Aickman's Heirs
Shirley Jackson Award 2015. World Fantasy Award nominee 2016.
Edited by Simon Strantzas. Cover art by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich.
Edited by Simon Strantzas, "Aickman's Heirs" is an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern visionaries of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories. Editor and author Strantzas, an important figure in Weird fiction, has been hailed as the heir to Aickman's oeuvre, and is ideally suited to edit this exciting volume. Featuring all-original stories from Brian Evenson, Lisa Tuttle, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Michael Cisco, and others.
Contents:
- Nina Allan – “Change of Scene”
- Nadia Bulkin – “Seven Minutes in Heaven”
- Michael Cisco – “Infestations”
- Malcolm Devlin – “Two Brothers”
- Brian Evenson – “Seaside Town”
- Richard Gavin – “Neithernor”
- John Howard – “Least Light, Most Night”
- John Langan – “Underground Economy”
- Helen Marshall – “Vault of Heaven”
- Daniel Mills – “The Lake”
- David Nickle – “Camp”
- Lynda E. Rucker – “Drying Season”
- Lisa Tuttle – “The Book That Finds You”
- D.P. Watt – “A Delicate Craft”
- Michael Wehunt – “A Discreet Music”
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Simon Strantzas
Simon Strantzas is the author of the story collections Beneath the Surface (2008), Cold to the Touch (2009), Nightingale Songs (2011), and Burnt Black Suns (2014). His stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, the Black Wings series, and elsewhere. He resides in Toronto, Canada.
