The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, edited by Talie Helene (horror) and Liz Grzyb (fantasy). Published by Ticonderoga Publications.

Title : The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013 (Harcover)

Catalog ref. : 978-1-921857-72-0 (Hardback Book)

Catalog ref. : 978-1-921857-73-7 (Softback Book)

Talie Helene is the Horror Editor for The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror series, published by Ticonderoga Publications, one of Australia’s most important independent presses. The fantasy portion of the books are edited by Liz Grzyb.

This annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers, collects over 150,000 words of fiction from some of the genre’s best and most awarded writers. Together with an annual genre overview and recommended reading list these are both books to be read and valuable reference works. The handsome covers and gorgeous layout make the series a beautiful collection worthy of the most discerning of bibliophiles.

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013

Edited by Liz Grzyb (fantasy) and Talie Helene (horror).

The fourth annual compilation; over 150,000 words of fiction from some of the genre’s best and most awarded writers, together with an annual genre overview and recommended reading list. This is both a book to be read and a valuable reference work. This volume collects twenty eight compelling stories from the finest antipodean writers of fantasy and horror.

• Lee Battersby – ‘Disciple of the Torrent’ Tales of Australia: Great Southern Land

• Deborah Biancotti – ‘All the Lost Ones’ Exotic Gothic 5 Vol I

• Trudi Canavan – ‘Camp Follower’ Fearsome Journeys

• Robert Cook – ‘Glasskin’ Review of Australian Fiction Vol 5 #6

• Rowena Cory Daniells – ‘The Ways of the Wyrding Women’ One Small Step

• Terry Dowling – ‘The Sleepover’ Exotic Gothic 5 Vol II

• Thoraiya Dyer – ‘After Hours’ Asymmetry

• Marion Halligan – ‘A Castle in Toorak’ Griffith Review #42

• Dmetri Kakmi – ‘The Boy by the Gate’ The New Gothic

• David Kernot – ‘Harry’s Dead Poodle’ Cover of Darkness Magazine

• Margo Lanagan – ‘Black Swan Event’ Griffith Review #42

• S. G. Larner – ‘Poppies’ Aurealis #65

• Martin Livings – ‘La Mort d’un Roturer’ This is How You Die

• Kirstyn McDermott – ‘Caution: Contains Small Parts’ Caution: Contains Small Parts

• Claire McKenna – ‘The Ninety Two’ Next

• C.S. McMullen – ‘The Nest’ Nightmare Magazine

• Juliet Marillier – ‘By Bone-Light’ Prickle Moon

• David Thomas Moore – ‘Old Souls’ The Book of the Dead

• Faith Mudge – ‘The Oblivion Box – Dreaming of Djinn

• Ryan O’Neill – ‘Sticks and Stones’ The Great Unknown

• Angela Rega – ‘Almost Beautiful’ Next

• Tansy Rayner Roberts – ‘The Raven and Her Victory’ Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe

• Nicky Rowlands – ‘On the Wall’ Next

• Carol Ryles – ‘The Silence of Clockwork’ Conflux 9 Convention Programme

• Angela Slatter – ‘Flight’ Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales

• Anna Tambour – ‘Bowfin Island’ Caledonia Dreamin’

• Kaaron Warren – ‘Born and Bread’ Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales

• Janeen Webb – ‘Hell is Where the Heart is’ Next