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So this was my big secret (the anthology part). I did not know how many stories from my various anthos were nominated--and am especially pleased that stories from a ya anthology made the cut, along with the anthology itself.
I'm proud to have my work on the same ballot as the other anthologies nominated.

Congratulations to all the nominees, thank you to the judges, and good luck to everyone. We are all winners for the next several months.
The Shirley Jackson Award nominees

NOVEL

The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday)
The Dracula Papers, Reggie Oliver (Chômu Press)
The Great Lover, Michael Cisco (Chômu Press)
Knock Knock, S. P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)
The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, Ltd.)
Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman (Grove Press)

NOVELLA

“And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living,” Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar, Gilgamesh Press)
“A Child’s Problem,” Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
“Displacement,” Michael Marano (Stories from the Plague Years, Cemetery Dance Publications)
The Men Upstairs, Tim Waggoner (Delirium Books)
“Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
“Rose Street Attractors,” Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight, Harper Voyager)

NOVELETTE

“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56)
“Ditch Witch,” Lucius Shepard (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
“The Last Triangle,” Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
“Omphalos,” Livia Llewellyn (Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Lethe Press)
“The Summer People,” Kelly Link (Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)

SHORT FICTION

“Absolute Zero,” Nadia Bulkin (Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Prime Books)
“The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011)
“Hair,” Joan Aiken (The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories, Small Beer Press/ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug, 2011)
“Max,” Jason Ockert (The Iowa Review 41/1)
“Sunbleached,” Nathan Ballingrud (Teeth, HarperCollins)
“Things to Know About Being Dead,” Genevieve Valentine (Teeth, HarperCollins)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
The Janus Tree, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
Red Gloves, Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
What Wolves Know, Kit Reed (PS Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (HarperCollins)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager)

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work.

The 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 15th at Readercon 23, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Shirley Jackson is the Memorial Guest of Honor. Readercon 23 Guests of Honor, Peter Straub and Caitlin R. Kiernan, will act as hosts.

Ellen Datlow will introduce Gregory Frost, John Langan, and Laird Barron, and the group will discuss their stories in the anthology Poe: 19 New Tales:
Mount Vernon Public Library event


We hope that there will books available for sale.

I have just been informed by Alessandro Manizetti that I'm the winner of the first Il Posto Nero Excellence Award for Foreign Editor. Congratulations to all my fellow winners.

Prize Excellence, established by the Black Spot


Here are all the winners (there are more details on the website, which is in Italian, but can be translated --although a bit imperfectly:

Excellence 2012: Italian Fiction - Author: Danilo Arona
Excellence 2012: Foreign Fiction - Author: Gene O'Neill
Excellence 2012: Italian Fiction - Book: The Midnight of the Century by Samuel Marolla
Excellence 2012: Fiction Foreign - translated the Book: The Circus of Vampires by Richard Laymon
Excellence 2012: Foreign Fiction - Book: The German by Lee Thomas
Excellence 2012: Artwork-Italy Author: Daniele Serra
Excellence 2012: Artwork estero- Autore: Menton J. Matthews III
Excellence 2012: Graphic Novel Italy: Venice's disease (Cut Up Comics)
Excellence 2012: Graphic Novel abroad: Necronomicon (Avatar Press)
Excellence 2012: Italy Publisher: Editions XII
Excellence 2012: Foreign Publisher: Dark Region Press
Excellence 2012: Italian Editor: Fabrizio Cocco
Excellence 2012: Foreign Editor: Ellen Datlow
Excellence 2012: Film: The Woman di Lucky McKee
Excellence 2012: TV Series: The Walking Dead
Excellence 2012: Italian Review: H Almanac of Horror Magazine (Delos Books)
Excellence 2012: Foreign Magazine: Cemetery Dance Magazine (Cemetery Dance)
Excellence 2012: Italian Web Site: Horror.it
Excellence 2012: Sito Web estero: Rue Morgue
Excellence 2012: italiano Blog: Weirdletter
Excellence 2012: estero Blog: Dread Central
Excellence 2012: Columnist Italian: Louis Bonaro
Excellence 2012: Progetto online italiano: Rusty Dogs of Emiliano Longobardi
Excellence 2012: Horror Store: Dark Delicacies Del Howison
Excellence 2012: Special Award Ambassador of horror: Rocky Wood

Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear (who subbed for Caitlin R. Kiernan at the last minute) was spectacular. The bar was packed, the drink flowed, and we all ate very good Chinese food afterward.
http://tinyurl.com/bmm9l5w

I could have sworn I posted this, but if not, here it is:
Table of Contents



The Little Green God of Agony Stephen King
Stay Leah Bobet
The Moraine Simon Bestwick
Blackwood’s Baby Laird Barron
Looker David Nickle
The Show Priya Sharma
Mulberry Boys Margo Lanagan
Roots and All Brian Hodge
Final Girl Theory A. C. Wise
Omphalos Livia Llewellyn
Dermot Simon Bestwick
Black Feathers Alison Littlewood
Final Verse Chet Williamson
In the Absence of Murdock Terry Lamsley
You Become the Neighborhood Glen Hirshberg
In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos John Langan
Little Pig Anna Taborska
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine Peter Straub

To reiterate, the book is officially out May 1st but is already available for pre-order at the Night Shade website (where you can get it half price, with three other titles), amazon, BN.com. And it will be available for kindle, nook, and other e-readers around the same time as the print book comes out.

Because of illness, Caitlin R. Kiernan has had to cancel so the intrepid Elizabeth Bear is stepping up to bat in her stead:

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is a Hugo and Sturgeon Award winner, and her most recent novel is Range of Ghosts, an epic fantasy inspired by the history and cultures of Central Asia.
She lives in a tiny town in Massachusetts with a giant ridiculous dog, but may frequently be found visiting Wisconsin, where she keeps her partner, the other guy reading tonight

&

Scott Lynch, whose current projects are the forthcoming The Republic of Thieves, third novel in the Gentleman Bastard sequence, and the ongoing Queen of the Iron Sands, a serial pulp adventure set on a hidden Mars in the early 1950s.

Wednesday April 18th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
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Readings are free
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Books will be available for purchase from the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

