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2018 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT

The Horror Writers Association recently announced the final ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards®. I am happy to report that my novelette Our Children, Our Teachers is nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. You can read it for free here!

My work has appeared on the preliminary ballot twelve times over recent years, and on the final ballot seven, and it’s always a shock. I took home the statue for The Library of the Dead as editor back in 2015, so my fingers are crossed this year to bring home a statue for my own fiction.

Kudos to everyone who made the cut. 2018 was a spectacular year, book-wise / story-wise. I’ve had a few already ask what stuff of mine has been nominated in the past, so here you go. The complete list of the Horror Writers Association’s final ballot follows.

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, “Fireman / Primal Tongue” (2013)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology, Qualia Nous (2014)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology, The Library of the Dead (2015)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology, Chiral Mad 3 (2016)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, “Time is a Face on the Water” (2016)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, “I Will Be the Reflection Until the End” (2017)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, Our Children, Our Teachers (2018)

Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Hunger – Alma Katsu

Glimpse – Jonathan Maberry

Unbury Carol – Josh Malerman

Dracul – Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker

The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

What Should Be Wild – Julia Fine

I Am the River – T.E. Grau

The Rust Maidens – Gwendolyn Kiste

Baby Teeth – Zoje Stage

The Moore House – Tony Tremblay

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Dread Nation – Justina Ireland

Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand

Broken Lands – Jonathan Maberry

The Night Weaver – Monique Snyman

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Abbott – Saladin Ahmed

Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train – Brian Azzarello

Bone Parish – Cullen Bunn

Destroyer – Victor LaValle

Monstress Volume 3: Haven – Marjorie Liu

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Our Children, Our Teachers – Michael Bailey

You Are Released – Joe Hill

Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung – Usman T. Malik

The Devil’s Throat – Rena Mason

Bitter Suites – Angela Yuriko Smith

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

“Mutter” – Jess Landry

“Dead End Town” – Lee Murray

“Glove Box” – Annie Neugebauer

“A Winter’s Tale” – John F.D. Taff

“And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” – Kyla Lee Ward

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Spectral Evidence – Gemma Files

That Which Grows Wild – Eric J. Guignard

Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias

Garden of Eldritch Delights – Lucy A. Snyder

Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection – Tim Waggoner

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Hereditary – Ari Aster

The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 – Meredith Averill

Annihilation – Alex Garland

Bird Box – Eric Heisserer

A Quiet Place – Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State – James Chambers, April Grey and Robert Masterson

The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea – Ellen Datlow

A World of Horror – Eric J. Guignard

Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror – Lee Murray

Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road – Alexander D. Ward

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Horror Express – John Connolly

The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film – Lee Gambin

We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror – Howard David Ingham

It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life – Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson

Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series – Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Artifacts – Bruce Boston

Bleeding Saffron – David E. Cowen

Witches – Donna Lynch

War – Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti

The Devil’s Dreamland – Sara Tantlinger

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CHIRAL MAD 4 – $0.99 / £0.99

Now through February 22nd, the Kindle edition of Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, co-edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder, is on sale at Amazon for only $0.99 in the US and £0.99 in the UK. Spread the news. 4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations for under a buck. Roughly 120,000 words.

Also available in hardback for $34.95 and trade paperback for $19.95. Fiction; 424 pages; 9×6 format; introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck & Janet Harriett.

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OUR CHILDREN, OUR TEACHERS

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Unfortunately, Our Children, Our Teachers is no longer available to read online. If you read the novelette during the free reading period, please consider leaving a review on either Amazon or Goodreads (or both).

A little backstory ….

Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) took a special interest in this project early on because the concept was perhaps something necessary to bring out into the open, something that might happen one day, which would be unfortunate. We wanted to collaborate on either a novelette- or novella-length work, and this story haunted us most. Unfortunately, he was unable to collaborate because of medical issues before he passed, and asked that I finish this one on my own.

The story made the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. So kudos to you, Jack (Sheriff Mayr in the story; that’s his voice). This one’s for you, my friend.

If you would rather have a more permanent copy, this novelette is also available as an eBook for $1.95, and in trade paperback for $6.95.

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2018 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® PRELIMINARY BALLOT

The Horror Writers Association recently announced the preliminary ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards®, the details of which you can find below. While Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (the final anthology by Written Backwards) did not survive the great culling, there are many great anthologies competing this year for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. But hey, Lucy and I gave it our best, and it’s a great book full of collaborations that hopefully brought the writing community together. Check it out if you haven’t already!

