Contents Announced for BAD SEEDS: EVIL PROGENY, ed. Steve Berman

“If Damon Comes” by Charles Grant
“Treats” by Norman Partridge
“The Family” by Halli Villegas
“The Horse Lord” by Lisa Tuttle
“My Name Is Leejun” by John Schoffstall
“Princess of the Night” by Michael Kelly
“Duck Hunt” by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Choir” by Joel D. Lane
“Children of the Corn” by Stephen King
“Yellowjacket Summer” by Robert McCammon
“The Stuff that Goes on in Their Heads” by Michael Marshall Smith
“Second Grade” by Charles Antin
“Respects” by Ramsey Campbell
“Melanie Klein Said” by Robert McVey
“Gaslight” by Jeffrey Ford
“Endless Encore” by Will Ludwigsen
“Cockroach” by Dale Bailey
“By the Mark” by Gemma Files
“The Disappearance of James H___” by Hal Duncan
“I Was a Teenage Slasher Victim” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Blue Rose” by Peter Straub
“Making Friends” by Gary Raisor
“You Deserve” by Alex Jeffers
“The Queen of Knives” by Georgina Bruce
“The Naughty List” by Christine Morgan
“The Perfect Dinner Party” by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black
“Make Believe” by Michael Reaves


Moscow but Dreaming a Locus New and Notable Book!

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ToC and Cover Announced for SUPERHEROES edited by Rich Horton


Available in March: Great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

Contents (alphabetical by author):
“Dirae” by Peter S. Beagle
“The Strange Desserts of Professor Natalie Doom” by Kat Beyer
“Wild Card” by Leah Bobet
“Grandma” by Carol Emshwiller
“The Los Angeles Women’s Auxiliary Superhero League” by Elana Fortin
“The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory
“Heroic Measures” by Matthew Johnson
“Super. Family.” by Ian Donald Keeling
“The Biggest” by James Patrick Kelly
“Superhero Girl” by Jessica J. Lee
“Secret Identity” by Kelly Link
“Tonight We Fly” by Ian McDonald
“Downfall” by Joseph Mallozzi
“Sunlight Society” by Margaret Ronald
“Dr. Death vs. the Vampire” by Aaron Schutz
“Wonjiang and the Madman of Pyongyang” by Gord Sellar

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Strange Horizons Reviews Shoggoths in Bloom

“Bear is a very skilled storyteller, and her plots are usually impeccable. With her prolificity and her interest in urban fantasy and police procedurals, she’s clearly from the more commercial end of the genre, which means she has the skills to carry you from page to page even when you’re not totally on board with the themes of the stories themselves.”

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All Three Prime Collections Among “Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Collections”

Jeff Vandermeer has selected twelve titles as The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Collections of 2012 on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog. Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear, At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips, and Moscow But Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia—all three collections we published for the year—all made the list. Congrats to our fabulous authors!


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