Marie O'Regan
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Marie O'Regan

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Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. She was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award in 2022. Her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006 by Rainfall Books; her second, In Times of Want, came out in September 2016 from Hersham Horror Books. Her third, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, was published by Luna Press early in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of genre magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and Germany, including Best British Horror 2014, Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017), and The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories. Her novella, Bury Them Deep, was published by Hersham Horror Books in September 2017. Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022 by Encyclopocalypse Publications. She was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006 (‘Can You See Me’), and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts), 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women), 2019 (Wonderland) and 2023 (The Other Side of Never). Wonderland was also shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and her interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark, was released in 2011. An essay on ‘The Changeling’ was published in PS Publishing’s Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris. She is co-editor of the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Mammoth Book of Body Horror, A Carnivàle of Horror – Dark Tales from the Fairground, Exit Wounds (four stories from which have been shortlisted for a CWA dagger for Best Short Story), Wonderland (nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and BFS award), Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never (nominated for a British Fantasy Award), In These Hallowed Halls, and Beyond & Within Folk Horror Short Stories, as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3 (nominated for an Aurealis award). She is also the sole editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie was on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001 to 2008, editing both Prism and Dark Horizons before becoming Chair in 2004, and worked on several FantasyCons over the years, sometimes as Chair. She also ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. One further anthology (Death Comes at Christmas) is currently slated for release in October, 2024, with three more forthcoming for 2025 and 2026 beyond that and various further projects in the works. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books, which has has so far published novellas by SJI Holliday, George Mann (twice), Laura Mauro, Cavan Scott, Jen Williams, Angela Slatter (winner of a Shirley Jackson award for Best Novella), M.R. Carey, Louise Carey, Priya Sharma (winner of a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella), Alan Baxter (nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novella, Tracy Fahey (nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best Novella), Lee Murray (shortlisted for a Bram Stoker™ Award for best Long Fiction), A.C. Wise, Premee Mohamed, Conrad Williams, Ian Rogers, and Paul Finch, with the next three titles being released in Spring 2025.
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