Selena Chambers

Fiction

• “Body to Body to Body.” CTHULHU’S DAUGHTERS:  STORIES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR. Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles. Prime Books. May 2016. (Note: This is the US edition of SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS)
• “The Last Session, or The Facts in the Case of Clarissa Collyer.” Dunham Manor Press. February 2016.
• “Body to Body to Body.” SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS. Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles. October 2015. (World Fantasy Finalist for Anthology)
• “The Neurastheniac.” CASSILDA’S SONG. Edited by Joseph S. Pulver. February 2015. (World Fantasy Finalist for Short Story and Anthology).
• “Of Parallel and Parcel.” Micro-Chapbook. Limited to 50 copies. SOLD OUT. Dunhams Manor Press. December 2014.
• “Remnants of Lost Empires.” STARRY WISDOM LIBRARY. PS Publishing. Edited by Nate Pedersen. December 2014.
• “Descartar.” THE DARKE PHANTASTIQUE. Cycatrix Press. Edited by Jason V. Brock. October 2014. (Stoker Superior Achievement in Anthology Nominee)
• “The Şehrazatın Diyoraması Tour.” STEAMPUNK WORLD. Edited by Sarah Hans. Alliteration Ink. August 2014. (Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Award for Fiction Winner)
  • Reprinted in Words zine, HEX Publishers. April 2016.  FREE FICTION
• “The Venus of Great Neck.”Spanish/English. ACRONOS II. Edited by Josué Ramos. Tyrannosaurus Books. June 2014.
• “The Vintage Scenes.” MUNGBEING MAGAZINE. Issues #54-57 (FREE FICTION):
  • #1: Bandol, Chateau La Rouvière, 2002
  • #2: 2010 Bernkasteler Lay Riesling Spätlese
  • #3: Morellino di Scansano, 2011 Vendemmia
    • Reprinted in LIFE AFTER ASHES, a charity anthology edited by Steven Saus. Alliteration Ink. January 2015.
  • #4: Our Daily Red, Organic Wine Table Wine,

• “Dive In Me.” Co-written with Jesse Bullington. THE NEW GOTHIC. Stone Skin Press. Edited by Beth K. Lewis. February 2014.
• “The Good Shepherdess.”  ZOMBIES: SHAMBLING THROUGH THE AGES. Prime Books. Edited by Steve Berman. Aug 2013.
• “Dr. Lambshead’s Dark Room.” THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD’S CABINET OF CURISOSITIES. Harper Voyager. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. 2011.
  • REPRINT/SPANISH TRANSLATION. Planes B. Vol. 2. Edited by Josué Ramos. August 2013.
• “Ms. Geraldine Manville’s Beauty School for Little Goyles.” NEW MYTHS. Issue 12. September 1, 2010. FREE FICTION
• “Of Parallel and Parcel.”  MUNGBEING.  Issue #30: Secrets. 2010. (Pushcart nominee) FREE FICTION
• “Excerpt from Bakker Technologies’ Raptors Will Be Raptors: A Guide to Your New Pet.”  Yankee Pot Roast. February 3, 2009. (sadly, this inactive site has succumbed to spam ware).
• “United States of Kubla Khan.” MUNGBEING. Issue #7: Fanaticism. 2006. FREE FICTION

Editorial

• Guest Editor, Nonbinary Review: Issue 12: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Zoetic Press, March 2017
• Strange Horizons magazine.  Articles Senior editor (2010-2012).
• Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity. Assistant Editor to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Wyrm Publishing. November 2009.

