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Full recommended list for 2019 (Best Horror of the Year volume Eleven) -part 1

September 15, 2019 by Ellen Datlow 2 Comments

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame “Friday Black,” Friday Black.

Allred, Rebecca J. “Beyond the Veil of Pretty Pink Lies,” Pickman’s Gallery.

Alonso, Mariano “Nemesia’s Garden,” Cemetery Dance #76.

Anderson, G.V.” Down Where the Sound Comes Blunt,” F&SF March/April.

Anderson, Gail-Nina “Variant Versions,” A Ghosts & Scholars book of Folk Horror.

Anderson, Paul Michael “I Can Give You Life,” Ashes and Entropy.

Anderson, Paul Michael “Wants and Needs,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Armstrong, Kelley “Absinthe & Angels,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Armstrong, Kelley “Invitation to the Game,” Dark Screams Volume 9.

Ashworth, Jenn “Old Trash,” This Dreaming Isle.

Avery, Simon “Songs For Dwindled Gods,” Occult Detective Quarterly #4, Spring.

Avery, Simon “Why We Don’t Go Back,” Black Static 64,July/August.

Bailey, Michael “Speaking Cursive,” Birthing Monsters…

Barber, Jenny “Down Along the Backroads,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Bartlett, Matthew M. “Monica in the Hall of Moths,” Uncertainties Volume III.

Bear, Elizabeth “She Still Loves the Dragon,” Uncanny 20.

Beck, Alp “Heels,” A New York State of Fright.

Bell, Peter “Many Shades of Red,” Revenants & Maledictions.

Bell, Peter “The Robing of the Bride,” Ibid.

Bell, Peter “The Virgin Mary Well,” Ibid.

Bell, Peter “Wild Wales,” Ibid.

Benedict, A. K. The Adjoining Room,” Phantoms.

Benedict, R. S. “Morbier,” F&SF July/August.

Bergmann, F. J. “Long Time, No See,” (poem) Vastarien 3.

Berguño, George “The Woman From Malta,” A Book of the Sea.

Bestwick, Simon “Deadwater,” The Devil and the Deep.

Bestwick, Simon “If I Should Fall From Grace With God,” Crimewave 13: Bad Light.

Bestwick, Simon “The Bells of Rainey,” Great British Horror 3: For Those in Peril.

Beveridge, Robert “Try the Veal,” Vastarien 1.

Biggin, Rose “The New Woman,” (novella) Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein.

Blackwell, Laura “Nonpareil,” Tales From the Lake Volume 5.

Blomquist, Peri Fae “Mother Giant,” (poem) Mythic Delirium, April/June.

Bolander, Brooke “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and…”Uncanny 23.

Braum, Daniel “The Monkey Coat,” Nightscript IV

Breukelaar, J.S. “Raining Street,” Black Static 63, May-June.

Bristow, Emmie “Nightly Senses,” (poem) Vastarien 3.

Broaddus, Maurice/Cardno, Anthony R. “Wolf at the Door,” Chiral Mad 4.

Brown, Jasmine “Travesty,” BFS Horizons #8.

Bruce, Georgina “Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Tree,” The Silent Garden.

Bruce, Georgina “The Seas of the Moon,” Great British Horror 3: For Those in Peril.

Buehlman, Christopher “Motel Nine,” Lost Highways.

Bulkin, Nadia “Flesh Without Blood,” Ashes and Entropy.

Burke, Chesya/LH Moore “Peregrination,” Chiral Mad 4.

Cade, Octavia “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice,” Strange Horizons May.

Campbell, Ramsey “Some Kind of Laugh,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors. Campbell, Ramsey “The Devil in the Details,” The Dreaming Isle.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Devil in the Details,” The Dreaming Isle.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Fun of the Fair,” The Light of My Skull.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Run of the Town,” Dark Discoveries #38, spring.

Campbell, Rebecca “An Incomplete Catalogue of Miraculous…” Shimmer 41

Casey, Maud “Father, Ether, Sea,” Conjunctions 71 A Cabinet of Curiosity.

Cassell, Mark “The Commission,” Sussex Horrors.

Castro, Adam-Troy “Pitcher Plant,” Nightmare 67 May.

Castro, Adam-Troy “The Ten Things She Said While Dying….” Nightmare 75 Dec.

