Ellen Datlow

Fiction Editor

Table of Contents of The Best Horror of the Year volume Six

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I’m re-posting this on my blog as I didn’t have a blog when I originally posted to FB.
The book will be out from Night Shade in early June.
“Apports” by Stephen Bacon (Black Static, #36)
“Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Tor Books)
“The Good Husband” by Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, Small Beer Press)
“The Tiger” by Nina Allan (Terror Tales of London, ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“The House on Cobb Street” by Lynda E. Rucker (Nightmare, June 2013)
“The Soul in the Bell Jar” by K.J. Kabza (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2013)
“Call Out” by Stephen Toase (Innsmouth Magazine, #12)
“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love” by Robert Shearman (Psycho-Mania!, ed. Stephen Jones, Constable & Robinson)
“Bones of Crow” by Ray Cluley (Black Static, #37)
“Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Phantom Drift, #3)
“The Fox” by Conrad Williams (This is Horror chapbook)
“The Tin House” by Simon Clark (Shadow Masters, ed. Jeani Rector, Imajin Books)
“Stemming the Tide” by Simon Strantzas (Dead North, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions)
“The Anatomist’s Mnemonic” by Priya Sharma (Black Static, #32)
“The Monster Makers” by Steve Rasnic Tem (Black Static, #35)
“The Only Ending We Have” by Kim Newman (Psycho-Mania!, ed. Stephen Jones, Constable & Robinson)
“The Dog’s Paw” by Derek Künsken (Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I, ed. Michael Kelly, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
“Fine in the Fire” by Lee Thomas (Like Light For Flies, Lethe Press)
“Majorlena” by Jane Jakeman (Supernatural Tales, #24)
“The Withering” by Tim Casson (Black Static, #32)
“Down to a Sunless Sea” by Neil Gaiman (The Guardian.com)
“Jaws of Saturn” by Laird Barron (The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Night Shade Books)
“Halfway Home” by Linda Nagata (Nightmare, September 2013)
“The Same Deep Waters as You” by Brian Hodge (Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer)

My WHC/Stoker weekend/SF/Nebula Award weekend schedule

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Yes, I’ll be on the west coast from May 8 to May 18th.

If you want to catch up with me, here’s my official schedule:

Portland, Oregon May 8-12

May 9th Friday

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM –Ross/Morrison

Panel: The Short Form
(Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Norman Patridge, John Shirley, E. Michael Lewis, James Lea, Minerva Zimmerman)
The short Horror story delivers a great deal of payoff to author and reader alike, and is one of the best ways to deliver Horror. Authors in the field discuss the most efficient means of administration, animation and continued locomotion.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM –Sellwood

Panel: That is Not Dead – H. P. Lovecraft’s Contributions To Modern Horror
(S.T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire, Cody Goodfellow, Nick Mamatas, Ross Lockhart, Ellen Datlow)
Six of the Lovecraft Circle’s brightest lights explain the renaissance going on in the Cosmic Horror subgenre today, from ‘True Detective’ back to the Providence Spook’s own literary and anthropological influences.

Friday 3-4pm signing at the Book Bin table in the Dealer’s Room -I’ll be signing Lovecraft’s Monsters (with Steve Rasnic Tem) and The Best Horror of the Year #5.

Friday 6-9pm Mass Autograph Signing-Willamette Foyer

All of your favorite writers are in one spot and are willing to sign books!

May 10th Saturday

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM –Ross/Morrison
Panel: How To Put Together A Great Anthology
(Paula Guran, Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Ross Lockhart, Jennifer Brozek) Professional anthologists, from the collector of the YEAR’S BEST HORROR to the co-editor of the original BOOK OF THE DEAD discuss the ways that the multi-headed anthology beast survives its infancy and becomes remembered.”

Banquet: 6:30-9:30

May 13- Tuesday: San Francisco, CA

Borderlands Books: signing: 7-8pm

May 17th   Saturday San Jose Nebula weekend

1-2pm  Short Fiction Editors
Scott Edelman (m)
John Joseph Adams
Ellen Datlow
Trevor Quachri
Sheila Williams

Call for Submissions -The Best Horror of the Year Volume 7

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Call for Submissions

 

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the seventh volume, which will include all material published in 2014. Reprints only.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark crime, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2014. Submission deadline for stories is December 1st 2014. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. For December publications, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. No email submissions unless you live outside the US. Authors should check that their publishers are sending review copies to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.

There will be 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 I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for submissions to this section is December 15th, 2014.

Ellen Datlow

Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven

PMB 391

511 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011-8436

****I do not want manuscripts of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive (like Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave, Cemetery Dance, Postscripts, F&SF and the other digests, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don’t have or can’t get that anthology or collection. Again, please ask your publisher to send me the magazine or book. For online publications, please have your publishers send me email files of your stories. I will also accept printouts of stories produced and first “published” in 2014 as podcasts.

Please do not send an SASE. 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.

If you have a question you can email me at datlow at yahoo dot com

thank you

Ellen

 

 

Recent acquisitions for Tor.com

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Since mid-March I’ve bought three stories for Tor.com. These include

Kathleen Ann Goonan’s “Stubby” novelette (aka Tor.com anniversary story with space ship(s), A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star scheduled for July 2nd

Lavie Tidhar’s creepy little horror tale Selfies scheduled for September 17th

Elizabeth Bear’s sf story The Chance Planet, not yet scheduled.

 

And forthcoming are:

The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey an sf/horror novelette that’s as brilliant (in a completely different way) as his story published in 2013,  A Rumor of Angels. April 23

Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes a novelette using fairy tale tropes her dark fantasy historical explorations (as did Burning Girls, her Nebula nominee from 2013. April 30

The Walking-stick Forest by Anna Tambour, a nasty, but ultimately uplifting dark fantasy story May 21

The Insects of Love by Genevieve Valentine is a weird turn that’s very different from the author’s western/steampunk Terrain from 2013. May 28

Chapter Six by Stephen Graham Jones is a zombie story (oh yes, it is) June 11

The Color of Paradox by A.M. Dellamonica a science fiction/time travel story June 25

Sleep Walking Now and Then by Richard Bowes is a futuristic novelette about theater  July 9

La Signora by Bruce McAllister is a dark fantasy taking place in Italy-in the same world as the author’s 2013  novel The Village Sang to the Sea:  A Memoir of Magic June 16

 

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