Lynda E. Rucker is one of the finest practitioners of weird fiction in contemporary horror, and the latest collection of her strange and subtle fiction, Now It’s Dark, is out now from Swan River Press. In the third of this four-part interview, she talks to Gemma and Simon about the creative process, the idea of fiction as dreaming with your eyes open and the importance of grounding the weird in the mundane. We’ll also be discussing Lynda’s love of experimental film and her thoughts on the short story versus the novel as a vehicle for strange fiction.

You can buy Now It’s Dark here:

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/

Lynda’s second collection, You’ll Know When You Get There, is now available in paperback here:

https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/

And you can order her first collection, The Moon Will Look Strange, here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Will-Look-Strange/dp/1492314641

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