by Ellen Datlow
Her most recent short fiction can be found in the anthologies The Beauty of Death: Death By Water, Tales of the Lake Volume 5, Endless Apocalypse, Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence, and A Fist Full of Dinosaurs. Her essay on body horror, “What’s Really Under Your Skin,” was recently published in Nightmare magazine.
A new collection, Spree and Other Stories, was published in February 2018.
Her science fiction/horror novelette “Sweetlings” was a finalist for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Long Fiction.
She lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Steve Rasnic Tem is a past winner of the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and British Fantasy Awards. He has published over 430 short stories. Some of his best stories are collected in Figures Unseen: Selected Stories, published in April by Valancourt Books. The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack, a middle grade novel about Halloween, will appear soon from Hex Publishers. A handbook on writing, Yours To Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife Melanie, appeared from Apex Books last year. Also appearing last year was his science fiction horror novel Ubo (Solaris Books), a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
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“Lowland Sea” by Suzy McKee Charnas. Copyright © 2009 by Suzy McKee Charnas. First published in Poe edited by Ellen Datlow, Solaris Books.
“Wingless Beasts” by Lucy Taylor. Copyright © 2014 by Lucy Taylor. First published in Fatal Journeys, signed limited edition, Overlook Connection Press. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“The Nimble Men” by Glen Hirshberg. Copyright © 2009 by Glen Hirshberg. First published in The Rolling Darkness Review 2009 Bartlett: A Centenary Symposium.
“Little America” by Dan Chaon. Copyright © 2012 by Dan Chaon. First published in Shadow Show, edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle, William Morrow. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Black and White Sky” by Tanith Lee. Copyright © 2010 by Tanith Lee. First published in Brighton Shock! The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention 2010 edited by Stephen Jones, PS Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Monster Makers” by Steve Rasnic Tem. Copyright © 2013 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First published in Black Static #35 edited by Andy Cox. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Chapter Six” by Stephen Graham Jones. Copyright © 2014 by Stephen Graham Jones. First published on Tor.com, June 11. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“In a Cavern, in a Canyon” by Laird Barron. Copyright © 2015 by Laird Barron. First published in Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror edited by Christopher Golden, Gallery Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Allochthon” by Livia Llewellyn. Copyright © 2014 by Livia Llewellyn. First published in Letters to Lovecraft edited by Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“Shepherds’ Business” by Stephen Gallagher. Copyright © 2017 by Stephen Gallagher. First published in New Fears edited by Mark Morris, Titan Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Down to a Sunless Sea” by Neil Gaiman. Copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published online on Guardian.com, March 22, 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Man From the Peak” by Adam Golaski. Copyright © 2008 by Adam Golaski. First publication in Worse Than Myself by Adam Golaski, Raw Dog Screaming Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos” by John Langan. Copyright © 2011 by John Langan. First published in Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Moraine” by Simon Bestwick. Copyright © 2011 by Simon Bestwick. First published in Terror Tales of the Lake District edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“At the Riding School” by Cody Goodfellow. Copyright © 2010 by Cody Goodfellow. First published in The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers edited by William F. Nolan and Jason V. Brock, Cycatrix Press/Dark Discoveries Publications. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by E. Michael Lewis. First published in Shades of Darkness edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Tender as Teeth” by Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski. Copyright © 2012 by Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski. First published in 21st Century Dead edited by Christopher Golden, St. Martin’s Press. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
“Wild Acre” by Nathan Ballingrud. Copyright © 2012 by Nathan Ballingrud. First published in Visions Fading Fast edited by Gary McMahon, Pendragon Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Callers” by Ramsey Campbell. Copyright © 2012 by Ramsey Campbell. First published in Four for Fear edited by Peter Crowther, PS Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“This Stagnant Breath of Change” by Brian Hodge. Copyright © 2015 by Brian Hodge. First published in Shadows over Main Street edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward, Hazardous Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Grave Goods” by Gemma Files. Copyright © 2016 by Gemma Files. First published in Autumn Cthulhu edited by Mike Davis, Lovecraft Ezine Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine” by Peter Straub. Copyright © 2011 by Peter Straub. First published in Conjunctions 56: Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Majorlena” by Jane Jakeman. Copyright © 2013 by Jane Jakeman. First published in Supernatural Tales 24 edited by David Longhorn. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Days of Our Lives” by Adam L.G. Nevill. Copyright © 2016 by Adam L.G. Nevill. First published in Dead Letters: An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned… edited by Conrad Williams, Titan Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“You Can Stay All Day” by Seanan McGuire (as by Mira Grant). Copyright © 2017 by Seanan McGuire. First published in Nights of the Living Dead edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero, St. Martin’s Griffin. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“No Matter Which Way We Turned” by Brian Evenson. Copyright © 2016 by Brian Evenson. First published in People Holding, spring. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Nesters” by Siobhan Carroll. Copyright © 2016 by Siobhan Carroll. First published in Children of Lovecraft edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Better You Believe” by Carole Johnstone. Copyright © 2017 by Carole Johnstone. First published in Horror Library Volume 6 edited by Eric G. Guignard, Cutting Block Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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 anthologies, including the series The 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, 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 at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and the Life Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow.
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Ellen Datlow, The Best of the Best Horror of the Year