I’m delighted that Unquiet Guests, an anthology of haunted house short stories, and in which I have a story, has just won a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology.

My story, A Land Beneath, takes two minor characters from my novel, Hunger and Thirst and imagines them about thirty five years later when they are 39 and visiting their estranged father’s house after he has just died. They have inherited the house and have heard that their father’s cat is trapped inside. You’ll have to buy a copy of Unquiet Guests to find out what happens.

The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics. The awards are given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology. The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc., which is named in honor of the late Shirley Jackson, seeks to promote contemporary works of dark fiction, as well as the legacy of Shirley Jackson, by recognizing outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.