This is the final installment in our series of posts presenting the 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominations. I hope you’ve enjoyed this series and perhaps found a book or two that might make for interesting reading. If you did, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section below.
Edited Anthology
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ApparitionsEditor: Michael Kelly |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology Experience the watery secrets of Venice’s black canals. Investigate the forests and hillocks of the untamed English countryside. Visit a Bulgarian resort that holds a dark secret. 13 tales of apparitions, phantoms, ghosts, and wraiths, from modern masters of the macabre. Table of Contents:
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British InvasionEditors: Golden, Christopher; Tim Lebbon and James A Moore |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology They’ve invaded before, sending their best and brightest to transform popular music for all time. This time, they’re leaving the music behind and focusing on words. The British Invasion has begun again, in a collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories of horror and the dark fantastic. From the birthplace of horror fiction, the land where writers first dreamed up the icons that shaped the field we know today — Frankenstein’s monster, Count Dracula, the vile Mr. Hyde and more. You think you know desperation? Discover a literary tradition born from centuries of violence, pain, and suffering, distilled through the veneer of civility, and twisted by the reign of tyrants and kings. You think you know fear? From creeping dread to hideous humor, from quiet terror to brutal horror, from mad speculation to unspeakable truth, the twenty-one tales here represent the best that the U.K. has to offer. The rising stars and the masters of British horror have joined together. The British Invasion has begun. Table of Contents:
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Exotic Gothic 3: Strange VisitationsEditor: Olson, Danel |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology Every Gothic story changes a no into a yes. . . . Spirit yourself into the deserted mansions of these twenty-three original tales of sinister beauty; then commune with the spirits lying just beneath the surface. Here Gothic dreams of desire and agony come true. This is the third volume in the Exotic Gothic series edited by Danel Olson. Table of Contents: Oceania and Australasia
Asia
Europe
North America
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Lovecraft UnboundEditor: Datlow, Ellen |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited 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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Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan PoeEditor: Datlow, Ellen |
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited 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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- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novel
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novella
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novelette
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Short Story
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Edited Anthology
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Single-Author Collection
- Presenting the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award Winners
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