Biography

Anna Taborska is a film director, screenwriter, and short story author, specialising in the horror genre. She also programmes the Raindance Film Festival, where she introduced a dedicated horror strand. Her film "The Rain Has Stopped" won several festival awards. Her short stories have appeared in over forty anthologies and three single-author collections: "Bloody Britain" (Shadow Publishing, 2020), "Shadowcats" (Black Shuck Books, 2019), and "For Those who Dream Monsters" (Mortbury Press, 2013, 2020). She is a recipient of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for her co-edited anthology "Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point" (Flame Tree Collections, 2024), which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. She has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award six times, including for her illustrated book A Song For Barnaby Jones (Zagava 2022), and for a British Fantasy Award three times. Her debut short story collection won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award.
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Anna Taborska's short story "Little Pig", first published in "The Eighth Black Book of Horror" in 2011, was picked for the anthology "The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four" (2012), where it appeared alongside Stephen King's 'The Little Green God of Agony'". It was later reprinted in "Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror" (2012), and won the Best Short Story category of the Bloody Flicks Awards (2019). The story had its own fan club, "F.O.L.P." ("Fans of Little Pig"), started by two officers of the Virginia Port Authority Police Department. The screenplay adaptation of "Little Pig" was a finalist in the Shriekfest Screenplay Competition (2009).