Category: Anthologies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection

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In 1970, I sold my first novel and first nonfiction book and became a full-time freelancer, writing (to date) fifteen novels, a collection of short fiction, six nonfiction books, a long series of anthologies, and several plays. "I've judged national literary competitions, including poetry (People's Voice Press); the Nero Award for Best American Mystery Novel, which I coordinated for 3 years as chairman of a judging committee consisting of such critics as Marilyn Stasio and Robin Winks, and Barbara Stout, daughter of Rex Stout; the "Edgar" award in the Mystery Writers of America�s media category.
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Grindhouse

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Ignoring the towns-people's cryptic warnings, he goes to the house where he discovers its horrible history and becomes ensnared in its even more horrible legacy. He didn’t kill for the fun of it (like, say, Dandy) or because someone was in his way when he wanted something (like, say, Dandy); he was a soldier who came back from the war “with a metal plate and a head full of bees,” as his hallucination of Lucy says. Gallagher, Steve “Heroes and Villains,” The Doll Collection. Even the jump scares have a deeper meaning. "The Babadook" opens November 28 (it is currently available to watch on DIRECTV), but merits a spot on this list simply because — following its Sundance debut — it ranks as the best horror discovery of the year.
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Shock Rock II

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We are looking for submissions to our quarterly themed anthologies. Why it's scary: All the little touches, like the clown TV announcer, the weird old man who knows about the ghosts... and the way the old man is suddenly on Garfield's television when he gets home. Strictly speaking, not all of the anthologies listed are horror titles, but they have been sent to Black Static for review and therefore it's safe to assume that they are, at least, considered by their publishers to be of interest to horror readers.
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The Second Leonaur Book of Supernatural Detectives:

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That’s one of the most profound things about horror is that every single one of us is capable of the things we fear most. All rights revert to the author upon publication. **Does not accept email submissions** Clarkesworld Magazine is an online venue and chapbook series for short works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. “We have a firm word limit of 4000 words. In this low-budget 1986 anthology, Uncle Mike tells three horror-fueled stories to his insomniac nephew, Brian. How do you get into reading when the siren call of streaming movies becomes more powerful every year?
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The Devil's Torment: Short Stories

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Annotated bibliography of over 800 English language articles on science fiction from popular and scholarly magazines. Five-day intensive for writers at all levels. While PMS is a journal of exclusively women’s writing, the subject field is wide open. An awesome dark comedy horror anthology from the early 80’s. DEADLINE for 2014 materials: December 1, 2014. Recently named Guest of Awesome for 2017’s Ro-Con 3, she also serves as co-editor of Read Short Fiction and creates the This Writing Life YouTube series.
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Night Asylum: Tales of Mystery and Horror

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Michael Myers is back and in strong, lumbering form for this ten-year sequel to the original. This week has been an amazing week for me. THE SETUP: A stray cat weaves in and out of the lives of sordid characters suffering darkly comedic, ill-fates. Check Amazon rating » Gyo Volume 1. © Junji ITO / Shogakukan Inc. I don’t think it made people suddenly go out and buy the latest horror paperback, it probably just made them go and buy the latest Singer book.
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The Dark Issue 3

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Visit www.ticketyboopress.co.uk/ for contact details, review copies, submission-calls, and more. Membership in the SFPA is not required for work to be nominated. Not badly written, but not that original. Entry fees: 1–4 poems or each prose entry—$18. The final shots of this chapter are a triumph of gross-out special effects as the final outcome is revealed to the viewer. Long running and loved by all, Tales From the Crypt was the first cable horror anthology show to give us uncut episodes with naughty language and some nudity.
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To Kindle the Unknown

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CHIRAL MAD 2 speaks to us on a level of intellectual horror. Juliet E McKenna’s love of other worlds, other peoples, fantasy, myth and history was nurtured by childhood viewing of programmes such as Doctor Who, Star Trek and UFO. Highly recommended Demonstrating his writing ability across the horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction genres, Jeffrey Thomas has written some wonderful stories containing supernatural elements, faraway worlds, and other dimensions.
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Stories from the Hearth

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Clotfelter takes the sort of underground scumbag character that frequently appears in his comics and puts him through a scatological but ultimately redemptive series of events. The magic rehearsal scene had caused me to momentarily forget about Stanley. Miller, Eric “Culling the Herd,” Hell Comes to Hollywood II. Slatter, Angela “The Maiden in the Ice,” The Bitterwood Bible. The show winds down with an independent music track bringing the unknown artists to the forefront.
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Readers Sharing Nightmares

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I had been beyond the borders of hegemonic reality long enough to have developed a serious delusional condition. Peter Alexander Haining was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk. People may not know he trained as a psychiatrist but left the field to pursue writing. A mixture of horror, anthology and found footage, V/H/S follows the frame of a group of sociopathic outcasts while burglarizing a house in the search of a VHS tape.
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