The anthology co-editors made the cut for different categories, however. Garden of Eldritch Delights by Lucy A. Snyder is on the list for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, and my own novelette, Our Children, Our Teachers, for Long Fiction.

Kudos to those on the preliminary ballot, lots of friends in the genre, no doubt, and also kudos to those whose work did not make the cut. There are many works I’d personally add to this list, but lists can only be so long. And 2018 was a great year for horror!

Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus

Dark Mary – Paolo Di Orazio

The Hunger – Alma Katsu

The Outsider – Stephen King

Glimpse – Jonathan Maberry

Unbury Carol – Josh Malerman

Naraka – Alessandro Manzetti

Hazards of Time Travel – Joyce Carol Oates

Foe – Iain Reid

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel – Ahmed Saadawi

Dracul – Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker

The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

The Garden of Blue Roses – Michael Barsa

What Should Be Wild – Julia Fine

Breaking the World – Jerry Gordon

I Am the River – T.E. Grau

The Rust Maidens – Gwendolyn Kiste

Fiction – Ryan Lieske

The Honey Farm – Harriet Alida Lye

The War in the Dark – Nick Setchfield

The Nightmare Room – Chris Sorensen

Baby Teeth – Zoje Stage

The Moore House – Tony Tremblay

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Pitch Dark – Courtney Alameda

The Wicked Deep – Shea Ernshaw

Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower – Christian McKay Heidicker

Dread Nation – Justina Ireland

Wormholes: Book One of Axles and Allies – Dani Kane

Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand

Broken Lands – Jonathan Maberry

The Night Weaver – Monique Snyman

The Wren Hunt – Mary Watson

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Abbott – Saladin Ahmed

Cursed Comics Cavalcade – Alex Antone and and Dave James Wielgosz

Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train – Brian Azzarello

Redlands Volume 1: Sisters by Blood – Jordie Bellaire

Bone Parish – Cullen Bunn

Denver Moon: Metamorphosis – Warren Hammond and Joshua Viola

Destroyer – Victor LaValle

Gideon Falls Volume 1: The Black Barn – Jeff Lemire

Monstress Volume 3: Haven – Marjorie Liu

Infidel – Pornsak Pichetshote

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Our Children, Our Teachers – Michael Bailey

The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman

Shiloh – Philip Fracassi

You Are Released – Joe Hill

Cruce Roosters – Brent Michael Kelley

Black’s Red Gold – Ed Kurtz

Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung – Usman T. Malik

The Devil’s Throat – Rena Mason

Body of Christ – Mark Matthews

Bitter Suites – Angela Yuriko Smith

Shape Shifting Priestess of the 1,000 Year War – Todd Sullivan

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

“All Summers End” – Tom Deady

“Life After Breath” – Tori Eldridge

“Cold, Silent, and Dark” – Kary English

“The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking” – Kurt Fawver

“The Woman in the Blue Dress” – Heather Herrman

“Mutter” – Jess Landry

“Dead End Town” – Lee Murray

“Glove Box” – Annie Neugebauer

“Fish Hooks” – Kit Power

“Her Royal Counsel” – Andrew Robertson

“A Winter’s Tale” – John F.D. Taff

“And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” – Kyla Lee Ward

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked – Christa Carmen

Spectral Evidence – Gemma Files

That Which Grows Wild – Eric J. Guignard

Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias

Octoberland – Thana Niveau

Frozen Shadows: And Other Chilling Stories – Gene O’Neill

Apple and Knife – Intan Paramaditha

Occasional Beasts: Tales – John Claude Smith

Garden of Eldritch Delights – Lucy A. Snyder

Little Black Spots – John F.D. Taff

Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection – Tim Waggoner

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Hereditary – Ari Aster

The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 – Meredith Averill

The Haunting of Hill House: Screaming Meemies, Episode 01:09 – Meredith Averill

Mandy – Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Ghost Stories – Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

Halloween – Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green

Annihilation – Alex Garland

Bird Box – Eric Heisserer

Overlord – Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith

A Quiet Place – Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State – James Chambers, April Grey and Robert Masterson

The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea – Ellen Datlow

Suspended in Dusk II – Simon Dewar

A World of Horror – Eric J. Guignard

Welcome to the Show – Doug Murano and Matt Hayward

Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror – Lee Murray

The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror – David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott

Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre – Marie O’Regan

Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road – Alexander D. Ward

Quoth the Raven – Lyn Worthen

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Horror Express – John Connolly

Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture – Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry

The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film – Lee Gambin

Woman at the Devil’s Door: The Untold True Story of the Hampstead Murderess – Sarah Beth Hopton

We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror – Howard David Ingham

Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror – Darryl Jones

It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life – Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson

A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema – Kendall R. Phillips

Wasteland: The Great Ward and the Origins of Modern Horror – W. Scott Poole

Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series – Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Artifacts – Bruce Boston

The Comfort of Screams – G.O. Clark

Bleeding Saffron – David E. Cowen

The Hatch – Joe Fletcher

Witches – Donna Lynch

Thirteen Nocturnes – Oliver Shepard

War – Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti

The Devil’s Dreamland – Sara Tantlinger

Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions – Jacqueline West

Gwendolyn Witch and Other Macabria – Twyla Wren

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END OF THE YEAR ANTHOLOGY SALE!

Thank you for another great year! To celebrate, Written Backwards is offering a discount on eBooks December 10th through the 17th, simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom. Most anthologies are on sale for only $1.99 / £1.99, and a few books are absolutely free! (*December 10th through the 14th only).

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$1.99: for a limited time, stock your digital readers with some of the best anthologies Written Backwards has to offer, including Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, the illustrated Chiral Mad 3, as well as Chiral Mad 2, the original Chiral Mad, the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Library of the Dead, and the critically-acclaimed dark science fiction anthologies Adam’s Ladder and You, Human. All for under 2 bucks.

Free: as a personal thank you, editor Michael Bailey is offering his standalone novelette, Our Children, Our Teachers, absolutely free, as well as Pellucid Lunacy, the first anthology ever published by Written Backwards. Get ’em while you can. 4 days only.

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4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders, but here’s the catch: every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even collaborated on the co-editing to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience!

The third act in the critically-acclaimed series contains 45 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, Scott Edelman, Richard Thomas, Richard Chizmar and Gene O’Neill, and with 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Erik T. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Mort Castle, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, Ann K. Boyer, John Skipp, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an intro and outro by Michael Bailey. Also features the Bram Stoker Award winning novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of Gord Rollo, Monica J. O’Rourke, Jon Michael Kelly, Meghan Arcuri, Christian A. Larsen, Jeff Strand, Gary McMahon, John Palisano, Jack Ketchum, and many others, with an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone.

An anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area’s most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golden books (urns) shelved from floor to ceiling in a glowing labyrinth of nearly countless rooms.

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.

Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by the always-impressive Orion Zangara, and an incredible introduction on humanness by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.

Absolutely free:

Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a standalone novelette by Michael Bailey, a high school in rural Brenden, Washington is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system, if gun control is not addressed properly.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty short stories by unknown and established authors around the world, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Amanda Larson, Lee Clark Zumpe, Amanda Pillar, Aaron J. French, and more. The first anthology ever published by Written Backwards.

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WHO’S WHO / THE LIST

Written Backwards has survived over the years publishing a wide array of creativity: short stories, novelettes, novellas, poetry, illustrations and, most recently, graphic adaptations. Most of the work appears in original anthologies, but a few select novels, debut fiction collections, and other strange projects have popped up over the years.

The goal: to seek diverse work, to push literary boundaries, to create the most beautiful books imaginable (and to provide professional-rate payments to contributors when at all possible). The result: a who’s who list of writers and artists. Millions of words. Hundreds of illustrations. Familiarize yourself with these wonderful people.

So, just who has Written Backwards published over the years, and where? Here’s a start, alphabetically by last name. All are short stories (unless specified, like this).

Addison, Linda D.

“Things That the Earth No Longer Bears” (poem) and “Life Poems” (a series of haiku) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Alfrey, Aeron

Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)

Anderson, Paul Michael

“In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Universe is Dying” – You, Human © 2016
Bones Are Made to Be Broken (fiction collection) © 2018
How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Arcuri, Meghan

“Inevitable” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Watch Me” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Near Future © 2017
“What’s in a Mentor” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Arnzen, Michael

“Why the Bram Soker Award Matters” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Bahr, Laura Lee

