Description
THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR
Edited by Josh Schlossberg
Horror is part of the human condition, but few peoples across the ages know it quite like the Jews.
From slavery to pogroms to the Holocaust to antisemitism, the "Chosen People" have not only endured hell on Earth, they've risen above it to share their stories with the world.
Whether it's pirate rabbis or demon-slaying Bible queens, concentration camp vampires or beloved, fearless bubbies, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR offers you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
An Orchard of Terror: Scary Stories and the Jewish Tradition by Rabbi John Carrier
Origins of The Jewish Book of Horror by Josh Schlossberg
Torah-fying Tales: An Introduction to Jewish Horror by Molly Adams
On Seas of Blood and Salt by Richard Dansky
The Last Plague by KD Casey
The 38th Funeral by Marc Morgenstern
Same as Yesterday by Alter S. Reiss
How to Build a Sukkah at the End of the World by Lindsay King-Miller
Demon Hunter Vashti by Henry Herz
The Horse Leech Has Two Maws by Michael Picco
The Rabbi's Wife by Simon Rosenberg
Ba'alat Ov by Brenda Tolian
Eighth Night by John Baltisberger
Bread and Salt by Elana Gomel
In the Red by Mike Marcus
A Purim Story by Emily Ruth Verona
Catch and Release by Vivian Kasley
Phinehas the Zealot by Ethan K. Lee
The Wisdom of Solomon by Ken Goldman
Welcome, Death by J.D. Blackrose
Forty Days Before Birth by Colleen Halupa
The Hanukkult of Taco Wisdom by Margret Treiber
The Divorce From God by Rami Ungar
The Hand of Fire by Daniel Braum
Bar Mitzvah Lessons by Stewart Gisser
About the Author
E LANA G OMEL has taught and researched English literature at Tel-Aviv University, Princeton, Stanford, Venice International University and the University of Hong Kong where she spent a memorable year. Since then, she has visited Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia many times, both as an academic and as a traveler, immersing herself in these countries' cultures, histories and present-day struggles. The Hungry Ones reflects her fascination with Asian cityscapes and dreamscapes. She is the author of four academic books, including Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (2003), Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (2010), and Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule London (2014). In 2009 she published The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel, which is one of the first comprehensive treatments of the subject. She is the author of more than 40 fantasy, horror and science fiction stories, that appeared in New Horizons, The Fantasist, Timeless Tales, The Singularity, New Realms, Alien Dimensions, and many other magazines; and in several anthologies, including People of the Book, Ink Stains, Zion's Fiction, and Apex Book of World Science Fiction. Her story In the Moment won second place in the 2009 Short Story Competition of the British Fantasy Society. Her fantasy novel A Tale of Three Cities was published in 2013, and her standalone novella Dreaming the Dark came out in 2017.
Josh Schlossberg's biological horror fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. He's the author of the cosmic folk horror novella, MALINAE (D&T Publishing, 2021), editor of THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR (Denver Horror Collective, 2021), lead editor of TERROR AT 5280' (Denver Horror Collective, 2019), co-founding member of Denver Horror Collective (DenverHorror.com), and creator of Josh's Worst Nightmare (JoshsWorstNightmare.com), where he surveys the dark landscape of biological horror fiction.
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