Sims Maynard “Magdalene,” The Odd Ghosts.
Sims Maynard “Price,” The Odd Ghosts.
Sims Maynard “Star,” The Odd Ghosts.
Sin, Natalie L. “Osaka’s Fallen Son,” Rock ‘N’ Roll is Dead.
Skipp, John “Empathy,” Demons.
Slatter, Angela “Sun Falls,” Dead Red Heart.
Slatter, Angela “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter,” A Book of Horrors.
Smith, Alex “The Model of a Boy,” Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #37.
Smith, Michael Marshall “Death Light,” Swallowed by the Cracks.
Smith, Michael Marshall “Sad, Dark Thing,” A Book of Horrors.
Smith, Michael Marshall “The Stuff ThatGoes on in TheirHeads,”SwallowedbytheCracks
Smith, Richard “The Puddle,” Dark Tales XV.
Sparks, Cat “The Alabaster Child,” Gutshot.
Spencer, William Browning “The Dappled Thing,” Subterranean Tales of Dark Fantasy 2.
Stacey, Ruth “Go Round,” (poem) Goblin Fruit, Autumn.
Stalter, K. Harding “A Summer’s Day,” Black Static 24.
Steel, Jim “Doctor Dark,” BFS Journal spring.
Stefoff, Rebecca “The Second Sphinx,” Innsmouth Magazine #8.
Strantzas, Simon “An Indelible Stain Upon the Sky,” Nightingale Songs.
Strantzas, Simon “Mr. Kneale,” Nightingale Songs.
Strantzas, Simon “Strong as a Rock,” Phantasmagorium #1.
Strantzas, Simon “The Cornucopia,” The Weird Fiction Review #2, fall.
Strantzas, Simon “The Deafening Sound of Slumber,” Chilling Tales.
Strantzas, Simon “The Nightingale,” Nightingale Songs.
Stutts, Robert E. “Sealskins,” (poem) Star*Line July/September.
Sulway, N.A. “Their Golden Daughters,” Box of Delights.
Sulway, Nike “Her Lover’s Golden Hair,” Fantasy December.
Sussex, Lucy “Sagittaire,” Matilda Told Such Lies.
Sylvain, Patrick “Odette,” Haiti Noir.
Taaffe, Sonya “Incubation, “ (poem) Not One of Us #45.
Taaffe, Sonya “Persephone in Hel,” (poem) Stone Telling #3.
Tallerman, David “The Burning Room,” Bull Spec #4.
Tallman, Bret “The Far Bank, Three-Lobe Burning Eye #21.
Taylor, Marc-Anthony “Boxed In,” BFS Journal, winter 2010.
Tchaikovsky, Adrian “The Dissipation Club,” Dead But Dreaming 2.
Tem, Melanie ‘Keeping Corky,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Tem, Melanie “Afraid of Snakes,” Portents.
Tem, Melanie “Corn Teeth,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, August.
Tem, Melanie “Little Shit,” Supernatural Noir.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Ephemera,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, December.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Little One,” Unspoken Water #1.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Miri,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Pillows,” Portents.
Tentchoff, Marcie Lynch “When the Music Stops,” (poem) Star*Line July/September.
Tentchoff, Marcie Lynn “The Promise,” (poem) End of an Aeon.
Tessier, Thomas “In the Sand Hills,” Gutshot.
Thomas, Lee “ Marion’s Knot,” Chizine #47.
Thomas, Lee “Comfortable in Her Skin,” Supernatural Noir.
Thomas, Lee “The Dodd Contrivance,” Swallowed by the Cracks.
Thomas, Patrick “Dysconnected,” Lore and Dysorder.
Thompson, Lee “As I Embrace My Jagged Edge,” chapbook, Sideshow Press.
Thompson, Lee “Beneath the Weeping Willow,” Shock Totem 4.
Thorne, Stellan “Pinion,” Strange Horizons January.
Tice, Michael “The Spell of the Eastern Sea,” Dead But Dreaming.
Travis, Tia V. “Still,” Portents.
Travis, Tia V. “The Weight of Stones,” Chilling Tales.
Tremblay, Paul “Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport,” Cape Cod Noir.
Tremblay, Paul G. “The Getaway,” Supernatural Noir.
Tugwell, Graham “Melt Calves See Nothing,” Sein und Werden July.
Tuttle, Lisa “Grandfather’s Teeth,” Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead.
Tuttle, Lisa “Objects in Dreams May be Closer than They Appear,” House of Fear.
Tuttle, Lisa “Shelf-Life,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt “A Country Death,” Gaslight Arcanum.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt “Qiqirn,” Phobophobia.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt “The Hurting Words,” Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead.
Valentine, Genevieve “Bufonidae,” Phantasmagorium #1.
Valentine, Genevieve “Souvenir,” Strange Horizons August.
Valentine, Mark “The Amber Cigarette,” The Peacock Escritoire.
Vaughn, Carrie “Long Time Waiting,” (novella) Kitty’s Greatest Hits.
Vernon, Steve “Harry’s Mermaid,” On Spec #84.
Verrall, Sam “A Tall Tale,” BFS Journal spring.
Villanueva, Marianne “The Departure,” Philippine Genre Stories online May.
Volk, Stephen “Pied-À-Terre,” House of Fear.
Volk, Stephen “White Butterflies,” Gutshot.
Walke, Jim “Pig Hole,” Surreal South ‘11.
Walker, Lesley Claire “By Appointment,” Chizine #47.
Wall, Alan “The Salt of Eliza,” Black Static 22, April/May.
Walton, Evangeline “They That Have Wings,” F&SF Nov/Dec.
Warren, Kaaron “A Pot to Piss In,” Voices from the Past.
Warren, Kaaron “All You Can Do is Breathe,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Warren, Kaaron “Lucky Fingers,” The Conflux Cookbook.
Watt, D. P. “Archaic Artificial Suns,” The Master in Café Morphine.
Watt, D. P. “Memento Mori,” Sein und Werden July.
Webb, Wendy “In the Quiet of the Spring,” Zombiesque.
Werner, Marc “Snow,” Murmurations.
White, Jen “Listening to Tracy,” Dead Red Heart.
Wiersema, Robert J. “Tom Chesnutt’s Midnight Blues,” Chilling Tales.
Wilhelm, Kate “The Bird Cage,” F&SF January/February.
Williams, Conrad “Insecurity,” Consequences.
Williams, George “1111 California,” Gardens of Earthly Delights.
Williams, George “Lunes,” Gardens of Earthly Delight.
Williams, Thomas “Night,” (poem) Dark Horizons 61.
Willitts, Jr. Martin “How to Expose a Witch,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Wilson, Stephen M. “Angel’s Den,” (poem) Paper Crow spring/summer.
Wise, A. C. “Venice Burning,” Future Lovecraft.
Woods, Josh “He Who Fights Monsters,” Surreal South ’11.
Worra, Bryant Thao “What Hides and What Returns,” Historical Lovecraft.
Xalieri, Laszlo “The Confession,” Zombiesque.
Youmans, Marly “The Grave Reflection,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
Young, Marty “Behind the Midnight Blinds,” Horrorworld April.
Yu, Kenneth “The Kiddie Pool,” Philippine Speculative fiction 6.
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu “The Harem,” Haiti Noir.

