"Scream Angel" to appear in "best of" Circus anthology: Fantasy Under the Big Top

My award-winning novelette, "Scream Angel," will appear in the reprint anthology, Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top, which will feature the best circus-themed stories that editor Ekatarina Sedia could find. Check out the draft cover to the left and the table of contents below. I'm thrilled to see my little tale in the company of stories by such a fine list of authors.

• “Something About a Death, Something About a Fire” Peter Straub
• “Smoke & Mirrors” Amanda Downum
• “Calliope: A Steam Romance” Andrew J McKiernan
• “Welcome to the Greatest Show in the Universe” Deborah Walker
• “Vanishing Act” E. Catherine Tobler
• “Quin’s Shanghai Circus” Jeff VanderMeer
• “Scream Angel” Douglas Smith
• “The Vostrasovitch Clockwork Animal and Traveling Forest Show at the End of the World” Jessica Reisman
• “Study, for Solo Piano” Genevieve Valentine
• “Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair” Ken Scholes
• “The Quest” Barry B. Longyear
• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” Kij Johnson
• “Courting the Queen of Sheba” Amanda C. Davis
• “Circus Circus” Eric Witchey
• “Phantasy Moste Grotesk” Felicity Dowker
• “Learning to Leave” Christopher Barzak
• “Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus” Neal Barrett Jr
• “The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue” Holly Black
• “Manipulating Paper Birds” Cate Gardner
• “Winter Quarters” Howard Waldrop

"Scream Angel" first appeared in the anthology Low Port, edited by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Meisha Merlin, 2003) and won the Aurora Award for best short fiction in 2004. It's included in my collection, Chimerascope. Check out its full publication history and reviews, or buy an ebook copy of the story.