I simply piloted the course as a possible elective. We read:
Washington Irving, “The Tale of the German Student”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia”
Arthur Machen, “The Great God Pan”
M. John Harrison, “The Great God Pan”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Carmilla”
Joanna Russ, “My Dear Emily”
Oliver Onions, “The Beckoning Fair One”
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Thing on the Doorstep”
Shirley Jackson, “The Daemon Lover”
M.R. James, “Wailing Well”
Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows”
Arthur Machen, “The White People”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Julio Cortazar, “House Taken Over”
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”
Mary Shelley, “The Transformation”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”
T.E.D. Klein, “Black Man with a Horn”
Robert Aickman, “The School Friend”
Ramsey Campbell, “Boiled Alive”
You also translate Spanish and French literature to English. What have you translated recently? Are there any authors who have not found an American audience yet that you would like to bring to English readers?
The last thing I translated was a story by Alfonso Reyes, a Mexican author almost totally untranslated into English, as far as I can tell. Reyes should be better known.
With your teaching schedule and translation work, where does fiction writing fit into your life?
Wherever the bolt lands.
What published work can we expect to see from you next? What are you writing now?
I’ve just finished a new novel called Animal Money that is destined to appear soon, although I can’t go into any further details about it. At the moment I’m working on several short stories for various anthologies and waiting for my next task to present itself. I also have an essay on Lovecraft, Poe, and the cosmic, which I hope is on its way to a good home.
E.C. Myers was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts and raised by a single mother and a public library in Yonkers, New York. He has published short fiction in a variety of print and online magazines and anthologies, and his young adult novels, Fair Coin and Quantum Coin, are available now from Pyr Books. He currently lives with his wife, two doofy cats, and a mild-mannered dog in Philadelphia and shares way too much information about his personal life at ecmyers.net and on Twitter @ecmyers.
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