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The publishing house Cloaked Press, LLC has recently announced that its new anthology Fall into Fantasy 2025 can be purchased on Kindle. Among the 15 stories contained in Fall into Fantasy 2025 is one entitled From Out the Boundless Deep, which I wrote under the name Rab Foster, the pseudonym I use for my fantasy fiction.
From Out the Boundless Deep has as its main character a woman called Kayra, who previously appeared in a story called The Trap Master, published away back in 2018 in the American webzine Aphelion. The premise of both stories is that Kayra inhabits a world where all the creatures of myth and legend – griffins, hydras, harpies, kelpies, minotaurs, etc. – are real and she makes a living by hunting and trapping them. In From Out the Boundless Deep, she’s summoned to a beach in a remote bay to deal with something that has unexpectedly surfaced there. I suppose the story is partly inspired by J.G. Ballard’s haunting tale of magical realism The Drowned Giant (1964). Though, like a lot of my Rab Foster stories, it owes a lot to the films of the legendary stop-motion-animation wizard Ray Harryhausen too.
To access the Kindle edition of Fall into Fantasy 2025, visit here.