Mooncalves

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NOW A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY “I will always be more grateful than I can say for anthologies like this, that not only include some of my favorite writers, but also introduce me to work by writers I haven’t encountered before. Mooncalves is splendid, surprising, and delicious.” — Kelly Link, multiple prizewinning author of Stranger Things Happen and Get In Trouble “Surreal and superb, Mooncalves is a narratively abnormal exhibition, with stories that both alter and accentuate fiction traditions. John WM Thompson has procured a haunting and often horrific anthology of literary asymmetry which will unease the unconscious.” — Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies “These stories are wonderfully varied in style and subject; some of the authors are old favorites I was happy to encounter again, while others were brand new to me, and I can’t wait to read more of their work. MOONCALVES is a collection I’ll return to again and again, its stories strange and rich and marvelously mysterious.” — Dan Chaon, author of SLEEPWALK “In Mooncalves, editor John WM Thompson brings together an eclectic and impressive mix of writers to chart the spaces where what is known and what is unknown bleed into one another. The result is a kaleidoscope of the strange, a patchwork of the weird. Highly recommended.” — John Langan, author of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies Mooncalves presents 23 stories of original fiction from contemporary writers both established and new, probing the weird borderlands of horror, sci fi, fantasy, and the truly indescribable. In this book you will find: Mothers seeking aid for their bewitched children, tours of train graveyards, the revisiting of sinister children's programming, small towns dissolving under hungry stars, roadside excavations in the dead of night, prisoners fording both heaven and hell on the moon, and much more. Featuring new stories from: Nathan Breakenridge Jaime Corbacho Elwin Cotman Brian Evenson Sasha Geffen Adam Golaski Janalyn Guo Glen Hirshberg Meghan Lamb Daniel M. Lavery Thomas Mavroudis J.A.W. McCarthy Mark Mayer Christi Nogle Ernest Ògúnyẹmí Briar Ripley Page Sofia Samatar Chelsea Sutton Steve Rasnic Tem Lisa Tuttle Jeff Wood L. Marie Wood Mooncalve s records precarious lives changed forever by the influence of uncanny and strange forces. Surprising and disquieting, Mooncalves is essential reading for all those in love with the weird, the horrific, and the sublime.