Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women.
Co-edited by Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn
Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black Cranes, Southeast Asian writers of horror both embrace and reject traditional roles in a unique collection of stories which dissect their experiences of “otherness,” be it in the colour of their skin, the angle of their cheekbones, the things they dare to write, or the places they have made for themselves in the world.
Black Cranes is a dark and intimate exploration of what it is to be a perpetual outsider.
With stories by Nadia Bulkin, Grace Chan, Rin Chupeco, Elaine Cuyegkeng, Geneve Flynn, Gabriela Lee, Rena Mason, Lee Murray, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Christina Sng.
Described as “an instant classic” by Nightmare Feed and “one of the best anthologies of 2020” by Pseudopod.
Cover art: Greg Chapman
Published by Omnium Gatherum
Release date: 26/09/2020
Orders from Omnium Gatherum available here and from Amazon here.
Reviews
Tomes and Tales: “… dark, reflective fiction at its best.”
Nightmare Feed: “Every story is a gut punch…”
Gingernuts of Horror: “The unique anxieties experienced by Asian women were so masterfully penned here that reading it really was an eye-opening experience.”
Horror Bound: “…a first-rate, totally arresting ride.”
Runalong The Shelves: “A great range of tales showing that horror can be light, bloody or terrifying.”
Articles
Tor Nightfire – This Woman’s Work: 7 Works of Feminist Horror
Horror Tree: Women in Horror Month: Asian-Western Perspectives of Being Perpetual Outsiders (Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn)
Gingernuts of Horror: Black Cranes Blog Series – Part One (by Lee Murray)
Gingernuts of Horror: Black Cranes Blog Series – Part Two (by Lee Murray)
Gingernuts of Horror: Black Cranes Blog Series – Part Three (by Lee Murray)
Horror Tree: Black Cranes Blog Tour – Part One (feat. Lee Murray and Nadia Bulkin)
Horror Tree: Black Cranes Blog Tour – Part Two (feat. Geneve Flynn and Grace Chan)
Horror Tree: Black Cranes Blog Tour – Part Four (feat. Rena Mason, Rin Chupeco, and Gabriela Lee)
Grace Chan Writes: Of Hunger and Fury
Reading from “Phoenix Claws” on the Atlanta HWA Southern Nightmares Reading Series #4
Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith: Meet Black Crane Lee Murray
Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith: Meet Black Crane Geneve Flynn
Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith: Meet Black Crane Grace Chan
Story review by Angela Yuriko Smith – The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter
Story review by Angela Yuriko Smith – Kapre: A Love Story
Story review by Angela Yuriko Smith – A Pet is for Life
Story review by Angela Yuriko Smith – Phoenix Claws
Story review by Angela Yuriko Smith – Of Hunger and Fury
Panels
Black Cranes Release Day Panel Discussion with Publisher Kate Jonez
HWA Skeleton Hour 04: Black Cranes
Trickster’s Treats #4: Coming, Buried or Not!
Co-edited by Louise Zedda-Sampson and Geneve Flynn
Here comes the fourth Halloween anthology from the Trickster! Filled with thirty-two dark and quirky stories and poems about things that have been buried, should be buried, or won’t stay buried. The anthology is edited by Louise Zedda-Sampson and Geneve Flynn, and comprises an international line up of authors, including many award-winning and award-nominated writers. Trickster’s Treats 4: Coming, Buried or Not! is an unearthed delight raising funds to support the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
“A delicious bag of Halloween candy overflowing with all the good stuff!
The binge read of the season!”
— John Palisano, President of the Horror Writers Association & Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of Ghost Heart.
Published by Things in the Well
Release date: 26/09/2020
Orders available here.
