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When Things Get Dark

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers.

Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.

A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.

Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.

This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

Featuring:

Joyce Carol Oates

Josh Malerman

Carmen Maria Machado

Paul Tremblay

Richard Kadrey

Stephen Graham Jones

Elizabeth Hand

Kelly Link

Cassandra Khaw

Karen Heuler

Benjamin Percy

John Langan

Laird Barron

Jeffrey Ford

M. Rickert

Seanan McGuire

Gemma Files

Genevieve Valentine.

Authors:

  • Josh Malerman
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Paul Tremblay
  • Carmen Maria Machado

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 284 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Essays and reportage
  • Anthologies

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    Josh Malerman

    Josh Malerman’s literary output began as a young child as he wrote about a space-travelling dog. During his many years spent as lead singer and guitarist for band The High Strung, Josh never stopped writing, until one day, the drafts began to form chilling debut , published in 2015. Josh lives in Michigan and tweets at @JoshMalerman.

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  • 72 books

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including and . She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.

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    Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the nationally bestselling author of Horror Movie, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. Another is his first children’s book. He has been teaching high school math for a long, long, time, and he lives outside Boston with his family.

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