Lovecraft Slithered Onto the Floor
Jeff VanderMeer • February 1st, 2010 • Fiction
I’ve been posting a draft of a very strange story on facebook. I don’t actually have access to facebook right now–I’ve locked myself out–but posting photos remotely seems to work out just fine. I have no idea if anyone’s reading and am not really curious to find out. But the upshot is I’m slowly building a tale…of sorts. Lately, it’s gotten out of hand.
(But don’t read that–read this!)






Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner, 12-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award as a fiction writer, editor, and publisher. The final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch,was published in 2009 and was a finalist for the Locus Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award. The Steampunk Bible came out in 2011. Recent books coedited with his wife Ann include The Weird and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity and he his currently working on a unique illustrated guide to writing entitled Wonderbook. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America's American Fantastic Tales, and several year's best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, the LA Times, The Guardian, and many others. He has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress and helps run the Shared Worlds teen SF/Fantasy writing camp out of Wofford College. VanderMeer recently completed the first novel in the Southern Reach series, titled Annihilation.