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Cover reveal of The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen

June 2, 2021 by Ellen Datlow 5 Comments

Art by Reiko Murakami

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Cover reveal and TOC of WHEN THINGS GET DARK: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson.

April 12, 2021 by Ellen Datlow 3 Comments

Coming in September (you can pre-order now)
https://tinyurl.com/srh63ahf

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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen Table of Contents

April 1, 2021 by Ellen Datlow 1 Comment

Summation 2020—Ellen Datlow

Exhalation #10 — A. C. Wise

A Hotel in Germany — Catriona Ward

A Deed Without a Name — Jack Lothian

Lords of the Matinee — Stephen Graham Jones

Cleaver, Meat, and Block — Maria Haskins

The Eight-Thousanders — Jason Sanford

Scold’s Bridle: A Cruelty–Richard Gavin

Come Closer — Gemma Files

It Doesn’t Feel Right — Michael Marshall Smith

Mine Seven — Elana Gomel

Sicko — Stephen Volk

Mouselode Maze — Christopher Harman

Heath Crawler — Sam Hicks

The Devil Will Be at the Door — David Surface

Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking — Tom Johnstone

Scream Queen — Nathan Ballingrud

We Do Like to Be Beside — Peter W. Sutton

Contrition (1998)  — J.A.W. McCarthy

Tethered Dogs — Gary McMahon

Bloody Rhapsody —    Alessandro Manzetti

In the English Rain — Steve Duffy

A Treat For Your Last Day — Simon Bestwick

Trick of the Light — Andrew Humphrey

Two Truths and a Lie — Sarah Pinsker

The Whisper of Stars — Thana Niveau

 

Honorable Mentions

About the Authors

Acknowledgment of Copyright

About the Editor

 

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Call for Submissions 2021 (Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen)

January 21, 2021 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 fourteenth volume, covering material published in 2021.

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 2021. Deadline is December 1st 2021. 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 Fourteen
8 Stuyvesant Oval 9G
NY NY 10009

****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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Call for Submissions -Best Horror of the Year Volume 13

July 16, 2020 by Ellen Datlow 3 Comments

Call for Submissions

I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the thirteenth volume, covering material published in 2020.

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 2020. Deadline is December 1st 2020. 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 Thirteen
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

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