''Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural'' is a 2003

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edited by Bill Congreve

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''Southern Blood'' was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in

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format. It was a short-list nominee for best anthology at the 2004

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and the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards and for best collected work at the 2004 Ditmar Awards. ''Southern Blood'' features 16 stories from 16 authors. One of the stories, " La Sentinelle" by

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won the 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 2004 Ditmar Award for best novella or novelette. It was also a short-list nominee at the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards for best medium fiction but lost to

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's "

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". Kirstyn McDermott's " The Truth About Pug Roberts" was a short-list nominee for the 2004 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Trudi Canavan's " A Room for Improvement".

*"Waiting at Golgotha", short story by Simon Brown *" The Truth About Pug Roberts", short fiction by Kirstyn McDermott *"Relish", short fiction by David Carroll *"The Pique of Death", short fiction by Naomi Hatchman *"Legacy", shortfiction by Bill Congreve *"Stone by Stone", short fiction by Deborah Biancotti *" La Sentinelle", novelette by

*"Madly", short fiction by Stephen Dedman *"

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", short fiction by Rosaleen Love *"In Quinn's Paddock", short fiction by Rick Kennett *"Hunting Ground", short fiction by Sean Williams *"Doing Shadow Time", short fiction by

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*"Blue Eyes", short fiction by

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*"Beware! The Pincushionman", short fiction by Robert Hood *"Basic Black", novelette by Terry Dowling *"A Sixpence for Sophie", short fiction by

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