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A Q&A about inspirations for Mad Hatters and March Hares

January 3, 2018 by Ellen Datlow 1 Comment

Romantic Times was only able to use a very small portion of the responses to two questions about Alice in Wonderland and its influence on me and my contributors. Here is the link to what they published
http://tinyurl.com/yamfg4lf

Here are the rest of the Q&As with Katherine Vaz, RIchard Bowes, C.S.E. Cooney, Stephen Graham Jones, Matthew Kressel, Angela Slatter, Priya Sharma, and Kaaron Warren.
Unused Romantic Times Q&A
Katherine Vaz:
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?
My parents were huge readers–and my dad was a painter–and I was transfixed by the copy with the John Tenniel illustrations. I was so shy, and Alice was fearless and moved magically in a world with strange animals. I wanted her headband. We also had an LP record of the story and I think it made the words, recited, into living things…like listening to songs that I still remember.

-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
The tea party always frightened and haunted me…the Hatter’s madness was one thing, but what they did to the Dormouse was truly awful. They torment it, and they try to stuff it headfirst into the teapot…I know Wonderland is a magical dreamscape, but that’s one patch where cruelty and insanity rule, and Alice runs. My story is about a mother who lost a child in a terrible way suggested by this scene. A reminder of the grim side of fairytales. I do love tea shops, though…they feel like an oasis of pleasure and taste. So I put those elements together, mostly to say how little we know of the histories of each other.
C.S.E. Cooney
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?

My first Alice encounter was either a stage adaption or the Disney cartoon. The Jabberwock came later, separately; I don’t think I knew then that it was part of the Alice mythos. It was so outrageous and delightful: its own entity. The poem might have been framed on someone’s wall, or something we studied in class, or my father might have started spouting it at a gas station, until I cried, “What is that? What is that?” (That was not uncommon in my childhood.) I have an early memory of the roses. Cartoon roses, so it must have been the Disney. I think it was one of my earliest observations of something so beautiful being so cruel. I recall the Cheshire’s slyness; he was never trustworthy, not from the get-go. I remember that the caterpillar made me uneasy, but I didn’t know why—just, there was something unctuous about him. I don’t remember how I first encountered the Walrus and the Carpenter, but I think it was in an illustrated book of poetry, again, separate from the thing I knew as _Alice in Wonderland_. It made me feel a bit sad, a bit sick. I vowed never to eat oysters. (I still don’t like them to this day, but I’m not sure that’s Lewis Carroll’s fault.) I was very young. The stories, it seemed, were everywhere; Alice is something I feel I’ve always known, without knowing it was, as it were, _Alice_.

-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?

Once, when I was fretting over something that would not be happening for at least six months—Delia Sherman (another contributor to this anthology, and a long-time friend) looked at me and said, “Oh, you’re White Queening it. I do that too.” I had no idea what she meant, so she reminded me of Alice’s encounter with the White Queen in Through Looking Glass, when the Queen starts screaming that she’s about to prick her finger on her broach, and Alice has no idea what she’s making such a fuss about. But when the
White Queen does prick her finger, she’s very calm about it, even though she’s bleeding, and it’s Alice who’s distressed and frightened. I went home immediately and read Through the Looking Glass. I loved the idea of a character with the ability to “forefeel”—it makes her ideal in a crisis, for she would have already reacted before the bad thing ever happened, and would be able to think clearly and coldly, and to solve problems. It would make her, I thought, an ideal detective.

Priya Sharma
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?
Mine was the Disney version. Anything involving magical, hidden worlds captured my imagination, like Alice’s Wonderland or Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
I was interested in the Mad Hatter as he was the most striking character for me as a child. Hatters in that period used mercury to prepare the beaver pelts from which they made the felt for top hats. It was toxic, causing personality changes, emotional instability, timidity, memory and cognition loss, speech problems, tremors, headaches and even delirium.
Stephen Graham Jones

-There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?

Children’s board book, I’m pretty sure. So, very abridged, and nothing scary. Mostly I remember the rabbit with the pocketwatch, and how it was both running and waiting at the same time, like it did have somewhere important to be, but it had also been tasked with luring Alice in with it, but at the same time it couldn’t just tell her what it was doing, as if it was bound by rules we don’t know. That’s the way it always is with demons and supernatural entities, isn’t it? I like that white rabbit.

