Aegri Somnia is an anthology of horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 stories edited by Jason Sizemore

Jason Sizemore (editor)

Jason Sizemore is an American writer and editor based in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the editor and publisher of Apex Digest, a quarterly science fiction and horror digest...

 and Gill Ainsworth and published by Apex Books. The twelve stories in this collection were all written by different authors. In 2006 Aegri Somnia was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology

Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for anthology.-Winners and nominees:Nominees are listed below the winner for each year....

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Story list

The short stories in this book are:

• "YY" – Jennifer Pelland
• "The League of Last Girls" – Christopher Rowe
• "All Praise to the Dreamer" – Nancy Fulda
• "Nothing of Me" – Eugie Foster
  Eugie Foster
  Eugie Foster is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her...
  
  
• "Heal Thyself" - Scott Nicholson
• "On the Shoulders of Giants" – Bryn Sparks
• "Dream Takers" – Rhonda Eudaly
• "Letters From Weirdside" – Lavie Tidhar
  Lavie Tidhar
  Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli born writer. He lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time. He had also lived in Vanuatu and Laos.-Early life:Tidhar grew up in the communal atmosphere of an Israeli Kibbutz...
  
  
• "Wishbones" – Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest
  Cherie Priest is an American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington.-Biography:Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as...
  
  
• "All Becomes as Wormwood" – Angeline Hawkes
• "Well of the Waters" – Mari Adkins
• "Mens Rea" – Steven Savile
  Steven Savile
  Steven Savile is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm, Sweden...
  
  

Aegri Somnia

Aegri Somnia is a Latin phrase which according to the editors of the book translates as "a sick man’s dreams" or "troubled dreams". All of the stories in this anthology were based on this theme.

See also

• Apex Digest
  Apex Digest
  Apex Magazine, also previously known as Apex Digest, is an American horror and science fiction magazine which began publishing in 2005 out of Lexington, Kentucky. In 2008, Apex Digest ceased printing the American digest size print version and opted to move the magazine online. This free webzine,...
  
   - publisher
• Jason Sizemore
  Jason Sizemore (editor)
  Jason Sizemore is an American writer and editor based in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the editor and publisher of Apex Digest, a quarterly science fiction and horror digest...
  
  - editor

External links

• Information on Aegri Somnia available from the publisher’s website