Shortlisted for the AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS, 2010
(Best Edited Collection)
ISBN 978-0-9805782-3-2
Edited by Brenton Tomlinson.
“Dark Pages 1 (and let’s hope there are more) is a treat – a collection of dark fiction ranging outside the horror genre (including science fiction)… a deeply satisfying read.” – Rocky Wood, Australian Shadows guest judge, author and President of the Horror Writers Association.
A collection of dark stories to delight and disturb, including tales of fantasy, science fiction and chilling examples of the macabre.
Blade Red Press has gathered some of the best writing talent in the world to compile an anthology of sublime quality. It is full of exquisite tales of disturbia that will leave you unable to put the book down. When you finally do, you’ll never look at people the same way again.
“The stories within can and will make you feel things you may prefer stay buried…”
- Paul Haines, award-winning author of Slice Of Life
“What can I say other than Wow! …the stories will have the reader hooked from beginning to end.”
- Gill Ainsworth, Co-Editor Aegri Somnia
Stories included are:
The Stain of the Psychopomp King by Lucien E G Spelman
Heart Of Ice by Martin Livings
Neptune’s Garden by Lisa A Koosis
Dust by Naomi Bell
To Die For by S D Matley
The Franchise by Joe L Murr
Clip Notes by Marty Young
Blood on Green by Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Cargo by Aaron Polson
Nepenthe by Felicity Dowker
Yellow Water Pike by Derek Rutherford
Surveying The Land by B D Wilson
Nightwork by Robert Neilson
Hand And Cradle by Trent Roman
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[...] In other news, I’ve found out that Dark Pages, an anthology of short stories self-evidently organized around dark fiction, has been nominated for a Shadow Award, which is an annual prize given out by the Australian Horror Writers Association, in the edited fiction category (you can find their website, along with the other finalists, at http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=256). Congratulations are due our editor on the project, Brenton Tomlinson at Blade Red Press, and my fellow contributors for crafting a collection of distubing and nightmarish tales. This seems like as good an opportunity as any to pimp out the project: my contribution to the anthology is entitled “Hand and Cradle,” and is a piece of alternate-history which I’m very glad found a home because it remains one of my most vivid imaginings (darkness notwithstanding). It concerns a timeline where capitalism has permeated every facet of society as enforced by the shadowy Invisible Hand, and one ageing industrialist’s confrontation with her own mortality, leading to a daring break-in at a Cradle, where children are raised seperate from family and the rest of society to ensure Equal Opportunity. The anthology can be purchased at the publisher’s website, which also lists other retailers like Amazon and the Kindle edition: http://www.blade-red.com/books/dark-pages-1/. [...]
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