My next reprint anthology for Tachyon is finished. It’s called Bad Sex, the theme, sexual horror and the book will be out September or October 2027. There’s some wonderfully icky stuff in here. (heh)
Here’s the Table of Contents (in order, unless I decide to move something around).
The Anatomist’s Mnemonic Priya Sharma
An Apiary of White Bees Lee Thomas
Pins and Needles Ray Cluley
Never Say Goodbye Simon Bestwick
The Bunny Suit John F. D. Taff
This is Not For You Gemma Files
The Jajouka Scarab Graham Masterton
Fever Blisters Joyce Carol Oates
Chronicles From Hell J. S. Breukelaar
Raptors Conrad Williams
In Thrall to This Good Earth Hailey Piper
Consumed Sarah Fannon
The Coral Gatherer Kaaron Warren
That Old School Tie Jack Womack
We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark Eric Larocca
Come Nat Cassidy
Frostbitten Kirstyn McDermott
Bunny in a Hole Victoria Dalpe
And love shall have no Dominion Livia Llewellyn
Debridement Clay McLeod Chapman
Of Vows Bone-Deep & Sacrosanct Jonathan Louis Duckworth

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 Shearman

23 Bridge Street Stacey Halls

Inheritance With Teeth Tori Fredrick

Nothing Special James Cooper

Cut-a skin, Outside-in Jes Malitoris

Wolf Moon, Antler Moon A.C. Wise

backsliding Clay McLeod Chapman

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 a signature for delivery.

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.

This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2026. Deadline is December 1st 2026.

Authors please confirm that your publishers are sending me review copies. If a book or magazine is coming out after my deadline, I will look at galleys. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.

The only excuse is if you’re a foreign publisher and shipping everything at one time saves postage. If you want your work to get a fair read, do not do this.

I’ll look at e-versions of anthos and collections only if they’re navigable and have running heads. Otherwise, they may not be read. I always prefer print, if available.

I will no longer feel obligated to read anthologies or single-author collections without a table of contents and first publication information.

Authors can query as to whether I have/need your collection or an anthology/magazine in which you have a story at datlow@yahoo.com.

My summation of “the year in horror” includes novels, anthologies, collections, nonfiction, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that might interest horror readers.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Nineteen
8 Stuyvesant Oval 9G
NY NY 10009

I regularly cover most magazines/webzines and even podcasts that publish horror: F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, Not One of Us, crime digests, Horrorzine, Uncanny, Apex, CHM, The Deadlands, Penumbric, Supernatural Tales, Nightmare Abbey-when their publishers send me the material. If you’re not sure, ask them first).

Please ask your publisher to send the entire magazine or anthology-unless the venue doesn’t regularly publish horror. In that case, you can email me a word file of your story. For online publications, email individual word doc files—not pdf files—and include on the ms where and when the story has been published.

If I choose a story you will be informed. Otherwise, you will not hear back.
Ellen Datlow

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 Contents
Introduction Ellen Datlow
Foreword Lisa Morton
That Hannie Agnes Josh Malerman
On the Path, Bleeding Lee Murray
Good Kids Rich Larson
Treats Clay McLeod Chapman
The Levels Livia Llewellyn
Forever Again Michael Marshall Smith
The Devil’s New Year Stephen Graham Jones
Merciless Feast Linda D Addison
Or So the Story Goes Christopher Golden
The Kuker Alma Katsu
Ankou’s Night Brian Evenson
The Hungry Grass Siobhan Carroll
Saturday Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
Give Me Something Good to Eat Theresa DeLucci
Her Mother’s Business Garth Nix
The Thinning of the Veil Jeffrey Ford
Dare Me Richard Kadrey
On the Night of the Welcome Stranger Nathan Ballingrud
The Auld Woman with the Broom John Langan
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