-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
What I always dug about Alice in Wonderland was that you could say she fell asleep, dreamed all this, but at the same time, it’s now in my head, so it’s real, too. The cat and the caterpillar and the Mad Hatter and all them, they’ve gone from being her idle mind, churning with no real intent or direction, to people whispering in my head, with what feels like purpose. That’s the magic of fiction, dramatized. I think it’s why this story’s stuck around so long, and infected so wide.

Kaaron Warren
-There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?
My first piece of Alice media was the book. I can’t remember where the copy came from but I know it was the full book, not the picture book version. Its significance to me lies in the content, because even at seven, when I read it first, I wanted to be a writer, and Alice is full of humor, horror, adventure and imagination. I feel as if it helped give me the freedom to write stories that are not constrained by the ordinary.

-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
When I re-read Alice while thinking about my story for this anthology, I was struck again by the humor of it all, and by the sadness. There’s a lot of loneliness in the book, from Alice herself, wandering off alone, to the White Rabbit, living alone in his big house, and the strange separateness of the guests at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Then there’s the poor old Mock Turtle, whose so-called friend The Gryphon says of him, “It’s all his fancy, that; he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know.” I was struck by the cruelty and the reality of this, the friend who is cruel, unsympathetic, and really no friend at all. I felt sorry for the Mock Turtle and thought of him as a very lonely character. So that’s the mood I tried to capture in my story “Eating the Alice Cake”.
Angela Slatter
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?

I think the first thing would have been the original animated film. I recall the brightness of the colours and the glorious representation of somewhere that was quite distinctly “other” – familiar in places, but so very strange. I think the visuals still stand out in my memory of one of my earliest encounters with the Fantastic – one of the first things to set me on my path into speculative fiction.
-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?

Well, as I am a writer of dark fiction and this is an anthology of dark and twisted tales, I guess I was never going to write something warm and fuzzy. I was always going to pick up on the stranger aspects and try to answer the darker questions the story made me ask. Like, what was that weird little rabbit doing luring little girls down holes?

Matthew Kressel
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?
I’d encountered Alice’s echo a thousand times before I read the source material. I’m sure I saw the Disney film when I was young, but my first read of the source text was much later, in my 20s. What shocked me was how much of the story I had already absorbed from other sources. The story is everywhere in popular culture, even in our expressions (e.g. “down the rabbit hole.”)
-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
You hear a lot today about how an author’s behavior can affect our appreciation of their work. So, for example, we are rethinking our appreciation of H.P. Lovecraft when confronted with his racism. I went to an Alice exhibit a short time before I wrote the story “In Memory of a Summer’s Day.” And what struck me was that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, is this shady, pervy man, and almost none of the thousand and one echoes of his work touch on this subject. I mean, here’s this guy who took lewd photos of Alice Liddell (and other children) when she was just eleven, and Alice’s parents let this happen. That just seemed so wrong and horrible to me. In my story, I imagine how this would have traumatized and scarred the real Alice, and what she might do when given power of her own. Even though most of us think of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as this magical, charming story, it has a truly sinister underbelly.
Richard Bowes
There are so many adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; what was your first piece of Alice media? What significance does it hold for you?

Long ago at the age of four, I first encountered Alice when the book was read to me as bedtime stories. It was my first novel. Hearing the words, being shown the Tenniel illustration, imprinted the story on me.

I was very fortunate. My parents were actors and weren’t afraid to give Alice all the drama she deserved. I saw two of their friends play the White Queen and the Red Queen in a children’s theater version of Alice.

On early 1950’s TV, I saw a movie of Alice with W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Hollywood stars in lesser rolls.

Just out of college in the 1960’s I was in a now lost underground movie version of Alice. I was the Caterpillar complete with hookah.
-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a favorite among readers of all ages, both for its prose and its social commentary. What about the original story most influenced your contribution?
For my story, “Some Kind Of Wonderland” I created a narrator who comes to Alice in a much different way than I did. He is a Greenwich Village street kid, a runaway who knows his way around but has never read a book. He meets a young guy who is obsessed with making a film version of Alice set in the current 1960’s Village.

