of I Am The River, created by Ives Hovanessian, which - as with all of Ives' covers - certainly adds an extra element of beauty and fascination to the book. I am and have been so luck to have her creative talents associated with my work.
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Blog postTrick or treating last night with Ivy and Fish was as lovely and fun as it is every year, but came with a tiny flavor of bittersweet.
South Pasadena – the only place we celebrate Halloween night – once again outdid itself, decking out historic-zoned Craftsman homes and tree-lined streets with lights and music and fog and Hollywood-grade horror props. Front doors were open, porches filled with smiling faces handing out candy and coffee, and the sidewalks were crowded with people who – like3 years ago Read more -
Blog postLanguage is a bonding agent, a powerful force that groups us together and also keeps us apart from our fellow human beings.I write in English, and only English, as I have a hard enough time mastering one language sufficiently to commit it to the page in any sort of interesting fashion. As such, I do so admire anyone who can speak, think, and write in more than one language. That seems almost magical to me, like being possessed of a compartmentalized brain that is far beyond my abilities or compr3 years ago Read more
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Blog postI'm exceedingly proud to finally be able to reveal the cover for my upcoming release, They Don't Come Home Anymore: A Novella, a 32,000+ word story published by This Is Horror.
The cover art is by the exceptionally talented Candice Tripp, a UK painter and sculptor that my wife Ives Hovanessian turned me on to a few years back. Since then, I'd been waiting for the right project to coalesce that would be an ideal pairing of her artwork with a corresponding story that suited it, and t3 years ago Read more -
Blog postI recently attended a Brian Evenson reading held at Skylight Books in the appropriately understated, enduringly cool east Hollywood enclave of Los Feliz. During the Q & A session after he read his latest collection's titular piece, Evenson shared a personal story that had occurred in a parking garage just days before. As he was walking to his car one afternoon, he noticed a fluttering object up ahead of him, trapped in the corner of the structure, that appeared to be a distressed bird most l3 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt gives me great pleasure to announce that The Nameless Dark - A Collection was officially nominated today for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection.
I count this as especially meaningful, as The Shirley Jackson Awards have always focused on those writers that I personally think are among the best working today, consistently nominating and awarding such writers, editors, and other creatives as Brian Evenson, Michael Marshall Smith, Laird Barron, Nath4 years ago Read more -
Blog postLast October, I was invited to participate in something that I count as very special, as I was asked by Steve Fjeldsted, Director of Library Arts and Culture at the South Pasadena Library, to co-present the animated film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree at the library on October 29th, just a few days before All Hallow's Eve. As a huge Bradbury fan, I was incredibly honored to be involved in a public celebration of this icon's work, especially around Halloween, as no other American4 years ago Read more
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Blog postAfter writing everything other than fiction for so many years, I still have a hard time processing the fact that people will sit down and devote hours and hours to reading stories I write, then feel moved enough to compose extensive, detailed, thoughtful reviews on these stories, with the primary purpose of helping draw more readership to certain books and authors. It's a wonderful thing.
Writer Jose Cruz did just this, and posted up one of my favorite reviews The Nameles4 years ago Read more -
Blog postWhen I found out that Probably Monsters was Ray Cluley's first collection of short fiction, I was frankly a bit shocked. With the amount of times I'd seen his name included in anthologies, high end dark fiction journals, award lists (he won a British Fantasy Award in 2013 for Best Short Story and has garnered other accolades and honors), and year-end Best Ofs, I figured he had several dozen stories penned and a few collections under his belt.
But no, and so much the better, because4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI'd imagine it takes a lot to scare Stephen King. Not that horror writers are fearless. Far from it. I've found them to be - and they've told me that they are - some of the biggest scaredy cats on the planet. People often obsess over what bothers them, and horror writers are no different. But all that aside, and going on Mr. King's own words ("I'm pretty hard to scare") when Stephen King, the unrivaled sitting Monarch and Standard Bearer of Horror and someone who deals with spooks and4 years ago Read more
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Blog postImage used as example, not an indicator of reading the future
Due to several deadlines, I've been unable to complete my Year in Review posting that I had planned for just before the dawning of the New Year. I have SO MUCH to be thankful for over the last twelve months, and wanted to encapsulate it all into one cuddly, gushy mega-piece, but haven't had the proper time. I shall attempt to rectify that before the month comes to a close.
In the meantime, it's coming up upon awards4 years ago Read more -
Blog postNow that the cat is well out of the bag and skittering down the street, I may as well formally announce that I recently signed a publishing deal with This Is Horror for one, and possibly two, novellas to be published in mid 2016.
As for my reaction to the news, I think my quote available in the article says it best:"I’m incredibly excited to announce my commission by This Is Horror to write a new work of fiction under their proud banner. In writing this book, I get the opp4 years ago Read more -
Blog postAs I've written about before (so pardon my redundancy), I very much appreciate an author who gifts the universe with brand new real estate, carved out of the void and made real, then populated with a proprietary DNA all its own. Distinctive laws of nature, history, creation stories, creatures, physical laws, etc. This sort of hard won creative conjuring makes the space around us a wider and wilder place, and is one of the highest forms of literary achievement.
