One of the year’s best collections I enjoyed reading
in the past two years is “The Year’s
Best Australian Fantasy & Horror”. The anthologies edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene and released by Ticonderoga Publications are not only an
opportunity to discover the best of what the speculative fiction of Australia
and New Zealand has to offer, but also to admire a collection of quality and high-standard fiction. Although limited to only two countries in its selection to
name “The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror” a local collection would
be an injustice, especially since writers such as Kaaron Warren, Angela Slatter,
Lisa L. Hannett or Margo Lanagan are renown throughout the
world. Of course, there are other extremely talented writers whose reputations
went beyond the boundaries of Australia, such as Deborah Biancotti, Felicity
Dowker, Kirstyn McDermott, Stephanie Campisi, Andrew J. McKiernan and Jason
Nahrung, just to name a few who are also my personal favorites. Some of
these authors are present in the new edition of “The Year’s Nest Australian
Fantasy & Horror” too, edition that features 34 fantastic stories and poems
selected by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene from those first published in 2012 by
the New Zealand’s and Australia’s finest writers. “The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012” will be
released by Ticonderoga Publications in July 2013 in hardcover, ebook and trade
editions and has a wonderful cover made by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich. Here is the full table of contents in the alphabetical order
by author.
“Tied To
The Waste” by Joanne Anderton (Tales Of Talisman)
“The Cook
of Pearl House, A Malay Sailor by the Name of Maurice” by R.J. Astruc (Dark
Edifice 2)
“Comfort
Ghost” by Lee Battersby (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56)
“Tiny
Lives” by Alan Baxter (Daily Science Fiction)
“A
Moveable Feast” by Jenny Blackford (Bloodstones)
“The
Witch's Wardrobe” by Eddy Burger (Dark Edifice 3)
“The Stone Witch” by Isobelle Carmody (Under
My Hat)
“Beautiful”
by Jay Caselberg (The Washington Pastime)
“The
Fall” by Stephen Dedman (Exotic Gothic 4, Postscripts)
“To Wish
On A Clockwork Heart” by Felicity Dowker (Bread And Circuses)
“Nightside
Eye” by Terry Dowling (Cemetary Dance)
“Population
Management” by Tom Dullemond (Danse Macabre)
“Sleeping
Beauty” by Thoraiya Dyer (Epilogue)
“Hungry
Man” by Will Elliott (The Apex Book Of World SF)
“Pigroot
Flat” by Jason Fischer (Midnight Echo 8)
“The Bull
In Winter” by Dirk Flinthart (Bloodstones)
“Sweet Subtleties” by Lisa L. Hannett (Clarkesworld)
“Bella
Beaufort Goes To War” by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter (Midnight
And Moonshine)
“Stalemate”
by Narrelle M. Harris (Showtime)
“Kindling”
by Kathleen Jennings (Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear)
“Saturday
Night at the Milkbar” by Gary Kemble (Midnight Echo 7)
“Crow And
Caper, Caper And Crow” by Margo Lanagan (Under My Hat)
“You
Ain't Heard Nothing Yet” by Martin Livings (Living With The Dead)
“A Small
Bad Thing” by Penelope Love (Bloodstones)
“Torch
Song” by Andrew J. McKiernan (From Stage Door Shadows)
“Anvil Of
The Sun” by Karen Maric (Aurealis)
“Oracle's
Tower” by Faith Mudge (To Spin A Darker Stair)
“The
Black Star Killer” by Nicole Murphy (Damnation And Dames)
“The Last Boat To Eden” by Jason Nahrung (Surviving
The End)
“What Books Survive” by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Epilogue)
“Jimmy
Dean, Jimmy Dean” by Angela Slatter (This Is Horror Webzine)
“The Dog
Who Wished He'd Never Heard Of Lovecraft” by Anna Tambour (Lovecraft
Zine)
“The
Loquacious Cadaver” by Kyla Ward (The Lion And The Aardvark: Aesop's
Modern Fables)
“River
Of Memory” by Kaaron Warren (Zombies Vs. Robots)
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