In other Shirley Jackson Award benefit news (see our story earlier today on the upcoming reading), Merricat Publications has produced a chapbook entitled Jack Haringa Must Die!. Proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Award.
Paul G. Tremblay details the genesis of the book, and has a link to purchase the book, on his blog. To explain the title briefly, he notes “Jack M. Haringa is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Shirley Jackson Awards. He is an author and teacher, as well as co-editor, with S.T. Joshi, of the critical journal Dead Reckonings. The contributing authors to Jack Haringa Must Die! are his friends and respected colleagues.
“In February of 2008, while in attendance at the Boskone convention in Boston, a group of writers discussed the fictional fate of characters named after Jack Haringa: he’d already been killed in two works by Brian Keene and in a book by AJ Matthews. Thusly inspired, friends organized ‘Kill Jack Haringa on Your Blog Day’ for 7 March 2008. Reports of Jack’s death circulated throughout the blogosphere, with scores of participants. Jack Haringa Must Die! is a compilation of the best of those blog entries, plus original, never-read-before death scenarios from James A. Moore and best-selling author, Christopher Golden.”
The table of contents for the volume is:
“Death to Haringa!” by Jack Ketchum
“Scratch” by Seth Lindberg
“Grammar of the Dead” by Brian Keene
“fisticuffs in broad daylight!: a lance polynomial adventure!” by s.j. bagley
“The Fate of Poor Jack Haringa” by Paul G. Tremblay
“Jack Haringa in Hell” by Lisa Morton
“Suicide, They Said” by James A. Moore
“All Furious and Fuming” by Michael Kelly
“Woolly Solution” by Stephen Mark Rainey
“True Fashion” by Daniel G. Keohane
“Haiku” by Hannah Wolf Bowen
“Going After Eliot” by F. Brett Cox
“The Unthinkable” by Craig Shaw Gardner
“Kids” by John Langan
“…And a Dark Wolf Will Touch You Back” by Nicholas Kaufmann
“They All Shrugged” by Marcy Italiano
“Jack Haringa Must Die!” by Gregory Lamberson
“Jack’s Night Out” by Meghan Knierim
“Jackie the Slayer” by Lee Thomas
“The Three Bad Deaths of Jack Haringa” by Lon Prater
“Room Service” by Christopher Golden
“Killing Jack Haringa” by Geoff Cooper
“Bad Tin” by Nick Mamatas
“The Foraging” by Livia Llewellyn
“The Doom That Came to Jack H. Aringa” by Mary SanGiovanni
“Jack Catches the A Train” by Michael Oliveri
“A Post-Apostrophic Tale” by Bev Vincent
“The Lonely Death of Mr. Haringa” by Laird Barron