“The Cause” – You, Human © 2016

Bailey, Michael

Palindrome Hannah (composite novel) © 2005, 2018
Phoenix Rose (composite novel) © 2009, 2018
Scales and Petals (fiction & poetry collection) © 2010, 2018
“I Wanted Black” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
“Underwater Ferris Wheel” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Intro” / “Outro” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“0 – 1” (introduction) – Qualia Nous © 2014
Inkblots and Blood Spots (fiction & poetry collection) © 2014, 2018
“The Librarian” and photography – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Interior artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
Ensō (collection of children’s fables) © 2017
“Someone’s Gotta Do It” (nonfiction), “A Haunted Statue” (nonfiction), selected poetry, notes, and guest Editor – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Our Children, Our Teachers (novelette) © 2018

Baldwin, Ben

Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)

Balog, Jonathan

“Fail-Safe” and “Insomnia in Reverse” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016

Barron, Laird

“Swift to Chase” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Loveliest Form of the Dark Side” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Batson, Michael Ian

Cover artwork and illustrations – Palindrome Hannah © 2005, 2018
Cover artwork – Phoenix Rose © 2009, 2018

Bear, Elizabeth

The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Sarah Monette) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Biggs, John

“Dear Boy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013

Blackthorn, Rose

“Prescience” and “Arbitration” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016

Bodner, Hal

“A Rift in Reflection” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“Keepsakes” – You, Human © 2016

Booth III, Max

“Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Neighborhood Has a Barbeque” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Blood Dust” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Big Question” (Guest of Honor Interview of Victor LaValle) and “The Importance of First Novels” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Boston, Bruce

“Reflecting on Reflections” and “Beyond Symmetry” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Carnival of Ghosts” (poem, with Marge Simon) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Boyer, Ann K.

“In the Eyes of the Beholder” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013

Braoddus, Maurice

“Wolf at the Door” (with Anthony R. Cardno) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Braunbeck, Gary A.

“Need” – Chiral Mad © 2005, 2012 (reprint)
“The Great Pity” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
“No Fixed Address” (novelette) – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Tales the Ashes Tell” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Silver Thread, Hammer Ring” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Falling Faces by the Wayside” – You, Human © 2001, 2016 (reprint)
“Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction, with Janet Harriett) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Brenchley, Chad

“Ch-Ch-Changes” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Brittany, Michele

“Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Nicholas Diak) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Brock, Jason V

“Simulacrum” – Qualia Nous © 2013, 2014 (reprint)
“Windows, Mirrors, Doors” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Unity of Affect” – You, Human © 2016
“When Horror Gets Real” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Brozek, Jennifer

“Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” (with Seanan McGuire) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Bulkin, Nadia

“A Luta Continua” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Bundschuh, Mason Ian

“Another Man’s Bones” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Breathe You In Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Burke, Chesya

“Peregrination” (novelette, with LH Moore) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Burge, Weldon

“Sizzle” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Burke, Kealan Patrick

“I’m Not There” – The Library of the Dead © 2015

Cabeen, Bob

Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)

Cardno, Anthony R.

“Wolf at the Door” (with Maurice Broaddus) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Caruso, Santiago

Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)

Castle, Mort

“The Counselor” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2011, 2013 (reprint)
“Prayer” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Robot” – You, Human © 2016
“Hey, Kids! Comix! You Can Play, Too!” (nonfiction) – Mort Castle

Campbell, Ramsey

“The Word” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 1997, 2013 (reprint)
“Know Your Code” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“How He Helped” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Way of the Worm” (novel excerpt) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Cantella, Julian

“Here You Come Again” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Cataneo, Emily B.

“A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Black Crow of Boddinstraße” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Gwendolyn Kiste) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Catronis, George C.

Cover artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
Cover artwork – You, Human © 2016

Chadbourne, Glenn

Illustrations – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
“Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Jack Ketchum) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Chambers, James

“Mnemonicide” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Price of Faces” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Why Graphic Novels Matter in Horror” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with Jason Whitley & Christopher Mills) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Chapman, Greg

Cover artwork – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)

Chizmar, Richard

“The Poetry of Life” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Ditch Treasures” – You, Human © 2016

Christian, Autumn

“Pink Crane Girls” – You, Human © 2016

Clark, G.O.

“Her Apparition Walked Right Through Him” (poem) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Clasen, Dr. Mathias

“The Science of Horror: Why Dark Horror Seduces” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Cockburn, D.J.

“Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Conquest, Lawrence

“With Rising Alarm” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

DeMeester, Kristi

“Golden Sun” (novelette, with Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Derwin, Theresa

“Guest of Honor Interview” (of Sam Weller) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Diak, Nicholas

“Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Michele Brittany) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Di Filippo, Paul

“Fifty Super-Sad Mad Dog Sui-Homicidal Self-Sibs, All in a Leaky Tin Can Head” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Dioses, Ashley

“The Ocean Queen” (poem, with K.A. Opperman) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Dixon, John

“The Fundamental Importance of YA Books” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Edelman, Scott

“That Perilous Stuff” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“100 Things to Do Before You’re Downloaded” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016
“Only Humans Can Lie” (novelette) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017
“Faking it Until Forever Comes (novelette) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Far Future © 2017
“Pity This Busy Monster Not” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Words + Pictures = Our First Nightmares” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“I Shall But Love Thee Better” (novelette) – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Ehmann, Jim

“What the Walrus Hears” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Evenson, Brian

“Nameless Citizen” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Shimmering Wall” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Everson, John

“Voyeur” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Fallon, Amber

“Guest of Honor Interview” (of Ciatlín R. Kiernan) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Fenn, J. Lincoln

“The Secrets of My Prison House” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Freivald, Patrick

“Twelve Kilos” – Qualia Nous © 2014

French, Aaron J.

“Creature” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
“Storm of Lightning” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Gak

Illustrations – The Library of the Dead © 2015

Garrison, A.A.

“The Bad Season” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Gilberts, Steve

Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)

Golden, Christopher

“Fault Lines” (novelette, with Tim Lebbon) – The Library of the Dead © 2015

Goldsmith, P. Gardner

“Sigil” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Whitechapel” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Fair” and “Promise” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Detritus Girl” (novelette, with Valerie Marcley) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Goodfellow, Cody

“Key to the City” – You, Human © 2016

Gonzalez, J.F.

“I’m Getting Closer” – The Library of the Dead © 2015

Guignard, Eric J.

“Experiments in an Isolation Tank” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Those Who Watch from on High” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016

Hagelslag, Peter

“Lead Me to Multiplicity” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Harriett, Janet

“What Goes Up Must Come Down” – You, Human © 2016
“Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction, with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Hayden, S.C.

“Gasoline” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Hearn, David

“Brighter Her Aura Grows” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Hertz, Chris

“Sometimes They Hunt” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
“There Are Embers” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Hodson, Brad

“Opening Script” and “Closing Script” (screenplays) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Hook, Andrew

“The Perfection of Symmetry” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Interference” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013

Jacobs, John Hornor

Cover artwork – Scales and Petals © 2010, 2018

Jeffery, Dave

“Guest of Honor Interview” (of Craig Engler) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Johnson, Eugene

“Lifetime Achievement Award Interview” (of Linda D. Addison) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Johnson, Erik T.

“The Inconsolable Key Company” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
“The Apologies” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Welcome Home, All You Uninvited” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Angel Chaser” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Whisper #1 (a Warning)” and “Whisper #2 (a Prophecy)” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Immigrants” – You, Human © 2016
Yes Trespassing (fiction collection) © 2017
“I Was Not There,” “Circle,” “The Lay of Aldrian,” and “Vespertine” (poems) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Science of Modern Horror Cinema” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Ghost Drawl” (with J. Daniel Stone) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Jordan, David

“The Truth Box” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Kaplan, Barry Jay

“Underwater” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Keene, Brian

“The Last Things to Go” (with Mary SanGiovanni) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017
“Fade to Null” (graphic adaptation, with Daniele Serra) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Kelley, Jon Michael

“The Persistence of Vision” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“The Tended Field of Eido Yamata” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Effigies of Tamber Square” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Kemper, Erinn L.

“Versions” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Night Guard” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Phantom on the Ice” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“A Flash of Red” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Gumi-Bear” – You, Human © 2016
“A Laughing Matter” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The HWA Needs You” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
The Long and the Short of It (novella, with F. Paul Wilson) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
“There is Nothing Lost” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Ketchum, Jack

“Amid the Walking Wounded” – Chiral Mad © 1998, 2012 (reprint)
“The Right Thing” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Seconds” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“On Readings” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Glenn Chadbourne) – Chiral Mad 4 © 1998, 2018 (reprint of text only)

Kiera, Mackenzie

“Conjuring the Uncanny” (Guest of Honor Interview of Ramsey Campbell) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Kiernan, Ciatlín R.