Morlan, A. R. “Debris,” Ewerton Death Trip.
Morris, Mark “Lost and Found,” Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.
Morris, Mark “Salad Days,” Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.
Morris, Mark “Waiting for the Bullet,” Gutshot.
Morrow, Bradford “The Enigma of Grover’s Mill,” New Jersey Noir.
Morrow, James “The Iron Shroud,” Ghosts By Gaslight.
Murakami, Ryu “Penlight,” Zoetrope: All Story, the horror issue.
Murphy Nicole R. “The Fairy King’s Child,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mag. 50.
Murr, Joe L. “The Pillow Book of Liisa Härkönen,” Chizine #47.
Muslim, Kristine Ong “The Invisible,”(poem) Unspoken Water #1
Muslim, Kristine Ong “The Seventh Stranger,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Myers, E.C. “All the Lonely People,” Shimmer 13.
Nassise, Joseph “Money Well-Earned,” The Mothman Files.
Nate Southard “The Blisters on My Heart,” Supernatural Noir.
Ness, Mari “The Woods, Their Hearts, My Blood,” Jabberwocky October.
Nevala-Lee, Alec “Kawataro,” Analog June.
Nevill, Adam “What God Hath Wrought,” Gutshot.
Newman, Kim “Cases,” Portents.
Newman, Kim “The Adventure of the Six Maledictions,” (novella) Gaslight Arcanum.
Nickle, David “Looker,” Chilling Tales.
Niveau, Thana “Antlers,” Death Rattles.
Niveau, Thana “The Coal-Man,” The Eighth Black Book of Horror.
Nix, Garth“ The Curious Case of the Moondawn Daffodils ...,”Ghosts By Gaslight.
Northern, Barry J. “Dark Secrets,” Their Dark Masters.
Ó Guilín, Peadar “The Drowner,” Albedo One #40.
O’Brien, James “The Man Comes Around,” Surreal South ‘11.
O’Driscoll, Mike “The Rediscovery of Death,” TheHorrorAnthologyofHorror Anthlogies.
Oates, Joyce Carol “Helping Hands,” Boulevard/The Corn Maiden.
Oates, Joyce Carol “Vena Cava,” Portents.
Ocampo, Victor Fernando R. “Resurrection,” Philippine Speculative fiction 6.
Ochse, Weston “Driving the Milky Way,” House of Fear.
Ochse, Weston “Forever Beneath the Scorpion Tree,” Multiplex Fandango.
Ochse, Weston “Fugue on the Sea Cortez,” Multiplex Fandango.
Ochse, Weston “High Desert Come to Jesus,” Multiplex Fandango.
Ochse, Weston “Tarzan Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” Multiplex Fandango.
Older, Daniel José “Tenderfoot,” Innsmouth Free Press #6.
Oliver, “The Philosophy of the Damned,” Mrs Midnight and Other Stories.
Oliver, Reggie “A Child’s Problem,” (novella) A Book of Horrors.
Oliver, Reggie “A Piece of Elsewhere,” Mrs Midnight.
Oliver, Reggie “Dancer in the Dark,” Mrs Midnight and Other Stories.
Oliver, Reggie “Flowers of the Sea,” The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies.
Oliver, Reggie “Hand to Mouth,” Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead.
Oliver, Reggie “Singing Blood,” Delicate Toxins.
Oliver, Reggie “Striding Edge,” Terror Tales of the Lake District.
Oliver, Reggie “The Brighton Redemption,” Mrs Midnight/Bite Sized Horror.
Oliver, Reggie “The Giacometti Crucifixion,” Mrs Midnight.
Oliver, Reggie “The Look,” Mrs Midnight.
Oomen, Anne-Marie “Bitchathane,” Ghost Writers.
Palmquist, Grant “Wax and Wane,” Chizine #47.
Partridge, Norman “The Man with the Barbed-Wire Eye-Patch,” American Frankenstein.
Partridge, Norman “Vampire Lake,” Subterranean Tales of Dark Fantasy 2.
Pearson, Mark Lee “Whaling the Multiverse,” Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mag. 50.
Piccirilli, Tom “But For Scars,” Supernatural Noir.
Piccirilli, Tom “Every Shallow Cut,” (novella) chapbook, Chizine Publications.
Piccirilli, Tom “The Casual Progression of Home Sickness,” Portents.
Piccirilli, Tom “The Conclusion,” Horrorworld June.
Piccirilli, Tom “The Cruel Thief of Rosy Infants,” The Monster’s Corner.
Pierson, Chris “Lake People,” Boondocks Fantasy.
Pinborough, Sarah “Grandmother’s Slippers,” Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead.
Pinborough, Sarah “The Room Upstairs,” House of Fear.
Pinborough, Sarah “The Screaming Room,” The Monster’s Corner.
Pinion, Charles “The Immortal Part,” Zombiesque.
Pirie, Steven “Ruth Across the Sea,” Shock Totem #3.
Pirie, Steven “This is Mary’s Moon,” Black Static 22, April/May.
Pisanti, Domenico “Scission,” Something Wicked #15.
Polson, Aaron “Molting Season,” Polluto 7.
Polson, Aaron “Ngiri’s Catch,” Historical Lovecraft.
