Anthology:
Christmas and Other Horrors (Titan) published October 24
all of the below stories also eligible:
Short fiction
The Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden 6000
The Ones He Takes Benjamin Percy 2400
His Castle Alma Katsu 4900
The Mawkin Field Terry Dowling 5500
The Blessing of the Waters Nick Mamatas 3200
Last Drinks at Bondi Beach Garth Nix 1500
The Ghost of Christmases Past Richard Kadrey 5000
All the Pretty People Nadia Bulkin 4900
Löyly Sow-na Josh Malerman 6600
Cold Cassandra Khaw 3000
The Visitation Jeffrey Ford 3800
No Light, No Light Gemma Files 5700
Long fiction
Dry and Ready Glen Hirshberg 8500
Gravé of Small Birds Kaaron Warren 10,300
Our Recent Unpleasantness Stephen Graham Jones 9300
After Words John Langan 10,000
The Lord of Misrule M. Rickert 8200
Return to Bear Creek Lodge Tananarive Due 8200
Tor.com/Nightfire
Novellas:
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire) (horror) May 2
Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney (Tor.com) horror August 1
The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe (Tor.com) fantasy Sept 26
Stories and novelettes:
Even if Such Ways Are Bad by Rich Larson (sf) 8400 words February 8, 2023
The Dark House by A.C. Wise (horror) 6200 March 15, 2023
Pretty Good Neighbor by Jeffrey Ford (horror)4500 May 24 2023
Ceffo by Jonathan Carroll (fantasy)7500 June 28, 2023
Headhunting by Rich Larson (dark fantasy)8300 August 9 2023
Jack O’Dander by Priya Sharma (horror)7600 October 25 2023
The Sound of Reindeer by Lyndsie Manusos (horror)4360 December 13 2023
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 a time of joy around the world—yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse.
From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season.
Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry…
Featuring stories from:
Nadia Bulkin
Terry Dowling
Tananarive Due
Jeffrey Ford
Christopher Golden
Stephen Graham Jones
Glen Hirshberg
Richard Kadrey
Alma Katsu
Cassandra Khaw
John Langan
Josh Malerman
Nick Mamatas
Garth Nix
Benjamin Percy
M. Rickert
Kaaron Warren
Call for Submissions The Best Horror of the Year Volume 16 (covering 2023 only)
Reposting this, as some people who come here don’t look at previous blog posts
Call for Submissions
I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the sixteenth volume, covering material published in 2023.
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 2023. Deadline is December 1st 2023.
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’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” 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 Sixteen
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-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 send me a word file of your story. For online publications, email individual word doc files—not pdf files– 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.
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 15-Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Solivagant Angela Slatter
Gate 9 Jeffrey Ford
Flaming Teeth Garry Kilworth
On the Hills, the Knitters Steve Toase
New Fox Smell Livia Llewellyn
The Harvester of Ladslove Steve Duffy
Incident at Bear Creek Lodge Tananarive Due
The Myth of Pasiphaë Andy Davidson
The Loneliness of the Long-Distant Reporter Daniela Tomova
In the Wabe Alison Littlewood
New Meat(™) Jordan Shiveley
Eyes Like Small Black Stones David Surface
Bb Minor, or The Suicide Choir: An Oral History Gemma Files
Lifelike Gary McMahon
The Zoo Gemma Amor
Dinner Plans With Baba Yaga Stephanie M. Wytovich
The Collection Charlie Hughes
Tell-Tale Tit Margo Lanagan
The Last Box Luigi Musolino trans James D. Jenkins
1855 Jacob Steven Mohr
Enough For Hunger and Enough For Hate John Langan
Christmas and Other Horrors coming from Titan October 24
I’ve just handed in the final story for my next anthology and the book is DONE DONE DONE. Introducting Christmas and Other Horrors coming from Titan in hc and ebook October 24th. You can preorder via the link:
https://tinyurl.com/mr3y6v
Table of Contents
The Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden
The Ones He Takes Benjamin Percy
His Castle Alma Katsu
The Mawkin Field Terry Dowling
The Blessing of the Waters Nick Mamatas
Dry and Ready Glen Hirshberg
Last Drinks at Bondi Beach Garth Nix
Return to Bear Creek Lodge Tananarive Due
The Ghost of Christmases Past Richard Kadrey
Our Recent Unpleasantness Stephen GrahamJones
All the Pretty People Nadia Bulkin
Löyly Sow-na Josh Malerman
Cold Cassandra Khaw
Gravé of Small Birds Kaaron Warren
The Visitation Jeffrey Ford
The Lord of Misrule M. Rickert
No Light, No Light Gemma Files
After Words John Langan
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