Screams From the Dark: Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, a thrilling anthology featuring all-original tales of monsters from bestselling and award-winning authors and edited by Ellen Datlow, will be published by Nightfire in June 2022!
From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous?
In Screams From the Dark, authors attempt to answer this question, with stories running the gamut from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from explorations of familiar monsters to the unknown and unimaginable. This bone-chilling collection has something to please—and spook—everyone, so lock your doors, turn off your lights, and try not to scream.
Contributors to Screams From the Dark include:
From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous?
In Screams From the Dark, authors attempt to answer this question, with stories running the gamut from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from explorations of familiar monsters to the unknown and unimaginable. This bone-chilling collection has something to please—and spook—everyone, so lock your doors, turn off your lights, and try not to scream.
Contributors to Screams From the Dark include:
- Priya Sharma (Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ormeshadow)
- Indrapramit Das (Lambda & Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Devourers)
- Ian Rogers (award-winning author of Every House is Haunted)
- Garry Kilworth (World Fantasy Award-winning co-author of The Ragthorn)
- Joe R. Lansdale (Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Bottoms and Moon Lake)
- Glen Hirshberg (Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Nothing to Devour)
- Stephen Graham Jones (Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mapping the Interior and New York Times bestseller The Only Good Indians)
- Carole Johnstone (British Fantasy Award-winning author of Mirrorland)
- Laird Barron (multi-award-winning author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All)
- Nathan Ballingrud (multi-award-winning author of Wounds)
- John Langan (Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman)
- Siobhan Carroll (Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award finalist)
- A.C. Wise (Nebula, Lambda, Ignyte & Aurora Award finalist)
- Daryl Gregory (World Fantasy Award-winning author of Spoonbenders)
- Caitlín R. Kiernan (World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning author)
- Brian Evenson (multi-award-winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World)
- Margo Lanagan (World Fantasy Award-winning author)
- Richard Kadrey (New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series)
- Fran Wilde (multi-award-winning author of Updraft)
- Brian Hodge (winner of the International Horror Guild Award and author of The Convulsion Factory)
- Joyce Carol Oates (multi-award-winning and bestselling author of Zombie, Blonde, and Night Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense)
- Jeffrey Ford (multi-award-winning author of Ahab’s Return and Big Dark Hole: and Other Stories)
- Kaaron Warren (multi-award-winning author of The Grief Hole and Into Bones Like Oil)
- Cassandra Khaw (multi-award-winning author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth)
- Kristi DeMeester, author of Such a Pretty Smile and Beneath
- John Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman and Children of the Fang
Coming September 21 from Titan Books
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.
A collection of all-new short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.
This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley JackJackson.
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.
A collection of all-new short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.
This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley JackJackson.
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.
Kirkus Review for Big Dark Hole. The book was missing a Kindle button on amazon for a while but that's back now, just in time for pre-order. The book comes out on July 6th. 15 stories, 3 of them brand new to this collection.
"Fifteen tales of horror, suspense, and macabre encounters that recount moments when the fantastic finds a crack in our everyday world.
Ford is a prolific writer with a shelf of well-deserved rewards for his novels, but short stories are his sweet spot. Armed with the paranoia of Poe, the psychological terror of Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King’s empathy for everyday people, this latest collection is both subtle and nightmare-inducing, depending on the story. The opener, “The Thousand Eyes,” is a noir-tinged period piece about a mysterious bar, an obsessed painter, and a frightening singer with a “voice of death.” Many of the stories are subdued creature features: “Hibbler’s Minions” is about a flea circus gone awry while “From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms” features a werewolflike shape-shifter. Finding the minor magic in the everyday world is another thread, but the shifts in style between stories are impressive, from gothic horror in “Inn of the Dreaming Dog” to mythology in “Sisyphus in Elysium” to the long-suppressed grief in the title story. Several of the stories—some of the most experimental and intriguing—find the author narrating his own experiences through fantastical events. In “The Match,” sporadic writing teacher Ford is informed that in order to keep his job, he must fight an angel, as one typically does in academia. Elsewhere, in "Monster Eight," the author’s fictional counterpart has a run-in with the local monster just doing his “monster thing,” and in "The Bookcase Expedition," he witnesses a minor war between fairies and spiders. In "Five-Pointed Spell," the final story and one of the longest, Ford deftly spins a tale that starts with shades of Duel or Mad Max and turns into something that more closely resembles The Blair Witch Project.
A collection of wonderfully creepy gems in which each story goes its own way, to frightening effect."
"Fifteen tales of horror, suspense, and macabre encounters that recount moments when the fantastic finds a crack in our everyday world.
Ford is a prolific writer with a shelf of well-deserved rewards for his novels, but short stories are his sweet spot. Armed with the paranoia of Poe, the psychological terror of Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King’s empathy for everyday people, this latest collection is both subtle and nightmare-inducing, depending on the story. The opener, “The Thousand Eyes,” is a noir-tinged period piece about a mysterious bar, an obsessed painter, and a frightening singer with a “voice of death.” Many of the stories are subdued creature features: “Hibbler’s Minions” is about a flea circus gone awry while “From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms” features a werewolflike shape-shifter. Finding the minor magic in the everyday world is another thread, but the shifts in style between stories are impressive, from gothic horror in “Inn of the Dreaming Dog” to mythology in “Sisyphus in Elysium” to the long-suppressed grief in the title story. Several of the stories—some of the most experimental and intriguing—find the author narrating his own experiences through fantastical events. In “The Match,” sporadic writing teacher Ford is informed that in order to keep his job, he must fight an angel, as one typically does in academia. Elsewhere, in "Monster Eight," the author’s fictional counterpart has a run-in with the local monster just doing his “monster thing,” and in "The Bookcase Expedition," he witnesses a minor war between fairies and spiders. In "Five-Pointed Spell," the final story and one of the longest, Ford deftly spins a tale that starts with shades of Duel or Mad Max and turns into something that more closely resembles The Blair Witch Project.
A collection of wonderfully creepy gems in which each story goes its own way, to frightening effect."
Nice mention of The Best of Jeffrey Ford from PS in this mid-summer round up of the best books of the year by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar for The Washington Post. Lots of great mentions for your reading list in here.
tinyurl.com/yax9xqbo
“The Best of Jeffrey Ford came out recently, the definitive collection by this modern master of the fantastical short story. It’s worth it for “'Daltharee'” alone, a story I adore, about a strange city in a bottle" -- Lavie Tidhar, The Washington Post.
tinyurl.com/yax9xqbo
“The Best of Jeffrey Ford came out recently, the definitive collection by this modern master of the fantastical short story. It’s worth it for “'Daltharee'” alone, a story I adore, about a strange city in a bottle" -- Lavie Tidhar, The Washington Post.
A review of my first 5 story collections -- A Natural History of Hell, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, and Crackpot Palace -- at Tor Nightfire, https://tinyurl.com/ybg8ouhm
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