I finalisti dei Shirley Jackson Awards 2016

Sono stati pubblicati i nomi dei finalisti dei Shirley Jackson’s Awards per il 2016, per le migliori opere letterarie in ambito horror.

Qui di seguito la lista completa dei finalisti.

I nostri complimenti a tutti i finalisti e in particolare a Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron e Victor LaValle.

Here the full list of the nominees for the Shirley Jackson Awards 2016 for horror literature. Congratulations to all the nominees, and especially to Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron and Victor LaValle.

NOVEL

Foxlowe, Eleanor Wasserberg (Fourth Estate-UK/Penguin Books-US)
The Girls, Emma Cline (Random House)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout)
Lily, Michael Thomas Ford (Lethe)
Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

NOVELLA

The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
“Maggots,” Nina Allan (Five Stories High)
Muscadines, S.P. Miskowski (Dunhams Manor)
The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01 Publishing)
The Warren, Brian Evenson (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

“Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Laird Barron (Autumn Cthulhu)
“Angel, Monster, Man,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine)
“Breaking Water,” Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
“The Night Cyclist,” Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
“Presence,” Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours)
“Waxy,” Camilla Grudova (Granta)

SHORT FICTION

“Animal Parts,” Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular)
“The Apartments,” Karen Heuler (Other Places)
“Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben (The Dark)
“Red,” Katie Knoll (Masters Review)
“Things With Beards,” Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, D.P. Watt (Undertow)
Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde)
Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem)
A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer Press)
We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams (Lookout)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis (Lovecraft eZine Press)
The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Fedogan and Bremer )
The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press )
Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay (Exile Editions)
An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless and Gary Budden (Influx Press)

 

Black Feathers

Disponibile a partire dai primi giorni di febbraio Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology, nuova raccolta curata da Ellen Datlow,  sedici racconti horror e weird che esplorano le regioni oscure che si annidano tra le ali delle creature che hanno ispirato tanti classici dell’horror, tra cui il capolavoro di Alfred Hitchcock, Gli uccelli, tratto da un testo di Daphne Du Marier. Si tratta di quattordici racconti inediti, scritti in occasione di questa antologia e due riproposte.

Gli autori inseriti nella raccolta sono M. John Harrison, Nicholas Royle, Paul Tremblay, Sandra Katsuri, Livia Llewellyn, Pat Cadigan, A.C. Wise, Jeffrey Ford, Seanan McGuire, Joyce Carol Oates, Alison Littlewood, Usman T. Malik, Priya Sharma, Richard Bowes, Mike O’Driscoll, Stephen Graham Jones.

Il volume, edito da Pegasus Books, è disponibile sia in versione cartacea che digitale.

Indice:

O Terrible Bird – Sandra Kasturi
The Obscure Bird – Nicholas Royle (ristampa)
The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids – Seanan McGuire
Something About Birds – Paul Tremblay
Great Blue Heron – Joyce Carol Oates
The Season of the Raptors – Richard Bowes
The Orphan Bird – Alison Littlewood
The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome – Jeffrey Ford
Blyth’s Secret – Mike O’Driscoll
The Fortune of Sparrows – Usman T. Malik
Pigeon from Hell – Stephen Graham Jones
The Secret of Flight – A.C. Wise
Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring – M. John Harrison (ristampa)
A Little Bird Told Me – Pat Cadigan
The Acid Test – Livia Llewellyn
The Crow Palace – Priya Sharma

 

Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology, the new volume published by Pegasus Books and edited by Ellen Datlow: sixteen horror short stories, fourteen unpublished before, to explore the dark regions between the  wings of the obscure creatures of horror and weird literature. 

Here the list of the writers:  M. John Harrison, Nicholas Royle, Paul Tremblay, Sandra Katsuri, Livia Llewellyn, Pat Cadigan, A.C. Wise, Jeffrey Ford, Seanan McGuire, Joyce Carol Oates, Alison Littlewood, Usman T. Malik, Priya Sharma, Richard Bowes, Mike O’Driscoll, Stephen Graham Jones.

The volume is available in digital and paper edition.

Shirley Jackson Awards 2015

Sono stati pubblicati i candidati allo Shirley Jackson Award 2015, il premio annuale per la letteratura horror, dark e di suspense psicologico, istituito in onore al contributo letterario della scrittrice americana scomparsa nel 1965.

I vincitori saranno proclamati domenica 10 luglio 2016, durante la Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, Quincy, Massachusetts.

La lista completa dei candidati è riportata qui sotto.

Here the nominees for the Shirley Jackson Award 2015, established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, in recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing.

The Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Readercon 27, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Shirley Jackson Award 2015 Nominees

NOVEL

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)

Experimental Film, Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)

The Glittering World, Robert Levy (Gallery)

Lord Byron’s Prophecy, Sean Eads (Lethe Press)

When We Were Animals, Joshua Gaylord (Mulholland Books)

NOVELLA

The Box Jumper, Lisa Mannetti (Smart Rhino)

In the Lovecraft Museum, Steve Tem (PS Publishing)

Unusual Concentrations, S.J. Spurrier (Simon Spurrier)

The Visible Filth, Nathan Ballingrud (This Is Horror)

Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing-UK/Open Road Media-US)

NOVELETTE

“The Briskwater Mare,” Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“The Deepwater Bride,” Tamsyn Muir (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2015)

“Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage,” Steve Duffy (Supernatural Tales #30, Autumn)

“Fabulous Beasts,” Priya Sharma (Tor.com, July 2015)

“The Thyme Fiend,” Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com, March 2015)

SHORT FICTION

“A Beautiful Memory,” Shannon Peavey (Apex Magazine)

“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” Alyssa Wong (Nightmare)

“Seven Minutes in Heaven,” Nadia Bulkin (Aickman’s Heirs)

“The Dying Season,” Lynda E. Rucker (Aickman’s Heirs)

“Wilderness,” Letitia Trent (Exigencies)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King (Scribner)

The End of the End of Everything, Dale Bailey (Arche Press)

Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (Random House)

Gutshot, Amelia Gray (FSG Originals)

The Nameless Dark – A Collection, T.E. Grau (Lethe Press)

You Have Never Been Here, Mary Rickert (Small Beer Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Aickman’s Heirs, edited by Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications)

Black Wings IV, edited by S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)

The Doll Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)

Exigencies, edited by Richard Thomas (Dark House Press)

Seize the Night, edited by Christopher Golden (Gallery

A Natural History of Hell

Il Nuovo Anno di Weirdiana si  apre con un’interessante anticipazione relativa alla prossima uscita della nuova antologia di Jeffrey Ford, A Natural History of Hell, per Small Beer Press.

Il volume, atteso per luglio 2016, conterrà i seguenti racconti:

“The Blameless”
“Word Doll”
“The Angel Seems”
“Mount Chary Galore”
“A Natural History of Autumn”
“The Fairy Enterprise”
“The Thyme Fiend”
“The Last Triangle”
“Hibbler’s Minions”
“Rocket Ship to Hell”
“The Prelate’s Commission”
“A Terror”
“Blood Drive”

Happy Weird New Year!

 

 

This New Year with Weirdiana opens with a sneak preview of the next collection of stories by Jeffrey Ford, A Natural History of Hell, by Small Beer Press.

The volume will be published in july and here you can find the table of contents:

“The Blameless”
“Word Doll”
“The Angel Seems”
“Mount Chary Galore”
“A Natural History of Autumn”
“The Fairy Enterprise”
“The Thyme Fiend”
“The Last Triangle”
“Hibbler’s Minions”
“Rocket Ship to Hell”
“The Prelate’s Commission”
“A Terror”
“Blood Drive”

Happy Weird New Year!

 

Weird Focus: Jeffrey Ford

Il Weird Focus di oggi è incentrato su un autore americano contemporaneo, Jeffrey Ford.

Cresciuto nell’area di Long Island, New York, Ford è l’autore di diversi romanzi tra cui Vanitas, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Il ritratto di Mrs Charbuque, Fanucci 2006), The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World. Nel 2004 il suo racconto “The Empire of Ice Cream” vince il premio Nebula. Nel 2009 si aggiudica l’accoppiata nel World Fantasy Award con il romanzo The Shadow Year (La forma dell’ombra, Piemme 2010) e la raccolta The Drowned Life. Le altre sue raccolte di racconti sono The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, e Crackpot Palace.

 

Ford è ben conosciuto nel mondo del fantastico ma i suoi scritti spaziano anche in altri generi, come il fantasy, la fantascienza e il mistero.

Vi segnaliamo qui il racconto “A Terror”, che ha come protagonista una delle Autrici preferite di Ford, Emily Dickinson: pubblicato nella sua totalità in lingua originale sul sito della TOR, potete leggerlo anche in traduzione italiana, con il titolo “Un Piccolo Demone”, nel volume Nuovi Incubi.

 

 

It was a gentleman, finely dressed in a black tailcoat and trousers, a spotless white shirt. There was a lovely white rose in his lapel. He wore leather gloves and carried a walking stick.

