Cover artist Nick Stathopoulos Publisher Sandglass Enterprises Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published June 2003 Country Australia | Language English Publication date June 2003 Pages 320 pp (first edition) Editor Bill Congreve | |
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Genres Anthology, Speculative fiction Illustrators Kyla Ward, Catriona Sparks, Kerri Valkova, Keira McKenzie, Daryl Lindquist Similar Catriona Sparks books, Anthology books | ||
Southern blood
Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve
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Background
Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format. 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. Southern Blood features 16 stories from 16 authors. 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. 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". 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".