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]

Black Juice
First edition
AuthorMargo Lanagan
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror, fantasy, science fiction
PublisherAllen and Unwin
Publication date
2004
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages222
ISBN1741145015

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]

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  • 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]

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