Josh Woods
Born:
Connection to Illinois: Biography: Josh Woods is an author, editor, professor, and podcaster. He loves monsters, myth, storytelling, comedy, combat, and crafts. In addition to his novel, The Black Palace, he has edited three anthologies of fiction and has published genre and literary short stories, creative non-fiction, and craft essays in numerous journals, magazines, and collections. His awards include Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member of the Year, Press 53 Open Awards for Genre Fiction, and multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize. He teaches in Illinois and hails from Kentucky.
Awards:
- O Monstrous World Winner of the 2019 International Book Awards in the category of Fiction: Short Story
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Josh++Woods
Selected Titles
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O Monstrous World! ISBN: 1950413012 OCLC: Press 53 2019 Winner of the 2019 International Book Awards for Fiction: Short Story "An engrossing, fanciful collection of stories, written with insight, wisdom, and humor, O Monstrous World! is full of cinematic plot twists and literary miracles. These are stories about lawmakers, karate teachers, antique dealers, monster hunters, and even professors told with authority and humor. Josh Woods skillfully melds fantasy with reality, putting his characters to the test, determined to find their moral compass. In the end, he finds their hearts. There are monsters among us, but, more often, there are unlikely heroes. A joy to read from start to finish." --Margaret McMullan |
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Surreal South '13 ISBN: 1935708961 OCLC: Press 53 2013 The fourth book in the every-odd-year series from Press 53, originated by Laura Benedict and Pinckney Benedict, where "The dead will rise; witches will dance; swords will lunge; beasts will roam; gods will snicker; space and time will slip; slumbering horrors will shudder awake; innumerable eyes will watch your every move. Welcome to Surreal South '13, the fourth volume in the anthology series featuring stories embedded in the surreal and seen through the perspective of the American South, fiction that lives on the fringe." -from the Introduction by Josh Woods, Editor |
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The Black Palace ISBN: 1976751667 OCLC: Independently published 2018 A GOTHIC HORROR ACTION-ADVENTURE "This utterly original novel expertly blends profound supernatural terror, swashbuckling action, honest human emotion, brutal violence, and blunt good humor. The smartest, scariest, and most surprising book I've read in ages." —Pinckney Benedict The Black Palace—some have called it a hidden fortress, others a labyrinth of myth, a trackless mystery. And even the witches, who built it and keep it shut, fear that through the ages it has come alive. But tonight, a field agent in the Witchfinders Union leads her supernatural SWAT team on a raid inside to find one of their own. Yet once across that uncanny threshold, they must confront another world of grand secrets, where strange destinies are woven with theirs, where other desires are at work. They soon learn that you don’t get into the Black Palace unless it wants you in, and the same goes for getting out. |