Black Juice

Collected short stories by Margo Lanagan

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Black Juice is the first collection of short stories by Australian writer Margo Lanagan. It was released in paperback by Allen and Unwin in 2004, and features the author's widely anthologised short story "Singing My Sister Down", which won the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.^[1]

The collection includes 10 original short stories by the author that fall into the fantasy, science fiction, horror and young adult genres. It won the 2004 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, and the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.^[1]

"Singing My Sister Down" – winner of World Fantasy Award, Ditmar Award, and Aurealis Award
"My Lord's Man"
"Red Nose Day"
"Sweet Pippit"
"House of the Many"
"Wooden Bride"
"Earthly Uses"
"Perpetual Light"
"Yowlinin"
"Rite of Spring"

Awards

2004 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults – winner^[2]
2004 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Young Adult Book – shortlisted
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection – winner^[2]
2005 Ditmar Award Best Collected Work – winner^[2]
2005 The Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award – shortlisted^[3]
2005 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction – shortlisted^[3]
2006 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature – honour book

Critical reception

Colin Greenland in The Guardian called the stories "remarkable, luminous, mysterious", and concluded that "In Lanagan's hands the implications of words and phrases, the meanings folded into them, balloon out into landscapes as complex and interrelated and hence indeterminate as life itself: life in Indonesia or New South Wales, the past or the future or anywhere."^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b World Fantasy Awards 2005 – Science Fiction Awards Database
^ ^a ^b ^c Black Juice
^ ^a ^b Austlit – Black Juice by Margo Lanagan – Awards
^ "Review: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan", The Guardian, 19 March 2006

World Fantasy Award—Collection

1975–2000

Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

2001–present

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (2022)