When I was first learning Chen-style taijiquan, my instructor would make us sit in a narrow horse stance, which was uncomfortable...
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, New Haven Review, and his essays and reportage in In These Times, Village Voice, The Smart Set, and other venues. As an anthologist, Nick co-edited Haunted Legends with Ellen Datlow, The Future is Japanese and Hanzai Japan with Masumi Washington, and the hybrid cocktail/fiction book Mixed Up with Molly Tanzer. His work has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Locus Awards.
A Night Out at a Nice Place
09 Jan, 2018
There was a peculiar kind of sadism, or was it masochism, involved in downlowing into a limbsuit and going out among the slowfolk...
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft
21 Nov, 2017
I drove a brand-new rental car I couldn’t afford—next year’s model, so in a way it was a car from the future—from the Amherst...
On the Occasion of My Retirement
22 Feb, 2016
Thank you all—faculty and students, deans and provosts, Ms. President and our board, community members and honored guests for...
The Phylactery
15 Dec, 2015
Tony had no idea how to explain it, so decided that he wouldn’t even try. Instead, he squeezed his palm around the filakto and...
FOUR IS ME! WITH SQUEEEEEE! (AND LOLER)
16 Aug, 2010
She wasn’t my grandma, but grandpa junior’s eighteenth or nineteenth wife, and I couldn’t help her. “Your computer belongs to...