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

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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

 

Artist is Audrey Benjaminsen, Designer is Claudia Noble.

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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

 

 

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

PMB 391

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

 

 

 

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the eleventh volume, covering material published in 2018.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark crime, or anything else that might qualify. This is reprint, so I’m only reading material published in or about to be published in 2018. Deadline is December 15th 2018. Authors should check that their publishers are sending review copies to me as I only request them once. If a book or magazine is coming out after the deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts.

I will look at e-versions of anthologies and collections if they are navigable and have running heads. Otherwise, I will not read them. I always prefer print, if your book is available that way.

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

There is a summation of “the year in horror” in the front of the volume. This includes novels, nonfiction, 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 Eleven
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly read many magazines/webzines that publish horror (Black Static, Dark Discoveries, Cemetery Dance, F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, and crime digests, etc) and I receive many anthologies and single author collections.

Again, ask your publisher to send me the magazine or book. For online publications, email individual files, mentioning on the ms where the story has been published.

If I choose a story you will be informed. For confirmation that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived.
thank you
Ellen Datlow
Editor and reviewer
www.datlow.com