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Clearance sale

Summer Clearance Madness! Spread the word!

For just $50 (world-wide shipping included) you can get all four of our fantastic 2016 titles in Trade:

Meet Me in The Middle of The Air, by Eric Schaller (Starred review in Publishers Weekly)

Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, by D.P. Watt (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist)

Singing With All My Skin and Bone, by Sunny Moraine (“… beautiful terror.” -Gemma Files)

Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3, edited by Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly (“A triumph!” -Nathan Ballingrud)

If you’ve already picked these titles up — thank you! Please feel free to forward this offer to anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you for all your support!

-Michael

2016 Clearance

Kindle program

Hey, all, reminder that you can read most Undertow titles for free if you have Kindle Unlimited, and that if you buy a print copy from Amazon you can get the Kindle version for 99 cents.


 


Also, it’d be pretty cool (and beneficial to me), if you bought our first two releases this year, or took out a subscription to our 2017 releases.


 


Mike O’Driscoll’s latest collection, “The Dream Operator,” is now shipping. As is Shadows and Tall Trees Vol. 7. They are, I think, both worth your time.


 


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The Dream Operator now available

Mike O’Driscoll’s thrilling new collection, ‘The Dream Operator,’ is now available and shipping in hardcover, trade, and Kindle editions from this site or your favourite online vendor. If you’ve pre-ordered, your copy will be going out this week.

 

The enthralling new short story collection from acclaimed writer Mike O’Driscoll, featuring the powerful and moving original novellas ‘The Dream Operator,’ and ‘Beasts of Season.’ Unflinching, uncompromising, and unforgettable. Featuring a heady mix of horror, crime, noir, fantasy, and the supernatural, O’Driscoll draws you in and doesn’t let go.

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Shirley Jackson Award nomination

Very pleased to report that D.P. Watt’s terrific collection, “Almost Insentient, Almost Divine,” has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award (Single-Author Collection). Congratulations, Dan!

 

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The Dream Operator – ToC

Since a few have asked, here is the Table of Contents for Mike O’Driscoll’s ‘The Dream Operator.’

 

NEW STORIES

The Dream Operator (13,500 words)

Beasts of Season (15,000 words)

Lost Highway (5,800 words)

 

REPRINTS

 

The Spaceman

And Zero At The Bone

13 O'Clock

The Rediscovery of Death

One Last Wild waltz

A Soldier's Things

Summerhouse

The Facts in The Case of Mr. P-

The Entire City

 

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Hardcover design for The Dream Operator

Behold the glorious hardcover design for Mike O’Driscoll‘s forthcoming “The Dream Operator.” All credit to Vince Haig.

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Call for Submissions – YBWF5

Call for Submissions 2017 – Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5.


 


Each volume of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction will feature a different Guest Editor. Laird Barron guest-edited Vol. 1, and Kathe Koja was guest editor for Vol. 2. Simon Strantzas guest-edited Vol. 3, Helen Marshall guest-edited Vol. 4, and Robert Shearman is guest-editing Vol. 5.


 


This is a reprint fiction anthology, to be published in 2018. Series Editor Michael Kelly, and Guest Editor Robert Shearman are seeking material first published this year only, 2017. To be clear, only weird fiction published in 2017 is eligible for inclusion in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5.


 


This is for 2017 material only!


 


Please send electronic or digital copies only, please! PDFs are preferred, but will also accept text files (Word), Mobi, or ePub. Publishers and editors only are encouraged to send their books, journals, magazines to:


 


bestweirdfiction@gmail.com


 


Deadline for all material is December 15, 2017, no exceptions, but sooner (much sooner) is better. Late submissions may not receive proper consideration, especially if we receive a majority of the material at deadline.


 


Writers: Please do not send unsolicited material. Urge your publisher or editor to send in any relevant work. Feel free to query with any questions or recommendations.


 


Please note: Only writers whose work is selected for the volume will be contacted.


 


I am afraid we are not considering any self-published work.


 


Thank you!


