Finally read S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland and it’s so fucking good. Oyeyemi’s Parasol Against the Axe is weird & gorgeous. Spufford’s Light Perpetual is everything I wanted it to be. Buehlman’s The Daughter’s War broke my heart. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Lima is a wicked delight.
Two favorites of mine as well!! I’m going to suggest Attila Veres’s collection The Black Maybe, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Nation, the new novel coming out in the fall by Jedediah Berry (The Naming Song) and Kathryn Davis’s Hell.
I'd add M. John Harrison's The Course of the Heart to Kelly's rec on the Aickman side, and Francis Spufford's Red Plenty on the Crowley side (a _very_ different kind of fairy tale to Little, Big, but it bears the imprint of its influence)
If you don't like the short, you may not like the longer - he's not for everyone, but TCOTH is the one where the Aickman influences come through most clearly (with strands from Arthur Machen, and, weirdly, Patrick Leigh Fermor too)
