The Best British Short Stories 2012 - Softcover

Nicholas Royle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907773185 ISBN 13: 9781907773181

Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING, 2012

Synopsis

Best British Short Stories invites readers to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and websites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume. Neither genre nor Granta shall be overlooked in the search for the very best new short fiction.

About this title

About the Authors

is the author of six short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic, Manchester Uncanny and Paris Fantastique – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf. In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, which continues to publish original short stories in the form of limited-edition chapbooks. He lives in Manchester and London.

Socrates Adams lives in Manchester and works as a bookseller. His first novel, Everything’s Fine, was published by Transmission Print in January 2012. He has had stories published in Shoestring, Word Soup: Year One and Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds.

A.K. Benedict read English at Cambridge and studied creative writing at Sussex. She has composed film and TV soundtracks and has published short stories and poems in small journals. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, is due to be published in late 2012.

Neil Campbell is a short story writer, novelist and poet. From Manchester, England, he has appeared three times in the annual anthology of Best British Short Stories (2012/2015/2016). He has published four collections of short fiction, two novels, two poetry chapbooks and one poetry collection, as well as appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies.

Ramsey Campbell is the author of numerous novels and short story collections. He has been described, by the Oxford Companion to English Literature, as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’. He is the President of both the British Fantasy Society and the Society of Fantastic Films. He lives on Merseyside.

Edition details

• Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907773185
• ISBN 13: 9781907773181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240