Making Monsters table of contents

Last month we revealed the cover art for the Making Monsters anthology (and which is so lovely, we're giving you it here again—huge thanks to the amazing Robin Kaplan for creating the poignant "Lonely Gorgon"). Now we want to share and celebrate the wonderful authors, poets and critics who make up the table of contents of this volume. As you can see below, there are fifteen short stories, three poems, and six short essays (in addition to introduction and afterword) on the theme of ancient monsters; rethinking, reimagining and retelling their stories.

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Table of Contents:

• Introduction – Emma Bridges
• Danae – Megan Arkenberg
• The Last Siren Sings – George Lockett
• Field Reports from the Department of Monster Resettlement – L. Chan
• Calling Homer's Sirens (essay) – Hannah Silverblank
• Aeaea on the Seas – Hester J. Rook
• To the Gargoyle Army (poem) – H.A. Eilander
• Water – Danie Ware
• Monsters of the World (essay) – Margrét Helgatdóttir
• A Song of Sorrow – Neil James Hudson
• Helen of War (poem) – Margaret McLeod
• The Vigil of Talos – Hûw Steer
• The Monster in Your Pocket (essay) – Valeria Vitale
• A Heart of Stone – Tom Johnstone
• The Banshee – Alexandra Grunberg
• The Giulia Effect – Barbara Davies
• Caught in Medusa's Gaze (essay) – Liz Gloyn
• The Eyes Beyond the Hearth – Catherine Baker
• Eclipse – Misha Penton
• The Origin of the Different (essay) – Maria Anastasiadou
• Justice Is a Noose – Valentine Wheeler
• Siren Song (poem) – Barbara E. Hunt
• The Tengu's Tongue – Rachel Bender
• Ecological Angst and Encounters with Scary Flesh (essay) – Annegret Märten
• When Soldiers Come – Hunter Liguore
• Afterword – Mathilde Skoie

I can't wait to share the contents with you, but you'll have to wait until September when it goes on sale. (Review copies and sneak previews a little sooner.)

Fae Visions of the Mediterranean TOC

The Mediterranean horror and weird themed anthology edited by our own Valeria Vitale, Fae Visions of the Mediterranean will be on bookshelves from May this year. You can see the publisher’s details and thumbnail of Tostoini’s marvellous cover art over at the press page, but herebelow is the first preview of the full table of contents:

• Madonna Mermaid Christine Lucas
• Regretful in the City of Promises (poem) Kelda Crich
• The Miracle Town Mattia Ravasi
• The Dance of the Hippacotora Claude Lalumière (trans. Arrate Hidalgo)
• Salt in Our Veins Dawn Vogel
• On Encountering Unicorns (extract) Marco Polo
• The Wisps of Tabarka Hella Grichi
• Għanja Bla Flus / A Free Song (poem) Maria Grech Ganado
• The Minotaur in Pamplona Rhys Hughes
• The City of Brass (extract) Anonymous
• The Heart of the Flame (poem) Mari Ness
• Ya duerme el mutado Álvaro Mielgo Gallego
• Bilaadi S. Chakraborty
• Mimikrija / Mimicry Urša Vidic
• Michaelis and the Dew Shades Louise Herring-Jones
• Изгубеното злато / The Lost Gold Kalina Aïch
• Liquid Pleasure (poem) Jenny Blackford
• The Return of Melusine Angela Rega
• Kod Kose i Sata / The Scythe and the Hourglass Vladimira Becić (trans. Dunja Ševerdija)
• The Strangest Sort of Siren Lyndsay E. Gilbert
• Il-Passjoni Ta’ San Ġorġ / The Passion of St George (poem) Maria Grech Ganado
• Mare Nostrum Simon Kearns
• Buzzing Affy (Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite) Adam Lowe
• Xandra’s Brine Claude Lalumière

We can’t wait for you to have this beauty in your hands! Some great authors and wonderful atmosphere between the covers of this anthology. I think you’ll like it.

TFF-X table of contents

We’re very happy to share the TOC of the anthology celebrating ten years of The Future Fire magazine, which will be out next month in print and e-books from all the usual places. We think you will love TFF-X, as we do, with its mix of stories you may have seen before (if you’ve been reading TFF loyally for the last decade), and many new pieces of irreverent, experimental and unexpected content… We couldn’t have done this without these amazing authors, and especially you beautiful readers. This one’s for you.

