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HADOWS
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“Michael Kelly’s Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment’s most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous journal.”

—Peter Straub, Best-Selling Author of
Ghost Story
, and
A Dark Matter

“. . . elegant digest-sized format and consistently good supernatural, ghost, and weird fiction...This looks to be the perfect magazine for aficionados of low-key horror. Bravo!”

—Ellen Datlow,
The Best Horror of the Year 3

“Like mist creeping though a northern forest, this journal of the ghostly and ghastly will have you starting at sudden noises, and recoiling from half-glimpsed faces in the shadows on the wall.”

—Laird Barron, Author of
The Croning
, and
Occultation

“Shadows and Tall Trees comes on like the wendigo, or a will-o’-the-wisp, consistently quiet and ominous and delicious and very welcome indeed.”

—Glen Hirshberg, Author of
The Book of Bunk
, and
Motherless Child

“Shadows & Tall Trees is a really strong collection of stories, a high quality product with high quality writing. I thoroughly recommend it.”

—Anthony Watson, Dark Musings

“Shadows and Tall Trees appears to have a bright future and may well become one of the places to go to find new weird fiction.”

—
Speculative Fiction Junkie

“Just received a copy of the latest issue of this superb little publication from Undertow Books. The editor, Michael Kelly, is creating something quite special here, I feel. Expertly produced and presented, an example of what a horror publication of this type should ‘feel’ like when you pull it out of the envelope. Another great selection of tight, quiet horror stories in this issue, stories that unsettle and cause the reader to think beyond the parameters of the ordinary. Issue 2 contained a story ‘Back Amongst the Shy Trees’ by Steve Rasnic Tem that any writer of horror ought to aspire to.

—Danny Rhodes,
The Crow’s Nest II

“Editor/publisher Michael Kelly’s aim, is, professedly, to offer good quality short fiction in the horror genre. I can testify that he’s doing a great job and the third issue of Shadows & Tall Trees provides further evidence of his continuous success in that difficult task. The journal (which actually has the format and the layout of a short story anthology) manages once again to recruit excellent writers at the top of their game. I guarantee it’s worth your money.”

—Mario Guslandi,
Horror World

“Kelly is doing a wonderful job collecting and publishing authors who really have significant literary talents.”

—Benjamin Uminsky, Goodreads

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BOUT
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HADOWS
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ALL
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Shadows & Tall Trees
is an annual anthology, in print and eBook format, of strange and weird tales. Many of our stories have been selected for reprint in various “Best Of” and “Year’s Best” anthologies. We publish stories of exceptional literary merit.

Submissions of exceptional literary merit, up to 7500 words, are welcome and are assumed to be original and previously unpublished. Please do not query about reprints. Unsolicited manuscripts accepted for publication are paid at 1-cent-per-word to a maximum of $50. Contributors will also receive 2 copies of the journal.

All correspondence, including submissions, should be sent to: [email protected]

For detailed guidelines, please visit the website:

www.undertowbooks.com/submissions

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OPYRIGHT

Shadows & Tall Trees 6
, edited by Michael Kelly
Cover artwork © 2014 Santiago Caruso
Cover design © 2014 John Oakey
Interior design, typesetting, layout © 2014 Samantha Beiko

Published by Undertow Publications.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

EPub Edition MAY 2014 ISBN: 978-0-98131-774-8

All rights reserved under all applicable International Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen.

No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

Undertow Publications
Pickering, ON Canada
www.undertowbooks.com
[email protected]

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BOUT THE
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UBLISHER

Undertow Publications (UP), an independent publisher based near Toronto, Canada. UP is an imprint of ChiZine Publications.

Enquiries can be made by regular post or e-mail, and should be addressed to the editor at:

Shadows & Tall Trees

c/o Michael Kelly, Editor

1905 Faylee Crescent

Pickering, ON

L1V 2T3

Canada

[email protected]

www.undertowbooks.com