Polson, Aaron “Wanting It,” Shock Totem #3.
Powell, T. C. “The Methuselah Project,” Necrotic Tissue 14.
Prentiss, Norman “Flannel Board,” Four Legs in the Morning.
Prentiss, Norman “Four Legs in the Morning,” Four Legs in the Morning.
Prentiss, Norman “The Mask of Tragedies,” Four Legs in the Morning.
Priest, Christopher “The Stooge,” Consequences.
Priest, Christopher “Widow’s Weeds,” House of Fear.
Probert, John Llewellyn “Scattered Ashes,” Death Rattles.
Pronzini, Bill and Malzberg, Barry N. “Paradise Last,” January/February.
Pugmire, W. H “Your Ivory Hollow,” Dead But Dreaming 2.
Pugmire, W. H. “Depths of Dreams and Madness,” Gathered Dust and Others.
Pugmire, W. H. “Gathered Dust,” Gathered Dust and Others.
Pugmire, W. H. “These Dieties of Rarest Air,” Gathered Dust and Others.
Pulver, Sr., Joseph S. “No Healing Prayers,” Dead But Dreaming 2.
Quilford, Sally “The Paper Garden,” Dark Tales XV.
Rainey, Stephen Mark “Abroyal,” The Gaki and Other Hungry Spirits.
Rath, Tina and Tony “Casualties of the System,” The Eighth Black Book of Horror.
Reed, Kit “Aunt Lizzie,” Portents.
Reed, Robert “Stalker,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September.
Reynier, Michael “Le Loup-Garou,” (novella) Five Degrees of Latitude.
Rickert, M. “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” F&SF September/October.
Ridler, Jason S. “Blood That Burns So Bright,” Evolve Two.
Riedel, Kate “The Guardians,” On Spec #84.
Rigney, Mark “Magpie,” Realms of Fantasy February.
Rivera, Mercurio D. “For Love’s Delirium Haunts the Fractured Mind,” Interzone 235.
Robertson, S. Brackett “Harvest,” (poem) Goblin Fruit, Autumn.
Roden, Barbara “Sweet Sorrow,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Rogers, Ian “My Body,” Chilling Tales.
Rogers, Ian “The Candle,” Shadows & Tall Trees issue 2.
Roopnarine, Geeta “Corbeaux Bay,” Murmurations.
Rosario, Tina del “Scars,” Heights Senior Folio.
Rose, Martin “Dark Horse,” Fear of the Dark.
Ross, Deborah J. “A Borrowed Heart,” F&SF September/October.
Rountree, Josh and Henderson, Samantha “Escaping Salvation,” Realms of Fantasy June.
Royle, Nicholas “Inside/Out,” House of Fear.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn “Becalmed,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn “Show Trial,” Subterranean online Spring.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn “Unnatural Disaster,” Fantasy Magazine, October.
Russell, Karen “The Hox River Window,” Zoetrope: All Story, the horror issue.
Russell, R. B. “The Bridegroom,” Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead.
Russo, Patricia “The Sweepers,” Not One of Us #45.
Ryan, Alan Peter “Palisado,” Shivers VI.
Ryan, Alan Peter “Passage,” Gutshot.
Sadanand, Sunil “Before and After,” Chizine #47.
Santoro. Lawrence “Wind Shadows,” Drink for the Thirst to Come.
Sarrantonio, Al “Last,” Shivers VI.
Satyamurthy, Jayaprakash “Empty Dreams,” Pratilipi November.
Savile, Steven “Walk the Last Mile,” Terror Tales of the Lake District.
Schaller, Eric “Voices Carry,” Shadows & Tall Trees issue 2 .
Schweitzer, Darrell “Innsmouth Idyll,” Dead But Dreaming 2.
Schweitzer, Darrell “We Are the Monsters Now,” Inhuman #5.
Seamon, Tobias “After Kong,” The Emperor’s Toy Chest.
Sellers, Peter “Toothless,” Evolve Two.
Sharma, Priya “The Fox Maiden,” On Spec summer.
Shaw, Stephanie “Mademoiselle Guignol,” Tattered Souls 2.
Shaw, Zander “Blue Norther,” Gutshot.
Shearman, Robert “Alice Through the Plastic Sheet,” A Book of Horrors.
Shearman, Robert “Granny’s Grinning,” Everyone’s Just So So Special.
Shearman, Robert “Restoration,” Everyone’s Just So So Special.
Shearman, Robert “The Big Boy’s Big Box of Tricks,” Full Fathom Forty.
Shehadah, Ramsey “The Diner at the Edge of Hell,” Weird Tales 358.
Sheng, Nancy “Guan Yin in the Garden,” (poem) Goblin Fruit, Autumn.
Shepard, Lucius “Ditch Witch,” Supernatural Noir.
Shepard, Lucius “Slice of Life,” Teeth.
Shepard, Lucius “The Skinny Girl,” Naked City.
Shirley, John “Soulglobe,” Evolve Two.
Shortt, Robin “Babel,” Winds of Change.
Silva, David B. “Trouble Follows,” Shivers VI.
Silverberg, Robert “Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
Simon, Marge “The Hanged Children,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares 90.
Sims Maynard “Facer,” The Odd Ghosts.