To see how they do this, read my story! Read all the stories!

It’s available as a hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audio:
http://tinyurl.com/y863gqrh

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Honorable Mentions 2016 -Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (3)

October 12, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 2 Comments

Raab, Jonathan “The Secret Goatman Spookshow,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Rath, Tina “Barefoot Withouten Shoon,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Reed, Nathaniel “The Serpent Borne of Helios,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Reed, Nicasio Andres “Painted Grassy Mire,” Shimmer #32, July.

Reid, Forrest “Furnished Apartments,” The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories.

Renino, Danielle “I’m Better Now,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Reppion, John “The Black Abbess,” Black Wings V.

Reppion, John “The Faerie Ring,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

Rhoads, Loren “Sakura Time,” Fright Mare.

Rivera, David “Unreeled,” Asimov’s Science Fiction June.

Rogers, Ian “Eyes Like Poisoned Wells,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Rosson, Keith “Yes, We Are Duly Concerned with Calamitous Events,” Phantom Drift 6.

Royle, Nicholas “London,” Dead Letters.

Rucker, Lynda E. “Testimony XVI,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Rucker, Lynda E. “The Old Roads,” Burrow Month of Horror.

Rucker, Lynda E. “The Séance,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

Runge, Karen “My Son, My Son,” Seven Sins.

Russell, R. B. The Might Mr. Godbolt,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Russo, Patricia “A Drizzle Still Counts as Rain,” Not One of Us #55.

Salaam, Kiini Ibura “Volcano Woman,” When the World Wounds.

Salomon, Peter “The Dress,” Borderlands 6.

Sanchez-Izenman, Jeanette “She’ll Only Come Out at Night,” Black Candies.

Sandoval, Kelly “The Right Sort of Monsters,” Strange Horizons April 4.

Savile, Steven “I Need Somewhere to Hide,” Something Remains.

Schaller, Eric “Love Signs,” Meet Me in the Middle of the Air.

Schow, David J. “The Chili Hunters,” Djsturbia.

Schow, David J. “Three Missing Footnotes From the Bad Time,” Djsturbia.

Schow, David J. “Two Scoops,” Djsturbia.

Schwaeble, Hank “American Nocturne,” American Nocturne.

Schwaeble, Hank “Cold Service,” American Nocturne.

Schweitzer, Darrell “The Hutchison Boy,” The Dragons of the Night.

Schweitzer, Darrell “The Red Witch of Chorazin,” Black Wings V.

Schweitzer, Darrell “We Who Have Encountered Monsters (poem) Spectral Realms #4.

Sharma, Priya “Inheritance, or the Ruby Tear,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Shearman, Robert “The Best Story I Can Manage…” Five Stories High.

Shi, Eve “Blood Like Water,” Asian Monsters.

Shirley, John “Just Beyond the Trailer Park,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Shirley, John “The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner,” Gothic Lovecraft.

Simon, Marge “Reflections Through the Raven’s Eye,” (poem) Chiral Mad 3.

Sims, Laura “Walking Dead Love Songs,” (poem) Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Slatter, Angela “Change Management,” Dead Letters.

Slatter, Angela “Finnegan’s Field,” Tor.com January 13.

Slatter, Angela “Pale Tree House,” Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales.

Slatter, Angela “The Red Forest,” Winter Children.

Slatter, Angela “The Tallow Wife,” (novella) A Feast of Sorrows.

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Slatter, Angela “What Shines Brightest Burns Most Fiercely,” A Feast of Sorrows.

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Taylor, Lucy “Dead Messengers,” Fright Mare.

Taylor, Lucy “He Who Whispers the Dead Back to Life,” Into Painfreak.

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Tem, Steve Rasnic “Photograph,” Out of the Dark.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “The Man in the Rose Bushes,”The Ghosts&ScholarsBkofShadows3

Tem, Steve Rasnic “Your Daughter is Here,” Out of the Dark.

Templet, J. M. “Lazarus Girl,” Dystopia Utopia.

