Cirrus@Austlit

'40 short stories of Christmas and ghosts. Published by the Australian Horror Writers Association. The brief for the writers was "Make it 500 words or less, make it about Christmas and make sure there's a ghost... of some kind. And we want them in two weeks!"'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In the dead of night, when everything is still, a scream echoes at its loudest... Dead of Night features the best of Midnight Echo magazine, as selected by Shane Jiraiya Cummings, former Australian Horror Writers Association vice-president and Midnight Echo editor. The anthology features twenty-five stories from issues one to eleven and is a showcase of Australia and New Zealand's darkest imaginations.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep is an anthology like no other. The tales herein will take you on a weird and terrifying journey. You will set out on a road trip and find yourself trapped in the arid Australian outback where a little girl and her grandfather struggle to survive. There are isolated farmhouses threatened by bushfires and bullets, and rainforests teeming with bloodthirsty bugs. The cities are full of trouble too. The murky waters of the Brisbane River hide spiteful spirits and the suburbs are infested with insane inhabitants masquerading as ordinary human beings. Then, you will leave Australia, departing from Melbourne, to hunt down vampiric gangsters in Southeast Asia, before sailing future seas and visiting realms beyond this world altogether. This inaugural showcase anthology features the work of just a handful of the many talented and darkly imaginative authors who make up the Australian Horror Writers’ Association. If you are unfamiliar with Australian horror, let this book be just the first step on a long voyage of discovery.' (Publication summary)

The official magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association, each issue of Midnight Echo comprises more than 100 pages of horror (or dark) fiction, poetry, art, graphic novels, book releases and more! The magazine is released each issue as a limited print edition and as a PDF and is distributed in hard copy and electronic format to readers all across the world, including AHWA members and Horror Writers Association members in the United States. The limited print editions of each issue are currently printed by Black House Comics.

First published in November 2008, Midnight Echo is guest edited by Australia's most respected horror editors and authors. To date these have been Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond (#1), Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings (#2), Stephen Studach, (#3), Lee Battersby (#4), Leigh Blackmore (#5), and David Conyers, David Kernot and Jason Fischer (#6).