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These Strange & Magic Things: Short Stories: BJP Short Story Collections, #3
The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales: BJP Short Story Collections
Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet: BJP Short Story Collections, #2
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BJP Short Story Collections Series

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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.'

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 31, 2018
These Strange & Magic Things: Short Stories: BJP Short Story Collections, #3
The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales: BJP Short Story Collections
Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet: BJP Short Story Collections, #2

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  • Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet: BJP Short Story Collections, #2

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    Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet: BJP Short Story Collections, #2
    Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet: BJP Short Story Collections, #2

    The twelve stories in this collection touch upon science fiction, horror, and fantasy, but all see people brush against the sublime and discover who they truly are. In "One Saturday Night, With Angel," a young man staffing a convenience store frets as angels hunt his customers. In "Say Zucchini, and Mean It," the world is overrun by a plague that robs us of three very important words. In "Clockwork, Patchwork, and Raven," a clockwork man dreams of a fairy-tale ending while trying to protect those he loves from a dangerous gang of genetically engineered crow boys. In "Dying Young," the psychic son of a lawman must re-evaluate the deals he makes in order to keep his town safe from cybernetic marauders and a dragon seeking justice. Mimes, aliens, and kaiju that only fifty percent of the population can see. Invaders from beyond the stars, empaths on the run, and Astronomer's Royal of England. These are just some of the characters you'll meet in the strange futures presented in this collection, but always grounded in the very human strengths and frailties.

  • These Strange & Magic Things: Short Stories: BJP Short Story Collections, #3

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    These Strange & Magic Things: Short Stories: BJP Short Story Collections, #3
    These Strange & Magic Things: Short Stories: BJP Short Story Collections, #3

    For fans of the weird and enchanting, Peter M Ball returns for a third collection of speculative fiction stories that dance along the borders between horror, fantasy, and science fiction. These Strange and Magic Things brings together fifteen tales that showcase why he's among the finest writers of the strange and fantastic working in Australia right now. Love is the Roar of a Chainsaw, Cutting Flesh in the Night — Their zombie survival kit started as a private joke, but now Nat and Vince take it a bit too seriously. An ill-conceived comment unravels their relationship, but when the worst actually happens, Vince needs to make an important choice. The Things You Do When the War Breaks Out — A trip to the moon goes wrong when dinosaurs attack the anti-grav train in transit. On the plus side, T. and his dad can stay with T's sister on the lunar surface. On the downside, T's dad is obsessed with the Jurassic beasts from the dark side of the moon, and he's not been stable for a long time… The Mike And Carly Story, Without The Gossip — High school is hard enough for regularly people, but when Mike learns he's a werewolf, everything gets far more complicated. Not least the fact that he likes Carly, and turning into a werewolf seems to have invited the possibility that she might like him back. Counting Down —Phil says he can catch a bullet, but nobody believes him when he says it. Not even his best friend, Mattie, who once glimpsed the bats living inside Phil's head and knows he's not normal. Mattie should know better than to go along with Phil's crazy ideas, but right now he's get other things on his mind...things that could lead to a fatal mistake. Local Heroes — Hit man to the supernatural, Keith Murphy, comes up against a demon who draws power from the wrestling ring and the fans who come to watch the show. He's too tough to gun down and impervious to magic, which means Keith's only got one option if he wants to make the hit. He's got to step up, play by the rules of the ring, and accept the possibility he might just be the hero that the Gold Coast needs.  With ten more stories to enchant and thrill you, These Strange and Magic Things spins magic, horror, and pop culture together into an unforgettable collection of tales featuring rogue jinn, uncanny rock bands, magic bees, flying crocodiles, laundromat ghosts, haunted coins, cyberpunk gangs, and lost loves.

  • The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales: BJP Short Story Collections

    The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales: BJP Short Story Collections
    The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales: BJP Short Story Collections

    Copenhagen is invaded by angry merfolk who pilot war-machines crafted from old shipwrecks. Rat descends a staircase that never ends, following the rules laid out by his guidebook. A musician with a grudge upsets the balance of a very unusual seaside town with apocalyptic consequences. The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales collects twelve weird and unusual fantasy tales from Peter M Ball. Come walk beside an executioner tasked with killing a man who cannot be killed, a young man with a birdcage where his heart should be, and a frustrated public servant trying to deal with an unruly wizard determined to prove his powers.  Watch a relationship unravel as former lovers are revealed to be creatures of myth, reminisce with the residents of a city overrun with giant thorns, and visit Isla Tortuga's last, great house of ill repute where no-one is exactly what they seem on the surface.  Some of the stories contained within have happy endings, and some end in sorrow, but the journey always takes an unexpected route through moments of wonder and unexpected pleasure.   "Only Peter M. Ball's fiction makes falling down the rabbit hole feel like flying. Funny and surprising, with moments of extraordinary grace." Angela Slatter, Author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

  • Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales: BJP Short Story Collections

    Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales: BJP Short Story Collections
    Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales: BJP Short Story Collections

    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.'

Author

Peter M. Ball

Peter M Ball is the author of more than fifty short stories and six novellas, along with essays, RPG material, articles, and poetry. His short stories and non-fiction have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Dragon Magazine, Writing Queensland, and Apex Magazine, and has been included in several Year’s Best anthologies. He’s previously taught creative writing at Griffith University and the Queensland Writers Centre, spent five years as the manager of the Australian Writers Marketplace, and convenes the biennial GenreCon writing conference in Brisbane, Australia.

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