The latest bumper Postscripts anthology, with new stories from twenty five of today’s finest speculative fiction writers:

Danel Olson  Preface: On Dark Gifting        
Margo Lanagan  Blooding the Bride        
Adam L.G. Nevill  Pig Thing
Kaaron Warren  The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club
Reggie Oliver  The Look
Lucy Taylor  Nikishi
Simon Kurt Unsworth  The Fourth Horse
Stephen Dedman  The Fall
Tunku Halim  In the Village of Setang
David Punter  Carving
Genni Gunn  Water Lover
Robert Hood  Escena de un Asesinato
Steve Rasnic Tem  The Old Man Beset by Demons
David Wellington  Atacama
Isobelle Carmody  Metro Winds
Terry Dowling  Mariners’ Round
Paul Finch  Oschaert
Ekaterina Sedia  Helena
Anna Taborska  Rusalka
Nick Antosca  Candy
Joseph Bruchac  Down in the Valley
Cherie Dimaline  Wanishin
Brian Evenson  Grottor
E. Michael Lewis  Such a Man I Would Have Become
Scott Thomas  The Unfinished Book
Stephen Volk  Celebrity Frankenstein

Commentary on the Exotic Gothic series: In 2006, I floated a concept I created called Exotic Gothic to over seventy publishers around the world. It was an experiment in growing neo-Gothic stories: to keep one or more traditional tropes of the old genre in each new story, but add much that’s culturally different, and set them all outside of their original birthlands of the UK, Germany, and France. Since then the series has had four volumes, the first three from Ash-Tree Press of Canada (which with regret was unable to produce the fourth due to unforeseen personal commitments and time constraints), and the current from England’s PS Publishing (whose name to carry the series was suggested by many of the writers within this all-new collection). Exotic Gothic 2 was a Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, and Exotic Gothic 3 a Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Award Finalist. Many of the series’ harrowing and sensual tales now reappear the following year in Best Of and themed collections. PS presents an all-new Exotic Gothic 5 in 2013.