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We’re bringing you a special series presenting the 2009 Black Quill Award Nominations presented by the Dark Scribe Magazine.
Today we’ll look at the next award category: Best Dark Genre Anthology.
Best Dark Genre Anthology
This award is given to the editor of a “Multi-author collection” from any sized press.
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Dark Delicacies III: HauntedEditors: Howison, Del and Gelb, Jeff |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology A stellar cast of horror writers comprise this third entry in the Dark Delicacies anthology series. These twenty-one short works will examine and lay bare all the ways in which we are haunted — both literally and figuratively. With a new novella from David Morrell and a short story which Chuck Palahniuk wrote as a teaching class on his blog, interest in this anthology will prove that the third time is no trick and all treat! Table of Contents:
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He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard MathesonEditor: Conlon, Christopher |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology Just say the name and the memories come flooding back — Somewhere in Time, Duel, The Shrinking Man, I Am Legend, and countless more. He’s one of the greatest storytellers of our time — or any time. Now Gauntlet Press has assembled He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, a spectacular anthology of original, never-before published stories by today’s best writers — stories set in Richard Matheson’s own fictional universes, and published with Mr. Matheson’s complete cooperation! And, among the many contributions to the book, is the first collaboration ever between Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, the novella “Throttle” — their take on Matheson’s classic “Duel.” This is, obviously, a once-in-a-lifetime publishing event, as it’s father and son’s first collaboration. Other contributors to this anthology, edited by Christopher Conlon, include F. Paul Wilson, Joe Lansdale, Whitley Strieber, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas Monteleone, John Shirley and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. And, as an added bonus, He Is Legend features the original full-length screenplay “Conjure Wife” — over 20,000 never-before published words by Richard Matheson himself, in collaboration with the late Charles Beaumont that was filmed as “Burn, Witch Burn.” Cover art and six interior illustrations by Matheson’s favorite artist Harry O. Morris. Table of Contents:
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Lovecraft UnboundEditor: Datlow, Ellen |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1935 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today’s most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Table of Contents:
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Midnight WalkEditor: Morton, Lisa |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology This all-original horror anthology features 14 tales of terror and suspense. Inside, Armand Constantine’s “Monsoon Devil” offers up an American stranded in India seeking a legendary demon; in “The Tennatrick”, John Palisano creates a wildfire-starting monster in Southern California; Jodi Kaplan Lester’s “The Guixi Sisters” describes three Chinese-American children who have an especially strong connection to their heritage; a young boy undergoes a Halloween rite of passage in Richard Grove’s “Silver Needle”; in “The Measure of a Man” by George Willis, 19th-century Zulu warriors fight something far worse than British invaders; Mike McCarty’s “The Grieving Process” offers a middle class husband learning to cope with more than just the death of his wife; Vince Churchill’s “Late Check-In” puts a new spin on the classic ghost tale set in a lonely, deserted inn; “Inside Out” by Lisa Majewski gives a vain model a particularly loathesome come-uppance; in the novelette “Diana and the Goong-si”, Lisa Morton provides a look at 19th-century China seen through the eyes of a British noblewoman in search of her missing husband; Del Howison’s “Alley Oops” is a vicious little twist-of-fate story about an elderly woman and a robber; Kelly Dunn’s “The Mysterious Name” rips the veneer of wealth from a well-to-do small town and finds evil lurking beneath the surface; in “Eddie G. at the Gates of Hell”, R. B. Payne limns a serial killer trying to survive a road trip; “The Bear Who Swallowed the Sky” by Jason M. Light mixes Native American folklore and contemporary dread as a man fights to save his family; and Joey O’Bryan’s “The Svancara Supper Society” is a novelette set in a future where synthetic food becomes all too addicting. The book also includes an introduction by Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton. Table of Contents:
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Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan PoeEditor: Datlow, Ellen |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth. It features Poe — inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Charnas and others. This all-star line-up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree and British Fantasy Award winners Table of Contents:
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Shivers VEditor: Chizmar, Richard |
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Nominated for the 2009 Black Quill Award for the Best Dark Genre Anthology Featuring original dark fiction with a handful of rare reprints. Table of Contents:
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The 2009 Black Quill Award Nominations Series:
Part 1 — Dark Genre Novel of the Year
Part 2 — Best Small Press Chill
Part 3 — Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection
Part 4 — Best Dark Genre Anthology
Part 5 — Best Dark Genre Book Of Non-Fiction
Part 6 — Best Dark Scribble
Part 7 — Best Cover Art and Design
Part 8 — Best Dark Genre Book Trailer
Part 9 — The 2009 Black Quill Award Winners
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