by Ellen Datlow
GARRY KILWORTH
Garry Kilworth has been writing short stories for thirty-five years now and is still fired with enthusiasm for the medium. In 2006 PS Publishing brought out his collection Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales which covers ten years of stories. The same publisher will be bringing out Tales From The Fragrant Harbour, a collection of original general fiction stories written while the author lived in Hong Kong, paired with a collection of fantastical tales also penned in the same location. The first half will be subtitled “Once-Told Tales” and the second section “Twice-Told Tales” (thanks to Nathaniel Hawthorne, much admired). Garry Kilworth lives in England some of the time and in various other countries the rest of the year.
TANITH LEE
Tanith Lee was born in 1947 in North London, England, didn’t learn to read until she was eight, and started to write when she was nine. “Having,” she says, “virtually wrecked, single-handed, the catering world with her waitressing, the Library system with her library-assistance and all types of shops with her mishandling of everything, she was set free into the world of professional writing in 1975 by DAW Books.”
Tanith Lee lives with her husband John Kaiine by the sea in Great Britain and is a prolific writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her most recent books are the those in the adult fantasy Trilogy: LIONWOLF: Cast A Bright Shadow, Here In Cold Hell, and No Flame But Mine; the three young adult novels: Piratica, Piratica 2, and Piratica 3; and Metallic Love, (the sequel to her adult SF novel The Silver Metal Lover). She is currently working on a dark adult fantasy whose title she will only reveal as A. T.C.O.T.C, while researching for an even darker work concerning a rabid parallel Bronze Age of violence and sorcery.
FRITZ LEIBER
Fritz Leiber is the author of such classic novels as Conjure Wife, The Big Time and Gather, Darkness! as well as numerous short stories, including the Hugo and Nebula Award winner “Gonna Roll the Bones,” which was first published in Dangerous Visions. He is credited with coining the descriptive term “sword and sorcery,” and created the memorable characters Fafhrd and Gray Mouser to populate his heroic-fantasy adventures. The Knight and Knave of Swords comprises the seventh and final novel of that series.
DAN SIMMONS
Dan Simmons has published twenty-four books since 1985, twenty-one of them novels—including the World Fantasy Award winning Song of Kali and the 2007 New York Times bestseller The Terror. His most recently completed novel is Drood, a tale of the last five years of Charles Dickens’s life.
Dan lives in Colorado and likes it a lot.
STEVE RASNIC TEM
Steve Rasnic Tem’s three hundred plus stories have garnered him numerous nominations and awards. Some recent work has appeared, or will appear in Cemetery Dance, Dark Discoveries, Albedo One, Blurred Vision, Matter, Exotic Gothic, and in That Mysterious Door, an anthology of stories set in Maine. His latest novel, written in collaboration with wife Melanie Tem, is The Man on the Ceiling, built around their award-winning novella of the same name. In the fall of 2009 Wizards’ Discoveries will be bringing out his novel Deadfall Hotel, with a full complement of ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and things which cannot be named.
CHET WILLIAMSON
Among Chet Williamson’s latest books are the novella The Story of Noichi the Blind, Final Verse (a chapbook/CD of an original new story), and Pennsylvania Dutch Alphabet (a children’s book, and a follow-up to his popular Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas). Among his other published books are Second Chance, Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm, Lowland Rider, McKain’s Dilemma, Murder in Cormyr, Mordenheim, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, Reign, The Crow: Clash By Night, and the paranormal suspense series, “The Searchers,” which includes City of Iron, Empire of Dust and Siege of Stone. His first play, a psychological thriller entitled Revenant, was produced by Theater of the Seventh Sister in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2007, and he has just finished a stage adaptation of The Story of Noichi the Blind.
Over one hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. Figures in Rain, a collection of his short stories, received the International Horror Guild Award for Outstanding Collection. His work has also been adapted for television, radio, and recorded books. His New Yorker short story, “Gandhi at the Bat,” was recently made into a short film and has been shown in festivals worldwide.
GAHAN WILSON
Born in the Midwest, which he insists is by far the weirdest part of this country, Gahan Wilson emigrated to New York City and has lived in various locations on the east coast ranging from Key West to Boston ever since.
Gahan Wilson’s cartoons may be what he’s most famous for but he’s a master of macabre writing as well. His cartoons, which presently appear mostly in Playboy and The New Yorker, have been gathered in something over twenty book collections through the years. He has written and illustrated a number of children’s books, a couple of odd mystery novels and several anthologies, plus The Cleft and Other Odd Tales, a collection of his short fiction. He has been and (if fortune smiles) will continue to be active in various film and television projects. A documentary film entitled Born Dead and Still Weird, the first movie ever to show the magazine cartoonist’s odd world, is presently moving along the film festival circuit and will hopefully find a home on TV or theatrical release.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following people for help in putting together this book: Astrid Anderson Bear, Michael Swanwick, Ginjer Buchanan, Ed Bryant, Brian McCann, Pat Lobrutto, Brian Thomsen, Tom Disch, Bruce McAllister, Shelley Frier, Merrilee Heifetz, Jim Frenkel, David Hartwell. I’d also like to thank Greg Cox for letting me pick his brain over egg creams. And for giving me an early draft of his book from Borgo Press, The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer’s Guide to Vampire Fiction. It was invaluable for background on the subject.
