The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease - Comma Modern Horror

Marc Notes: Several prize-winning authors.; Subtitle from cover.; A. S. Byatt, Etgar Keret, Gerard Woodward, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Priest, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Hanif Kureishi and many more--Cover.; Includes a brief fiction translated from the Hebrew. Review Quotes: "A wonderful collection." "--"BBC RadioReview Quotes: "A bold idea." --"Guardian"Review Quotes: "Delightful and disturbing." "--Independent on Sunday"Biographical Note: Sarah Eyre is an editor and a consulting editor for Comma Press. Ra Page edited "The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories" and founded and edited "Manchester Stories" magazine. He is the deputy editor of "City Life" and a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival. Publisher Marketing: This collection brings together 14 specially commissioned stories by internationally acclaimed writers and filmmakers, to explore and update Freud's classic theory of 'The Uncanny' - his piercing and all-encompassing dissection of what gives us the creeps.

Contributor Bio:  Page, Ra Ra Page is the editor of "Bracket," "The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories, "and "Leeds Stories," and is a former editor of "Newcastle Stories" magazine. He received a Jerwood Foundation Bursary for his own writing in 1999. Contributor Bio:  Byatt, A S A. S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize winning Possession, as well as The Children s Book and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England. Contributor Bio:  Keret, Etgar Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His stories have been featured on "This American Life "and "Selected Shorts," As screenwriters/ directors, he and his wife, Shira Geffen, won the 2007 Palme d'Or for Best Debut Feature ("Jellyfish") at the Cannes Film Festival. Contributor Bio:  Woodward, Gerard Gerard Woodward is the author of a number of novels, includingNourishment and an acclaimed trilogy comprising of August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961 and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians, was shortlisted for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Contributor Bio:  Campbell, Ramsey The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as "Britain's most respected living horror writer." He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association and the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know and The Kind Folk. Forthcoming are The Last Revelation of Gla'aki and The Pretence (both novellas) and Bad Thoughts. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead and Just Behind You, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain. His regular columns appear in Prism, Dead Reckonings and Video Watchdog. He is the President of the British Fantasy Society and of the Society of Fantastic Films. Ramsey Campbell lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever's in that pipe. His web site is at www.ramseycampbell.com.