Shadows & Tall Trees 8

Praise for 'Shadows & Tall Trees' SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD-WINNER (Vol. 7) WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST (Vol. 6) "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." -- Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story "Shadows and Tall Trees epitomizes the idea of, and is the most consistent venue for weird, usually dark fiction. Well worth your time." -- Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of The Year Alison Littlewood - Hungry Ghosts Brian Evenson - The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell Carly Holmes - Tattletale Charles Wilkinson - A Coastal Quest C.M. Muller - Camera Obscura James Everington - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close Kay Chronister - Too Lonely, Too Wild KL Pereira - You, Girls Without Hands Kristi DeMeester - The Quiet Forms of Belonging Kurt Fawver - Workday M. Rickert - The Fascist Has a Party Neil Williamson - Down to the Roots Rebecca Campbell - Child of Shower and Gleam Seán Padraic Birnie - Dollface Simon Strantzas - The Somnambulists Steve Rasnic Tem - Sleepwalking With Angels Steve Toase - Green Grows the Grief V.H. Leslie - Lacunae

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Steve Rasnic Tem is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. He's published over 450 short stories. His most recent collections are The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies (Crossroads), Everything Is Fine Now (Omnium Gatherum), and late 2019's The Night Doctor & Other Tales (Centipede). His last novel Ubo (Solaris, February 2017) is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife Melanie, appeared from Apex Books in 2017. In 2018 Valancourt Books published Figures Unseen, a volume of his Selected Stories.Simon Strantzas is the author of five collections of short fiction, including Nothing is Everything (Undertow Publications, 2018), and editor of a number of anthologies, including Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3. Collectively, he's been a finalist for three Shirley Jackson Awards, two British Fantasy Awards, and the World Fantasy Award. His fiction has appeared in numerous annual best-of anthologies, and in venues such as Nightmare, The Dark, and Cemetery Dance. In 2014, his edited anthology, Aickman's Heirs, won the Shirley Jackson Award. He lives with his wife in Toronto, Canada.Michael Kelly is the former Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction. He's a Shirley Jackson Award-winner, a British Fantasy Award-winner, and a World Fantasy Award nominee. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Black Static, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 & 24, Supernatural Tales, Postscripts, Weird Fiction Review, and has been previously collected in Scratching the Surface, Undertow & Other Laments, All the Things We Never See.

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