Jackson, Nick “The Rabbit Keeper,” The Secret Life of the Panda.
Jacobs, John Horner “Old Dogs, New Tricks,” Surreal South ’11.
Jacobs, John Horner “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” The Book of Cthulhu.
Jakeman, Jane “Survival of the Fittest,” A Bracelet of Bright Hair.
Jameson, A.D. “The Wolves of St. Etienne,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 27.
Jamneck, Lynn “Into the Black Abyss,” Something Wicked #15.
Jansen, Patty “Quarantine,” Dead Red Heart.
Jarvis, Zak “Grist,” Help! Wanted.
Jarvis, Zak “The Law of Resonance,” Demons.
Jernigan, Zachery “Pairs,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, August.
Jessup, Paul “And Out Came Words of Fire,” Innsmouth Magazine #8.
Jessup, Paul “Stone Dogs,” Candle in the Attic Window.
Johnson, Erik T. “Water Buried,” BFS Journal winter, 2010.
Johnson, Jeremy Robert “Persistence Hunting,” We Live Inside You.
Johnstone, Carole “Electric Dreams,” Black Static 23, July/August.
Johnstone, Carole “The Claife Crier,” Terror Tales of the Lake District.
Jones, Mark Howard “Crossing the Sea of Night,” Delicate Toxins.
Jones, Stephen Graham “Little Monsters,” Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters.
Jones, Stephen Graham “No Takebacks,” Phantasmagorium #1.
Justice, Mark “Auschlander’s Gem,” Looking at the World With Broken Glass in…
Justice, Mark “The Autumn Man,” Looking at the World With Broken Glass in…
Kasturi, Sandra “Foxford,” Chilling Tales.
Kaysen, Daniel “Hail,” Black Static 23, July/August.
Keene, Brian “Johnstown,” Portents.
Kelly, Jeremy “A Birth in the Year of the Miracle Plague,” Shock Totem #3.
Kempshall, Pete “All that Glisters,” Dead Red Heart.
Kendall, Rachel “Horror Stories for Boys,” The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies.
Kendell, Rachel “Elsbeth Schultz,” Cabala.
Kennedy, Keith “First Loves for the First Time,” (poem) Niteblade Magazine #15.
Kennett, Rick “On the Other Side,” Midnight Echo #5.
Kenworthy, Christopher “Sullom Hill,” chapbook.
Kermode, Deborah “The Candling,” Murmurations.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint,” The Book of Horror.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Dear Daughter Desmodus,” Sirenia Digest 70.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Hydraguros,” Subterranean Tales of Dark Fantasy 2.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Maltese Unicorn,” Supernatural Noir.
Kilpatrick, Nancy “Sympathy for the Devil,” Chilling Tales.
Kilworth, Garry “Moretta,” House of Fear.
King, Stephen “Herman Wouk is Still Alive,” The Atlantic, April.
King, Stephen “The Dune,” Granta 117: Horror.
King, Stephen “Under the Weather,” Full Dark, No Stars.
Kleeman, Andrea “Fake Blood,” Zoetrope: All Story, the horror issue.
Kohler, Sheila “Wunderlich,” New Jersey Noir.
Koja, Kathe “Baby,” Teeth.
Koja, Kathe “Toujours,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Kontis, Alethea “The Unicorn Hunter,” Demons.
Krijnen-kemp, rj “Dogs,” Delicate Toxins.
Lalumière, Claude “Dead,” Chilling Tales.
Lanagan, Margo “Into the Clouds on High,” Yellowcake.
Lanagan, Margo “The Proving of Smollett Standforth,” Ghosts by Gaslight.
Lane, Joel “Birds of Prey,” Murmurations.
Lane, Joel “Bitter Angel,” Dark Horizons 61.
Lane, Joel “Midnight Flight,” The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies.
Lane, Joel “Those Who Remember,” Gutshot.
Langan, John “The Third Always Beside You,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Langan, John“TheUnbearable Proximityof Mr.Dunn’sBalloons,”GhostsbyGaslight.