“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)” (novelette) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2014, 2017 (reprint)

King, Stephen

“The Jaunt” – Qualia Nous © 1981, 2014 (reprint)
“The Last Rung of the Ladder” – Chiral Mad 3 © 1978, 2016 (reprint)
“I Am the Doorway” – You, Human © 1976, 2016 (reprint)

Kiste, Gwendolyn

In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Emily B. Cataneo) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Krisch, Glen

“Sudden Sanctuary” (graphic adaptation, with Orion Zangara & Matt Stockwell) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Lacey, Patrick

“Send Your End” – Chiral Mad © 2012

Langan, John

“My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017

Lannes, Roberta

“A Raven in the Dove’s Nest” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Painting the Burning Fence” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Girl with Black Fingers” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)

Larsen, Christian A.

“Mirror Moments” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Cataldo’s Copy” – Qualia Nous © 2014

Larson, Amanda

“Behind the Walls” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

LaValle, Victor

“Spectral Evidence” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

LaValley, Dustin

“Picture-in-Picture” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013

Lebbon, Tim

“Fault Lines” (novelette, with Christopher Golden) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Strings” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017

Leigh, Sydney

“Night Soliloquy” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Folie à Deux” and “Folie à Plusieurs” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016

Levinthal, Marc

Other Music (novel) © 2016, 2018
“The Pretty Puppets” – You, Human © 2016

Lin, Jessica May

“Red Runner vs. the Surgeon, Issue 18” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016

Little, John R.

“Second Chance” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Goldilocks Zone” – You, Human © 2016
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Confessions of St. Zach © 2016

Lucia, Kevin

“Scavenging” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013

Macae, Frisco

“Newton’s Third Law” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Macleod, Bracken

“A Sense of Dread” (nonfiction, with Douglas Wynne) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Afterword” (nonfiction) – Bones Are Made to Be Broken © 2018
How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

MacLeod, Jay

“Eraser” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010

Malerman, Josh

“The Bigger Bedroom” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Jupiter Drop” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“The Challenge” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Malik, Usman T.

“Blood Women” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (Bram Stoker Award winner, Nebula Award nominee)

Marcley, Valerie

“Detritus Girl” (novelette, with P. Gardner Goldsmith) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018

Marrs, Chris

“A Chimera’s Tale” – The Library of the Dead © 2015

Mason, Rena

Massie, Elizabeth

McBride, Michael

McGuire, Seanan

McMahon, Gary

McQuiston, Rick

Meloy, Paul

Michelle, Lori

Miller, Eric

Mills, Christopher

Monette, Sarah

The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Elizabeth Bear) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2012, 2018 (previously audio only)

Monteleone, Thomas F.

Moore, LH

Morrell, David

Morris, Mark

Morton, Lisa

Muslim, Kristine Ong

Mynhardt, Joe

Navarro, Yvonne

Nolan, William F.

Ochse, Weston

O’Neill, Gene

O’Neill, Patrick

Opperman, K.A.

O’Rourke, Monica J.

Ottino, Amanda

Palahniuk, Chuck

Palisano, John

Parkes, Ciarán

Partridge, Norman

Payne, R.B.

Perron, Philip C.

Pillar, Amanda

Piorkowski, Dan

Quigley, Lisa

Rollo, Gord

Rucker, Lynda

Samuels, Mark

SanGiovanni, Mary

Scheuerman, Ashlee

Scully, B.E.

Serra, Daniele

Shoebridge, Ian

Simon, Marge

Skipp, John

Smith, Michael Marshall

Snyder, Lucy A.

Speegle, Darren

Spooner, L.A.

Spratford, Becky

Steiner, Pat R.

Stipes, Julie

Stockwell, Matt

Stone, J. Daniel

Storm, Kia

Strand, Jeff

Stroup, Chad

Taborska, Anna

Taff, John F.D.

Thomas, Jeffrey

Thomas, Richard

Tlotlo Tsamaase

Triana, Kristopher

Waggoner, Tim

Walters, Damien Angelica

Watson, Ian

Wehunt, Michael

Weller, Sam

Wetmore, Jr., Kevin

“The Human Emotion within the Frightening Stories” (Guest of Honor Interview of Elizabeth Massie) and “Writing Nonfiction & Fiction for Beginners” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017

Whitley, Jason

Wilk, Dyer

Wilson, F. Paul

Winter, Douglas E.

Witherspoon, Cynthia

Wynne, Douglas

Wytovich, Stephanie M.

“Final Frame Film Competition” (nonfiction), “The Color White,” “The Girl Who Slept with Monsters” and “Dare I Keep the Body” (poems) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2014, 2017 (reprints)

Yardley, Mercedes M.

