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Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales

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Traversing the borderlands between terror and lush, fantastic beauty, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, Angela Slatter’s eighth collection of short fiction, gathers twelve tales of horror, the uncanny, and dark lament.

Here, you will find Lovecraftian terrors, Aussie vampires, fell magic, ancient wisdom, wayward children, and twisted moments of desire gone horribly wrong. From the otherworldly threats of “The Song of Sighs” and “Only the Dead and Moonstruck”, to the sand-blasted Australian outback of “Sun Falls”, to the shadowy secrets of the past in the “The Red Forest”, these tales are dark gems that will haunt you long after your first reading.

Originally collected in a limited edition, this publication brings the first-rate chills and nightmarish turns of Slatter’s imagination  to a broader readership for the first time.  Shortlisted for the Aurealis Award upon its original release, now’s your chance to find out why Stephen Jones has dubbed Angela Slatter ‘a powerful and eloquent voice in horror fiction.’

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Table of Contents

  • Only the Dead and the Moonstruck
  • Cuckoo
  • The Burning Circus
  • Home and Hearth
  • Winter Children
  • Pale Tree House
  • The Red Forest
  • The Song of Sighs
  • The Dead Ones Don’t Hurt You
  • Sun Falls
  • The Way of All Flesh
  • The October Widow

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Praise for Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales

“Angela Slatter is a powerful and eloquent voice in horror fiction. Every story in this collection is a dark and polished gem.”  – Stephen Jones, multi-award-winning editor, Best New Horror

“Angela Slatter is one of the treasures of current horror fiction. Her work is darkly magical, lyrical, and beautiful, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.” -Alison Littlewood, author of A Cold Season, The Unquiet House, A Cold Silence, The Path of Needles

“Marvellous stuff! Angela Slatter confronts the darker side of humanity in these bracing meditations on the nature of belief, betrayal, and wonder. Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales is a riveting read, and a fine addition to the canon of one of the genre’s fastest-rising stars.” – Helen Marshall, author of Hair Side,Flesh Side and Gifts for the One Who Comes After, The Migration

“Angela Slatter’s stories are enviably original, and told in prose as stylish as it’s precise. Not just disturbing but often touching, her work enriches and revives the tale of terror.” -Ramsey Campbell, author of The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Hungry Moon, and Told by the Dead

“Angela Slatter is an international treasure. She blends horror, fantasy, and fairy tale to create something entirely fresh, but which feels too like the nightmares half-forgotten when you were a child.” -Robert Shearman, author of Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Remember Why You Fear Me, and They Do the Same Things Different There

 

About The Author

Angela Slatter

Angela Slatter is the author of the gothic fantasy novels All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, and the forthcoming The Briar Book of the Dead (Titan Books), and the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books). She’s also written twelve short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, and the novellas, Of Sorrow and Such, Ripper and The Bone Lantern. Her Hellboy Universe collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds, was released in 2022.

Vigil was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018, and Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, two Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards. All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards’ Book of the Year and the Shirley Jackson Award. Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, French and Romanian. Film rights have been optioned for her novelette ‘Finnegan’s Field’.

She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Find her online at www.angelaslatter.com

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