 

Today’s Weird Focus is for Jeffrey Ford, a contemporary american writer of weird literature. 

Grown up in Long Island, New York, Ford is the author of many novels like  Vanitas, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Il ritratto di Mrs Charbuque, Fanucci 2006), The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World. In 2004 his story “The Empire of Ice Cream” won the Nebula Award. In 2009 he obtains at the World Fantasy Award the prize for best novel with The Shadow Year (La forma dell’ombra, Piemme 2010) and the best collection with The Drowned Life. Other collection of stories: The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, and Crackpot Palace.

 

Ford is well known in the modern weird milieu but his works stretch to other genres, like fantasy, science fiction and mistery 

Here we suggest you to read the story “A Terror”, in which you will find an interesting vision of Emily Dickinson, one of Ford’s most loved writers: you can find the original version on TOR website, and the italian version (with the title  “Un Piccolo Demone”) in the volume Nuovi Incubi.

Fantasy and Science Fiction #14

Il numero 14 della incarnazione italiana di Fantasy & Science Fiction, in uscita nei primi mesi del 2016, sarà un appuntamento imperdibile per tutti gli amanti del weird, con la pubblicazione di “Shiva, Open Your Eye“, il racconto che nel 2001 pose all’attenzione dei lettori di F&SF e del pubblico americano Laird Barron. Il racconto è stato poi scelto come apertura della prima antologia di Barron The Imago Sequence and Other Stories.

L’edizione italiana di F&SF, curata da Armando Corridore per le edizioni Elara, non è nuova a incursioni nella letteratura weird contemporanea: tra i nomi già apparsi sulla rivista Thomas Ligotti (“La Biblioteca di Bisanzio” The Library of Byzanthium, F&SF n. 9), Jeffrey Ford (“Il dolce legame” The Honeyed Knot, F&SF n. 9) e Jeff VanderMeer (“Un cuore per Lucrezia” A Heart for Lucrezia, F&SF n. 11).

 

Number 14 of the italian version of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to be published in the first half of 2016, will be a very special issue for all the readers who love weird fiction, for the volume will contain “Shiva, Open Your Eye”, the short story by Laird Barron that gave to this great writer the attention of the magazine and american readers. The same story was then published in the first Barron’s collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories.

The italian version of  F&SF, edited by Armando Corridore for Elara, explores often the weird side of modern literature: on the past issues of the magazine you can find authors like Thomas Ligotti (“La Biblioteca di Bisanzio” The Library of Byzanthium, F&SF n. 9), Jeffrey Ford (“Il dolce legame” The Honeyed Knot, F&SF n. 9) and Jeff VanderMeer (“Un cuore per Lucrezia” A Heart for Lucrezia, F&SF n. 11).

 

 

Edizioni Hypnos partner di Horror Writer Association Italy

È ufficiale: Edizioni Hypnos è ora partner della Horror Writer Association Italy: la nostra Casa Editrice entra a far par della lista degli Editori italiani supportano la recentemente creata sezione italiana della celebre HWA.

Il volume Nuovi Incubi, edizione italiana dell’Year’s Weird Best Fiction vol.1, sarà quindi inserito, in versione digitale, nel Gift Pack di quest’anno, offerto agli Associati HWAItaly: una perfetta occasione per scoprire gli Autori del Modern Weird, come Michael Blumlein, Kristi DeMeester, Jeffrey Ford, John R. Fultz, Richard Gavin, Maria Dahvana Headley, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Moreno Pavanello, W.H. Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Chen Qiufan, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, Sofia Samatar, Simon Strantzas, Anna Taborska, Jeffrey Thomas, Karin Tidbeck, Paul Tremblay, Jeff VanderMeer, Damien Angelica Walters, A.C. Wise.

 

Edizioni Hypnos is now partner of The Horror Writer Association Italy, being one of the Italian Publishers supporting this newly created branch of the HWA.

The HWA Italy members will find then the digital edition of Nuovi Incubi italian translation of Year’s Best Weird Fiction vol.1, in the annual Gift Pack: a great opportunity to discover the best weird short stories by Authors like Michael Blumlein, Kristi DeMeester, Jeffrey Ford, John R. Fultz, Richard Gavin, Maria Dahvana Headley, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Moreno Pavanello, W.H. Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Chen Qiufan, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, Sofia Samatar, Simon Strantzas, Anna Taborska, Jeffrey Thomas, Karin Tidbeck, Paul Tremblay, Jeff VanderMeer, Damien Angelica Walters, A.C. Wise.