Travel & Culture

• Wandering Spirits: Traveling Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Bicentennial Special Limited Edition of 200 copies. Tallhat Press. June 2016.
• “The Revolution Will Be Served: Jeff “Beachbum” Berry Mixes at the Hukilau and Takes Us Through the Past, Present, and Future of Tiki.”. ATLRetro. June 2014.
• “Stone Skin on the Rocks 7: Down and Dirty in the Deep South,” Stone Skin Press Blog. Guest Post. June 2014.
• “Wandering Spirits: Traveling Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.”
  • Non-Binary Review #2: Frankenstein. Available for free download with free app here.
  • First appeared as a series at WEIRD FICTION REVIEW in 2013.
    • Letter I, (April 17, 2013)
    • Letter II, (May 15, 2013).
    • Letter III (Oct. 1, 2013).
• “Florida Gets Cute and Creepy.” TOR.COM. October 12, 2011.
• “Touring Steampunk Paris.” co-written with Arthur Morgan, photographs by Nicolas Meunier.  MUNGBEING. Issue 51: Travel. August 2013.

Steampunk

• THE STEAMPUNK BIBLE, Abrams Image. Co-authored with Jeff VanderMeer. May 2011. (Winner of Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Award, nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards)
• Introduction to LE GUIDE STEAMPUNK by Etienne Bariller and Arthur Morgan. ActuSF Editions. 2013.
• Introduction to Vapourpunk II, the Portuguese Steampunk anthology series edited by Fábio Fernandes and Romeu Martins, Editora Draco.
• STEAMPUNK HANDS AROUND THE WORLD. Occurs every February. Curated by Kevin D. Steil:
  • “Reflections on My Favorite Aspects of Steampunk.” Feb 2016.
  • “Steampunk and Travel.” Vlog. Feb 2014
• “The Sunshine Steam: An Account of the Inaugural Florida Steampunk Society Exhibition East, Part I and Part II”  Guest blog for BEYOND VICTORIANA. April 29, 2012.
• Guest Posts and Interview for French Steampunk, translated by Arthur Morgan in honor of appearance in Paris. September 2011.
• Dispatches from The Steampunk Bible Tour for TOR.COM:
  • Austin, TX Launch—May 12, 2011.
  • Part I—May 31, 2011.
  • Part II—Jun 15, 2011.
• “Smells Like Steam Spirit:  Black Phoneix Alchemy Lab’s Phoenix Steamworks Series.”  TOR.COM. October 26, 2010.

Book Reviews, Literary Criticisms & Celebrations

• “Shadows in Summerland, by Adrian van Young.” Strange Horizons. May 2016.
• “Alan M. Clark’s The Door That Faced West.” A Capsule Review for THE BIG CLICK. July 2014.
• “The Corpse of the Future: Jane C. Loudon’s The Mummy! and Victorian Science Fiction.” CLARKESWORLD. December 2012.
• “Down, Down, Down: Leonora Carrington’s ‘White Rabbits’.” WEIRD FICTION REVIEW. Dec. 12, 2011
• “Stories and Essays of Mina Loy by Mina Loy.” BOOKSLUT. July 2011.
• Jeff VanderMeer’s Monstrous Creatures.” TOR.COM. March 11, 2011.
• “I Am Catwoman, Hear Me Roar.” TOR.COM. January 31, 2011.
• “Stay Tombed: Is Monster Lit Worth Unearthing?” BOOKSLUT. March 2010.
• “Lovecraft Fresh” series. Part of TOR.COM’s DECEMBER BELONGS TO CTHULU (2009) in which I read Lovecraft for the very first time.
  • Reading 1: “The Alchemist” and “The Outsider.”
  • Reading 2:  “The Hound.”
  • Reading 3:  “The Color Out of Space” and “The Call of Cthulhu.”
• “Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Austen and Grahame-Smith.” FANTASY MAGAZINE. June 2009.
• “Lost in Austenmania!” UP AGAINST THE WALL MAGAZINE. Issue 11.  2008.
• “Feeding the Foodie with Poppy Z. Brite.” UP AGAINST THE WALL MAGAZINE. Issue 10. 2007.
• “A Brief Reflection of the Outsider as Archetypical Artist and Humanitarian Hero.” MUNGBEING. Issue #10: Obscurity. 2006.