 


Michael Kelly & Robert Shearman


Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5

Guest Editor announced for Year’s best Weird Fiction Vol. 5

Robert Shearman to Edit Volume 5 of ‘Year’s Best Weird Fiction’

Press release

Toronto, Canada, May 2017 — Robert Shearman, a wildly inventive writer of strange fiction, will guest-edit volume 5 of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction for Undertow Publications. Shearman’s work has been nominated for several awards, and has been reprinted in numerous “Year’s Best” anthologies.

 

“I was truly honoured when Mike asked me to edit a volume of this terrific series,” Shearman said. “Undertow Publications is doing incredibly important and relevant work, revitalizing the field of weird fiction.”

 

“I’m delighted that Rob has graciously agreed to edit volume 5 in the series,” Kelly said. “He’s one of our greatest writers; an intelligent and perceptive reader and critic with a unique sensibility.”

 

Robert Shearman has written five short story collections, and between them they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize, and three British Fantasy Awards. His plays for the theatre have won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the World Drama Trust Award, and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in association with the Royal National Theatre. He is a regular writer for BBC Radio, and his own interactive drama series The Chain Gang has won two Sony Awards. But he is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who, bringing back the Daleks for the BAFTA winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo.

 

Established in 2009 by writer Michael Kelly to champion short fiction, Undertow Publications (UP) is home to the acclaimed anthology series Shadows & Tall Trees, as well as the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and numerous single-author collections. As editor, Kelly has been a finalist for the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and British Fantasy Society Awards. His fiction has appeared in a number of venues.

 

Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 is now open to submissions. For submission guidelines, please query at

bestweirdfiction@gmail.com

ToC for YBWF4 revealed

ToC reveal for Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

Helen Marshall and I are extremely pleased to reveal the Table of Contents for the 4th volume of the ‘Year’s Best Weird Fiction,’ due October. There may still be one addition as we are trying to clear rights on one more story.


“I Was A Teenage Werewolf,” by Dale Bailey. First published in Nightmare Magazine #51.

“Breakdown,” by Gary Budden. First published in ‘The Short Anthology: The Second Issue’.

“The Signal Birds,” by Octavia Cade.  First published in Liminal Stories #2.

“Breaking Water,” by Indrapramit Das. First published at Tor.com.

“The End Of Hope Street,” by Malcolm Devlin. First published in Interzone #266.

“The Blameless,” by Jeffrey Ford. First published in ‘A Natural History of Hell’.

“Waxy,” by Camilla Grudova. First published at Granta Online.

“A Heavy Devotion,” by Daisy Johnson. First publishd in ‘Fen’.

“Red,” by Katie Knoll. First published at The Masters Review Online.

“In The Ruins Of Mohenjo-Daro,” by Usman T. Malik. First published in ‘The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu’.

“Angel, Monster, Man,” by Sam J. Miller. First published in Nightmare Magazine #40.

“Outtakes,” by Irenosen Okojie. First published in ‘Speak, Gigantular’.

“Beating The Bounds,” by Aki Schilz. First published in ‘The Unreliable Guide To London’.

“The Kings With No Hands,” by Johanna Sinisalo. Translated by J. Robert Tupasela. First published in ‘Finnish Weird 3’.

“The Dancer On The Stairs,” by Sarah Tolmie. First published in ‘Two Travelers’.

Also a reminder that the first 2017 release from Undertow Publications, ‘Shadows and Tall Trees 7,’ is now available and shipping, and that you can get all 4 of our 2017 releases at a discounted rate through our subscription plan.


Thank you all for your support!

 

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Shadows and Tall Trees 7 shipping

Hurrah! Shadows and Tall Trees 7 is now available and shipping in trade and hardback. The official release date is May 2, and the eBook will be available then. Subscriber and contributor copies will be going out soon.


 


This volume features all new strange and weird fiction from Malcolm Devlin, Brian Evenson, Rebecca Kuder, V.H. Leslie, Robert Levy, Laura Mauro, Manish Melwani, Alison Moore, Harmony Neal, Rosalie Parker, M. Rickert, Nicholas Royle, Robert Shearman, Christopher Slatsky, Simon Strantzas, Steve Rasnic Tem, Michael Wehunt, Charles Wilkinson, and Conrad Williams.


 


Please consider picking up a copy.


 


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“Michael Kelly’s Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment’s most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series.”


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