The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories

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Matthew Cheney believes Science Fiction is writing about the future, while Horror is writing about what is happening right now. His stories are an unflinching examination of society. The characters are real. Some are full of tenderness. Some are vulnerable. Some are full of darkness. Cheney presents explanations for everyone, but the reader is left to decide. His style defines painting off the canvas. But it's a vivid, stark painting that will leave the reader deep in thought. Here are a few talking points regarding Cheney: 1. Awards: Winner of the Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press), nominee for the World Fantasy Award (2005), Pushcart Prize (various years). Included as author of ?Notable Stories? for Best American Short Stories (ed. Stephen King) and Best American Mystery Stories (ed. Carl Hiaasen) in 2007, ?Honorable Mention? Best Horror of the Year (ed. Ellen Datlow), 2015. In this book, ?After the End of the End of the World? was a Pushcart Nominee, ?Patrimony? on the list for Best Horror of the Year. 2. Stories have been reprinted in Best Gay Stories (2016) and Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2014, 2017). In this book, ?Killing Fairies? was in Best Gay Stories. 3. Blog The Mumpsimus (http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com). World Fantasy Award nomination. 4. Academic: Known as a scholar of the works of Samuel R. Delany. Wrote introductions for three of Delany's books. Author of Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020) and About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community (Punctum Books, 2022). Assistant Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire. 5. Nonfiction published by Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review of Books. 6. Shirley Jackson Award juror, 2012 7. Series editor for Best American Fantasy anthologies published by Prime Books with Jeff & Ann VanderMeer as editors and Underland Press with Kevin Brockmeier as editor. 8. Co-editor of the occasional online magazine (now on hiatus), The Revelator, http://revelatormagazine.com/ 7. The Last Vanishing Man collects 14 stories, including three first published by theprestigious, award-winning literary journal Conjunctions. 8. One of the stories in the book, ?Killing Fairies?, was reprinted in Best Gay Stories2016 (Lethe Press) edited by Steve Berman. 9.Three of the stories are previously unpublished in any form (?WinnipesaukeeDarling?, ?Wild Longing?, ?The Ballad of Jimmy and Myra?). 10. Biographical info of perhaps some use: Matthew Cheney grew up in a gun shop inNew Hampshire, and despite many times escaping, he has lived most of his life in theGranite State, which is apparent in his fiction. Currently, he lives in the house hegrew up in, which he inherited on his father's death in 2007. He converted the old gunshop into a personal library. He once played the title character in a zero-budget movie called Zombie Boy.