A few days after the announcement, but still worth noting: ‘A Shot of Salt Water’ has appeared on Locus‘ Recommended Reading List for 2015, alongside some brilliant works by brilliant authors who I feel lucky to rub virtual elbows with.
And this news came hot on the heels of another bit of excitement: Paula Guran has also selected a ‘A Shot of Salt Water’ to be reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016, which has an incredible table of contents! (And, for one brief moment, my name rides the coattails of famous folk such as Neil Gaiman, thanks to the happy progression of alphabetical order.) SO great to see friends and other Australian authors on this ToC, too!
Alphabetical by Author Last Name:
- “The Door” by Kelley Armstrong (Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong, Tachyon)
- “Snow” by Dale Bailey (Nightmare, June 2015)
- “1Up” by Holly Black (Press Start to Play, ed. Adams, Vintage)
- “Seven Minutes in Heaven” by Nadia Bulkin (Aickman’s Heirs, ed. Strantzas, Undertow)
- “The Glad Hosts” by Rebecca Campbell (Lackington’s #7)
- “Hairwork” by Gemma Files (She Walks in Shadows, eds. Moreno-Garcia & Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press)
- “Black Dog” by Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, William Morrow)
- “A Shot of Salt Water” by Lisa L. Hannett (The Dark #8)
- “The Scavenger’s Nursery” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Shimmer # 24)
- “Daniel’s Theory About Dolls” by Stephen Graham Jones (The Doll Collection, ed. Datlow, Tor)
- “The Cripple and Starfish” by Caítlin R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #108)
- “The Absence of Words” by Swapna Kishore (Mythic Delirium #1.3)
- “Corpsemouth” by John Langan (The Monstrous, ed. Datlow, Tachyon)
- “Cassandra” by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld # 102)
- “Street of the Dead House” by Robert Lopresti (nEvermore, eds. Kilpatrick & Soles, EDGE)
- “Mary, Mary” by Kirstyn McDermott (Cranky Ladies of History, eds. Roberts & Wessely, Fablecroft)
- “There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold” by Seanan McGuire, The Doll Collection, ed. Datlow, Tor)
- “Below the Falls” by Daniel Mills (Nightscript 1, ed. Muller, Chthonic Matter)
- “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamsyn Muir (F&SF Jul-Aug)
- “The Greyness” by Kathryn Ptacek (Expiration Date, ed. Kilpatrick, EDGE)
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld # 101)
- “Those” by Sofia Samatar (Uncanny #3)
- “Fabulous Beasts” by Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
- “Windows Underwater” by John Shirley (Innsmouth Nightmares, ed. Gresh, PS Publishing)
- “Ripper” by Angela Slatter (Horrorology, ed. Jones, Quercus)
- “The Lily and the Horn” by Catherynne M. Valente (Fantasy #59)
- “Sing Me Your Scars” by Damien Angelica Walters (Sing Me Your Scars, Apex)
- “The Body Finder” by Kaaron Warren (Blurring the Line, ed. Young, Cohesion)
- “The Devil Under the Maison Blue” by Michael Wehunt (The Dark #10)
- “Kaiju maximus®: “So various, So Beautiful, So New” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Fantasy #59)
Lisa L. Hannett 