Discontinue If Death Ensues - Hardcover

by Carol Gyzander (Editor), Anna Taborska (Editor), Lee Murray (Contribution by)

15 horror stories and 5 poems about women, written by 5 women, facing down the grim tipping point of humanity and offering a glimpse of the hope to come.

Horror stories about women, written by women. This anthology focuses on the strength of women faced with adversity. It explores many ways in which societal structures and personal action - including mistreatment of the environment and other people, particularly women - can reach a tipping point, creating unexpected changes, empowering women around the world.

It contains fifteen interlaced stories and five poems from five authors in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand - all women who were nominated for the 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award(R) for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: Lee Murray, Cindy O'Quinn, Kyla Lee Ward, Anna Taborska and Carol Gyzander.

The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Author Biography

Carol Gyzander writes and edits horror, weird fiction, and science fiction, with stories appearing in Weird Tales, Weird House Magazine, Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse, and Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles. As anthology editor she contributed to A Woman Unbecoming and the Even in the Grave ghost story anthology.

Lee Murray is a five-time Bram Stoker Award(R)-, and multiple Australian Shadows- and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winner. Lee is New Zealand's only recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award.

Cindy O'Quinn is a four-time Bram Stoker Award(R)-nominated writer. Author of "Lydia", from the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology The Twisted Book of Shadows, "The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road", "A Gathering on the Mountain", and "One and Done."

Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative whose work has garnered Australian Shadows and Aurealis awards. She has been nominated for multiple Rhyslings, Stoker and Ditmar nominations.

Anna Taborska writes horror stories and screenplays with tales appearing in over forty anthologies. She has been nominated for a British Fantasy Award three times, and for a Bram Stoker Award(R) five times. Anna has also directed five films.