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Michael Kelly

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Horror, Short Stories

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Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction, and author of Undertow and Other Laments, and Scratching the Surface; as well as co-author of the novel Ouroboros.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including All Hallows, Best New Horror, Black Static, Dark Arts, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and Weird Fiction Review.

Michael is a World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Nominee. ...more

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New line from Undertow

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Undertow Publications has announced a new line of collectable deluxe hardcovers: Contemporary Classics. These are short fiction collections of exceptional literary merit that did not receive a hardback release. So these will be the first hardcover editions.

Our first 2 books are “The Moon Will Look Strange,” (April 2019) by Lynda E. Rucker, and “The Lost District,” (Oct. 2019) by the late

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	Shadows & Tall Trees 7 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian Evenson, M. Rickert (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weird Horror, Issue 1, Fall 2020 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Heimer (Illustrator), David Bowman (Illustrator) 3.69 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows & Tall Trees, Issue 6, Spring 2014 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Shearman, Kaaron Warren (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows & Tall Trees 8 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian Evenson (Contributor), Kay Chronister (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northern Nights by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author), Premee Mohamed (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Things We Never See 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weird Horror, Issue 3, Fall 2021 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dan Rempel (Illustrator), Donyae Coles (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewd Did I Live (Chilling Tales, #1) by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brent Hayward (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nancy Kilpatrick (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weird Horror, Issue 2, Spring 2021 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maria Abrams (Goodreads Author), Mary Berman 4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows & Tall Trees, Issue 5, Summer 2013 by Michael Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Fry (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claire Massey (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“to kill a witch, carve a heart in a tree and hammer a nail in a little further each day for a week. * She fought me when I put on my boots and opened the front door. We both knew the black alder leaning sideways into the bedroom window. For six days I carved her heart in the bark and hammered my nail inside, then went to the outhouse and emptied my guts. The sicker I got, the less I saw of her and the happier Mr. Rishner was with me. He came home at night whistling, kissed my cheek when I met him at the door.”
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“I had the notion some other woman took up living there while I was away. I was trespassing on her property, resting my hand on her husband’s knee. She was what I was inside the walls, and if I opened the door she would be there waiting to become me. She pulled aside the curtain in the front window and I saw her: big scared eyes, thin hair yanked back from her forehead”
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“But we, when moved by deep feeling, evaporate.” —Rainer Maria Rilke”
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