Shurin, Jared
Entry updated 26 February 2024. Tagged: Editor.
(? - ) US editor, long resident in the UK with his wife and co-anthologist Anne C Perry, with whom he founded the Pornokitsch blog and the Kitschies Awards (which see) first presented in 2010. He and Perry began to publish anthologies of genre interest with Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse (anth 2011), which had several successors [see Checklist below]. Three later titles are themed for Supernatural Creatures: mummies as classic Monsters in the Original Anthology The Book of the Dead (anth 2013) and its mostly-reprint companion Unearthed (anth 2013) with John J Johnston, which harks back to tales from the nineteenth century; and djinns in The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories (anth 2017) with Mahvesh Murad. In preparation is a retrospective Cyberpunk anthology, «The Big Book of Cyberpunk». [DRL]
Jared Shurin
born Kansas City, Missouri
works as editor
series
Pandemonium
- Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse (London: Jurassic London, 2011) with Anne C Perry [anth: Pandemonium: hb/]
- Pandemonium Stocking Stuffer 2011 (London: Jurassic London, 2011) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 3 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/]
- Pandemonium: Fire (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 3 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/]
- Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: Pandemonium: hb/]
- Pandemonium: Crossroads (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 4 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/]
- Pandemonium: Lost Souls (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: Pandemonium: hb/]
- A Town Called Pandemonium (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: Pandemonium: pb/Adam Hill]
- Pandemonium Stocking Stuffer 2012 (London: Jurassic London, 2011) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 4 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/Sarah Anne Langton]
- Pandemonium: 1853 (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 3 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/Adam Hill]
- Pandemonium: Ash (London: Jurassic London, 2012) with Anne C Perry [anth: ebook: 6 Flash Fiction stories: Pandemonium: na/]
Best of British Fantasy
- Best of British Fantasy 2018 (Alconbury Weston, Cambridgeshire: NewCon Press, 2019) [anth: Best of British Fantasy: hb/Matty Long]
- Best of British Fantasy 2019 (Alconbury Weston, Cambridgeshire: NewCon Press, 2020) [anth: Best of British Fantasy: hb/Jonathan Edwards]
individual titles as editor
- The Lowest Heaven (London: Jurassic London, 2013) with Anne C Perry [anth: hb/Joey Hi-Fi]
- The Book of the Dead (London: Jurassic London, 2013) [anth: pb/Garen Ewing]
- Unearthed (London: Jurassic London, 2013) with John J Johnston [anth: pb/Garen Ewing]
- Irregularity (London: Jurassic London, 2014) [anth: pb/Howard Hardiman]
- The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2017) with Mahvesh Murad [anth: pb/Sam Gretton]
- The Outcast Hours (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2017) with Mahvesh Murad [anth: pb/Sam Gretton]
- The Big Book of Cyberpunk (New York: Vintage Books, 2023) [anth: edited by Jack Adrian: pb/]
nonfiction as editor
- Speculative Fiction 2012 (London: Jurassic London, 2014) with Justin Landon [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Speculative Fiction: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary series: pb/]
links
- Pornokitsch (inactive since 2018)
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Picture Gallery
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