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Thomas, Richard “Repent,” Gutted.

Thomas, Richard “The Offering on the Hill,” Chiral Mad 3.

Thomas, Scott “”The Girl with Pennies on Her Eyes,” (poem) Spectral Realms #4.

Thomas, Scott “The Night is a Sea,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Thompson, Tade “Gnaw,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Tobler, E. Catherine “Andromeda of the Skies,” Interzone #263 March-April.

Tomaras, Joseph “Caribou: Documentary Fragments,” F&SF May/June.

Totton, Sarah “Coxley’s Black Divine,” The Worlds of SF, Fantasy, and Horror vol 1.

Tremblay, Paul “Further Questions for the Somnambulist,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Tuttle, Lisa “ Home in the Sky,” Black Static #55 Nov-Dec.

Tuttle, Lisa “The Hungry Hotel,” Dead Letters.

Tyson, Donald “The Organ of Chaos,” Black Wings V.

Unsworth, Simon Kurt“Mr Denning Sings,”GreatBritish Horror1,Green&PleasantLand.

Valdes, Valerie “A Diet of Worms,” Nightmare #49, People of Color Destroy Horror.

Valente, Catherynne, M. “Snow Day,” Uncanny 11.

Valentine, Mark “The Fig Garden,” Pagan Triptych.

Valentine, Mark “The Mask of the Dead Mamilius,”TheGhosts&ScholarsBkofShadows 3.

Van Dyk, Amber “And the Woods Are Silent,” The Dark #11 February.

Vincent-Abnett, Nik “The Twa Corbies,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Volk, Stephen “The Three Hunchbacks,” Supporting Roles.

Waggoner, Tim “Fathomless Tides,” The Beauty of Death.

Wallace, Kali “Caroline at Dusk,” The Dark #12 May.

Walters, Damien Angelica “A Pathway for the Broken,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Walters, Damien Angelica “Deep Within the Marrow,” Black Static #52.

Walters, Damien Angelica “In the Spaces Where You Once Lived,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Walters, Damien Angelica “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice,”Eternal Frankenstein.

Walters, Damien Angelica “Take a Walk in the Night, My Love,” The Madness of Dr. C.

Wang, Si “Always,” Aurealis #93

Wanglund, Colleen “Aikiko’s Blade, Into Painfreak.

Ward, C.E. “Squire Thorneycroft,” Malevolent Visitants.

Ward, Marlee Jane “The Beasts and the Birthday, “ Aurealis #90.

Warren, Kaaron “68 Days,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Warren, Kaaron “All Roll Over,” In Your Face.

Warren, Kaaron “The Doll Beautician,” Review of Australian Fiction Volume 17 Issue 3.

Watt, D.P. “Archontes Ascendant,” Almost Insentient, Almost Divine.

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Weighell, Ron “The Letter Killeth,” (novella) Pagan Triptych.

Wellington, David “Lacey,” The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

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Wyckoff, Jason A. “Tanoroar,” The Hidden Back Room.

Wyckoff, Jason A. “The Hidden Back Room,” The Hidden Back Room.

Wyckoff, Jason A. “Understairs,” Nightscript II.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Queen of Hearts, (poem) Brothel.

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Honorable Mentions 2016 -Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (2)

October 12, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 2 Comments

Harland, Richard “His Shining Day,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Harris, Joanne “In Memorium,” Dead Letters.

Hartley, David “Pigskin,” Black Static #55 November-December.

Hayes, Martin “Wellaway,” Uncertainties Volume I.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “Little Widow,” What the #@&% is That?

Headley, Maria Dahvana “See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable,” Lightspeed 76.

Henderson, Samantha “The Lark Ascending,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Hill, Joe “Snapshot, 1988,” (novella) Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Hill, Susan “Alice Baker,” (novella) The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories.

Hill, Susan “The Front Room,” The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories.

Hirshberg, Glen “Freedom is Space for the Spirit,” Tor.com April 6.

Hirshberg, Glen “India Blue,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Hockey, Matthew J. “Nikukinchaka,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Hodge, Brian “Mommy’s Little Man,” Dark Fuse Magazine November 4.

