Finalist for the World Fantasy Award Includes Challawa by Usman T. Malik, finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette
Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horrors longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today''s most noteworthy authors.
Within these pages youll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harboring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. Youll encounter terrible monstersboth human and supernaturaland be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknownpossibly unknowablethreats.
Its all in here because its all out there, now, in horror.
Dark Stars features all-new stories from the following award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices: Chesya Burke, Ramsey Campbell, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Josh Malerman, Usman T. Malik, Priya Sharma, and John F.D. Taff. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, Dark Stars features an afterword from original contributor Ramsey Campbella poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection.
