The Mountain Cage (2004)
“Some stories inhabit me for a while, lurking at the edges of consciousness until they’re ready to be written. Others suddenly spring into my mind full-grown, only to fade a few moments later. The process of writing them then becomes a recovery operation, an effort to remember what was forgotten; the final version almost always falls short of the original vision.
“Collectors” was a story that might not have been written—maybe a more accurate way to put it is to say that I might not have realized I wanted to write it—had John DeChancie not asked me to contribute to an anthology he was editing with Martin H. Greenberg, Castle Fantastic. The only requirement was that each story be set in a castle or be about castles, and although John expected that most of the authors would contribute fantasy stories, he was also open to other kinds of tales.
This story came to me immediately, and I had the perfect setting for it—the château of Chambord, surely one of the most ostentatious and monumental ...dwellings ever built, which I had visited not long before.MoreLess
“Collectors” was a story that might not have been written—maybe a more accurate way to put it is to say that I might not have realized I wanted to write it—had John DeChancie not asked me to contribute to an anthology he was editing with Martin H. Greenberg, Castle Fantastic. The only requirement was that each story be set in a castle or be about castles, and although John expected that most of the authors would contribute fantasy stories, he was also open to other kinds of tales.
This story came to me immediately, and I had the perfect setting for it—the château of Chambord, surely one of the most ostentatious and monumental ...dwellings ever built, which I had visited not long before.MoreLess
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