Oh, I said I’d be back – and here I am already, like a bad penny . . . but I have news!
It’s always lovely to have a story picked for one of the annual Best Of short story anthologies. Fortunately, The Dog’s Home, a story I wrote for the first Spectral Book of Horror Stories, has been selected by the awesome Ellen Datlow for her Best Horror of the Year.
It wasn’t an easy story to write by any means, but at least I get to enjoy it appearing in not one but two rather lovely books. It’s especially nice that Rio Youers’ Spectral story, Outside Heavenly (which is wonderful), has also been selected.
The full line-up is:
The Atlas of Hell – Nathan Ballingrud
Winter Children – Angela Slatter
A Dweller in Amenty – Genevieve Valentine
Outside Heavenly – Rio Youers
Shay Corsham Worsted – Garth Nix
Allocthon – Livia Llewellyn
Chapter Six – Stephen Graham Jones
This is Not for You – Gemma Files
Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) – Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Culvert – Dale Bailey
Past Reno – Brian Evenson
The Coat Off His Back – Keris McDonald
The worms Crawl In – Laird Barron
The Dog’s Home – Alison Littlewood
Tread Upon the Brittle Shell – Rhoads Brazos
Persistence of Vision – Orrin Grey
It Flows From the Mouth – Robert Shearman
Wingless Beasts – Lucy Taylor
Departures – Carole Johnstone
Ymir – John Langan
Plink – Kurt Dinan
Nigredo – Cody Goodfellow
I’ll leave you with a picture of the cover layout, which is looking particularly splendid, and makes me even happier. I shall return soon. More news looms. 🙂