"As a critic of the macabre, in closeness of reading and clarity of insight, Joel Lane is unsurpassed. As a fiction writer he’s just as intelligent and keen-eyed. His prose is spare and sharp, his vision is bracingly bleak. He’s one of the absolute treasures of our field."
– Ramsey Campbell
"A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant. A cartographer of Birmingham and the Black Country as necropolis and weird edgeland. A chronicler of subcul...
– Ramsey Campbell
"A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant. A cartographer of Birmingham and the Black Country as necropolis and weird edgeland. A chronicler of subcul...


