Terry Dowling

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Movie Options for "One Thing About the Night" and "The Maze Man"

Terry’s chilling "One Thing About the Night" from Ellen Datlow’s 2003 anthology The Dark: New Ghost Stories and his 1984 story "The Maze Man" have both been optioned by LA director Sergio Pinheiro for development as film projects. Pinheiro has received considerable acclaim for his short film The Procedure (www.thedonnybrook.com), winner of awards at five US short film festivals. The talented young director will develop one story as a short film project while the other is in pre-production as a feature.

Clowns at Midnight from PS Publishing

Terry’s disquieting novel Clowns at Midnight will be published by PS Publishing in the UK in time for the Melbourne Worldcon in 2010. Clowns was written for Terry’s 2006 PhD and concerns family secrets and ancient rituals in present-day Australia and features a very special kind of clown.

Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder from Subterranean Press

Also in time for the 2010 Worldcon, Subterranean Press will be publishing a new TD collection. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder will feature such acclaimed and previously uncollected stories as "The Lagan Fishers," "Flashmen," "Toother" and "The Suits at Auderlene" as well as Terry’s major 2009 Tom Rynosseros adventure "The Library."

"The Maze Man" for Best of the Best

Acclaimed Australian editor Barry Oakley has chosen "The Maze Man" for Best of the Best, an anthology from The Five Mile Press featuring Oakley’s top picks from his six previous Five Mile anthologies.

“Toother” in four Year’s Bests!

Terry’s story “Toother” was selected for four Year’s Best collections: by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz for Horror: The Best of the Year 2008, by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt for Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy 4, and by Ellen Datlow for the 2008 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 20. It is Terry’s tenth appearance in the important YBFH annual anthology series. Previous selections have been: “The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap,” “Scaring the Train,” “Beckoning Nightframe,” “Jenny Come to Play,” “Basic Black,” “The Saltimbanques,” “Stitch,” “Clownette” and “La Profonde.” The story has also appeared in the inaugural volume of Award Winning Australian Writing 2008, edited by David Tenenbaum, and was called “The gem of the collection” by the Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 2008.

Clowns at Midnight extract in Exotic Gothic 2

An extract from Terry’s 2006 PhD novel Clowns at Midnight can be found in Exotic Gothic 2, Danel Olson (Ed.), Ash-Tree Press, 2008.

“Toother” Wins 2007 Australian Shadows Award

Terry’s 2007 story “Toother” from Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Jonathan Strahan, won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story in April 2008. In the words of Guest Judge Richard Harland: “Terry Dowling’s story is a conscious extension of Poe’s ‘Berenice’…whilst also drawing on some fascinating research into a very murky corner of history. The psychic angle of the investigation is far more real and plausible than the standard psychic investigations of TV series…This is a story that does everything right.”

“Truth Window” in Eclipse 2

“Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose”, Terry’s first Wormwood story in 17 years, can be found in Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse 2 from Nightshade Books, 2008.

“The Fooly” in Dreaming Again

Terry’s ghost story “The Fooly” has appeared in Jack Dann’s anthology Dreaming Again. The US magazine Locus for July 2008 calls it “a brilliant ghost story…The concept is superb, the punchline delivered immaculately.”

Terry a Judge for the inaugural John Hinde Prize

In July 2008 Terry completed his duties for the Australian Writers’ Guild as one of three judges for the inaugural John Hinde Award for produced science fiction film and television scripts. The $15,000 annual prize is the bequest of the late Aussie film and TV critic John Hinde, who had a lifelong love of science fiction films and television.

Ten Years at June Dally-Watkins Business Finishing College

Terry celebrates ten very happy years at the June Dally-Watkins Business Finishing College at 210 Clarence Street, Sydney (02 9267 3255 / www.jdw.com.au) teaching both Business Communication and English.

Terry co-edits Wild Thyme, Green Magic

As a follow-up to their 2008 Jack Vance Reader and the internationally acclaimed Jack Vance Treasury in 2007, both from Subterranean Press, Jonathan Strahan and Terry recently turned in Wild Thyme, Green Magic: Selected Stories of Jack Vance. This third volume in the Jack Vance series for Subterranean will appear in early 2009 and will, once again, feature a cover by Tom Kidd. It can be pre-ordered at http://www.subterraneanpress.com/

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