When Things Get Dark by Elizabeth Hand audiobook

When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

By Joyce Carol Oates , Josh Malerman , Elizabeth Hand , Benjamin Percy , and others
Edited by Ellen Datlow
Read by Bernadette Dunne , Kate Mulligan , Cassandra Campbell , Feodor Chin , Erin Moon , Nicol Zanzarella , John Lescault , and Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Blackstone Publishing 9781789097153

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798200748259

  • ISBN: 9798200748242

  • ISBN: 9798200748266

Runtime: 11.91 Hours
Category: Fiction/Horror
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A chilling anthology collecting stories from today’s best horror writers, inspired by and in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant, and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.

This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, brings together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A joy for Jackson fans, but no Jackson knowledge is needed to enjoy this anthology. A gem in its own right.” SFX magazine
“Brings together eighteen outstanding, atmospheric horror shorts from some of the biggest names in the genre…Each of Datlow’s chilling selections successfully honors the spirit of Jackson’s writing, suffused with both the darkest of human emotions and the terror of the supernatural.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Readers with a taste for the macabre should find plenty to enjoy in this inspired collection.” Booklist

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Author

Author Bio: Elizabeth Hand

Author Bio: Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.

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Author Bio: Josh Malerman

Author Bio: Josh Malerman

Josh Malerman is an internationally bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–nominated American author and one of two singer–songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut novel, Bird Box, was published in the United Kingdom and United States in 2014 to much critical acclaim.

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Author Bio: Ellen Datlow

Author Bio: Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was fiction editor of Omni magazine and Scifiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies. She won the Bram Stoker Award in 2020 and has won nine World Fantasy Awards, plus multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career.

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Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to “a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.”

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Author Bio: Seanan McGuire

Author Bio: Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same ballot for the Hugo Award. In 2022, she managed the same feat again.

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Author Bio: others

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Author Bio: Benjamin Percy

Author Bio: Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy is the author of science fiction and horror in the Comet cycle series, four stand-alone novels, three story collections; and an essay collection. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast.

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Author Bio: various authors

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Horror
Runtime: 11.91
Audience: Adult
Language: English