
Part of Series
Coordinada por Mariano Villarreal, la colección Nova Fantástica se ha caracterizado desde su inicio por su empeño en ofrecer los mejores relatos de género fantástico. Tras Terra Nova, Mariposas del Oeste, Castillos en el aire y A la Deriva en el Mar de las Lluvias, le llega el turno a Dark Fantasies, una antología de relatos de fantasía oscura, terror y horror de autores internacionales con una importante presencia femenina. Un volumen temático que incluye dieciséis historias, la mayoría premiadas con los galardones más importantes del género (Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy...) que aúnan una muy alta calidad literaria con las características propias de la literatura oscura.
Authors

Elia Barceló (Alicante, 1957) es escritora y profesora de Literatura Hispánica y Escritura creativa en la Universidad de Innsbruck, Austria, donde vive desde 1981. Con sus últimas novelas (El vuelo del Hipogrifo, El secreto del orfebre, Disfraces terribles en la editorial Lengua de Trapo y Corazón de Tango en 451 Editores, Las largas sombras en Ambar), traducidas o en proceso de traducción a una docena de idiomas (como el inglés, alemán, neerlandés, francés, italiano, noruego, sueco, danés), está obteniendo un considerable reconocimiento internacional, sobre todo en Alemania y Holanda. También ha publicado novelas para jóvenes, numerosos relatos y un ensayo sobre Julio Cortázar.


Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards. Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015. The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.


"Alfredo Álamo (Valencia, 1975) escribe bordeando territorios fronterizos, entre sombras y engranajes, siempre en terreno de sueños que a veces se convierten en pesadillas. Ha publicado cuentos en revistas y prestigiosas antologías dedicadas al terror y la ciencia ficción como Aquelarre (Salto de Página), Paura o Artifex, además de novelas como Kobold o Maginot. En 2014 publicó su primera novela para jóvenes adultos, Tormenta, cuya continuación, Plaga, apareció en 2018 En el campo del microrrelato ha publicado dos antologías, Lunarias (Viaje a Bizancio, 2005) y Bestiario infame de la ciudad adormecida (Amargord, 2015). En 2010 publicó el poemario de poesía breve El necrófago galante en el sello 23 escalones. El detective que tenía mariposas en el estómago (Orciny Press, 2018) fue su primera incursión en el género Bizarro al que siguió Morder el bordillo (2020). Dentro del campo del terror social y la fantasía oscura ha publicado la antología "La vieja sangre" (2022) y la novela "After Punk" (2023). En 2025 apareció su primer título de ciencia ficción, "El sueño de Escila". Su última novela se enmarca dentro del terror histórico: Cámara Oscura (El transbordador, 2025). Ha sido ganador de 9 Premios Ignotus, tanto por relato y poesía como gracias al webcómic La legión del espacio, publicado en colaboración con el dibujante Fede Carroza. En 2019 ganó el prestigioso premio de relato Domingo Santos."



Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). McHugh's short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December, 2005. Maureen is currently a partner at No Mimes Media, an Alternate Reality Game company which she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009. Prior to founding No Mimes, Maureen worked for 42 Entertainment, where she was a Writer and/or Managing Editor for numerous Alternate Reality Game projects, including Year Zero and I Love Bees.

Science Fiction and New Weird Writer PhD in Philosophy


I grew up in the Midwest, although I call home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that I share with my husband, Matthew. After receiving my Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology, I retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. I also edit legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time I suspect is another venture into flights of fancy. I received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the 2011 and 2012 Drabblecast People’s Choice Award for Best Story, and was named the 2009 Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. The Dragon and the Stars anthology, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, with my story, “Mortal Clay, Stone Heart,” won the 2011 Aurora Award for Best English Related Work. My fiction has also received the 2002 Phobos Award; been translated into eight languages; and been a finalist for the Hugo, Washington Science Fiction Association, and British Science Fiction Association awards. My short story collection, Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, was published in 2009 and has been used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis. Check out my fiction index for a list of all my published and forthcoming works. I am represented by literary agent William Reiss of John Hawkins & Associates, Inc., and I’m a voting member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the non-profit writers organization founded by Damon Knight in 1965 and presenter of the Nebula awards. I also keep a blog where I indulge in self-absorbed musings and document my writing progress, and I post regular updates on Twitter, Google+, and Facebook.