A press release from Publisher Michael Kelly of Undertow Publications:
Kathe Koja, whose intense and original fiction helped revive the weird tale, will edit volume 2 of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction for Undertow Publications, an imprint of ChiZine Publications. Koja’s work has been widely recognized, translated, and optioned and adapted for film and performance, as well as reprinted in numerous “Best Of” anthologies.
“What’s weird is unclassifiable, beyond the boundaries, above the rules, and passionately individual,” Koja said. “I’m looking forward to having a lot of editorial fun with this project.”
Established in 2009 by writer Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications (UP) is home to the acclaimed weird journal Shadows & Tall Trees, from which a number of stories have been selected for various “Year’s Best” anthologies. As editor, Kelly has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Society Awards, and his fiction has appeared in a number of venues.
“I’m delighted that Kathe has agreed to edit this next volume of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction,” Kelly said. “I am an enormous fan of her work. She is an original and distinct voice, and will bring a unique perspective to the series.”
Undertow Publications is publishing the inaugural volume of the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, edited by Laird Barron, this August. Kelly says, “I’m pleased to be publishing a dedicated volume of the year’s finest weird fiction. It’s long overdue.”
Editor Laird Barron announces the table of contents for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume One, whichi is scheduled to be published in August.
“Success” by Michael Blumlein (first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov./Dec.)
“Like Feather, Like Bone” by Kristi DeMeester (Shimmer #17)
“A Terror” by Jeffrey Ford (Tor.com, July)
“The Key to Your Heart Is Made of Brass” by John R. Fultz (Fungi #21)
“A Cavern of Redbrick” by Richard Gavin (Shadows & Tall Trees #5)
“The Krakatoan” by Maria Dahvana Headley( Nightmare Magazine/The Lowest Heaven, July)
“Bor Urus” by John Langan (Shadow’s Edge)
“Furnace” by Livia Llewellyn (The Grimscribe’s Puppets)
“Eyes Exchange Bank” by Scott Nicolay (The Grimscribe’s Puppets)
“A Quest of Dream” by W.H. Pugmire (Bohemians of Sesqua Valley)
“(he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror” by Joseph S. Pulver Sr. (Lovecraft eZine #28)
“Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron” by A.C. Wise (Ideomancer Vol. 12 Issue 2)
“The Year of the Rat” by Chen Quifan (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August)
“Fox into Lady” by Anne-Sylvie Salzman (Darkscapes)
“Olimpia’s Ghost” by Sofia Samatar (Phantom Drift #3)
“The Nineteenth Step” by Simon Strantzas (Shadows Edge)
“The Girl in the Blue Coat” by Anna Taborska (Exotic Gothic 5 Vol. 1)
“In Limbo” by Jeffrey Thomas (Worship the Night Ranger)
“Moonstruck” by Karen Tidbeck (Shadows & Tall Trees #5)
“Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks” by Paul Tremblay (Bourbon Penn #8)
“No Breather in the World But Thee” by Jeff VanderMeer (Nightmare Magazine, March)
“Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us?” by Damien Angelica Walters (Shock Totem #7)