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HWA Shares “Scaring and Daring” Anthology ToC

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The Horror Writers Association has announced the lineup for its latest anthology, Scaring and Daring, edited by Eric J. Guignard.

Every one of these stories is remarkable and adds an original Middle-Grade appropriate “scaring and daring” element to a classic of literature.

Coming in August 2025 from HarperCollins, Scaring and Daring will include the following authors:

  • “Hook and the Hand of Fate” by Teel James Glenn and Maxwell I. Gold (from Peter Pan) 
  • “What We Found Beneath Mount Etna” by Lisa Morton (from Journey to the Center of the Earth) 
  • “Prince Badi az-Zaman and the Ogress Fattan” by Tanvir Ahmed (from One Thousand and One Nights) 
  • “The Hound of the Basking Villas” by Kelley Armstrong (from The Hound of the Baskervilles) 
  • “The Lost Musketeer” by Maurice Broaddus (from The Three Musketeers) 
  • “The Secret (Thing in the) Garden” by Delilah S. Dawson (from The Secret Garden) 
  • “The Shadows in the Rock” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 
  • “A Lucky Find” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover (from Moby-Dick) 
  • “The Boy of La Mancha Rides a Ghost Horse” by Carlos Hernandez (from Don Quixote (or, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha)) 
  • “The Glass Slipper” by Sherrilyn Kenyon (from Cinderella) 
  • “Wolf in the Mirror” by Sarwat Chadda (from The Jungle Book) 
  • “Vessel Eaters” by Ai Jiang (from “The Ballad of Mulan”) 
  • “Freckle and Hide” by Jonathan Maberry (from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) 
  • “Out on a Limb” by Nancy Holder (from Pollyanna) 
  • “The Gruelmaster” by Nathan Carson (from Oliver Twist)
  • Cover art by Denis Zilber

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! 

Get ready for a terrifying spin on some of literature’s most beloved tales—no story is safe! From Captain Hook’s run-in with dark magic to Sherlock Holmes narrowly escaping graveyard spirits to a happily never after for Cinderella, this horror anthology is anything but a bedtime story. In this terrifying new collection for young readers, the best-loved stories from the literary canon are revisited and reimagined with a deadly twist by some of the top authors working in middle grade today. 

Preorders available now on HarperCollins’ site. 

[Based on a press release.]

2021 Shirley Jackson Awards

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The 2021 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented in-person on October 29 as part of the Boston Book Festival, in partnership with Readercon.

The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

NOVEL

  • My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press)

NOVELLA

  • Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

  • “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Magazine, February 2021)

SHORT FICTION

  • “You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday” by Isabel J. Kim (khōréō magazine, August 2021)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

  • Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson (Meerkat Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

[TIE]

  • Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)
  • Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

SPECIAL AWARD

  • Ellen Datlow, in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).

HWA Announces Haunted Library of Horror Classics

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) and Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks, will be publishing the Haunted Library of Horror Classics, a new reprint series. Now some of the genre’s seminal titles will be easily available to modern readers.

The series editors include Eric J. Guignard, past winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, and Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the Edgar® winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.

HWA’s President Lisa Morton said, “This is a project we’ve been working on behind the scenes at HWA for years, because keeping the genre’s classics alive is something I consider a key part of HWA’s core mission goals. I can’t imagine better choices to edit this series than Eric and Les, and I’m thrilled to be working with everyone at Poisoned Pen and Sourcebooks.”

Each volume will feature an introduction by a noted horror expert and/or author, and every book will close with a study guide for classroom use. The editions (quality trade paperback) are aimed to be reasonably priced for a mass market.

The first release, Gaston LeRoux’s Phantom of the Opera, will be introduced by New York Times-bestselling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award® winner Nancy Holder. The other initial titles selected are:

  • The Beetle by Richard Marsh
  • Vathek by William Beckford
  • House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
  • The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers.

[Based on a press release.]