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 […]
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Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for more than forty-five years. 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, Night and Day, and the reprint anthology Body Shocks. Forthcoming are All Hallows Eve and Lovecraft’s Brood (the latter all reprints of cosmic horror).
Books by Ellen Datlow

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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The cover of The Best Horror of the Year Volumer Eighteen Art by Samuel Araya
TOC for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eighteen
Fear of the Dark Benjamin Percy Table Scraps Vanessa Santos 60’ Helen Grant Agate Way Laird Barron Peymakilir Thomas C. Mavroudis Pale Rollers Caitlín R. Kiernan In the Forest There are Doors Pete W. Sutton The Blanks Grady Hendrix Samanthas Jacob Steven Mohr Wet Dollars Daniel Oluremi The Crane Game David Longhorn Dismaying Creatures Robert […]
Call for Submissions for The Best Horror of the Year #19-2026 material only
Call for Submissions I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the nineteenth volume, covering material published in 2026. Addendum: I never want to see manuscripts. Never. If I ask for a hard copy that means the collection/magazine/anthology/chapbook/whatever. NOT YOUR MS. And please do not require […]
