Story in Best New Horror 31

It’s an honour to have my story ‘Wake the Dead’ included in Best New Horror #31, edited by Stephen Jones and published by PS Publishing.

You can get the limited edition hardback edition or a trade paperback editionbut, if you pre-order the hardback now, you’ll get the paperback included! That way you can keep the snazzy copy and gift the paperback to a friend.

Check out the table of contents:

  • Introduction: Horror in 2019 — THE EDITOR
  • Zombie-ish — SCOTT BRADFIELD
  • Wake the Dead — MAURA MCHUGH
  • Mercy Brown —  CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN
  • Mama Bruise — JONATHAN CARROLL
  • The Same As the Air — ALISON LITTLEWOOD
  • Getting Through — RAMSEY CAMPBELL
  • The Children of Medea — STEPHEN BACON
  • The Water of Dhu’l Nun — DON WEBB
  • Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon — RON WEIGHELL
  • The Promise of Saints —  ANGELA SLATTER
  • Crawlspace Oracle — RICHARD GAVIN
  • Downriver — MICHAEL CHISLETT
  • Death in All Its Ripeness — MARK SAMUELS
  • Shrapnel — RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON
  • Precipice — DALE BAILEY
  • Antripuu — SIMON STRANTZAS
  • A Crown of Leaves — KRISTI DeMEESTER
  • A Stay at the Shores — STEVE RASNIC TEM
  • The Old Man of the Woods — REGGIE OLIVER
  • Iron City — TANITH LEE
  • Slough — GLEN HIRSHBERG
  • A Species of the Dead —  D.P. WATT
  • The Burning Woods — MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
  • Necrology: 2019 — STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN
  • Useful Addresses

Thanks to Steve for his faith in my story, and I’m looking forward to receiving my copy of the anthology – PS Publishing always produce beautiful tomes.

The cover art is by comic book artist, Hy Fleishman.

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