Nasmina’s Black Box • Jennifer Marie Brissett
The Taste of Their Dreams • Margo-Lea Hurwicz
Shadow Boy and the Little Match Girl • C.A. Hawksmoor
Flight of a Sparrow • Jocelyn Koehler
What Hath God Wrought? • Neil Carstairs
Fae Visions of the Mediterranean • Valeria Vitale
Reflection • Jessica E. Birch
The Need To Stay the Same • Jo Walton
Bottom Drawer • Brett Savory
Liquid Loyalty, ten years on (poem) • Redfern Jon Barrett
Always Look on the Bright Side • Alison Littlewood
Mermaid Teeth, Witch-Honed • Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Sweet Like Fate • Sara Puls
An Unrecognized Masterwork • Bruce Boston
Je me souviens • Su J. Sokol
Lessons of the Sun (poem) • Joyce Chng
Sophie and Zoe at the End of the World • Rebecca Buchanan
Accessing the Future • Kathryn Allan
Art Attack! • Mark Harding
Slice of Life • Julie Novakova
Half Light House • James Bennett
Lifting the Veil on the Illustrators • compiled by Cécile Matthey, Serge Keller
Drown or Die • Therese Arkenberg
Easy Sweeps of Sky • Melissa Moorer
Always Left Behind • Jack Hollis Marr
Outlaw Bodies (seven prologues and an epilogue) • Lori Selke
Thick on the Wet Cement • Rebecca J. Schwab
Innervation (poem) • Toby MacNutt
Ephemeral Love • Melanie Rees

If you haven’t already seen it, don’t forget to check out the fabulous cover art by Cécile Matthey on our Press Page.

Accessing the Future TOC

At last, we can share with you the authors and titles of stories that will appear in the Accessing the Future anthology, exploring disability through speculative fiction, edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad (with guest commentary from JoSelle Vanderhooft and Derek Newman-Stille). Also, go over to the Accessing the Future press page and check out the  g o r g e o u s  cover art by Robin E. Kaplan, aka the Gorgonist!

• Nicolette Barischoff “Pirate Songs”
• Sarah Pinsker “Pay Attention”
• Margaret Killjoy “Invisible People”
• Joyce Chng “The Lessons of the Moon”
• Samantha Rich “Screens”
• Sara Patterson “A Sense All its Own”
• Kate O'Connor “Better to Have Loved”
• Toby MacNutt “Morphic Resonance”
• Louise Hughes “Losing Touch”
• Jack Hollis Marr “into the waters i rode down”
• Petra Kuppers “Playa Song”
• A.C. Buchanan “Puppetry”
• A.F. Sanchez “Lyric”
• Rachael K. Jones “Courting the Silent Sun”
• David Jón Fuller “In Open Air”

In addition to these stories, we will include eight pieces of freestanding artwork, illustrations that tell stories of their own on the theme of the anthology. Our wonderful artists are:

• Fabian Alvarado
• L.E. Badillo
• Jane Baker
• Comebab
• Pandalion Death
• Rachel Keslensky
• Vincent Konrad
• Tostoini

We See a Different Frontier: ToC

We're delighted to be able to announce the beautiful table of contents for the We See a Different Frontier anthology of colonialism-themed speculative fiction co-edited by Fabio Fernandes. We're really looking forward this hitting the bookshelves at the beginning of July 2013.

• Preface by Aliette de Bodard
• Introduction by Fabio Fernandes
• The Arrangement of Their Parts, Shweta Narayan
• Pancho Villa’s Flying Circus, Ernest Hogan
• Them Ships, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Old Domes, J.Y. Yang
• A Bridge of Words, Dinesh Rao
• The Gambiarra Effect, Fabio Fernandes ^*
• Droplet, Rahul Kanakia
• Lotus, Joyce Chng
• Dark Continents, Lavie Tidhar
• A Heap of Broken Images, Sunny Moraine
• Fleet, Sandra McDonald
• Remembering Turinam, N.A. Ratnayake
• Vector, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• I Stole the D.C.’s Eyeglass, Sofia Samatar
• Forests of the Night, Gabriel Murray
• What Really Happened in Ficandula, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
• Critical afterword by Ekaterina Sedia ^*

Outlaw Bodies ToC

We’re delighted to be able to announce the table of contents of the forthcoming Outlaw Bodies anthology, published by The Future Fire and guest co-edited by Lori Selke.

• Emily Capettini, ‘Elmer Bank’
• Anna Caro, ‘Millie’
• Fabio Fernandes, ‘The Remaker’
• Vylar Kaftan, ‘She Called me Baby’
• Lori Selke, ‘Frankenstein Unraveled’
• Stacy Sinclair, ‘Winds: NW 20 km/hr’
• M. Svairini, ‘Mouth’
• Jo Thomas, ‘Good Form’
• Tracie Welser, ‘Her Bones, Those of the Dead’

Plus introduction by Lori Selke and afterword by Kathryn Allan.

Outlaw Bodies will be available in print and e-book (PDF, Epub, Kindle) from early November 2012. (e-ARCs available from September: contact me if you’re interested in reviewing a copy.)