New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (78 page)

Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. As
Michael Marshall Smith
he has published over seventy short stories and three novels—
Only Forward
,
Spare
s, and
One of Us
—winning the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth Awards as well as France’s Prix Bob Morane. He has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction four times, more than any other author. Writing as Michael Marshall, he has published six best-selling thrillers, including
The Straw Men
,
The Intruders
, and
Bad Things
.
The Servants
was published under the name M.M. Smith. His latest Michael Marshall novel is
Killer Move
. He lives in North London with his wife, son, and two cats. His website is michaelmarshallsmith.com

William Browning Spencer
is the author of novel
Résumé with Monsters
—which blends soul-destroying Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs—as well as the novels
Maybe I’ll Call Anna
,
Zod Wallop,
and
Irrational Fears
. His two short story collections are
The Return of Count Electric
a
nd Other Stories
and
The Ocean and All Its Devices.

Charles Stross
 is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The winner of two Locus Reader Awards and two Hugo Awards, Stross has written eighteen novels and two short story collections. His works have been translated into over twelve languages. His Laundry Files novels and novellas have been termed “Lovecraftian near-future techno-SF thrillers.”

Don Webb
is the author of fifteen novels including
The Double
,
Essential Saltes
, and
Endless Honeymoon
. He has written over three hundred short stories that have been published in
Year’s Best Science Fiction
,
Year’s Best Horror
, and
Year’s Best Fantasy
, among others. His story “The Great White Bed” earned an International Horror Guild Award nomination and his “anti-novel,”
Uncle Ovid’s Exercise Book
, won the Fiction Collective Award. Webb has been writing Lovecraftian fiction for twenty-five years.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Paula Guran
is Senior Editor for Prime Books and edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint for six years both in its small press incarnation as well as for Pocket Books. Guran has received two Bram Stoker Awards, two International Horror Guild Award Awards, and two World Fantasy Award nominations. She lives in Akron, Ohio.

Other Books Edited by Paula Guran

Embraces

Best New Paranormal Romance

Best New Romantic Fantasy

Zombies: The Recent Dead

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010

Vampires: The Recent Undead

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011

Halloween

Brave New Love

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS •

“The Crevasse” © 2009 by Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud. First Publication:
Lovecraft Unbound
, ed. Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse).

“Old Virginia” © 2003 by Laird Barron. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, February 2003.

“Shoggoths in Bloom” © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication:
Asimov’s
, March 2008.

“Mongoose” © 2009 by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette. First Publication:
Lovecraft Unbound
, ed. Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse).

“The Oram County Whoosit” © 2008 by Steve Duffy. First publication:
Shades of Darkness
, eds. Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press).

“Study in Emerald” © 2003 by Neil Gaiman. First publication: S
hadows Over Baker Street
, ed. Michael Reaves (Del Rey).

“Grinding Rock” © 2003 by Cody Goodfellow. First publication:
Book of Dark Wisdom #5
(January 2005).

“Pickman’s Other Model (1929)” © 2008 by Caitlín R. Kiernan. First publication:
Sirenia Digest #28
, March 2008.

“The Disciple” © 2002 by David Barr Kirtley. First publication:
Weird Tales
#328 (Summer 2002).

“The Vicar of R’lyeh” © 2007 by Marc Laidlaw. First publication:
Flurb #4
, Fall 2007.

“Mr. Gaunt” © 2002 by John Langan. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, September 2002.

“Take Me to the River” © 2005 by Paul McAuley. First publication:
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
, ed. Stephen Jones (Fedogan & Bremer).

“The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” © 2008 by Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt. First Publication:
ChiZine,
April 2008.

“Details” © 2002 by China Miéville. First publication:
The Children of Cthulhu
, eds.John Pekan & Bejamin Adams (Del Rey).

“Bringing Helena Back” © 2004 by Sarah Monette. First publication:
All Hallows 35
, February 2004.

“Another Fish Story” © 2005 by Kim Newman. First publication:
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
, ed. Stephen Jones (Fedogan & Bremer)

“Lesser Demons” © 2010 by Norman Partridge. First published:
Black Wing
s, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)/
Lesser Demons
(Subterranean).

“Cold Water Survival” © 2009 by Holly Phillips. First Publication:
Lovecraft Unbound
, ed. Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse).

“Head Music” © 2003 by Lon Prater. First publication:
Borderlands 5
, eds. Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Monteleone (Borderlands Press).

“Bad Sushi” © 2007 by Cherie Priest. First publication:
Apex Digest #10
(August 2007).

“The Fungal Stain” © 2006 by W.H. Pugmire. First publication:
The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams
(Hippocampus Press).

“Tsathoggua” © 2008 by Michael Shea. First publication:
The Autopsy and Other Tales
(Perilous Press).

“Buried in the Sky” © 2003 by John Shirley. First publication:
Weird Tales #342
(Oct/Nov 2006).

“Fair Exchange” © 2005 by Michael Marshall Smith. First publication:
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
, ed. Stephen Jones (Fedogan & Bremer).

“The Essayist in the Wilderness” © 2002 by William Browning Spencer. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, May 2002.

“A Colder War” © 2000, 2002 by Charles Stross. First publication:
Spectrum SF #3
, July 2000.

“The Great White Bed” © 2007 by Don Webb. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, May 2007.