Sarah Pinsker’s fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, and Lightspeed, and in anthologies including Long Hidden and Accessing the Future. Her novelette, “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” won the 2014 Sturgeon Award and was a Nebula finalist. She is also a singer/songwriter and toured nationally behind three albums on various independent labels. A fourth is forthcoming. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland and can be found online at sarahpinsker.com and twitter.com/sarahpinsker
Karin Tidbeck is the award-winning author of Jagannath: Stories and the novel Amatka. She lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, where she makes a living as a freelance writer. She writes in Swedish and English, and has published work in Weird Tales, Tor.com, Words Without Borders and anthologies like Fearsome Magics and The Time-Traveler’s Almanac.
Charles Wilkinson’s publications include The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions, 2000). His stories have appeared in Best Short Stories 1990 (Heinemann), Best English Short Stories 2 (W.W. Norton, USA), Unthology (Unthank Books), Best British Short Stories 2015 (Salt), London Magazine, Under the Radar, Able Muse Review (USA), Ninth Letter (USA), The Sea in Birmingham (TSFG) and in genre magazines/anthologies such as Supernatural Tales, Horror Without Victims (Megazanthus Press), Rustblind and Silverbright (Eibonvale Press), Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, Phantom Drift (USA), Bourbon Penn (USA) and Shadows & Tall Trees (Canada). Ag & Au, a pamphlet of his poems, has come out from Flarestack and his new short stories are forthcoming in Prole and Nightscript (USA). He lives in Powys, Wales, where he is heavily outnumbered by member of the ovine community.
Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California, Tokyo (for 96 days!), and London. In 2013 she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop. Her stories have appeared in Tor.com, Shimmer, Interfictions Online, Nightmare, and The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010. She has a short fiction series forthcoming from Book Smugglers Publishing. She is @visyap on Twitter and her website is isalikeswords.wordpress.com.
Copyright Acknowledgements
Foreword by Michael Kelly. Copyright © 2015 by Michael Kelly; Introduction: “At Home With the Weird,” by Kathe Koja. Copyright © 2015 by Kathe Koja; “The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud. Copyright © 2014 by Nathan Ballingrud. First published in Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow; “Wendigo Nights” by Siobhan Carroll. Copyright © 2014 by Siobhan Carroll. First published in Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow; “Headache” by Julio Cortázar. Copyright © by Julio Cortázar. English-language translation by Michael Cisco. Copyright © 2014 by Michael Cisco. First English-language publication at Tor.com, September 2014; “Loving Armageddon” by Amanda C. Davis. Copyright © 2014 by Amanda C. Davis. First published in Crossed Genres Magazine #19, July 2014; “The Earth and Everything Under” by K.M. Ferebee. Copyright © 2014 by K.M. Ferebee. First published in Shimmer Magazine #19, May 2014; “Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story” by Karen Joy Fowler. Copyright © 2014 by Karen Joy Fowler. First published in Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter 2014; “The Girls Who Go Below” by Cat Hellisen. Copyright © 2014 by Cat Hellisen. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2014; “Nine” by Kima Jones. Copyright © 2014 by Kima Jones. First published in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, eds. Rose Fox & Daniel José Older; “Bus Fare” by Caitlín R. Kiernan. Copyright © 2014 by Caitlín R. Kiernan. First published in Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2014; “The Air We Breathe Is Stormy, Stormy” by Rich Larson. Copyright © 2014 by Rich Larson. First published at StrangeHorizons.com, August 2014; “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado. Copyright © 2014 by Carmen Maria Machado. First published in Granta, October 2014; “Observations About Eggs From the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa” by Carmen Maria Machado. Copyright © 2014 by Carmen Maria Machado. First published at LightspeedMagazine.com, issue #47, April 2014; “Resurrection Points” by Usman T. Malik. Copyright © 2014 by Usman T. Malik. First published at StrangeHorizons.com, August 2014; “Exit Through the Gift Shop” by Nick Mamatas. Copyright © 2014 by Nick Mamatas. First published in Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, ed. S.T. Joshi; “So Sharp That Blood Must Flow” by Sunny Moraine. Copyright © 2014 by Sunny Moraine. First published at LightspeedMagazine.com, issue #45, February 2014; “The Ghoul” by Jean Muno. Copyright © by Jean Muno. English-language translation by Edward Gauvin. Copyright © 2014 by Edward Gauvin. First English-language publication at Weirdfictionreview.com, June 2014; “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker. Copyright © 2014 by Sarah Pinsker. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2014; “Migration” by Karin Tidbeck. Copyright © 2014 by Karin Tidbeck. First published in Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan; “Hidden in the Alphabet” by Charles Wilkinson. Copyright © 2014 by Charles Wilkinson. First published in Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, ed. Michael Kelly; “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap. Copyright © 2014 by Isabel Yap. First published at Tor.com, August 2014.
Praise for Undertow Publications
Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume One
“Well, it’s a triumph. A really well-assembled collection, which succeeds in distinguishing itself from the best horror and best fantasy anthologies with an eclectic table of contents.”
—Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters
Oct. 2014 www.undertowbooks.com
Skein and Bone
“An absorbing and gorgeously unsettling collection.”
—Alison Moore, The Lighthouse, (Short-Listed for the Man Booker)
August 2015 www.undertowbooks.com
Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6
(Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, Edited Anthology)
“A beautiful and courageous volume.”
—Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story
March 2014 www.undertowbooks.com
http://www.undertowbooks.com
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2 Page 29