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This is Horror Awards 2017

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This is Horror Awards 2017 is open for public voting. More information is here.

Voting closes at 12:01am GMT on Monday 26 February 2018.

Novel of the Year Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman I Wish I Was Like You by S.P. Miskowski In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson The Changeling by Victor LaValle The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn Novella of the Year Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Quiet Plac...

New Fears 2

 

Mark Morris has announced the line-up for New Fears 2, out later this year from Titan. Many thanks to Mark for including me in this.

New Fears, which was released in 2017, is still available.

Table of Contents:

MAW by Priya Sharma THE AIRPORT GORILLA by Stephen Volk THUMBSUCKER by Robert Shearman BULB by Gemma Files FISH HOOKS by Kit Power EMERGENCE by Tim Lebbon ON CUTLER STREET by Benjamin Percy LETTERS FROM ELODIE by Laura Mauro STEEL BODIES by Ray Cluley TH...

Weird Fiction Review

Thanks to the good people at Weird Fiction Review who have interviewed me as part of the 9th annual Women in Horror month. They’ve also reprinted “The Nature of Bees”, a story that originally appeared in Issue 38 of Albedo One and that is included in my collection “All the Fabulous Beasts” from Undertow Publications.

 

 

 

2018 Undertow Subscription

[image error] Undertow Publications is offering a 2018 subscription,  consisting of three books: “All the Fabulous Beasts,” by Priya Sharma (April 2018) “Nothing is Everything,” by Simon Strantzas (October 2018) “Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5,” edited by Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly (October 2018) The Trade subscription is just U.S. $60. The Hardcover subscription is U.S. $90. (These prices include worldwide shipping). [image error] [image error] If you just want to buy a copy of...

Hellnotes Interview

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Thanks to Gordon B. White, who has interviewed me as part of his Deep Cuts series for Hellnotes. His thoughtful questions focus on “Fabulous Beasts”. (N.B. Contains spoilers).

https://hellnotes.com/an-interview-with-priya-sharma-author-of-fabulous-beasts/

 

 

 

Locus Recommended Reading List 2017

Locus’ annual Recommended Reading List in now out for 2017.

The list contains stalwarts like Caitlín R. Kiernan, Charles Stross, M. John Harrison, Angela Slatter, Yoon Ha Lee, Aliette de Bodard, Nina Allan, Adam Nevill, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinsborough, Philip Pullman, Jeff VanderMeer and Elizabeth Bear.

It’s terrific to see work on there by Kelly Robson, JY Yang, Victor LaValle, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Usman T. Malik and Carole Johnstone. (As an aside, check out Issue 60 of Black Static, which cont...

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

I can’t recommend “The Beauty” enough. Terrific read.

As of today The Beauty is available to buy in the US from Titan Books, and that is a very strange thought. I wrote it about five years ago, in the frame of mind that since nobody published my stories anyway I might as well write something entirely to please myself. I put all my […]

via Still Beautiful — Aliya Whiteley

All the Fabulous Beasts Hardback Edition

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Mike Kelly at Undertow Publications has now released the cover for the hardback edition of my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”. It features the artwork by Jeffrey Alan Love which accompanied the story, “Fabulous Beasts” on Tor.com. The cover design is by Vince Haig.

Mad Hatters and March Hares

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Read  mini-interviews with Ellen Datlow and some of the included authors : Go Down The Rabbit Hole With A Brand New Alice-Inspired Anthology at RT Book Reviews.

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A Q&A about the inspiration for Mad Hatters and March Hares can also be found on Ellen’s webite.

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 Beautifully stitched together, it’s a storybook of strangeness, of oddities and weird concoctions, and I’m confident critics and fans of the original Alice books will fall in love with it.  New adventures await read...

All the Fabulous Beasts ToC

[image error]Mike Kelly, editor at Undertow Publications, has released the table of contents for my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

He’s posted it on the collection’s Facebook page, where you can follow its progress.

Table of  Contents

The Crow Palace
Rag and Bone
The Anatomist’s Mnemonic…
Egg
The Sunflower Seed Man
The Ballad of Boomtown
The Show
Pearls
The Absent Shade
Small Town Stories
Fish Skins
The Rising Tide
The Englishman
The Nature of Bees
A Son of The Sea
Fabulo...