Anthologies
The Australian Dark Age is here! For years, Australian writers of horror and dark fantasy have toiled in the shadows at their craft. Australian dark fiction is now stronger than ever. Herein lie some of the most unsettling short stories and darkly enlightening essays you will ever read. The Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror series showcases the very best and darkest short stories produced by 21st century Australian authors. This anthology includes work by Richard Harland, Kaaron Warren, Paul Haines, Robert Hood, Josephine Pennicott, and James Doig.
Glory by Greg Egan An Account of an Experiment Conducted by Fra. Salimbene, a Thirteenth-Century Italian Franciscan. Englished from the Latin by... by Adam Browne Toother by Terry Dowling Cracks by Trent Jamieson Mist and Murder by Lucy Sussex Special Perceptions by Richard Harland A Lady of Adestan by Cat Sparks John Wayne (As Written by a Non-American) by Ben Peek The Dark and What It Said by Rick Kennett The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe by Anna Tambour Domine by Rjurik Davidson Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again by Garth Nix
Zombies and vampires lie within but there are much more disturbing dangers to be found. Australian dark fiction mines deep into the darkest corners of the imagination and the results are seductive and deadly. Be warned: read these stories with the lights on and the door locked! The Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror series showcases the very best and darkest short stories produced by 21st century Australian authors. This anthology includes work by Shane Jiraiya Cummings, David Conyers, Joanne Anderton, Sean Williams, Martin Livings, and Deborah Biancotti.
A dozen of the most exciting and unique writers for young people have chosen fairytales as starting points for their own original stories, in this surprising and spellbinding two-volume collection Margo Lanagan ( Tender Morsels ), Rosie Borella, Isobelle Carmody, Richard Harland ( Worldshaker ), Margaret Mahy ( The Seven Chinese Brothers), and Martine Murray ( Henrietta There's No One Better ) have taken inspiration from stories that have shaped us all, tales like "Beauty and the Beast," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," and "The Snow Queen." This collection carries universal themes of envy and desire, deception and abandonment, courage and sacrifice. Characters are enchanted, they transgress, they yearn, they hunger, they hate, and, sometimes, they kill. Some of the stories inhabit a traditional fairytale world, while others are set in the distant future. Some are set in the present and some in an alternative present. The stories offer no prescription for living or moral advice and none belong in a nursery. Open the covers and submit to their enchantment.
Award winning independent Australian press coeur de lion publishing presents twenty-nine all new science fiction stories of humanity's adventures out there, anywhere but Earth, featuring original works by Margo Lanagan, Sean McMullen, Richard Harland, and Kim Westwood among a galaxy of new and established Australian and overseas speculative fiction authors.
A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body; a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which zombies have overrun the earth; a murderous pack of nuns stalks a pair of Halloween revelers... What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound, Tails of Wonder and Imagination), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three.
Bloodstones is the latest anthology edited by the award-winning Australian editor, Amanda Pillar. With Bloodstones, Amanda Pillar presents stories themed around myths and legends, in a dark urban fantasy setting. The anthology comprises 17 stories by a number of notable and up and coming writers: Dirk Flinthart, Nicole Murphy, Penelope Love, Jenny Blackford, Pete Kempshall, M.D. Curelas, Joanne Anderton, Richard Harland, Christine Morgan, Thoraiya Dyer, Kat Otis, Karen Maric, Dan Rabarts, Alan Baxter, Erin Underwood, Vivian Caethe, and Stephanie Gunn. Introduction by Seanan McGuire.
Scheherazade's One Thousand and One Nights stories-fairy tales and fables, telling of the fantastic and mysterious, the comic and dramatic-have captured imaginations for a millennia. Dreaming of Djinn collects 18 new stories of lost cities, magical lamps, thieves, intrepid explorers, slaves, robotic felines, noble queens, sorcerers, outcast princes, harems, dancers, djinn, and assassins. Take a piece of sweet lokum, a glass of mint tea and dive into the djinni's bottle. There on the magic carpet you will be horrified, delighted, but ultimately entertained by what you find.
Science Fiction is our conversation with the future; politics are our conversation with each other. Strange Bedfellows — as in 'politics makes strange bedfellows' — contains short fiction from the best writers in the field including including Nebula Award-winner Eugie Foster; writers who are passionate about the importance of ideology and political action as a source of solutions as well as problems.
Putting the steamy back into steampunk. 105,000 words of steampunk romance, edited by the award-winning Liz Grzyb. Stories by Marilag Angway, Cherith Baldry, Gio Clairval, M.L.D. Curelas, Ray Dean, Stephanie Gunn, Richard Harland, Rebecca Harwell, Faith Mudge, Nicole Murphy, Katrina Nicholson, Anthony Panegyres, Amanda Pillar, Angela Rega, Carol Ryles, D.C. White.