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Where Furnaces Burn

Joel Lane

First published October 2012
Type Collection

From the publisher's website <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/where-furnaces-burn-hc-joel-lane-out-of-print-1415-p.asp">Where Furnaces Burn</a>:<br><br> Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands:<br> A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life.<br> Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence.<br> Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country?<br> A series of inexplicable deaths lead the police to uncover a secret cult of machine worship.<br> When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own.<br> Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims.<br> Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape.

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2012 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Nominee/Finalist
2013 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Nominee/Finalist
2013 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Winner

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 2012 Cover Where Furnaces Burn PS Publishing Collection
October 2012 Cover Where Furnaces Burn PS Publishing Collection
January 2014 Cover Where Furnaces Burn Drugstore Indian Press Collection