Cesare, Adam “The Southern Thing,” Welcome to the Show.

Chan L “One Last Wayang,” A World of Horror.

Chinn, Mike “Eigenspace X,” Pickman’s Gallery.

Chronister, Kay “Russula’s Wake” The Dark 43.

Chronister, Kay “Your Clothes a Sepulcher, Your Body a Grave,” Black Static #62.

Cipri, Nino “Dead Air,” Nightmare 71 August.

Cipriano, Margaret “In the Century of Specialty,” MAR XXXVIII, Number 1.

Clark, Alan M. “What Sort of Rube,” Welcome to the Show.

Clark, Chloe N. “Leopard Seals,” Supernatural Tales 37.

Clark, Chloe N. “Like the Absence,” Supernatural Tales 39.

Clark, Phenderson Djèlí “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth…” Fireside Feb.

Clark, Stephen J. “The Figurehead of the Cailleach,” Book of the Sea.

Clarke, Cassandra Rose “The Adjunct,” F&SF July/August.

Claybourne, ZZ “Sundown Town,” Down Home Country Vampire.

Cluley, Ray “Bluey,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Cluley, Ray “Steel Bodies,” New Fears 2.

Cluley, Ray “The Man At Table Nine,” A World of Horror.

Cluley, Ray “Trapper’s Valley,” Crimewave 13: Bad Light.

Cohen, Michael Harris “He Dies Where I Die,” The Dark 33.

Cole, Adrian “No Other God But Me,” What October Brings.

Collins, Wenmimareba Klobah “Walking Off the Doe Skin,” The Dark 43.

Constantine, Storm “La Ténébreuse,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Cooke, Tim “Asylum,” Black Static 64, July/August.

Cowdrey, Albert E. “Behold the Child,” F&SF May/June.

Cowen, David E. “Loogaroo,” (poem) Bleeding Saffron.

Cowen, David E. “nothing an freeze the flow”(poem) Ibid.

Cowen, David E. “The Nightmare”(poem) Ibid.

Cowen, David E. “Tontons Macoute,” (poem) Ibid.

Cowen, David E. “Twilight,” (poem) Ibid.

Cowens, Debbie and Matt “The Ward of Tindalos,” Cthulhu Land of the Long...

Cox, Brett F. “Elimination of Restraint and Seclusion,” The End of All Our Exploring

Cox, Cardinal “Troll Bones,” (poem) BFS Horizons #8.

Crandall, Jeff “What Loves You,” (poem) F&SF Sept/Oct.

Cruz, José “The Shepherd,” GigoNotosaurus October.

Dagorn, Armel “All Is There Already, Just Not Seen Yet,” Nightscript IV.

Daniel, Rhea “The Nightmare,” A World of Horror.

Davitt, Deborah L. “Lupus Familiaris,” (poem) Star*Line 41. 4, Fall.

Davitt, Deborah L. “The Swarm,” (poem) Star*Line 41. 4, Fall.

Day, Holly “Laika, (poem), Dreams & Nightmares 109 May.

Day, Julie C. “Re-Stitched,” Split Lip Magazine January.

Dean, P. R. “Car on Fire Near Alice Springs,” Aurealis #110.

DeMeester, Kristi “Stag,” Lost Films.

Dicken, Evan “All of Us Told, All of It real,” Strange Horizons April.

Dickens, Evan & Ludens, Adrian “Esoteric Insurance,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Dillon, Mark Fuller “In the Valley of the Night-Forms,”(poem) Ice and Autumn Glass.

Dines, Steven J. “Looking for Landau,” Interzone 275, May/June.

Dines, Steven J. “The Harder It Gets, the Softer We Sing,” Black Static 63, May-June.

Dumars, Denise “Broad Daylight,” (poem) Poetry Showcase Volume V.

Duncan, Andy “An Agent of Utopia,” An Agent of Utopia.

Dunn, Steven “The Taxidermy Museum,” Granta: Animalia #142.

Ebersole, James “On the Verge of Sleep, At the Edge…” (poem) Poetry Showcase V.

Ebersole, James “The Phénakistacope of Decay,”TheMammothBkofHalloweenStories

Edwards, Kayleigh Marie “The Perfect Day To Be At Sea,” Great British Horror 3:

Eisele, Michael “Willow Rawnie,” Tree Spirit and Other Strange Tales.