PERMISSIONS
Introduction to Blood is Not Enough. © 1989 by Ellen Datlow.
“Carrion Comfort” by Dan Simmons, © 1982 by Dan Simmons. © 1983 by OMNI Publications International Ltd. First published in OMNI, September-October 1983.
“The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be” by Gahan Wilson. This story originally appeared in Playboy Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Kirby McCauley.
“The Silver Collar,”© 1989 by Garry Kilworth.
“Try a Dull Knife” by Harlan Ellison® originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; © 1968 by Mercury Press, Inc. Copyright reassigned to author 14 April 1969; © 1969 by Harlan Ellison®. Reprinted by arrangement with, and permission of, the author and the author’s agent, Richard Curtis Associates, New York. All rights reserved.
“Varicose Worms,” © 1989 by Scott Baker.
“L’Chaim!” © 1989 by Harvey Jacobs.
“Return of the Dust Vampires” by S.N. Dyer, © 1985 by Stuart David Schiff.
“Good Kids,” © 1989 by Edward Bryant.
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” by Fritz Leiber, © 1949 by Avon Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Janfia Tree,”© 1989 by Tanith Lee.
“A Child of Darkness,”© 1989 by Susan Casper.
“Nocturne,” © 1989 by Steve Rasnic Tem.
“Down Among the Dead Men” by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, © 1982 by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann; reprinted by permission of Virginia Kidd, literary agent. This story originally appeared in Oui magazine, July 1982.
“… To Feel Another’s Woe,” © 1989 by Chet Williamson.
“Time Lapse,”© 1989 by Joe Haldeman.
“Dirty Work,”© 1989 by Pat Cadigan.
A Biography of Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is an acclaimed, award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor.
Born and raised in New York, Datlow aspired to be a veterinarian when she was a child, but changed her plans when she realized how much she prefer
red reading and writing to math and science. Her first publishing job was in the New York office of Little, Brown & Co. in 1973. During the next eight years she worked at a handful of other publishing companies before finally finding her calling in 1981 as an editor of short fiction at OMNI magazine, where she worked until 1998. She has also worked at the online magazine Event Horizon and at scifi.com.
Datlow has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the bestselling collections Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy, Supernatural Noir, and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. She has published important science fiction and fantasy writers such as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Ursula K. Le Guin, Clive Barker, William S. Burroughs, and many more.
She has also edited or co-edited numerous critically acclaimed anthologies of speculative fiction, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series. She often collaborates with renowned co-editor Terri Windling, with whom she worked on Snow White, Blood Red, a work of adult fairy tales that has been one of their most successful projects together.
Datlow is the recipient of several awards, including multiple Shirley Jackson awards and Bram Stoker awards, Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, Hugo Awards for Best Short Form Editor, and Locus Awards for Best Editor, to name just a few. She also received the Karl Edward Wagner Award for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” In 2011, she was the recipient of a Life Achievement Award by from the Horror Writers Association, and i. In 2014, she was awarded the Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Association. Datlow also co-hosts a popular reading series, Fantastic Fiction, at the KGB Bar in New York City, where she resides.
Baby Datlow in 1950. The so-called “Gerber baby” portrait was common at the time.
Datlow’s high school graduation photo, taken in 1967.
Datlow at home, wearing a vintage dress for a science fiction function in 1981. She says that she favors 1940s-era clothing.
Datlow sitting at her desk in the OMNI offices in 1981, roughly a year after she began working there. On her desk is a Kaypro computer and the Selectric typewriter she kept for addressing envelopes. On her bulletin board she pinned, among other things, a photo of King Kong climbing the Empire State Building.
Datlow in 1989, on the roof of the building where John Clute, renowned science fiction and fantasy critic, and his artist wife, Judith, live. The Clutes are based in Camden Town, London, and have graciously hosted many writers and editors over the past few decades. (Datlow usually stays with them on her annual visit to London.) Datlow is on the left, John Clute is in the center, and Datlow’s good friend Pat Cadigan, an award-winning science fiction writer, is on the right.
A manipulated photo of Datlow taken in 1990 by art photographer and illustrator J. K. Potter, giving her cat eyes. It first appeared on the original back flap of Alien Sex.
Datlow in front of an advertisement for OMNI magazine in New York City in 1991. That winter day, Datlow wandered Manhattan with her camera and her friends, the married writers Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon. They happened upon the advertisement just north of Datlow’s West Village home.
Datlow with fellow editor Terri Windling in 1994. Datlow and Windling have collaborated on anthologies for more than twenty years, yet rarely see each other. This photo is from one of those rare yet cherished meetings.
Datlow modeled for J. K. Potter’s cover of the illustrated edition of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, published in 1990. Potter gave Datlow a print of the image, which hangs on her living room wall.
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