‘THE MEATAMORPHOSIS’
‘BLACK LUNG’
“‘Black Lung’ by Aaron Sterns really kicked in my panic mode. […]
‘”WE ARE BUT MEAT”:
BODY HORROR AS SECULAR HORROR
IN MARK POWELL’S DREAM DIORAMAS’ (essay)
‘SCREENWRITING: THE COMPROMISED ART’ (essay)
‘VANGUARD’
‘WATCHMEN’ (reprint)
Published in Bewere The Night: Tales of Shapeshifters and Werecreatures, Edited by Ekaterina Sedia, Prime Books (US), 2011
A brand-spanking new version of the story, reflecting some of its expansion into the novel Blood (ie. there’s more cool werewolf transformation now).
‘WATCHMEN’
Published in Gathering the Bones: New Stories from the World’s Masters
of Horror, Edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison,
HarperCollins (Aus), Tor (US), 2003, Voyager (UK), 2004
“The most disturbing stories are those in which the horror seems a natural extension of the world as we know it: […such as] a nightclub bouncer inducted into a secret world of killing for pleasure (Aaron Sterns’ ‘Watchmen’).”
– Lorien Kaye, The Age
Honorable Mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
‘THE THIRD RAIL’
Published in Dreaming Down-Under: Thirty-one original stories from the wild side of Australian speculative fiction, Edited by Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, Harper Voyager (AUS), 1998, Orb Books (US), 2000, Tor HC (US), 2002
“Sterns’ writing draws you into his personal nightmare; the story, told in the present tense, has great immediacy and economy. Effectively, chillingly, done.”
– Simon Brown, eidolon.net
Nominated for 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story
‘THE REST IS SILENCE’
Published in Dreaming Again: Thirty-Five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction, Edited by Jack Dann, HarperCollins (Aus), Harper Voyager (US), 2008
“This frightening story stays with you long after reading it. “
– Tristesse Lee, Book and Movie Impressions… For Now
Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, edited by Ellen Datlow
‘AT NIGHT MY TELEVISION BLEEDS’
Published in Orb: Speculative Fiction, Issue #3/4, Edited by Sarah Endacott,
Orb Publications (AUS), 2002
Honorable Mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
