2003 anthology edited by Bill Congreve
Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve.[1]
Background
Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format.[2] It was a short-list nominee for best anthology at the 2004 Bram Stoker Awards and the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards and for best collected work at the 2004 Ditmar Awards.[3][4][5] Southern Blood features 16 stories from 16 authors.[2] One of the stories, "La Sentinelle" by Lucy Sussex won the 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 2004 Ditmar Award for best novella or novelette.[5][6] It was also a short-list nominee at the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards for best medium fiction but lost to Glen Hirshberg's "Dancing Men".[4] Kirstyn McDermott's "The Truth About Pug Roberts" was a short-list nominee for the 2004 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Trudi Canavan's "A Room for Improvement".[5]
Contents
- "Waiting at Golgotha", short story by Simon Brown
- "The Truth About Pug Roberts", short fiction by Kirstyn McDermott
- "Relish", short fiction by David Carroll
- "The Pique of Death", short fiction by Naomi Hatchman
- "Legacy", shortfiction by Bill Congreve
- "Stone by Stone", short fiction by Deborah Biancotti
- "La Sentinelle", novelette by Lucy Sussex
- "Madly", short fiction by Stephen Dedman
- "In the Shadow of the Stones", short fiction by Rosaleen Love
- "In Quinn's Paddock", short fiction by Rick Kennett
- "Hunting Ground", short fiction by Sean Williams
- "Doing Shadow Time", short fiction by Sue Isle
- "Blue Eyes", short fiction by George Ivanoff
- "Beware! The Pincushionman", short fiction by Robert Hood
- "Basic Black", novelette by Terry Dowling
- "A Sixpence for Sophie", short fiction by Geoffrey Maloney
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