The New Uncanny book from Comma Press has just won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology.
The collection contains my story Tamagotchi, alongside stories by Alison MacLeod, AS Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Ramsey Campbell, Nicholas Royle and Etgar Keret, among others.
The awards are given each year for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, in recognition of one of America’s greatest writers and the author of the classic short story ‘The Lottery’.
Editors Ra Page and Sarah Eyre asked 14 contemporary writers to read Freud’s 1919 essay on The Uncanny and respond to it with a short story. Even though Freud’s essay is 90 years old and like wading through treacle in parts, it has inspired some great stories. This is an exciting collection, and I’m really proud to be a part of it. Congratulations to all the other contributors, and well done Comma Press!
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