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 […]
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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

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 […]

Mad Hatters and March Hares
Here is what you can expect from Mad Hatters and March Hares: “An all original anthology of stories inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. ‘Alice’ has been read, enjoyed, and savored by generations of children and adults since its publication. It’s hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative […]
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Best Horror #16: Call for Submissions 2023 publications only
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, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify. […]
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 […]
Recommendations for Best Horror #14-long list
Acevedo, Mario “Xipe Totec,” Shadow Atlas. Addison, Linda D. “Veiled Intentions,” (poem) Under Twin Suns. Aguirre, Forrest “Obverse Reverse,” Underland Arcana 4 Albrecht, Andrin “Gloria,” Not One of Us #68. Alexander, Phoenix “Nails,” The Dark #76, September. Anderson, Colleen “Cinnabar,” Shadow Atlas. Antonia, Nina “Away,” Uncertainties Volume V. Arcuri, Meghan “Green With […]
