| Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural | |
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Dreaming Down-Under first edition cover. |
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| Author(s) | Bill Congreve (editor) |
| Cover artist | Nick Stathopoulos |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Speculative fiction anthology |
| Publisher | Sandglass Enterprises |
| Publication date | June 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0958073902 |
Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve
Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format.[1] It was a short-list nominee for best anthology at the 2004 Bram Stoker Awards and the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards and for best collected work at the 2004 Ditmar Awards.[2][3][4] Southern Blood features 16 stories from 16 authors.[1] One of the stories, "La Sentinelle" by Lucy Sussex won the 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 2004 Ditmar Award for best novella or novelette.[4][5] It was also a short-list nominee at the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards for best medium fiction but lost to Glen Hirshberg's "Dancing Men".[3] Kirstyn McDermott's "The Truth About Pug Roberts" was a short-list nominee for the 2004 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Trudi Canavan's "A Room for Improvement".[4]