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Red New Day & Other Microfictions
Mechanised monkeys, betrayed brides, irritable gorgons, harpists playing instruments of bone, acts of vengeance, and furies eager to feast.
Red New Day and Other Microfictions is a collection of vignettes from World Fantasy Award winner Angela Slatter, collected together for the very first time. Known as one of Australia’s finest authors of dark fantasy and sinister horror, Slatter's myth-inspired morsels and terrifying short tales will remind you of the uncanny, wild, and beautiful things that can be found in small packages.
Red New Day and Other Microfictions is a collection of vignettes from World Fantasy Award winner Angela Slatter, collected together for the very first time. Known as one of Australia’s finest authors of dark fantasy and sinister horror, Slatter's myth-inspired morsels and terrifying short tales will remind you of the uncanny, wild, and beautiful things that can be found in small packages.
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48 pages, Paperback
Published July 25, 2020
About the author
Angela Slatter
190 books863 followersAngela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards.
Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories.
She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.
Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015.
The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.
Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories.
She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.
Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015.
The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.
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September 3, 2020
A slim collection of tales, with retellings of Greek myths from the point of view of these characters who shoulder the heaviness of their obligations to carry out epic acts, when they are just humans avenging the deaths of their sisters, brothers, fathers.
September 4, 2024
3.5 rounded down. I haven't read anything quite like this before- cool format, but hard to make an impact with stories so short.
September 5, 2020
beautiful, poetic, and wicked. a super fast read, but I'll be reading it over and over!
February 8, 2021
Did not enjoy this as much. The stories were a little too short for me to really appreciate them I prefer the length and the language in stories so I was a little unsatisfied with this.
June 23, 2026
Encompassing several super short stories with goddesses and supernatural beings as their protagonists, Angela Slatter gives us tiny moments in their lives, and them reckoning with the darkness of them. I enjoyed each tiny morsel, and wished occasionally for an expansion of a story as I was curious about what happened next.
March 27, 2025
Micro indeed, it is very short.
Didn't really connect with these stories (never thought it would happen to me with Angela Slatter!)
Lots of Greek mythology.
Medusa one was fun! Some of the others too.
Didn't really connect with these stories (never thought it would happen to me with Angela Slatter!)
Lots of Greek mythology.
Medusa one was fun! Some of the others too.
July 20, 2022
4.5
(Hope to briefly review it soon.)
(Hope to briefly review it soon.)
August 19, 2024
A fantastic collection of flash and micro fiction tales from one of today's leading authors of speculative fiction. An absolutely brilliant read.
January 1, 2025
Slatter’s short stories always pack a punch, and these micro fictions do as well.
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