Table of Contents
“Bait” by Simon Bestwick
“The Pelt” by Annie Neugebauer
“A Sunny Disposition” by Josh Malerman
“The Donner Party” by Dale Bailey
“White Noise in a White Room” by Steve Duffy
“Singing My Sister Down” by Margo Lanagan
“Back Seat” by Bracken MacLeod
“England and Nowhere” by Tim Nickels
“Endless Summer” by Stewart O’Nan
“My Mother’s Ghosts” by Priya Sharma
“The Wink and the Gun” by John Patrick Higgins
“One of These Nights” by Livia Llewellyn
“LD50” by Laird Barron
“Cavity” by Theresa DeLucci
“Souvenirs” by Sharon Gosling
“The Wrong Shark” by Ray Cluley
“21 Brooklands: next to Old Western, opposite the burnt out Red Lion” by Carole Johnstone
“Unkindly Girls” by Hailey Piper
“A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” by Charles Birkin
“Teeth” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been” by Joyce Carol Oates

Read With the Lights On: Revealing Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror edited by Ellen Datlow

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen TOC:
The Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden
Dodger Carly Holmes
Rock Hopping Adam L.G. Nevill
That Maddening Heat Ray Cluley
Jack O’Dander Priya Sharma
The Assembled Ramsey Campbell
R is For Remains Steve Rasnic Tem
The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs E. Catherine Tobler
Return to Bear Creek Lodge Tananarive Due
The Enfilade Andrew Hook
Lover’s Lane Stephen Graham Jones
Hare Moon H.V. Patterson
Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Scare Groom Patrick Barb
The Teeth Brian Evenson
Nábrók Helen Grant
The Salted Bones Neil Williamson
Tell Me When I Disappear Glen Hirshberg
The Motley Charlie Hughes

 

Call for Submissions

 

I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the seventeenth volume, covering material published in 2024.

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 2024. Deadline is December 1st 2024.

 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 Seventeen

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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, CHM, The Deadlands, Penumbric, Supernatural Tales, Nightmare Abbey-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.

thanks

Ellen Datlow