Priya Sharma's Blog

The British Fantasy Awards have just announced their shortlist and jurors for the 2025 awards.

I am so thrilled to see so many people that I know and whose work I admire on this list, but am sending my congratulations to EVERYONE.

I am thrilled to have made the short story category this year with “The Witch’s Pillowbook”. This was published in Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly. My thanks to editor Johnny Mains and to Titan Books, and to everyone who s...

Thanks to editor, Mark Morris, for taking my story “Piglet” for his new horror anthology. FEVER DREAMS will be available from Flame Tree Publishing and out in October 2025.

The table of contents features some awesome writers:

MAY I BORROW YOU FOR A MOMENT? by Tracy Fahey

ENTER, KILL, EXIT by Tim Waggoner

AT BLACK ROCK BEACH by Gary McMahon

PIGLET by Priya Sharma

THE MUMMIFIED CORPSE OF REESE WITHERSPOON by Philip Fracassi

THE WIND TELEPHONE by A.K. Benedict

ALL IN THE...

I am delighted to be part of this event later this year, alongside some stellar authors.

The festival events take place in the People’s Hall, Howgill Lane, Sedburgh LA10 5DQ .

More information will appear here, but their will be panel discussion, talks, Q&A sessions, a film, and a folk horror story competition where the local winner will get to read their story for an audience.

Booking information here.

The line up includes:

Night and Day is a new all original anthology from Ellen Datlow.

In the vein of the classic Ace Double books, one half off the book is night and the other is day, with different covers for each side. I am VERY excited to be included with “The Bright Day”.

The art is by Samuel Araya.

It will be available from SAGA Simon and Schuster in September 2025.

Contents:

Night—Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror

Trash Night by Clay McLeod Chapman
We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark...

My agent, Alexander Cochran, has moved from C&W to Greyhound Literary Agency.

Alex is still representing me and can be contacted on alexander@greyhoundliterary.co.uk

My profile at Greyhound Literary Agency.

I am honoured to be included in Volume 16 of Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, alongside some amazing writers.

Double thanks to Ellen, who selected “Jack O’Dander” for Tor.com (now Reactor).

Out now from Night Shade Books (an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing).

From Amazon US and available early 2025 in the UK.

Table of Contents

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen TOC:
The Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden
Dodger Carly Holmes
Rock Hopping Adam L.G....

It was great to chat to Lauren McMenemy, PR, Marketing, and Online Content Officer at The British Fantasy Society.

Bound in Blood is out now from Titan.

You find it hidden in the dark corner of the bookstore; tucked away in a box in the attic, desperate to be read; lurking on your bookshelf, never seen before. Crack the spine, feel the ancient pages. Read it aloud, if you dare.

This anthology brings together horror’s best and brightest to delve into the pages of cursed books, Eldritch tomes and haunted bookstores. FROM TITAN

Short stories by Ramsey Campbell, A.G Slatter, Johnny Mains...