Langan, Sarah “Beasts of Burden,” Gutshot.
Lansdale, Joe R. “Dark,” Portents.
Lansdale, Joe R. “Dead Sister,” Supernatural Noir.
Lansdale, Joe R. “The Bones That Walk,” Gutshot.
Larsen, Mekenzie “Duval Street,” Shock Totem #3.
Lawson, Chris “Apologetoi,” Dead Red Heart.
LeBoeuf, Nicole J. “First Breath,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Lees, Tim “Durgen’s Party,” Black Static 22, April/May.
Lees, Tim “How the Sixties Ended,” Black Static 24.
Lemberg, Rose “A Mother Goes Between,” Jabberwocky July.
Lemberg, Rose “If I had Reb Yoel's Violin,” (poem) Inkscrawl #1.
Leslie, V. H. “Ulterior Design,” Black Static 21 February/March.
Leslie, V.H. “Time Keeping,” Black Static 23, July/August.
Levine, Rebecca “The Windmill,” House of Fear.
E. Michael Lewis “The Fifth Corner,” The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthlogies.
Link, Kelly “The Summer People,” Tin House: The Ecstatic/Steampunk.
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Littlewood, Alison J. “The Pool,” Shadows & Tall Trees issue 2.
Llewellyn, Livia “And Love Shall Have No Dominion,” Demons.
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Logan, Simon “A Whispered Apocalypse,” Chizine #47.
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Maginn, Robin “Vanishing Tom’s Blues,” Albedo One #40.
Malcohn, Elissa “The Last Dragon Slayer,” (poem) Mythic Delirium 24.
Malzberg, Barry N. and Pronzini, Bill “Caius,” Blood and Other Cravings.
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Marshall, Helen “Skin,” Future Lovecraft.
Marvick, Louis “Devil’s Music,” Shadows & Tall Trees issue 2.
Marvick, Louis “Is for Ilinx,” Supernatural Tales 19 summer.
Massie, Elizabeth “Miss Dowdy,” Portents.
Mathew, David “Residua,” The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies.
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McCoy, Angel Leigh “Crack O’Doom,” Fear of the Dark.
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McMahon, Gary “Just Another Horror Story,” It Knows Where You Live.
McMahon, Gary “Pull My Finger,” Unspoken Water #1.
McMahon, Gary “Sheep,” It Knows Where You Live.
McMahon, Gary “The Ghost of Rain,” Dark Minds.
McMahon, Gary “What They Hear in the Dark,” chapbook.
McMahon, Paul “The Christopher Chair,” Epitaphs.
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Mead, Donald “Spider Hill,” F&SF September/October.
Measom, Kate “The Wolf Runs it the Barley,” Dark Tales XV.
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Meikle, William “Inquisitor,” Historical Lovecraft.
Meikle, William “The Color that Came to Chiswick,” Gaslight Arcanum.
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Miéville, China “Covehithe,” Guardian May.
Miles, Chris “The Household Debt,” ASIM 51.
Miller, Christopher K. “Cowboy’s Row,” Chilling Tales.
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Mills, Daniel “The Naked Goddess,” Delicate Toxins.
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Minnion, Keith “Island Funeral,” It’s For You.
Mitchell, Benjamin “A Loving Son,” Dark Tales XV.
Mitchell, William “Jiang Shi,” Something Wicked #14.
Mok, Anne “Beacons Among the Stars,” Evolve Two.
Mok, Anne “Interview with the Jiangshi,” Dead Red Heart.
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Monette, Sarah “Why Do You Linger?”, Subterranean #8.
Moore, Alison “The Egg,” Murmurations.
Moore, Brock “’Oblivion Takes Out the Trash,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares 89 May.
Moreno-Garcia, “Sylvia “A Puddle of Blood,” Evolve Two.

