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March again, hmm? Well, it might not feel like it, but a year has definitely passed. Last March, I worked up the nerve to submit a novelet to The Magazine of 
Fantasy & Science Fiction, and this March… it’s in the issue! I’m so overwhelmed and full of gratitude.
Here’s the lovely review from Rich Horton over at Locus Magazine, who was kind enough to make it one of his Reccomended Stories:
‘In the Garden of Ibn-Ghazi’ is a fine mysterious, horror-tinged piece by Molly Tanzer. The narrator is a writer who mentions having read a story with that name, in which an attempt is made to duplicate the powder from Lovecraft’s ‘‘The Dunwich Horror’’, but no evidence of such a story can be found. Then an invitation comes from a man named Upton De Vries, to a performance of an obscure 17th-century play written by a French noblewoman, the Marquise de Sevigny. This performance will be at an obscure estate in Pennsylvania…. We are treated to a journey to this strange place, to the play, to a memoir by the rather rackety Marquise, and to an unexpected invitation not just to see the play but to act in it. Because we know this is Lovecraftian, we know that strange and sinister things will result, and so they do. The conclusion is a nice twist from what I thought at first.
That’s right, I surprised Rich Horton with the *ending*… of a Lovecraft story!! (That’s because it’s not really a Lovecraft story, it’s a story about a Lovecraft story.)
Reader, I am pleased.
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