The editors of this forthcoming anthology have now announced the table of contents -
A Message from the HWA President ~ Rocky Wood
The Journey of Horror For Good ~ Mark C. Scioneaux
Autumn as Metaphor ~ G.N. Braun
On a Dark… October ~ Joe R. Lansdale
Mouth ~ Nate Southard
Blood for the American People ~ Lisa Morton
Reception ~ Ray Garton
The Long Hunt ~ Ian Harding
The Apocalypse Ain’t so Bad ~ Jeff Strand
The Gift ~ Monica O’Rourke
The Silent Ones ~ Taylor Grant
Sky of Brass, Land of Iron ~ Joe McKinney
Consanguinity ~ Lorne Dixon
Dead Letters ~ Ramsey Campbell
The Monster in the Drawer ~ Wrath James White
Baptism ~ Tracie McBride
Atlantis Purging ~ Boyd E. Harris
Returns ~ Jack Ketchum
The Other Patrick ~ Brad C. Hodson
A Question of Morality ~ Shaun Hutson
The Meat Man ~ Jonathan Templar
A Man in Shape Alone ~ Lee Thomas
Solution ~ Benjamin Kane Ethridge
To and Fro ~ Richard Salter
Please Don’t Hurt Me ~ F. Paul Wilson
The Depravity of Inanimate Things ~ John F.D. Taff
The Lift ~ G.R. Yeates
The Eyes Have It ~ Rena Mason
Road Flowers ~ Gary McMahon
The Widows Laveau ~ Steven W. Booth & Norman L. Rubenstein
This Thing That Clawed Itself Inside Me ~ John Mantooth
Somewhere on Sebastian Street ~ Stephen Bacon
June Decay ~ Danica Green
Shiva, Open Your Eye ~ Laird Barron
It will be published by Cutting Block Press on March 30th 2012. This is a charitable anthology. All revenues, less direct costs for production, marketing and distribution (net profits of each purchase, estimated to be at least 10% to 15%) will be donated to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. For more information on amfAR, please visit: www.amfar.org
My story, Somewhere On Sebastian Street, is a homage to my friend and fellow writer Gary McMahon, and was directly inspired by a story called The Row which appeared in his collection It Knows Where You Live. I’ve been a fan of Gary’s writing for many years, and have seen him blossom into a major literary force. As well as being both generous and genuine, he’s an incredibly lovely bloke. I’m deeply honoured to be appearing alongside him in this book, as well as with loads of other greats from the genre.
Just a quick note to tell you that I heard from Andy Cox, the editor of Crimewave, that my story What Grief Can Do will be published in the forthcoming issue. I’m thrilled to make an appearance in this fabulous series, which is published - as is Black Static - by TTA Press. I haven’t seen the full table of contents yet but it looks like other writers confirmed so far are James Cooper, Simon Avery, Janice Law, Tim Lees and Joel Lane. The glorious cover above is the one from the previous edition, Ghosts.
