From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

{{short description|2001 short-story collection by Mitch Cullin}}

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| author = Mitch Cullin

| illustrator = Peter I. Chang

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| publisher = Dufour Editions

| pub_date = November 2001

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| isbn = 978-0-8023-1336-2

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| congress= PS3553.U319 F76 2001

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| preceded_by = The Cosmology of Bing 2001

| followed_by = UnderSurface 2002

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From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest is a short-story collection by American writer Mitch Cullin, and is the author's fifth book. It was first published as a trade paperback in November 2001 by Dufour Editions in the US.{{Cite web |url=http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/from-place-valley-deep-forest-paperback-2001 |title=Dufour Editions |access-date=2008-07-26 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910173105/http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/from-place-valley-deep-forest-paperback-2001 |archive-date=2012-09-10 |url-status=dead }} A UK trade paperback edition was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in January 2005.{{Cite web |url=http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/from-the-place-in-the-valley-deep-in-the-forest-weidenfeld-nicolsonuk-2005 |title=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |access-date=2008-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726032801/http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/from-the-place-in-the-valley-deep-in-the-forest-weidenfeld-nicolsonuk-2005 |archive-date=2011-07-26 |url-status=dead }} In 2007, the Italian publisher FBE released a trade paperback translation of the collection as Da Quel Luogo Nella Valle Dentro La Foresta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/da-quel-luogo-nella-valle-dentro-la-foresta-fbeitaly-2007-translation |title=FBE edition |access-date=2008-07-26 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909110814/http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/da-quel-luogo-nella-valle-dentro-la-foresta-fbeitaly-2007-translation |archive-date=2012-09-09 |url-status=dead }}

The collection was given a starred review from Booklist in its December 12, 2001 publication.{{Cite web |url=http://www.overbooked.org/stars/fiction/01_2.html |title=Booklist starred review |access-date=2008-07-26 |archive-date=2008-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012120845/http://overbooked.org/stars/fiction/01_2.html |url-status=dead }}

Several of the stories in the collection had been published previously in literary magazines, although they were greatly revised for the book and often given new titles. Three of the eight stories were previously unpublished. The stories are listed below in the order in which they appear in the book.

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! Year Written

Voice of the Sun

| The Bayou Review and Texas Writers Newsletter

| 1995 / 1997

From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

| Previously unpublished

| 2001

History is Dead

| Previously unpublished

| 2001

Wormwood