Elsbai, Hadeer “Your Damnation Will Be Infinite,” The Dark 34.

Evenson, Brian “Lather of Flies,” Lost Films.

Evenson, Brian “Leaking Out,” New Fears 2.

Evenson, Brian “Song for the Unravelling of the World,” Bourbon Penn 15.

Evenson, Brian “The Law of Expansion,” Tiny Crimes.

Eximeno, Santiago, “Noverim Te,” Monsters of Any Kind.

Fahey, Tracy “I. See. You.” New Music For Old Rituals.

Fahey, Tracy “That Thing I Did,” The Black Room Manuscripts Volume IV.

Fahey, Tracy “The Hungry Grass,” Ibid.

Fahey, Tracy “The Witch That Was Hurt,” Ibid.

ahey, Tracy “The World’s More Full of Weeping,” Ibid.

Fahey, Tracy “They Broke His Bones With Sticks and Stones,” Ibid.

Fawver, Kurt “The Final Correspondence of Sabrina Locker,” The Dissolution of …

Fawver, Kurt “The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking,” Vastarien 1.

Faye, Lyndsay “The Song of Want,” Gaslight Gothic.

Feldman, Stephanie “The Barrens,” F&SF May/June.

Files, Gemma “Bulb,” New Fears 2.

Files, Gemma “Halloo,” Phantoms.

Files, Gemma “The Church in the Mountains,” Lost Films.

Flores, E. Gabriel “La Loca Bella,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May/June.

Ford, Jeffrey “Big, Dark Hole,” Conjunctions 71: A Cabinet of Curiosity.

Ford, Jeffrey “Thanksgiving,” F&SF November/December.

Fox, Mike “The Violet Eye,” A Nightjar Chapbook.

Fracassi, Philip “Overnight,” Unnerving Press.

Fry, Gary “Man’s Best Friend,” In Dog We Trust.

Fry, Gary “Zappers,” The Death of Boys.

Gage, Joshua “Succubus Waltz,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 8.

Gage, Joshua “The Night Begins,” (poem), Dreams & Nightmares 109 May.

Gailey, Sarah “Bread and Milk and Salt,” Robots vs Unicorns.

Gavin, Richard “Fragile Masks,” The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories.

German, Wade “The Nightmares,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 8.G

lover, J. T. “There Has Never Been Anyone Here,” Nightscript IV

Goh, Jaymee “When the Bough Breaks,” Mythic Delirium 4.3 Jan-March.

Golden, Christopher “The Curious Allure of the Sea,” The Devil and the Deep.

Gonzalez, Michael Paul “Your Mutual Friend,” Dark Moon Digest Issue #31.G

orman, Amelia “Elegy for a Midden Wife (poem) Star*Line Summer.

Gorman, Amelia “Parasitic Castration,” (poem) Vastarien 2.

Gosling, Sharon “The Nature of the Beast,” The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories.

Grace, Dan “Waves,” Tales from the Shadow Booth vol. 2.

Grant, Helen “Silver,” Supernatural Tales 37.Grant, Helen “The Chain Walk,” Phantoms.

Grant, John “Too Late,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Grant, John Linwood “For She Is Falling,” Vastarien 3.

Grant, John Linwood “Sanctuary,” Weirdbook #40.

Green, Lauren “Mona Sparrow,” Conjunctions 71 A Cabinet of Curiosity.

Grey, Orrin “Dark and Deep,” Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales.

Grey, Orrin “Shadders,” Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales.

Grey, Orrin “The Hurrah (aka Corpse Scene),” The Dark 37.

Grey, Orrin “When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars,” Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales.

Grudova, Camilla “Hoo Hoo,” Bourbon Penn 16.

Hall, Coy “Sire of the Hatchet,” The Fiend in the Furrows.

Hand, Elizabeth “Farrow Street,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Harlen, Leigh “I Hate All That Is Mine,” Lost Films.

Harman, Christopher “Sisters Rise,” A Ghosts & Scholars book of Folk Horror.

Hart, J. C. “Te Ika,” Cthulhu Land of the Long White Cloud.

Haskins, Maria “It’s Easy to Shoot a Dog,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #260.