Zangara, Orion

Zumpe, Lee Clark

Fun fact: Gary A. Braunbeck, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Erik T. Johnson, and Jack Ketchum have appeared in all four volumes of Chiral Mad.

2018: 12/06
CATEGORY: Allevon
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INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS

Previously published through Villipede Publications, Inkblots and Blood Spots, a collection of stories and poems by Michael Bailey, is now available from Written Backwards in trade paperback for only $12.95 (new 8×5″ format), and in eBook for only $4.95 The book is illustrated throughout by Daniele Serra, and features an introduction by Douglas E. Winter.

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Stories include the Bram Stoker Award-nominated “Fireman / Primal Tongue,” which also received an Honorable Mention for Year’s Best Horror; “Dandelion Clocks,” a haunting, melodic tribute novelette to the tragedy of 9/11; “I Wanted Black,” where a young boy’s birthday is anything but cause to celebrate; “Mum,” a tale of two sisters unfolding like the bandages on their mother’s badly burned body.

Take a surreal stroll through a carnival in “Underwater Ferris Wheel,” where the biggest attraction may be your last ride; witness a pregnant woman’s harrowing encounter with soul-stealing faerie in “Not the Child”; and find out why it gets cold in a little girl’s room at night when she sees “A Light in the Closet.”

Praise for Inkblots and Blood Spots

“A writer willing to bypass all the familiar territories and stake out a new narrative landscape all his own. With this collection of dynamic stories and poems, he will show you as well.” – Thomas F. Monteleone

“A smart collection of stories that evoke real fear, because they’re grounded in emotional truth. Michael Bailey has that rare ability to terrify readers and break their hearts—often in the same paragraph.” – Norman Prentiss, author of Invisible Fences

“A dazzling assortment of stories and poems. They bleed into our souls like knives and leave us breathless.” – John R. Little, author of DarkNet and Miranda

“Artfully executed. A unique and powerful contribution to speculative literature.” – Tim Deal, Shroud Quarterly

“A cornucopia of dark, diverse treasures. Michael Bailey delivers the kind of startlingly original, beautifully imagined, and deeply affecting stories that linger long in the mind, and even longer in the psyche.” – B.E. Scully, author of Verland: The Transformation

“Both haunting and poignant. Filled with love and loss, the weight of these resolutions echoes out into the darkness with a heartbreaking permanence.” – Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration

“Michael Bailey continues to amaze. He is on track to becoming his generation’s Ray Bradbury.” – F. Paul Wilson

2018: 11/26
CATEGORY: Collections
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CHIRAL MAD 4: An Anthology of Collaborations is now available!

Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations is now available around the world in hardcover, trade paperback, and eBook. This is perhaps the most ambitious project ever imagined by Written Backwards. The entire book is one giant collaboration: co-editing by Michael Bailey & Lucy A. Snyder, a co-introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck & Janet Harriet, and 16 original works by 36 different contributors, all collaborations. 424 pages!

20,000-word novellas by Bracken MacLeod & Paul Michael Anderson, F. Paul Wilson & Erinn L. Kemper, Emily B. Cataneo & Gwendolyn Kiste, Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear.

10,000-word novelettes by Chesya Burke & LH Moore, P. Gardner Goldsmith & Valerie Marcley, Kristopher Triana & Chad Stroup, and a four-way collaboration by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt.

5,000-word short stories by Elizabeth Massie & Marge Simon, Maurice Broaddus & Anthony R. Cardno, Erik T. Johnson & J Daniel Stone, Seanan McGuire & Jennifer Brozek.

And 52 pages of graphic adaptions, including drool-enticing work by Daniele Serra & Brian Keene, Orion Zangara, Glen Krisch & Matt Stockwell, James Chambers, Jason Whitley & Christopher Mills, and a bitter-sweet first and final collaboration of “Firedance” between longtime friends Glenn Chadbourne & Jack Ketchum that spans over 26 pages.

Now available around the world:

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Need to catch up on past volumes? Chiral Mad, Chiral Mad 2, and Chiral Mad 3 are also available. Simply click the images below to get started.

Chiral Mad 3, an anthology of psychological horror nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in Superior Achievement in an Anthology, is available in trade paperback for $16.95, or eBook for $4.95. Fiction/poetry; 361 pages; 9×6 format; illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne; introduction by Chuck Palahniuk.

Chiral Mad 2 is available in trade paperback for $14.95, or eBook for $4.95. Fiction; 424 pages; 9×6 format.

Chiral Mad is available in trade paperback for $16.95, or eBook for $4.95. Fiction; 374 pages; 9×6 format.

