What the #@&% Is That – John Joseph Adams

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NEWS: Best-of-the-Year Reprints

Several stories from Lightspeed, Nightmare, and the Destroy special issues have also been selected for reprint in several best-of-the-year volumes. They’re listed below, with the original venue and then the best-of-the-year editor(s)’s name following in parenthesis:

“RedKing” by Craig DeLancey (Lightspeed | Horton, Dozois)
“I’ve Come to Marry the Princess” by Helena Bell (Lightspeed | Horton)
“A Good Home” by Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed | Clarke)
“Those Brighter Stars” by Mercurio R. Rivera (Lightspeed | Dozois)
“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed | Clarke)
“The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch” by Seanan McGuire (Lightspeed| Guran)
“Fifty Shades Of Grays” by Steven Barnes (Lightspeed | Horton, Dozois)
“Red Dirt Witch” by N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy | Strahan, Guran)
“Whose Drowned Face Sleeps” by An Owomoyela & Rachael Swirsky (Nightmare | Guran)
“Wish You Were Here” by Nadia Bulkin (Nightmare | Guran, Datlow)
“The Finest, Fullest Flowering” by Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare | Guran)
“The One Who Isn’t” by Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed | Dozois)
“The Bad Hour” by Christopher Golden (What the #@&% is That? | Datlow)

I’ll update this list if we uncover any additional such honors!

NEWS: Locus Recommended Reading List / Locus Awards Voting

Locus Magazine released their annual recommended reading list, and we’re pleased to report Lightspeed has fifteen stories on the list, Nightmare has five stories, and my anthology What the #@&% is That? has two stories:

“I Was a Teenage Werewolf” Dale Bailey (Nightmare)
“Fifty Shades of Grays” Steven Barnes (Lightspeed)
“Salto Mortal” Nick T. Chan (Lightspeed)
“Ghost Pressure” Gemma Files (What the #@&% Is That?)
“Little Widow” Maria Dahvana Headley (Nightmare / What the #@&% Is That?)
“Red Dirt Witch” N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy)
“The One Who Isn’t” Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed)
“The Finest, Fullest Flowering” Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare)
“Sparks Fly” Rich Larson (Lightspeed)
“A Good Home” Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed)
“Those Brighter Stars” Mercurio D. Rivera (Lightspeed)
“Angel, Monster, Man” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare)
“Unauthorized Access” An Owomoyela (Lightspeed)
“The Red Thread” Sofia Samatar (Lightspeed)
“Vulcanization” Nisi Shawl (Nightmare)
“Wednesday’s Story” Wole Talabi (Lightspeed)
“Dragon Brides” Nghi Vo (Lightspeed)
“Secondhand Bodies” JY Yang (Lightspeed)
“Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed)

Congratulations to all of the above, and to everyone who made the list!

The release of the Recommended Reading List also means that voting for the Locus Awards is now open. Anyone is eligible to vote. Visit locusmag.com to cast a ballot or learn more. Voting closes April 15, 2017.

NEWS: “The Bad Hour” from WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? is a Stoker Awards Finalist!

“The Bad Hour” by Christopher Golden, from my horror anthology co-edited with Douglas Cohen, What the #@&% is That?, made the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards, so big congrats to Christopher for that honor. You can find the full slate of what made the final ballot at horror.org. The Stoker Awards themselves will be presented at StokerCon 2017, which is being held in Long Beach, CA, April 27-30.

NEWS: Two Stories from WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? Make the Preliminary Stoker Awards Ballot

Two stories from my anthology What the #@&% is That? (co-edited with Douglas Cohen)—“Only Unclench Your Hand” by Isabel Yap and “The Bad Hour” by Christopher Golden—made the Preliminary Stoker Awards ballot for best Short Fiction. A huge congrats to them both for the honor! You can find the full slate of what made the preliminary ballot at horror.org. The final ballot will be announced February 23, and the the Stoker Awards themselves will be presented at StokerCon 2017, which is being held in Long Beach, CA, April 27-30.

To celebrate this fact, we’ve made both of the stories available for free to read online. Visit the anthology’s FREE READS page to see all of the material from the anthology we have available for free to read online.

REVIEW: “Anthologies of such high quality are rare gems.” —New York Journal of Books, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?

“The wide range of styles, genres, and themes in What the #@&% Is That? make it perfect for finding a new favorite author or discovering upcoming voices in fiction. The three stories mentioned [in our review] are from three newer writers, yet they are some of the strongest and most original in the collection. Anthologies of such high quality are rare gems.” —New York Journal of Books, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? [review]

REVIEW: “Old and new favorites trying to break new and bizarre ground here, making it an incredibly enjoyable read from the dedication page (“For Cthulhu…”) on.” —Barnes & Noble, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT; Editor’s Pick as one of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Collections and Anthologies of 2016

“Old and new favorites trying to break new and bizarre ground here, making it an incredibly enjoyable read from the dedication page (“For Cthulhu…”) on.” —Barnes & Noble, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT; Editor’s Pick as one of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Collections and Anthologies of 2016 [review]

REVIEW: “If you derive any sort of pleasure from the grotesque, the fanciful, the freakish and unnatural, buy this book.” —IGMS on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?

“If you derive any sort of pleasure from the grotesque, the fanciful, the freakish and unnatural, buy this book.” —IGMS on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? [review]

NEWS: WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? Featured on Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast

Me and my co-editor Douglas Cohen appeared in The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy to talk about our new anthology, WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?, and to discuss other “nameless horrors.” [link]

NEWS: WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? is Now Available Wherever Fine Books Are Sold!

WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? is now available!

COVER COPY

Fear of the unknown—it is the essence of the best horror stories, the need to know what monstrous vision you’re beholding and the underlying terror that you just might find out. Now, twenty authors have gathered to ask—and maybe answer—a question worthy of almost any horror tale: “What the #@&% is that?” Join these masters of suspense as they take you to where the shadows grow long, and that which lurks at the corner of your vision is all too real.

COVER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Douglas Cohen
MOBILITY by Laird Barron
FOSSIL HEART by Amanda Downum
THOSE GADDAM COOKIES by Scott Sigler
THE SOUND OF HER LAUGHTER by Simon R. Green
DOWN IN THE DEEP AND THE DARK by Desirina Boskovich
ONLY UNCLENCH YOUR HAND by Isabel Yap
LITTLE WIDOW by Maria Dahvana Headley
THE BAD HOUR by Christopher Golden
WHAT IS LOST, WHAT IS GIVEN AWAY by John Langan
NOW AND FOREVER by D. Thomas Minton
#CONNOLLYHOUSE #WESHOULDNTBEHERE by Seanan McGuire
THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT by Grady Hendrix
WE ALL MAKE SACRIFICES by Jonathan Maberry
GHOST PRESSURE by Gemma Files
THE DAUGHTER OUT OF DARKNESS by Nancy Holder
FRAMING MORTENSEN by Adam-Troy Castro
THE CATCH by Terence Taylor
HUNTERS IN THE WOOD by Tim Pratt
WHOSE DROWNED FACE SLEEPS by An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky
CASTLEWEEP by Alan Dean Foster
Cover Art by Mike Mignola
Cover Design by Michael McCartney

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Learn more at johnjosephadams.com/wtf.

REVIEW: “A really intriguing, spooky anthology [with] an incredible table of contents.” —The Verge, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?

“A really intriguing, spooky anthology [with] an incredible table of contents.” —The Verge, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? [review]

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