ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HORRORS Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu and many more. The winter solstice is celebrated as […]
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Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. Forthcoming are When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson and the reprint anthology Body Shocks.
Books by Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year, Vol 14
From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening […]
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous
Coming from the Tor/Nightfire imprint in April 2022 Table of Contents You Have What I Need by Ian Rogers The Midway by Fran Wilde Wet Red Grin by Gemma Files The Virgin Jimmy Peck by Daryl Gregory The Ghost of a Flea by Priya Sharma The Atrocity Exhibitionists by Brian Hodge “The Father of Modern […]
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of all-new short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror […]
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror
Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft’s Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more. The […]
Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9
An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers?including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another’s yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds […]
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Call for Submissions for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seventeen
Call for Submissions I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the seventeenth volume, covering material published in 2024. I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that […]
2023 award eligible work post
Anthology:Christmas and Other Horrors (Titan) published October 24all of the below stories also eligible:Short fictionThe Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden 6000The Ones He Takes Benjamin Percy 2400His Castle Alma Katsu 4900The Mawkin Field Terry Dowling 5500The Blessing of the Waters Nick Mamatas 3200Last Drinks at Bondi Beach Garth Nix 1500The Ghost of Christmases […]
Call for Submissions The Best Horror of the Year Volume 16 (covering 2023 only)
Reposting this, as some people who come here don’t look at previous blog posts Call for Submissions I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the sixteenth volume, covering material published in 2023. I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, […]