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

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edited by

Bill Congreve Bill Congreve is an Australian writer, editor and reviewer of speculative fiction. He has also published the work of Australian science fiction and horror writers under his MirrorDanse imprint. Biography Congreve's first work was published in ...

Background

''Southern Blood'' was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best anthology at the 2004 Bram Stoker Awards and the 2004

International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards were determined by ...

s and for best collected work at the 2004

Ditmar Awards The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ...

. ''Southern Blood'' features 16 stories from 16 authors. One of the stories, "

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" by

Lucy Sussex Lucy Sussex (born 1957 in New Zealand) is an author working in fantasy and science fiction, children's and teenage writing, non-fiction and true crime. She is also an editor, reviewer, academic and teacher, and currently resides in Melbourne, Aus ...

won the 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 2004

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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

Glen Hirshberg Glen Martin Hirshberg (born June 5, 1966 in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan) is an American author best known for horror fiction. Biography Born to parents Linda Hirshberg (psychologist) and Jerry Hirshberg (painter, founder of Nissan ...

's "

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". Kirstyn McDermott's " The Truth About Pug Roberts" was a short-list nominee for the 2004

for best short story but lost to

Trudi Canavan Trudi Canavan (born 23 October 1969) is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies '' The Black Magician'' and '' Age of the Five''. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic de ...

'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

*"Stone by Stone", short fiction by

Deborah Biancotti Deborah Biancotti is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in ...

", novelette by

*"Madly", short fiction by

Stephen Dedman Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian writer of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. Biography Dedman's short stories have appeared in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', '' Year's Best SF'', and ''The Best Australian Sci ...

*" In the Shadow of the Stones", short fiction by

Rosaleen Love Rosaleen Love (born 1940) is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation t ...

*"In Quinn's Paddock", short fiction by

Rick Kennett Rick Kennett'(born 1956) is an Australian writer of science fiction, Horror fiction, horror and Ghost story, ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely published genre author in Australia after Paul Collins (fantasy writer), Paul Collins, T ...

*"Hunting Ground", short fiction by Sean Williams *"Doing Shadow Time", short fiction by Sue Isle *"Blue Eyes", short fiction by George Ivanoff *"Beware! The Pincushionman", short fiction by

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*"Basic Black", novelette by

Terry Dowling Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist. He is primarily a writer of speculative fiction but refers to himself as an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from th ...

*"A Sixpence for Sophie", short fiction by Geoffrey Maloney

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