Giving the Devil His Due

by Stephen Graham Jones, Nisi Shawl, Kenesha Williams, Rebecca Brewer (Editor), Linda D Addison

Overview

Edited by Rebecca Brewer, formerly of Ace/Roc (Penguin Random House), Giving the Devil His Due features sixteen major names and rising stars in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947041899
Publisher:	Running Wild Press
Publication date:	05/25/2022
Edition description:	Second edition
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of 25 or 30 or so books, +350 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots. Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. Best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other factors. Kenesha Williams is an author, screenwriter, speaker, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Black Girl Magic Lit Mag, a speculative fiction literary magazine. As an, essayist she has written for Time Magazine, Motto, and Fireside Fiction. She is also a screenwriter currently in pre-production on a horror web series and a short film. Kenesha has been a panelist and speaker at StokerCon, the Horror Writers of America convention; Boskone, ECBACC, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention; the 2017 African Americans Expo, and MECCACon. In 2012, she started at Ace/Roc under the Berkley imprint at Penguin, where she fell in love with editing amazing books. Her list included authors such as Guy Gavriel Kay, Emma Newman, Christina Henry, S.M. Stirling, John Varley, Genevieve Cogman, and Zen Cho, among many others. Her editing philosophy is to help the author make their book the best it can be, while remaining true to their voice and vision. As an editor, she becomes the author’s “first” reader and fan, which can sometimes include writing comments such as, “LOL”, “Oh no,” and “[Insert reader crying here].” Linda D. Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won five times. Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery, and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is, however, an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Hell on the Homefront Too Stephen Graham Jones 1

The Steering Wheel Club Kaaron Warren 7

Sweet Justice Kenesha Williams 19

The Moon Goddess's Granddaughter Lee Murray 31

The Kindly Sea Dana Cameron 45

Just Us League Angela Yuriko Smith 61

American Murder Peter Tieryas 73

As We Stand and Pray Jason Sanford 83

Finding Water to Catch Fire Linda D. Addison 105

Escape from Pleasant Point Leanna Renee Hieber 119

Daughter of Echidna Nicholas Kaufmann 143

The Devil's Pocket Change Hillary Monahan 163

The Tawny Bitch Nisi Shawl 181

Happy Birthday Baby Kelley Armstrong 207

Devil's Hollow Errick Nunnally 215

The Little Thing Christina Henry 247

Learning More and Getting Help 261

Acknowledgment 263

Author Bios 267

Past & Upcoming Titles 273

Editorial Reviews

"In Giving the Devil His Due, sixteen of speculative fiction's brightest authors tell the unflinching stories of survivors, of their strength and courage, as well as a righteous castigation of gender-based violence and the patriarchal societies all too willing to remain silent. This stirring, vital anthology demands your attention as it demands justice and the end of violence of against women." —Paul Tremblay, Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

 

"A brilliant, wickedly-smart, scary as hell collection of creepy stories from some of today's finest writers. Every single tale is a certified gold. Highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Relentless and V-Wars

 

"Giving the Devil His Due burrows deep into the heart and inflames the spirit. A rallying cry against violence done to women and girls." —Tori Eldridge, Amazon bestselling author of The Ninja Betrayed

“The sixteen SF/F and horror authors in Giving The Devil His Due understand the atrocity of violence against women all too well, but with their powerful use of language, characters, and world-building, deliver cathartic resolutions that give me hope that this is a battle we can win. It is a remarkable book!” — Leigh Perry, award winning author of the Family Skeleton series

"If you don't understand what The Pixel Project is all about, you will after you read the short stories by gifted writers who have contributed to this anthology. Each story illustrates a facet of the violence women face on a daily basis — sometimes in their workplace, or on the street, or at their school . . . or in their own home. Help out a woman you know by buying this book. You'll learn a lot." —Charlaine Harris, NY Times bestselling author of the Gunnie Rose series and the Midnight, Texas series

“A dark and cathartic but necessary book. Not for the weak of heart but you have to be strong to survive the monsters that stalk the real world. These authors walk beside you, every step of the way, lending you the strength you need, both on the page and off, when confronting the monstrousness of violence against women and girls.” —Charles de Lint, author of The Onion Girl and The Wind in His Heart

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