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Echoes. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Una nuova antologia a cura di Ellen Datlow è in uscita a settembre. Si tratta di Echoes. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edito da Saga Press.
L’antologia presenta 27 racconti inediti, più tre già editi, dalle voci più importanti del fantastico contemporaneo, tra cui Nathan Ballingrud, Pat Cadigan, Aliette de Bodard, Jeffrey Ford, Richard Kadrey, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Joyce Carol Oates e Paul Tremblay.
Qui di seguito l’elenco completo dei racconti presenti.
“Ice Cold Lemonade 25ȼ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person,” by Paul Tremblay
“Linger Longer,” by Vincent J. Masterson
“Whimper Beg,” by Lee Thomas
“The July Girls,” by Alison Littlewood
“About the O’Dells,” by Pat Cadigan
“A Hinterlands Haunting,” by Richard Kadrey
“The Number of Things You Remember,” by M. L. Siemienowicz
“Must Be This Tall,” by Seanan McGuire
“The Surviving Child,” by Joyce Carol Oates
“The Medium’s End,” by Ford Madox Ford
“Sundown,” by Indrapramit Das
“Icarus Rising,” by Richard Bowes
“The Puppet Motel,” by Gemma Files
“Air Valve Semilunar Astern,” by Nick Mamatas
“The Unwrapping,” by Terry Dowling
“The Upper Berth,” by F. Marion Crawford
“A Burning Sword for Her Cradle,” by Aliette de Bodard
“Precipice,” by Dale Bailey
“The Shooter,” by M. Rickert
“The Tree of Self-Knowledge,” by Stephen Graham Jones
“The Other Woman,” by Alice Hoffman
“The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted,” by Bracken MacLeod
“Mee-Ow,” by Garth Nix
“Jasper Dodd’s Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations,” by Nathan Ballingrud
“His Haunting,” by Brian Evenson
“The Jeweled Wren,” by Jeffrey Ford
“The Air, the Ocean, the Earth, the Deep,” by Siobhan Carroll
“The Ghost Sequences,” by A. C. Wise
“Deep, Fast, Green,” by Carole Johnstone
“Natalia, Queen of the Hungry Dogs,” by John Langan
Year’s Best Weird Fiction vol.4
È finalmente disponibile il quarto volume dell’Year’s Best Weird Fiction, pubblicato da Undertow Publications e curato da Michael Kelly e Helen Marshall. Al momento per il mercato italiano è disponibile la sola versione ebook.
Contenuti:
“I Was a Teenage Werewolf” by Dale Bailey (Nightmare Magazine #51)
“Breakdown” by Gary Budden (The Short Anthology: The Second Issue)
“The Signal Birds” by Octavia Cade (Liminal Stories #2)
“Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
“The End of Hope Street” by Malcolm Devlin (Interzone #266)
“The Blameless” by Jeffrey Ford (A Natural History of Hell)
“Waxy” by Camilla Grudova (Granta Online)
“A Heavy Devotion” by Daisy Johnson (Fen)
“Red” by Katie Knoll (The Masters Review Online)
“In The Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro” by Usman T. Malik (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu)
“Angel, Monster, Man” by Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine #40)
“Outtakes” by Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular)
“Beating the Bounds” by Aki Schilz (The Unreliable Guide To London)
“The Kings With No Hands” by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by J. Robert Tupasela (Finnish Weird 3)
“The Dancer on the Stairs” by Sarah Tolmie (Two Travelers)
It is now available the fourth volume of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, published by Undertow Publications and edited by Michael Kelly and Helen Marshall.
Here the official page at Publisher’s website.
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!