Haskins, Maria “The Root Cellar,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #261.

Haslett, Adam “The Remedy,” Dark Corners Collection.

Hayward, Matt “Bangers and Mash,” Clickers Forever.

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Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

July 30, 2019 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment

Twenty-nine stories (26 of them new), more than 225,000 words with a TOC to dazzle-out August 20th.

Pre-order now in hardcover, trade paperback, or ebook: https://tinyurl.com/yy38oejk

Introduction Ellen Datlow

Ice Cold Lemonade 25ȼ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person Paul Tremblay

Linger Longer                                                                       Vincent J. Masterson

Whimper Beg                                                                          Lee Thomas

The July Girls                                                                         Alison Littlewood

About the O’Dells                                                                  Pat Cadigan

A Hinterlands Haunting                                                          Richard Kadrey

The Number of Things You Remember                                 M. L. Siemienowicz

Must Be This Tall to Ride                                                     Seanan McGuire

The Surviving Child                                                                Joyce Carol Oates

The Medium’s End                                                                 Ford Madox Ford

A Shade of Dusk                                                                     Indrapramit Das

Icarus Rising                                                                           Richard Bowes

The Puppet Motel                                                                  Gemma Files

Air Valve Semilunar Astern                                                    Nick Mamatas

The Unwrapping                                                                    Terry Dowling

The Upper Berth                                                                    F. Marion Crawford

A Burning Sword for Her Cradle                                            Aliette de Bodard

Precipice                                                                                Dale Bailey

The Shooter                                                                            M. Rickert

The Tree of Self-Knowledge                                                   Stephen Graham Jones

The Other Woman                                                                Alice Hoffman

The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted                                  Bracken MacLeod

Mee-Ow                                                                                Garth Nix

Jasper Dodd’s Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations      Nathan Ballingrud

His Haunting                                                                          Brian Evenson

The Jeweled Wren                                                                  Jeffrey Ford

The Air, the Ocean, the Earth, the Deep                                Siobhan Carroll

The Ghost Sequences                                                             A. C. Wise

Deep, Fast, Green                                                                   Carole Johnstone

Natalia, Queen of the Hungry Dogs                                                   John Langan

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Cover reveal for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven

February 21, 2019 by Ellen Datlow 1 Comment

 

Artist is Audrey Benjaminsen, Designer is Claudia Noble.

http://audreybenjaminsen.tumblr.com/

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TOC announcement for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven

February 20, 2019 by Ellen Datlow 5 Comments

I Remember Nothing by Anne Billson

Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore

Painted Wolves by Ray Cluley

Shit Happens   by Michael Marshall Smith

You Know How the Story Goes by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Back Along the Old Track by Sam Hicks

Masks by Peter Sutton

The Donner Party by Dale Bailey

Milkteeth         by Kristi DeMeester

Haak                by John Langan

Thin Cold Hands by Gemma Files

A Tiny Mirror by Eloise C. C. Shepherd

I Love You Mary-Grace by Amelia Mangan

The Jaws of Ouroboros by Steve Toase

A Brief Moment of Rage by Bill Davidson

Golden Sun     by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt

White Mare by Thana Niveau

Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron

Thumbsucker  by Robert Shearman

You Are Released by Joe Hill

Red Rain                     by Adam-Troy Castro

Split Chain Stitch by Steve Toase

No Exit by Orrin Grey

Haunt  by Siobhan Carroll

Sleep   by Carly Holmes

 

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2019 Call for Submissions-The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12

February 14, 2019 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment

 

Call for Submissions

 

I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the twelfth volume, covering material published in 2019.

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 2019. Deadline is December 1st 2019. Authors please confirm that your publishers are sending me review copies. If a book or magazine is coming out after my deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. 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 do not have time to carefully read a year’s worth of magazine issues and 10-20 original anthologies in two weeks.

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

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” in the front of every volume includes novels, anthologies, collections, chapbooks, nf, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that might interest horror readers. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it.

Ellen Datlow

Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve

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511 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly cover many magazines/webzines that publish horror (Black Static, Cemetery Dance, F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, crime digests, and webzines such as Horrorzine, Uncanny, Apex, etc.-when their publishers send me the material).

 

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

 

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

thank you

Ellen Datlow

www.datlow.com

 

 

 

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