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THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR, VOL.5

Anthologist Paula Guran has announced the contents of Volume 5 of The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror.

Paula Guran has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than fifty novels and collections featuring the same. She’s reviewed and written articles for dozens of publications.

Table of Contents

“The Crease”, Simon Avery (Black Static 82/83)“Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny #50)“All the Things I Know About Ghosts...

Fantasycon 2024

Fantasycon is the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society. Fantasycon is attended by members and non-members, including authors, agents, publishers, bloggers, reviewers, and podcasters.

This year it will be held on 11th-13th October at The Queen at Chester Hotel, City Road, Chester.

I was surprised and delighted to be asked to be a Guest of Honour this year, alongside Stephen Aryan, and a third guest who is yet to be announced.

More information can be found here.

In Conversation

Thanks to fellow writer Oilver Arditi who has included me in a series of irregular interviews he is doing over on his website

If anything has become clear to me in the time I’ve been taking an interest in writing, it’s that writers are an exceedingly diverse bunch of people, and that the ways in which they approach their craft are equally various. The focus of this blog is not intended to be a creative or critical approach to writing so much as a practical one, one which should be of use to ...

Review of Pomegranates

Thanks to Jamie Mollart for reviewing “Pomegranates” for the British Science Fiction Association.

Pomegranates reimagines the classic Greek myth of Demeter, Persephone and Hades, but it’s much more than that. It’s an expansion of the myth, which at the same time feels intimate, bringing the Gods to a level of a (very) dysfunctional family operating in a modern world firmly in the thrall of climate change. A climate change caused by the squabbling Gods stopping doing their jobs and instead li...

Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words edited by Sébastien Doubinsky Christina Kkona

Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors is edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona, and available January 2024 from Blommsbury.

What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?

This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and tho...

Whiskey and the Weird Podcast

Whiskey and the Weird is a podcast by Damien Smith, Jessica Berg, and Ryan Whitley, in which they explore The Tales of the Weird series published by the British Library.

They’ve made an exception for their Halloween special, featuring my story “The Ghost a Flea”, which was included in Ellen Datlow’s anthology Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous.

The story is based on William Blake’s wonderful painting The Ghost of a Flea.

Li...

The World Fantasy Awards 2023

From Locus Online

The World Fantasy Awards winners are:

Best Novel

WINNER: Saint Death’s Daughter, C.S.E. Cooney (Solaris)Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

WINNER: Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (Absinthe)The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)The House of Drought, Dennis Mombauer (St...

Guest Post: Tracy Fahey’s “They Shut Me Up”

On the week of her Irish book launch for They Shut Me Up (PS Publishing), an interview with Tracy Fahey about her novella.

A woman, ignored and invisible, starts to discover her voice. But who—or what—is speaking though her?
Part body-horror, part feminist fiction, They Shut Me Up poses the question: how can we retell historic female narratives?

How was the transition from the short story form to the novella? Were there any challenges etc?

TF: While the short story wi...

Guest Post: The Secret Fear of ‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?’ by Rachel Knightley

Ostensibly, the featured article I wrote for Ginger Nuts of Horror earlier this week was about being chain-sawed out of a theatre toilet.

It was the hottest day of summer 2003, the lock had fused in the heat, and I was in there without my mobile phone for the express purpose of leaving my phobia of getting locked in things behind. While I do award a “good work, universe” for the elegance the irony, I mean it when I say I’m glad my plan didn’t go well. I’m glad I didn’t get what I wanted: to u...

Jack O’Dander

A new short story on Tor.com

Acquired and edited by Ellen Datlow and illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love.

Read on line for free and available as an ebook for £1.99/£1.32

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