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A Natural History of Hell

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A Natural History of Hell is a collection of thirteen stories written by Jeffrey Ford and released in July 2016.^[1] The collection has won the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection^[2] as well as the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Short Story Collection.^[3]

Author[edit]

Jeffrey Ford is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer, born in Long Island, New York State on 8 November 1955.^[4] He now lives in Ohio and teaches writing part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.

The Blameless: A world where exorcisms are as casual as a sweet sixteen
Word Doll: A take on the harvest spirit/monster theme
The Angel Seems: A town suffers the predations of a monstrous angel who offers protection in exchange for occasional poetic and indifferent murder.
Mount Chary Galore: A bone-chilling story of three young children in a more innocent, more difficult time, and their encounter with the local wise woman.
A Natural History of Autumn: Evil Japanese demons and their wild shenanigans.
Blood Drive: A re-imagined America encourages both high school students and teachers carry firearms
A Terror: Emily Dickinson takes that famed carriage ride with Death.
Rocket Ship to Hell: A science fiction writer meets an old man in a bar who spins a truly "weird tale"
The Fairy Enterprise: A heartless industrialist determines to manufacture an unusual sort of product, but finds the process unexpectedly demanding.
The Last Triangle: An addict is rescued by a little old lady.
Spirits of Salt: A Tale of the Coral Heart
The Thyme Fiend: A young in Ohio who sees strange things. The spirits of the dead come back to resolve some mysteries in the living world.
The Prelate's Commission: A story about trying to put a face on the devil and how the devil feels about such efforts.

^ "Word Fantasy Award 2017 Winners List". Locus. November 5, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2018.

^ "Fishpond Book Review". Retrieved May 8, 2018.

1975–2000

Worse Things WaitingbyManly Wade Wellman (1975)
The Enquiries of Doctor EszterhazybyAvram Davidson (1976)
Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
Murgunstrumm and OthersbyHugh B. Cave (1978)
ShadowsbyCharles L. Grant (1979)
Amazons!byJessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
The Dark CountrybyTerri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
Nightmare SeasonsbyCharles L. Grant (1983)
High SpiritsbyRobertson Davies (1984)
Books of Blood, Vols. I-IIIbyClive Barker (1985)
Imaginary LandsbyRobin McKinley (1986)
Tales of the Quintana RoobyJames Tiptree Jr. (1987)
The Jaguar HunterbyLucius Shepard (1988)
Angry CandybyHarlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old HotelbyGene Wolfe (1989, tie)
Richard Matheson: Collected StoriesbyRichard Matheson (1990)
The Start of the End of It All and Other StoriesbyCarol Emshwiller (1991)
The Ends of the EarthbyLucius Shepard (1992)
The Sons of Noah & Other StoriesbyJack Cady (1993)
Alone with the HorrorsbyRamsey Campbell (1994)
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration ArtistbyBradley Denton (1995)
The Grass PrincessbyGwyneth Jones (1996)
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the EyebyJonathan Lethem (1997)
The Throne of BonesbyBrian McNaughton (1998)
Black GlassbyKaren Joy Fowler (1999)
Moonlight and VinesbyCharles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other TalesbyStephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

2001–present

Beluthahatchie and Other StoriesbyAndy Duncan (2001)
Skin FolkbyNalo Hopkinson (2002)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other StoriesbyJeffrey Ford (2003)
BibliomancybyElizabeth Hand (2004)
Black JuicebyMargo Lanagan (2005)
The Keyhole OperabyBruce Holland Rogers (2006)
Map of DreamsbyM. Rickert (2007)
Tiny DeathsbyRobert Shearman (2008)
The Drowned LifebyJeffrey Ford (2009)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy TalesbyLyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene WolfebyGene Wolfe (2010, tie)
What I Didn't See and Other StoriesbyKaren Joy Fowler (2011)
The Bible Repairman and Other StoriesbyTim Powers (2012)
Where Furnaces BurnbyJoel Lane (2013)
The Ape's Wife and Other StoriesbyCaitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other RecountingsbyAngela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
Bone SwansbyC. S. E. Cooney (2016)
A Natural History of HellbyJeffrey Ford (2017)
The Emerald CircusbyJane Yolen (2018)
The Tangled LandsbyPaolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
Song for the Unraveling of the WorldbyBrian Evenson (2020)
Where the Wild Ladies ArebyAoko Matsuda (2021)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from PakistanbyUsman T. Malik (2022)