Tuesday, August 15, 2006

hood's short fiction

Years ago I read a number of Hugh Hood's short stories and enjoyed quite a few of them. Of the six collections I explored, I liked Around the Mountain best. Over the past two decades The Porcupine's Quill has gathered a number of Hood's uncollected/unpublished stories and reprinted some of his collections. The Porcupine's Quill is a small literary press based in Erin Ontario. Here's an inventory of Hugh's short fiction releases:

Flying a Red Kite (1962) collects 11 stories.

Around the Mountain (1967) collects 12 stories centred around Montreal.
The Fruit Man, the Meat Man and the Manager (1971) includes 15 stories.

Dark Glasses (1976) includes 12 stories.

None Genuine without this Signature (1980) includes 12 stories.

August Nights (1985) collect 12 stories.

A Short Walk in the Rain (1989) compiles 13 unpublished stories written between 1957 & 1961.

The Isolation Booth (1991) compiles 12 stories published in magazines between 1957 & 1966.

You'll Catch Your Death (1992) collects 13 stories.

After All (2002), published two years after Hood's untimley death, this compiles 17 stories he wrote between 1991 & 1994.