The Art of Rithika Merchant

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Molotov Magazine #4

I am delighted to be included in Issue 4 of Molotov Magazine. A big thanks to editor of Alessandro Manzetti and translator Francesca Noto. 

“Feral” originally appeared in The Porcupine Boy & Other Anthological Oddities, Ed. Christopher M. Jones, Crossroad Press (2019)and was reprinted in The Dark, Issue 64 (2020).

Sono lieta che una delle mie opere sia stata inclusa nel quarto numero di Molotov Magazine. Grazie di cuore al curatore della rivista, Alessandro Manzetti, e a Francesca Noto, che ha tradotto in italiano il mio racconto.

‘Feral’ (in italiano  ‘Selvaggia’) è stato originariamente pubblicato nell’antologia ‘The Porcupine Boy & Other Anthological Oddities’ (Crossroads Press 2019), curata da Christopher M. Jones, e poi ristampato nel numero 64 (2020) della rivista The Dark.

Italian Translation of Ormeshadow

Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma coming in October!

We are happy to announce the release of Ormeshadow, by Priya Sharma, is among the spearheads of the new generation of English weird. His works have appeared in several magazines such as Black Static, Interzone, Nightmare and The Dark, and translated in various countries around the world.

Ormeshadow, orpear winner of the Shirley Jackson Award 2019 and the British Fantasy Award 2020, is a touching coming-of-age story, between dark atmospheres and messages of hope, which presents for the first time to the Italian public the talent of Priya Sharma.

Ormeshadow will be previewed at Stranimondi 2022 while the official release is scheduled for October 13, 2022 in the Visioni series, with a translation by Elena Furlan.

Synopsis

England. Victorian age. The life of the young Gideon Baltam revolves around the family and the hard rhythms of the Ormesleep farm in the town of Ormeshadow, a place steeped in myths and legends: Orme, a dragon buried and asleep, pervaded by dreams of resentment, jealousy, death, prepares to awaken. Or so the legends say.

-Edizioni Hypnos website

Ormeshadow di Priya Sharma in arrivo a ottobre!

Siamo felici di annunciare l’uscita di Ormeshadow, di Priya Sharma, è tra le punte di diamante della nuova generazione del weird inglese. Le sue opere sono apparse su diverse riviste quali Black Static, Interzone, Nightmare e The Dark, e tradotte in vari paesi del mondo. 

Ormeshadow, opera vincitrice dello Shirley Jackson Award 2019 e del British Fantasy Award 2020, è una toccante storia di formazione, tra atmosfere oscure e messaggi di speranza, che presenta per la prima volta al pubblico italiano il talento di Priya Sharma.

Ormeshadow sarà presentato in anteprima a Stranimondi 2022 mentre l’uscita ufficiale è prevista per il 13 ottobre 2022 nella collana Visioni, con traduzione di Elena Furlan.

Sinossi

Inghilterra. Età vittoriana. La vita del giovane Gideon Baltam ruota attorno alla famiglia e ai duri ritmi della fattoria di Ormesleep nella località di Ormeshadow, luogo intriso di miti e leggende: Orme, un drago sepolto e addormentato, pervaso da sogni di risentimento, di gelosia, di morte, si prepara al risveglio. O così almeno dicono le leggende.

-Edizioni Hypnos website

My huge thanks to Edizioni Hypnos and Stranimondi – I am VERY excited to be attending the launch in Milan in October 2022.

This book was originally published by Tor.com in 2019

Mari Lwyd narrated by Dion Winton-Polak

In 2020 I wrote a short story for the Sinister Horror Company‘s Advent Calendar. I based it on Mari Lwyd- the Welsh wassailing custom that involves a hobby horse constructed from a horse’s skull.

It was later reprinted in the Black Shuck Books‘ anthology Dreamland: Other Stories.

I’m delighted to have it narrated by Dion Winton-Polak. He did a wonderful job of it but then went one step further. He also recorded it in Welsh. Massive thanks to him for doing this.

Mari Lywd (English)

Y Fari Lwyd (Welsh)

Learn more more about Mari Lwyd.

Finally, you can hear more stories performed by Dion Winton-Polak, read his audio Testimonials and hire him to perform your own work if you like. Email him at dion@thefinetoothed.com or find him on social media.

Sound design and attribution:

Intro and Outro music come from the Free Music Archive and are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. / The Intro music is called The Fifth Life, by Circus Marcus. / The Outro music is called Post Bellum, by Dee Yan-Kee. / The sound effects used have all been sourced from Freesound under the same Creative Commons license. They are as follows: Footsteps on coastal path #3 by arnaud coutancier , Countryside_Birds_Lambs_Rhos_Wales_April_9am , Countryside_Blackbird_Rhos_Wales_April_8pm by innov8ting, dig by maxthrower , ambience_rural_kitchen_silence by patobottos , Barn Sounds by bone666138, Crouching and getting up-dress by usamah , CoupleLaughing by morningfrost , 50-minigaspNina by wintuh, yeah by jburunet , children playing by goldkelchen , Footsteps on crunchy ice on sidewalk by OBXJohn , Five_Heavy_knocks_on_bedroom_door_2 by Omar Alvarado , fire wood bonfire low eq by homejrande