Background

"La Sentinelle" was first published in 2003 in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural

Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural

Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural is a 2003 speculative fiction anthology edited by Bill Congreve-Background:Southern Blood was first published in Australia in June 2003 by Sandglass Enterprises in trade paperback format...

, edited by Bill Congreve

Bill Congreve

-Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...

 and published by Sandglass Enterprises. It was published alongside 15 other stories by the authors Simon Brown, Kirstyn McDermott

Kirstyn McDermott

Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.-Biography:McDermott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 31 October. She grew up in Woodberry, New South Wales and attended the University of Newcastle where she completed a Bachelor of Arts. In 1995 McDermott moved...

, David Carroll, Naomi Hatchman, Bill Congreve, Deborah Biancotti

Deborah Biancotti

-Biography:Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in Altair and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent...

, Stephen Dedman

Stephen Dedman

Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...

, Rosaleen Love

Rosaleen Love

Rosaleen Love is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics. She has also written science fiction, which has been...

, Rick Kennett

Rick Kennett

Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...

, Sean Williams, Sue Isle

Sue Isle

Sue Isle is the author of the Young Adult literature Fantasy novel Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf and nonfiction children's book 'Wolf Children'....

, George Ivanoff, Robert Hood

Rob Hood

Robert Hood is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas...

, Terry Dowling

Terry Dowling

Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...

, and Geoffrey Maloney

Geoffrey Maloney

Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction.-Biography:Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in Aurealis #1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine...

. In 2005 it was republished in A Tour Guide in Utopia edited by Lucy Sussex and published by MirrorDanse Books

MirrorDanse Books

MirrorDanse Books , founded in 1994, is one of Australia's longest running independent book publishers of science fiction and horror.MirrorDanse Books publishes the The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy anthology series, edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt...

. "La Sentinelle" won the 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story

Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...

 and the 2004 Ditmar Award

Ditmar Award

The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...

 for best Australian novella or novelette. It was also a finalist at the 2004 International Horror Guild Awards for best medium fiction but lost to Glen Hirshberg

Glen Hirshberg

Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...

's "Dancing Men".