Southern Blood

Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve

Background

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]

Contents

• "Waiting at Golgotha", short story by Simon Brown
• "The Truth About Pug Roberts", short fiction by Kirstyn McDermott
• "Relish", short fiction by David Carroll
• "The Pique of Death", short fiction by Naomi Hatchman
• "Legacy", shortfiction by Bill Congreve
• "Stone by Stone", short fiction by Deborah Biancotti
• "La Sentinelle", novelette by Lucy Sussex
• "Madly", short fiction by Stephen Dedman
• "In the Shadow of the Stones", short fiction by Rosaleen Love
• "In Quinn's Paddock", short fiction by Rick Kennett
• "Hunting Ground", short fiction by Sean Williams
• "Doing Shadow Time", short fiction by Sue Isle
• "Blue Eyes", short fiction by George Ivanoff
• "Beware! The Pincushionman", short fiction by Robert Hood
• "Basic Black", novelette by Terry Dowling
• "A Sixpence for Sophie", short fiction by Geoffrey Maloney

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