“Catch Hell”

Author: Barron, Laird
Type: Horror Novelette
Available in: Lovecraft Unbound
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 336pp.
Pub. Date: October 7, 2009
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

“Catch Hell” — Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

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:

• Introduction by Ellen Datlow
• The Crevasse by Dail Bailey and Nathan Ballingrad
• The Office of Doom by Richard Bowes
• Sincerely, Petrified by Anna Tambour
• The Din of Celestial Birds by Brian Evenson
• The Tenderness of Jackals by Amanda Downum
• Sight Unseen by Joel Lane
• Cold Water Survival by Holly Phillips
• Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love by William Browning Spencer
• Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Machines of Concrete Light and Dark by Michael Cisco
• Leng by Marc Laidlaw
• In the Black Mill by Michael Chabon
• One Day, Soon by Lavie Tidhar
• Commencement by Joyce Carol Oates
• Vernon, Driving by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• The Recruiter by Michael Shea
• Marya Nox by Gemma Files
• Mongoose by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
• Catch Hell by Laird Barron
• That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable by Nick Mamatas

“Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death”

Authors: Files, Gemma and Stephen J. Barringer
Type: Horror Novelette
Available in: Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Editor: Mike Allen
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 296pp.
Pub. Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: Norilana Books

“Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death” — Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

Story marries style. The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.

The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren’t afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function. The effervescent offerings found within these pages come from some of today’s most distinguished contemporary fantasists and brilliant rising newcomers.

Whether it’s a touch of literary erudition, playful whimsy, extravagant style, or mind-blowing philosophical speculation and insight, the reader will be led into unfamiliar territory, there to find shock and delight.

Contributors in this volume include:

Claude Lalumiere, Leah Bobet, Marie Brennan, Ian McHugh, Ann Leckie, Mary Robinette Kowal, Saladin Ahmed, Tanith Lee, Joanna Galbraith, Catherynne M. Valente, Forrest Aguirre, Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, Kelly Barnhill, Barbara Krasnoff, and Steve Rasnic Tem

Table of Contents:

• Three Friends by Claude Lalumiere
• Six by Leah Bobet
• Once a Goddess by Marie Brennan
• Angel Dust by Ian McHugh
• The Endangered Camp by Ann Leckie
• At the Edge of Dying by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed
• The Pain of Glass A Tale of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee
• The Fish of Al-Kawthar’s Fountain by Joanna Galbraith
• The Secret History of Mirrors by Catherynne M. Valente
• Never nor Ever by Forrest Aguirre
• Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
• Open the Door and the Light Pours Through by Kelly Barnhill
• Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance by Barbara Krasnoff
• When We Moved On by Steve Rasnic Tem

“Lonegan’s Luck”

Author: Jones, Stephen Graham
Available in: New Genre 6
Format: Print Magazine
Type: Horror Novelette
Pub. Date: July 2009

“Lonegan’s Luck” — Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

No summary available.

“Morality”

Author: King, Stephen
Available in: Esquire
Format: Print Magazine
Type: Horror Novelette
Pub. Date: June 2009

“Morality” — Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

No summary available.

The Night Cache

Author: Duncan, Andy
Cover Artist: Ben Baldwin
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novelette
Page Count: 42pp.
Pub. Date: November 20, 2009
Publisher: PS Publishing

Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette

When Jenny, lowly cashier for a certain major book store chain, flirts with female customers, it is not in the expectation of lasting romance.

But at last one of them reciprocates sincerely, and a deep love is born, as if predestined, and indeed Jenny’s new lover is called Destiny — Destiny Creech — initiate in an eccentric subculture that hunts carefully concealed caches by means of GPS readings, coded co-ordinates, and oddball intuition.

The happiness of the two persists for a time, but when death sunders the partnership, the living and the departed must find one another again, and now the clues are cryptic indeed. . . .