Poepathy:  (Works on Edgar Allan Poe)

• The Poe Bug:  A Journey to the Center of Poepathy and Beyond. for Dunhams Manor Press’ XYNOBIS: A Journal of Weird Fiction.
  • Issue #1: A Journey to the Center of Poepathy and Beyond. Summer 2015.
  • Issue #2: That Time John Cusack Played Poe. Winter 2015.
  • Issue #3: Is The Raven Calling Poepathy Out. Forthcoming.
• “The Poe-Bug”
  • FANTASY MATTERS. October 26, 2011.
  • MYTHIC IMAGINATION MAGAZINE. 2009/10 (?).
  • Up Against the Wall Magazine.  June/July 2007.
• “Baltimore Cuts Poe House Funding.” TOR.COM. February 2011.
• “Was Poe Steampunk?”  TOR.COM (part of inaugural Steampunk month). October 30, 2009.
• “The Living Poe Girl” Series for TOR.COM:
  • Part 1: “Objects of Desire.” October 2.
  • Part 2:  “An Alchemical Marriage.” October 9.
  • Part 3:  “Metaphysical Motherhood.”  October 13.
  • Part 4: “The Young Girl of the Valley.”  October 23.
• “SF’s Founding Father Turns 200.”  STRANGE HORIZONS. March 30, 2009.
• “Poe’s 200th Anniversary: SJ Chambers.” THE BALTIMORE SUN’S READ STREET. January 22, 2009.
• “What I Here Propound Is True: How Science Fiction was POEned.”  FANTASY MAGAZINE. January 19, 2009.
• “The Black Cat.” UP AGAINST THE WALL MAGAZINE. Issue 09. 2007.
• “The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo.” MUNGBEING. Issue 18:  Intuition.  2007.

Interviews

• “WHAT LIES BENEATH THE WATCHTOWER: Free-Will and Adventure: An Interview with Margaret Killjoy.”  TOR.COM. October 10, 2011.
• “An Interview with Lenore Hart.” BOOKSLUT. May 2011.
• “Voices from a Shared World.” STRANGE HORIZONS. March 28, 2011.
• “Herding Zombies: A Roundtable Discussion.” STRANGE HORIZONS. April 12, 2010.
• “Poe and the Philadelphia Gothic: Interview with Ed ‘The Philly Poe Guy’ Pettit.” TOR.COM. January 19, 2010.
• “2009: A Year of Giving.” STRANGE HORIZONS. January 11, 2010.
• “Spreading the Love: An Interview with Innsmouth Free Press.” TOR.COM. December 21, 2009.
• “Jesse Bullington and the Brutal Invasion of THE BROTHERS GROSSBART.”  STRANGE HORIZONS. November 16, 2009.
• “An Interview with Jag Bhalla.”  BOOKSLUT. August 2009.
• “An Interview with Catherynne M. Valente.” BOOKSLUT. June 2009.
• “LJ Interview with Lord Whimsy.”  Interviews_LJ.  September 15, 2006.  Illustrated by Pete Toms.

Poetry

• “The Temporary Tomb of Virginia Poe.” Poe Perk Special Kickstarter Edition Chapbook. Dunhams Manor Press. June 2015.
• “Ecce Ancilla Domini!” THE HISS QUARTERLY. August 1, 2008. No. 3. [was mentioned in the POETS ON PAINTINGS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY here].
• “Quarter Life Crisis on Tiger Shores.” MUNGBEING. Issue 18: Intuition. January 2008.
• “Aesthetic Adapatations.” MUNGBEING.  Issue 16: Design. 2007.
• “To W.O.B.” MUNGBEING. Issue 13: Ritual and Myth. 2007
• “Collaborative Disambiguation.” with Virginia M. Mohlere. MUNGBEING. Issue 12: Collaboration.
• “Footnotes to Freedom.”  MUNGBEING. Issue 8: Freedom. 2006.