The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle

She enjoys sharing stories and critiques in various writing groups, mentoring and volunteering for writers' organizations, teaching creative writing workshops, and learning more about editing and promotion. After twenty years teaching academic writing and occasional literature classes at a university, Christi moved on to spend more time focusing on her own fiction and supporting other writers in the horror and speculative writing communities. Christi loves learning and has studied visual arts as well as writing and literature. Her short stories have appeared in over fifty publications including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Escape Pod, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Dark Matter Magazine along with anthologies such as C.M Muller's Nightscript series, Humans Are the Problem from Weird Little Worlds, Mixtape: 1986 from The Dread Machine, and Flame Tree's American Gothic and Chilling Crime. She is the author of the collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future and the novel Beulah. Stories here may recall Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Shirley Jackson's 'The Renegade,' or Kelly Link's 'Stone Animals.'Ĭhristi Nogle writes psychological and supernatural horror, dark science fiction, and weird fiction. The pieces range in genre from psychological horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice, a focus on characters' psychologies and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often terrifying futures.

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle's finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Don't miss this book it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023.'- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful.

'Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror.

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle