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

About the Author

Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, including, most recently, the short story collection Song for the Unraveling of the World, and the novella The Warren. He has been a five-time finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, a finalist for the Edgar Award, and has received an International Horror Guild Award. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and works at CalArts.Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert worked as kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. Her third short story collection, You Have Never Been Here was published by Small Beer Press in November, 2015. Her story, Another F*cking Fairy Tale is forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A certified yoga instructor, she teaches yoga in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.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, and Undertow & Other Laments.

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