It contained nine stories with two novellas and seven short stories. In May 2014, Simon Strantzas released his fourth weird fiction collection from Hippocampus Press. In March 2015, Simon Strantzas was selected as co-editor of The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3 (2016). His work was also cited as an influence for Nic Pizzolatto, creator of True Detective. He has also edited three anthologies including Aickman's Heirs which won two Shirley Jackson Awards in 2015, one for best Edited Anthology and one for the included story “The Dying Season” by Lynda E. He has written five story collections and been nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2009. But you will remember them.Simon Strantzas (born 1972) is a weird fiction author from Toronto, Canada. Pulver 'Strantzas deftly establishes ordinary and seemingly innocuous situations that spin out of the characters' control and always end with an uneasy sense of menace, even when their resolution is ambiguous or cryptic.' - Publishers Weekly 'Like the subtly disquieting locations in which they take place - a suburban house obscured by weeds and dark butterflies, the basement of a former home grown suddenly unfamiliar, a sleep clinic where the patients never meet - Simon Strantzas' elegant stories worry at the reader's sense of certainty. ' - Lisa Tuttle 'He does not show you the gate to this new Golden Age of weird fiction that is upon us, but leads you through it.' - Joseph S. Strantzas demonstrates once again why he is so highly regarded amongst connoisseurs of the macabre and the fantastic.' - Laird Barron 'Simon Strantzas displays a gift for evoking disturbing atmospheres and creating odd, frightening encounters with the uncanny.

Kneale Everything Floats When Sorrows Come Afterword 'Nightingale Songs is a dark gem. Table of Contents In the Nightingale, Waiting for the Curtain to Rise, an Introduction by John Langan Out of Touch Her Father's Daughter The Deafening Sound of Slumber Unreasonable Doubt Tend Your Own Garden The Nightingale Pale Light in the Jungle An Indelible Stain upon the Sky Something New Mr. Because, for you, it is already too late. Like a siren, the nightingale sings them onward to face their end. From the shores of a remote oil-stained sound to deep within the familiar heart of suburbia, these are the songs of broken people who cannot find a way to fix themselves, who must search the dark for salvation.

Simon Strantzas, master of the subtle and the bizarre, returns with a dozen strange tales and eerie mysteries. In the dead of night, the nightingale sings. In the dead of night, you hear a discordant tune. In the dead of night, your past mistakes will haunt you. In the dead of night, there are footsteps in the hall.

Nightingale Songs by Simon Strantzas