2018: 10/23
CATEGORY: Anthologies
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CHIRAL M4D!

The fourth volume in the critically-acclaimed and ever-evolving Chiral Mad Series is finally here, and quite different than its predecessors. Available now!

$34.95 / hardback
$19.95 / trade paperback
$9.95 / eBook

Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations includes 4 novella, 4 novelettes, 4 short stories, and 4 graphic adaptations. 424 pages! But here’s the catch: Every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Bram Stoker Award winners Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even co-edited the anthology to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience, including a co-introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck and Janet Harriett, and a few other surprises.

The original Chiral Mad was meant to be an only child, and featured mostly short fiction, a few novelettes, and an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone. The book was a charity project, and raised over $5,000 for Down syndrome awareness ($3,000 of that going to the Down Syndrome Information Alliance). But soon after publication, there was already high demand for a Chiral Mad 2. The second volume contained a few novellas, and an introduction by the book itself. And then Gary A. Braunbeck went and won himself a Bram Stoker Award for his long fiction piece “The Great Pity,” sparking even higher demand for a Chiral Mad 3. Always evolving, the third volume included poetry, illustrations throughout by Glenn Chadbourne, and an introduction by Chuck Palahniuk. And for the first time, the series was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, with Scott Edelman’s “That Perilous Stuff” nominated for Long Fiction, and Hal Bodner’s “A Rift in Reflection” nominated for Short Fiction, thus sparking an insane amount of demand for a Chiral Mad 4.

And so again, the series evolved.

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The idea for collaborations originated during a bad time for both the horror and science fiction writing communities. Everyone pointing fingers, not really getting along. Everyone seemingly mad at each other and unfriending each other and taking jabs whenever possible. Chiral Mad, perhaps it could help bring people together …

Chiral Mad 4, you want it to happen? Then fucking start holding hands and start singing “Kumbaya” and get along already. Something like that. And since the series is one to ever-evolve, more insane ideas took shape. Why not make the entire anthology a collaborative effort? Why not havea co-editor? And since it’s #4 in the series, why not have 4 different forms of storytelling, with 4 collaborations of each? Why not include graphic adaptations this time, along with novellas, novelettes, and short stories? Why not have a co-introduction? Every single part of the book collaborative … why not?

The book, it’s huge in both scope and in physical form. 52 pages of graphic adaptations. Something like 120,000 words of new fiction. It’s a tome. So, what can you expect with the fourth (and perhaps final) volume of Chiral Mad? A little bigger price tag, unfortunately: $19.95 for the trade paperback, $9.95 for the eBook, and at some point there will be a hardback edition available for $29.95. It’s worth it. That much is promised. The full insanity? Here’s the final Table of Contents:

“Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction) – Gary A. Braunbeck & Janet Harriett

[ part one ]

“How We Broke” – Bracken MacLeod & Paul Michael Anderson
“Fade to Null” – Brian Keene & Daniele Serra
“Asperitas” – Kristopher Triana & Chad Stroup
“Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” – Seanan McGuire & Jennifer Brozek
“Golden Sun” – Richard Thomas, Kristi DeMeester, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt
“The Substance of Belief” – Elizabeth Massie & Marge Simon
“The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” – James Chambers, Jason Whitley & Christopher Mills
“The Long and the Short of It” – Erinn L. Kemper & F. Paul Wilson

[ part two ]

“The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” – Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
“Sudden Sanctuary” – Glen Krisch, Orion Zangara & Matt Stockwell
“Peregrination” – Chesya Burke & LH Moore
“Ghost Drawl” – Erik T. Johnson & J. Daniel Stone
“Detritus Girl” – P. Gardner Goldsmith & Valerie Marcley
“Wolf at the Door” – Anthony R. Cardno & Maurice Broaddus
“Firedance” – Jack Ketchum & Glenn Chadbourne
“In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire” – Emily B. Cataneo & Gwendolyn Kiste

Quite the line-up, no? And, as you can see from the above image, Chiral Mad 4 includes a final collaboration with long-time friend Dallas Mayr / Jack Ketchum. The adaptation of “Firedance” is worth the price of admission alone, and runs 26 pages. Dallas, Glenn and yours truly worked our fingers to the bones to bring you something special, something to remember him by.

So, once again, crack the spine, dig your claws deep into these pages, sit back, and enjoy a new kind of chirality.

2018: 10/19
CATEGORY: Anthologies
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