Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales

Traversing the borderlands between terror and lush, fantastic beauty, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, Angela Slatter's eighth collection of short fiction, gathers twelve tales of horror, the uncanny, and dark lament.Here, you will find Lovecraftian terrors, Aussie vampires, fell magic, ancient wisdom, wayward children, and twisted moments of desire gone horribly wrong. From the otherworldly threats of "The Song of Sighs" and "Only the Dead and Moonstruck", to the sand-blasted Australian outback of "Sun Falls", to the shadowy secrets of the past in the "The Red Forest", these tales are dark gems that will haunt you long after your first reading.Originally collected in a limited edition, this publication brings the first-rate chills and nightmarish turns of Slatter's imagination to a broader readership for the first time. Shortlisted for the Aurealis Award upon its original release, now's your chance to find out why Stephen Jones has dubbed Angela Slatter 'a powerful and eloquent voice in horror fiction.'

About the Author

Angela Slatter is the author of the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration from Jo Fletcher Books, as well as nine short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She is also the author of the novellas, Of Sorrow and Such and Ripper. Vigil was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018, and Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, an Australian Shadows Award and six Aurealis Awards. She has recently signed a two-book deal with Titan Books for All The Murmuring Bones and Morwood, gothic fantasies set in the world of the Sourdough and Bitterwood collections. Angela's short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, French and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories ("Finnegan's Field"). She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and, in 2017/18, an Australia Council for the Arts grant. Find her online at www.angelaslatter.com

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