She Walks in Shadow

World Fantasy Award 2016.

Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles.

They emerge from the shadows, to claim the night...

Women from around the world delve into Lovecraftian depths, penning and illustrating a variety of Weird horrors. The pale and secretive Lavinia Whatley wanders through the woods, Asenath is a precocious teenager with an attitude, and the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Nitocris has found a new body in distant America. And do you have time to hear a word from our beloved mother Shub-Niggurath?

Defiant, destructive, terrifying, and harrowing, the women in She Walks in Shadows are monsters and mothers, heroes and devourers. Observe them in all their glory. Iä! Iä!

Contents:

• “Bitter Perfume” Laura Blackwell
• “Violet is the Color of Your Energy” Nadia Bulkin
• “Body to Body to Body” Selena Chambers
• “Magna Mater” Arinn Dembo
• “De Deabus Minoribus Exterioris Theomagicae” Jilly Dreadful
• “Hairwork” Gemma Files
• “The Head of T’la-yub” Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas (translated by Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
• “Bring the Moon to Me” Amelia Gorman
• “Chosen” Lyndsey Holder
• “Eight Seconds” Pandora Hope
• “Cthulhu of the Dead Sea” Inkeri Kontro
• “Turn out the Lights” Penelope Love
• “The Adventurer’s Wife” Premee Mohamed
• “Notes Found in a Decommissioned Asylum, December 1961″ Sharon Mock
• “The Eye of Juno” Eugenie Mora
• “Ammutseba Rising” Ann K. Schwader
• “Cypress God” Rodopi Sisamis
• “Lavinia’s Wood” Angela Slatter
• “The Opera Singer” Priya Sridhar
• “Provenance” Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• “The Thing in The Cheerleading Squad” Molly Tanzer
• “Lockbox” E. Catherine Tobler
• “When She Quickens” Mary Turzillo
• “Shub-Niggurath’s Witnesses” Valerie Valdes
• “Queen of a New America” Wendy N. Wagner