When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson
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Overview
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.
A collection of new and exclusive 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 Jackson.
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798200748259 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Publishing |
| Publication date: | 12/21/2021 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Mira Grant—pseudonym of Seanan McGuire—is the winner of a 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She is the author of Deadline, Blackout, Feed, and Countdown, all part of the Newsflesh series.
Josh Malerman is an internationally bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–nominated American author and one of two singer–songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut novel, Bird Box, was published in the United Kingdom and United States in 2014 to much critical acclaim.
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of Omni magazine and editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at Datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow. She’s owned by two cats.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2016, she was inducted into the American Philosophical Society.
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Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than fifteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She's a longtime critic and contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.
Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.
Kate Mulligan has acted with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for more than ten seasons in productions including Hairspray, Alice in Wonderland, and Sense and Sensibility. Her film and television work includes Being John Malkovich and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Erin Moon, a professional AEA/CAEA/SAG-AFTRA actor, is the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of over 150 novels. Erin is celebrated for her facility with accents and singing in books, and has frequently portrayed characters with British, Irish, French, Italian, and Scottish accents. Erin has also narrated nonfiction for world-renowned yoga and holistic health authors. Erin has appeared on Law & Order SVU, Off-Broadway, and in regional theaters in the U.S. and Canada. She is a five-time contributor to the Good Life Project podcast and was a guest on the Superwoman Chronicles and Together Guide Podcasts. Erin is also an ERYT 500-hour yoga instructor and cocreator of the Yoga Project with World Spine Care. She now lives and records in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.
With an MFA in acting from the University of Iowa, Joniece Abbott-Pratt has performed on regional theater stages across the country, including The Public Theater in New York City. She has also appeared on numerous television shows, including The Good Fight, Law and Order: SVU, Luke Cage, and Orange Is the New Black.
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Bernadette Dunne, winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC. She lives in Brooklyn.
Read by Nicol Zanarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Soneela Nankani, and Natasha Soudek
Feodor Chin, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a classically trained actor with roles in film, television, and theater.
John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Funeral Birds M. Rickert 5
For Sale By Owner Elizabeth Hand 17
In the Deep Woods: The Light is Different There Seanan McGuire 49
A Hundred Miles and a Mile Carmen Maria Machado 63
Quiet Dead Things Cassandra Khaw 69
Something Like Living Creatures John Langan 87
Money of the Dead Karen Heuler 93
Hag Benjamin Percy 109
Take Me, I Am Free Joyce Carol Oates 145
A Trip to Paris Richard Kadrey 149
The Party Paul Tremblay 167
Refinery Road Stephen Graham Jones 179
The Door in the Fence Jeffrey Ford 193
Pear of Anguish Gemma Files 209
Special Meal Josh Malerman 231
Sooner or Later, Your Wife Will Drive Home Genevieve Valentine 245
Tiptoe Laird Barron 257
Skinder's Veil Kelly Link 285
Acknowledgments 333
About the Authors 334
About the Editor 339