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Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels and six story collections. Most recent are the novella Mapping the Interior, from Tor.com, and the comic book My Hero, from Hex Publishers. Mapping the Interior won the This Is Horror! Award for best novella. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.
Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Grand Dark, The Wrong Dead Guy, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird. He also writes comics, including Lucifer and Hellblazer.
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and two collections, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.
With Paul Tremblay, he coedited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he serves on its board of directors. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. Forthcoming is a new collection, Sefira and Other Betrayals. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.
Alison Littlewood’s latest novel is The Crow Garden, a tale of obsession set amidst Victorian asylums and séance rooms. It follows The Hidden People, a Victorian tale about the murder of a young girl suspected of being a fairy changeling. Alison’s other novels include A Cold Silence, Path of Needles, The Unquiet House, and Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now. Her first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and described as “perfect reading for a dark winter’s night.”
Alison’s short stories have been picked for many “year’s best” anthologies, and have been gathered together in her collections Quieter Paths and Five Feathered Tales (a collaboration with award-winning illustrator Daniele Serra). She won the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction.
Alison lives with her partner, Fergus, in Yorkshire, England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls. She loves exploring the hills and dales with her two hugely enthusiastic Dalmatians and has a penchant for books on folklore and weird history, Earl Grey tea, and semicolons. You can talk to her on Twitter: at @Ali__L, see her on Facebook, or visit her at alisonlittlewood.co.uk.
Bracken MacLeod has survived car crashes, a near drowning, being shot at, a parachute malfunction, and the bar exam. So far, the only incident that has resulted in persistent nightmares is the bar exam. He is the author of the novels Mountain Home, Come to Dust, and Stranded, which was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and two collections of short fiction, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods and White Knight and Other Pawns. He lives with his wife and son outside of Boston, where he is at work on his next novel.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, Tor.com, and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist: his books include Haunted Legends (co-edited with Ellen Datlow), The Future Is Japanese and Hanzai Japan (co-edited with Masumi Washington), and Mixed Up (co-edited with Molly Tanzer).
Vincent J. Masterson was raised in Chesapeake, Ohio, and earned his MFA from the University of Alabama. He has taught a variety of English and creative writing courses to adult learners, international students, and undergraduates. He is currently an adjunct professor of English at Palm Beach State College in Boca Raton, Florida.
Seanan McGuire lives, works, and occasionally falls into swamps in the Pacific Northwest, where she is coming to an understanding with the local frogs. She has written a ridiculous number of novels and even more short stories. Keep up with her at seananmcguire.com. On moonlit nights, when the stars are right, you just might find her falling into a swamp near you.
Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve.
Garth’s books include the YA fantasy Old Kingdom series—Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, and Goldenhand; YA SF novels Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt’s Emerald. His fantasy novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series; and others. He has cowritten several books with Sean Williams, including the Troubletwisters series, Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties, and Have Sword, Will Travel.
His most recent book is Frogkisser!, now being developed as a film by Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky Studios.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of the novel A Book of American Martyrs and the story collection Night-Gaunts. Her work has appeared in previous anthologies of Ellen Datlow’s, including The Doll Collection and Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales. She is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the National Book Award, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the A.J. Liebling Award for Outstanding Boxing Writing, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize.
M(ary) Rickert has published three short story collections: Map of Dreams, Holiday, and You Have Never Been Here. Her stories have been in numerous anthologies, including Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, The Big Book of Ghost Stories, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, and Shadows and Tall Trees 7. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, won the Locus Award.
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, she worked as a kindergarten teacher, a coffee shop barista, a Disneyland balloon vendor, and a personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. Visit her at mrickert.net.
M. L. Siemienowicz lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has had short fiction published in speculative and literary venues such as Nightmare, Aurealis, and Overland. Her work has been reprinted in “year’s best” anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year and Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, and her novel manuscript, Pretty Roadkill, was shortlisted for the 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award. Find her on Twitter at @clockworkquill.
Lee Thomas is the Bram Stoker Award– and two-time Lambda Literary Award–winning author of the books Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Like Light for Flies, Down on Your Knees, and Distortion, among others. His work has been translated into multiple languages and has been optioned for film. Lee lives in Austin, Texas, with his husband, John.
Paul Tremblay is the award-winning author of seven novels, including The Cabin at the End of the World, A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, and The Little Sleep. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, EntertainmentWeekly.com, and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He has a master’s degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his wife and two children.
A. C. Wise was born and raised in the Montreal area, and currently lives in the Philadelphia area. In addition to short fiction appearing in publications such as Clarkesworld, Tor.com, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2017, she has two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella, Catfish Lullaby, published by Broken Eye Books. Her work has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She contributes a monthly short fiction review column to Apex Magazine, and contributes to the Women to Read and Non-Binary Authors to Read review columns to the Book Smugglers. Visit her at acwise.net.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost forty years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about ninety science fiction, fantasy, and horror antholo
gies, including the annual Best Horror of the Year, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Children of Lovecraft, Black Feathers, Mad Hatters and March Hares, and The Devil and the Deep.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given by the British Fantasy Society for “outstanding contribution to the genre”; she was honored with a Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career; and she was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and cohosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at ellendatlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter at @EllenDatlow.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Datlow, Ellen, editor.
Title: Echoes : the Saga anthology of ghost stories / edited by Ellen Datlow.
Other titles: Saga anthology of ghost stories
Description: First edition. | New York : Saga Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000655 | ISBN 9781534413474 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534413467 (hardcover)
ISBN 9781534413481 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ghost stories. | Horror tales. | BISAC: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors). | FICTION / Ghost.
Classification: LCC PN6071.G45 E34 2018 | DDC 808.83/8733—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000655