I think you have to file this one under bucket-list items you didn’t realize were on your bucket-list: my story, “The Shallows,” from Darrell Schweitzer’s Cthulhu’s Reign a few years back, will be appearing in Ellen Datlow’s forthcoming survey of recent horror fiction, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, which will be out from Tachyon later this year.
Some cover, huh?
The table of contents for this book is humbling:
- Shallaballah by Mark Samuels
- Sob in the Silence by Gene Wolfe
- Our Turn Too Will One Day Come by Brian Hodge
- Dead Sea Fruit by Kaaron Warren
- Closet Dreams by Lisa Tuttle
- Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files
- Hushabye by Simon Bestwick
- Very Low-Flying Aircraft by Nicholas Royle
- The Goosle by Margo Lanagan
- The Clay Party by Steve Duffy
- Strappado by Laird Barron
- Lonegan’s Luck by Stephen Graham Jones
- Mr Pigsny by Reggie Oliver
- At Night, When the Demons Come by Ray Cluley
- Was She Wicked? Was She Good? by M. Rickert
- The Shallows by John Langan
- Little Pig by Anna Taborska
- Omphalos by Livia Llewellyn
- How We Escaped Our Certain Fate by Dan Chaon
- That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love by Robert Shearman
- Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Shay Corsham Worsted by Garth Nix
- The Atlas of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud
- Ambitious Boys Like You by Richard Kadrey
Thanks so much to Ellen Datlow for including me in this, and congratulations to everyone else in the book.