The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Vol.22 by Stephen Jones

Author:Stephen Jones [Jones, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthology, Collection, Gothic
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ANGELA SLATTER

Lavender and Lychgates

ANGELA SLATTER IS THE author of two short story collections, Sourdough and Other Stories from Tartarus Press (UK), and the Aurealis Award-winning The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales from Ticonderoga Publications (Australia), both published in 2010.

Her short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Jack Dann’s Dreaming Again, Tartarus Press’ Strange Tales II and III, and Twelfth Planet Press’ 2012, along with journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Shimmer. Her work has had several “Honourable Mentions” in the Datlow, Link and Grant Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series and in Datlow’s more recent Best Horror of the Year anthologies.

She has been short-listed five times for Australia’s Aurealis Award in the Best Fantasy Short Story category, and twice in the Best Collection category. She is also a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006.

Forthcoming is another collection of short stories, Midnight and Moonshine, a collaboration with friend and writing-partner-in-crime, Lisa L. Hannett, which will be published by Ticonderoga.

“‘Lavender and Lychgates’ is the second last story in Sourdough and Other Stories,” recalls Slatter. “I had ideas I wanted to continue to explore – consequences of actions in an earlier story in the collection – and I had a picture in my head of a young girl in a graveyard.

“Many years ago, a friend had told me a garbled tale of lilacs and lychgates, the details of which I cannot remember. I managed to garble it even more, and I couldn’t get the words ‘lavender and lychgates’ out of my head, nor the image of shadows swirling in the apex of a lychgate roof above the heads of people passing out underneath. I also wondered what happens when you hang onto a memory too tightly.”

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