# 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.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 7.7 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** October 15, 2024

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