Edited by Paula Guran
Print ISBN: 978-1-60701-402-7 / $15.95
E-book ISBN: 978-1-60701-418-8 / $6.99
384 pages | $15.95

The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of the past, the more we’ve come to love Halloween—the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, the “other side” is closest, and everyone can become anyone or anything they wish . . . and sometimes what they don’t. Eighteen original stories from mistresses and masters of the dark celebrating the most fantastic, enchanting, spooky, and supernatural of holidays.

Stories (in alphabetical order by author’s last name):
“Black Dog” by Laird Barron
“From Dust” by Laura Bickle
“Angelic” by Jay Caselberg
“Pumpkin Head Escapes” by Lawrence Connolly
“All Hallows in the High Hills” by Brenda Cooper
“We, the Fortunate Bereaved” by Brian Hodge
“Thirteen” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“Trick or Treat” by Nancy Kilpatrick
“Long Way Home: A Pine Deep Story” by Jonathan Maberry
“The Mummy’s Kiss” by Norman Partridge
“All Souls Day” by Barbara Roden
“And When You Called Us We Came To You” by John Shirley
“The Halloween Men” by Maria V. Snyder
“Lesser Fires” by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
“Unternehmen Werwolf” by Carrie Vaughn
“For the Removal of Unwanted Guests” by A.C. Wise
“Quadruple Whammy” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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Edited by Steve Berman
Trade Paperback | $15.95
384 pages | ISBN: 9781607014034
E-book | $6.99
Publication Date: September 11, 2013

More Americans were killed during the years of the Civil War (1861-1865) than any other date in history. Men shattered,
women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue & Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural, ghost stories that range from the haunts of the battlefield to revenants on the long march home. Yank. Rebel. Both finding themselves at odds in flesh and spirit…

Contents:
Introduction by Steve Berman
“Raw Recruits” by Will Ludwigsen
“The Swell of the Cicadas” by Tenea D. Johnson
“Bad Penny” by Carrie Laben
“Spectral Drums” by Devin Poore
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
“Ten Thousand Miles” by Connie Wilkins
“No More Amongst the Cities of the Earth” by Christopher M. Cevasco
“The Country House” by Jameson Currier
“An Unclean Thing” by Cindy Potts
“The Blank Flag of Arthur Kerry” by Kristopher Reisz
“Three Silent Things” by John F. D. Taff
“Across Hickman’s Bridge to Home” by Russell Davis
“Mistress” by Jennifer R. Povey
“Tommy Cleburne” by Jeff Mann
“The Overseer” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Red Animal” by Ed Kurtz
“Proving Up” by Caren Gussoff
“Vermont Muster” by Nick Mamatas
“Like Quicksilver for Gold” by Chaz Brenchley
“The Beatification of Custer Poe” by Laird Barron
“The Arabella” by Melissa Scott
“The Third Nation” by Lee Hoffman

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Congratulations to R.A. MacAvoy whose Death and Resurrection has been named a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”. Books not selected as finalists in the year after publication are eligible for a second year. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.

After the End: Recent Apocalypses

[Starred] Guran presents 20 reprints about postapocalyptic survival, all first published between 2008 and 2012. Scenarios include genetic mutation (Margo Lanagan’s “The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross,” Nnedi Okorafor’s “Tumaki”), the threat of nuclear war (Bruce Sterling’s “Goddess of Mercy,” Livia Llewellyn’s “Horses”), and climate change (Mary Rosenblum’s “The Egg Man,” Carrie Vaughn’s “Amaryllis”)…. The focus is on the individual and relationships instead of society as a whole: parents and children (Maureen McHugh’s “After the Apocalypse,” Blake Butler’s “The Disappeared”) and lovers (Simon Morden’s “Never, Never, Three Times Never,” John Shirley’s “Isolation Point, California”) sit comfortably alongside individuals fitting or forcing themselves into the new society (Lauren Beukes’s “Chiselhurst Messiah”, Cory Doctorow’s “Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)”). Every style and taste is represented, and readers will enjoy learning (or being reminded) why so many of these authors are considered stars of the genre.—Publishers Weekly

Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear whose collection Shoggoths in Bloom is a Locus Award Finalist.