Nothing much happening since I returned from Salt Lake City-I'll mostly be home until late May, with a a couple of brief personal trips.

I'm finishing up the ghost reprint anthology for Tachyon this month. Now titled Hauntings. I'll announce the TOC as soon as I buy the last few stories.

Prime has a forthcoming reprint anthology edited by Paula Guran called Ghosts: Recent Hauntings. Hers will be out first although mine has been in the works since late 2009* --that's when I started approaching some of the writers I wanted in the book for specific stories and that's when I originally pitched the book to a publisher that expressed interested. They never followed through and so the book was finally bought by Tachyon late-2011.

Although some of the contributors overlap between Paula's and my volumes, none of the stories do. And I believe that my anthology takes a broader view of "ghosts" and "hauntings."

Also, at least a few of our contributors should be available at any given event.
I may be returning with several contributors to Oakdale, Long Island's Dowling College for an event at their library. Stay tuned for more info.

I have several new proposals out with publishers. Some solo, some with co-editors. I'm excited about all the ideas and hope at least a few will be bought. And am considering going kickstarter for two others. We ...shall...see.

Ah but the mystery of the day? I keep a nightlight plugged into my kitchen wall. The only time I ever remove it is if I need that socket(seldom). The only time I've ever had to change the bulb (seriously) is when I remove the light from the socket in order to use that socket for something else. When I plug it back in, bulb is dead and I have to replace it. I'm not asking for an explanation, it's just one of those weird things.







*For those who believe anthologies are an easy sell for established editors