Ellen Datlow

Fiction Editor

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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

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seventeen -TOC

I’ve handed in everything to my editor but my summary for The Best Horror of The Year Volume Seventeen.Congratulations, especially to the 13 (!) writers whose work has never previously been published in my YBFH or Best Horror of the year series. Table of Contents The Cleaner Victoria Dalpe Summer Bonus Lee Murray Like Furies […]

Night and Day

A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series. This anthology contains stories from some of the most evocative and […]

Christmas and Other Horrors

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 […]

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 […]

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Award-Winning Editor of More Than 100 Anthologies

Datlow has 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 by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

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All Hallows Eve, a new anthology

All Hallows Eve, my next original anthology, will be published by Titan September 8, 2026. It can be pre-ordered at the link below the TOC: Here’s the Table of ContentsIntroduction Ellen DatlowForeword Lisa MortonThat Hannie Agnes Josh MalermanOn the Path, Bleeding Lee Murray Good Kids Rich Larson Treats Clay McLeod Chapman The Levels Livia Llewellyn […]

Full list of BH #17 recommendations part 2

Hogan, Sean “Wassail,” Unquiet Slumbers. Holder, Nancy “The Captain’s Wife,” Where the Silent Ones Watch.Holi, Emily “Buttons,” Mother Knows Best.Hollingsworth, Matt “Zagreb,” Winter in the City.Holloway, Verity “Don’t You Know Mrs Kelly?,” Cheer the Sick.Holloway, Verity “Eight Days West of Plethora,” Elemental Forces.Holloway, Verity “Kindness at the Four Boars Inn,” Cheer the Sick.Holloway, Verity “The […]

full list of BH #17 recommendations part 1

Aaron, Camara “Inheritance,” The Black Girl Survives in This One.Abbott, Marc L. “The Reclaiming of New York City,” The Chaos Clock.Abian, Mars “Manila,” Winter in the City.Acadia, L. “Unsolved Elevator Disappearance,” Eye to the Telescope 2024.Adams, C. C. “As If Your Mouth Were Sewn Shut,” For Tomorrow.Addison, Linda D. ‘The Tale of the Twin Stars […]

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