Authors to Read (Part II)

Continuing with my PSA regarding some of the best contemporary horror/weird fiction authors who primarily appear with small/independent presses. All images via Amazon.com

Alan Baxter (Australian noir; hardscrabble horror)

Crow Shine

C.S. E. Cooney (frightful fantasy)

Bone Swans

Yoko Ogawa (not a small press author, but definitely underappreciated here in the USA)

Revenge

Michael Cisco (only one of the most eminent fantasists of our time)

Animal Money

Mike Allen (journalist, horrorist; this is one of the best cosmic horror collections around)

Unseaming

Steve Duffy (acclaimed horror writer; one of the finer stylists working)

Tragic Life Stories

Gemma Files (the Black Flag of horror)

The Worm in Every Heart

Wilum Pugmire (the Jethro Tull of horror)

Sesqua Valley and other Haunts

Jeffrey Thomas (quintessential weird fiction stylist)

Punktown

Jon Padgett (studied in the catacombs with Prof. Ligotti)

The Secret of Ventriloquism