Acclaimed horror write4 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe read horror fiction - and watch slasher films, and gruesome documentaries, and online terrorist videos, and accident footage, etc. - because of what Joseph Conrad called "the fascination of the abomination." We like to view things that disquiet us, don't we? We hope that we see something that isn't meant for innocent eyes. Death revealed - and dodged - is as exhilarating as it is horrifying. Our minds sometimes can't take it, but also can't willingly turn away. We seek out the abomi4 years ago Read more
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Blog post"Spooky Sean" Thompson of Spooky Bloggery, as well as Miskatonic Musings and From the Nether Regions fame, recently interviewed me, and took it live this morning.
Check out the Random-Ass Interview here, and tag that Spooky Bloggery joint for future interviews, reviews, news, and posts from around the weird-o-sphere. Sean is a stone cold Horror Hound, and a swell fellow, and I thank him for the interview invite.4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI'm very happy to report that Publishers Weekly gave a lovely review of The Nameless Dark, beginning the piece as such:"The dark fiction in Grau’s first collection is nicely twisted, with stories that play on the best of eldritch horror, creating a sense of dread and the unexplained instead of overt malevolence."(please click here for the full review from the PW site)
It's a good feeling to know that the goal of your writing was achieved, at least in the eyes (an4 years ago Read more -
Blog postIt's been a while since we have had a guest blogger around these parts, but as we all know too well, that is not dead which can eternal lie... Our very own The Cosmicomicon can eternally lie with the best of them.
And now, over to David Anderson, who sent TC a piece on author David Conyers and his renowned Harrison Peel book series.
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ELDRITCH ESPIONAGE: LOOKING BACK AT HARRISON PEELby: David Ande4 years ago Read more -
Blog postIt is with a heavy heart that I type this brief announcement: I have stepped down as Fiction Editor of Strange Aeons magazine.
It wasn't an easy decision, but after thinking long and hard, and weighing my professional and personal priorities with my integrity as an editor, I decided it was in everyone's best interest that I leave the magazine as Fiction Editor.
With the release of my first collection, I will be eyeing larger and more ambitious writing projects goi5 years ago Read more -
Blog postCover artwork by Santiago Caruso
Every insular creative scene has its personalities, its movers, its stars. It's like the cover of Tiger Beat magazine. Or a boy band... covered by Tiger Beat magazine. These personalities have labels: The Shy One. The Flirt. The Bad Boy. The Heartthrob.
As mainstream publishing occasionally—and grudgingly—accepts while also further insulates indie press Weird fiction (not an easy bit of cultural gymnastics), a brighter light is being5 years ago Read more -
Blog postCover art by Adolfo Navarro/cover design by Scott R. Jones
Every story sale is cause for celebration. Every single one, every single time. How can it not be? I simply cannot imagine ever becoming jaded to the circumstance where a publisher read and enjoyed your story to such an extent that they not only want to put it in their book that will be marketed around the world, but they also want to pay you money for the right to showcase your writing, in hopes that it will earn them money in ret5 years ago Read more -
Blog postCover by Mohloco
In addition to my writing endeavors, I also am the Fiction Editor for a fabulous little magazine known as Strange Aeons.
Through the years, we have showcased some of the best in cosmic, horror, Weird, and Lovecraftian fiction, comics, news, and reviews, and our upcoming issue is no exception.
I am honored to announce the inclusion of two new, previously unpublished pieces of fantastical fiction in our most recent edition, Issue #16. Molly Tanzer's "O5 years ago Read more -
Blog postCover by Pye Parr
Very little of what is classified as horror fiction or contemporary Weird fiction scares me, and that's okay, because I don't read this style of literature to be frightened. I don't like to be frightened. Truly terrified. Who does, really, if we are being totally honest with ourselves? There are plenty of undertakings one can pursue if genuine fear (not thrills, or shock) is the end result, and I don't see me or anyone else I know heading down those paths, either in a lit5 years ago Read more
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Books By T.E. Grau
In the Court of the Yellow King
Sep 30, 2014
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Laurel Halbany ,
CJ Henderson ,
Gary McMahon ,
William Meikle
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Lost Signals
Jul 29, 2016
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Josh Malerman ,
Damien Angelica Walters ,
Matthew M. Bartlett ,
David James Keaton ,
Tony Burgess ,
Max Booth III ,
Lori Michelle ,
Scott Nicolay
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The Nameless Dark: A Collection
Jul 15, 2015
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I Am The River: A Novel
Sep 2, 2018
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Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Aug 15, 2015
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Orrin Grey ,
Richard Lee Byers ,
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G. D. Falksen ,
Ross E. Lockhart
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Tales from The Lake Vol.4: The Horror Anthology
Oct 27, 2017
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Kealan Patrick Burke ,
Damien Angelica Walters ,
Jennifer Loring ,
Gene O'Neill ,
Maria Alexander ,
Michael Bailey ,
Darren Speegle ,
JG Faherty ,
Ben Eads
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Tales of Jack the Ripper
Jul 18, 2013
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Joe R. Lansdale ,
Ramsey Campbell ,
Walter Greatshell ,
Ed Kurtz ,
Mercedes M. Yardley ,
Stanley C. Sargent ,
Joseph S. Pulver Sr. ,
E. Catherine Tobler ,
Ross E. Lockhart
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They Don't Come Home Anymore
Nov 28, 2016
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