Hodge, Brian “The Weight of the Dead,” Tor.com June 1.

Hook, Andrew “The Day My Heart Stood Still,” The Dragons of the Night.

Howard, John “A Gap in Society,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3.

Howard, Kat “The Sound of Salt and Sea,” Uncanny 10.

Howells, Annika “Obsidian River,” Aurealis #96.

Hughes, Rhys “How Gangrene Was My Sally,” Brutal Pantomimes.

Jackson, Jennifer Ruth “Sin Eater,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Jacob, Charlee & Addison, Linda “Welcome to the Mercy Museum,(poem)In Painfreak.

Jakeman, Jane “Cutty Dyer,” Supernatural Tales 33.

Jett, Susan “Eyes Like Pearls,” Were-.

Johnston, Michael “The Tree,” Aurealis #93

Johnstone, Carole “Wetwork,” Black Static #52.

Johnstone, Tom “Mum and Dad and the Girl from the Flats…” Supernatural Tales 33.

Joiner, Mat “Imago,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Birdfather,” Black Static #51.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Eternal Troutland,” Children of Lovecraft.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Some Wait,” The Starlit Wood.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Night Cyclist,” Tor.com, September 21.

Kadrey, Richard “The Secret of Insects,” Children of Lovecraft.

Kardos, Michael “Digits,” Mississippi Noir.

Kaschock, Kirsten “And We, Spectators Always, Everywhere,” Dead Letters.

Keevil, Tyler “Foul is Fair,” Black Static #50, July/August.

Kemper, Erinn “By the River She Wakes,” The Beauty of Death.

Kemper, Erinn L. “ A Flash of Red,” Chiral Mad 3.

Ketchum, Jack “Those Rockports Won’t Get You to Heaven,” Borderlands 6.

Khaw, Cassandra “And in Our Daughter, We Find a Voice,” The Dark #18, November.

Khaw, Cassandra “Hammers on Bone,” (novella) A Tor.com Book

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Bedtime Story,” Sirenia Digest 126.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille,”Childrenof Lovecraft.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Far From Any Shore,” Black Wings V.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Study for an Electronaut’s Ovid (AD 2050),” Sirenia Digest 120.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Line BetweentheDevil’sTeeth,(Murder Ballad 10” S.Digest 130.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9),” Sirenia Digest 125.

King, Michelle Ann “My Sister, the Fairy Princess,” Black Static #52, May/June.

King, Stephen “The Music Room,” In Sunlight and in Shadow.

Kirk, Brian “Picking Splinters,” Gutted.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray,” Shimmer 30 March.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “Reasons I Hate My Big Sister,” Nightscript II.

Knox, Benjamin & Bennett, Toby “DreamShock,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Kotlarczyk, Adam “Outbreak,” SQ#26 May.

Krasnoff, Barbara “Sabbath Wine,” Clockwork Phoenix 5.

Laben, Carrie “Postcards from Natalie,” The Dark, #14 May.

Laidlaw, Marc “The Finest Full Flowering,” Nightmare #45 June.

Lanagan, Margo “When I Lay Frozen,” The Starlit Wood.

Langan, John “Anchor,” (novella) Autumn Cthulhu.

Langan, John “To See, To Be Seen,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Langan, John “What Is Lost, What Is Given Away,” What the #@&% is That?

Larson, Richard “Extraction Request,” Clarkesworld January #112.

LaValle, Victor “The Ballad of Black Tom,” (novella) A Tor.com Book

Lee, Edward “The Night Sitter,” Into Painfreak.

LeFanu, Sarah “Fran Nan’s Story,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

Leslie, V.H. “Man of the House,” Black Static #50, July/August.

Leslie, V.K. “Hermaness,” Great British Horror 1, Green and Pleasant Land.

Lester, Mike “Black-Eyed Susan,” The Beauty of Death.

Levy, Robert “Conversion,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Levy, Robert “DST (Fall Back),” Autumn Cthulhu.

Liebowitz, Sandi “Max in the Wolf-Suit,” (poem) Kaleidotrope spring.

Lin, Jessica May “Red Mask,” Shimmer 30 March.

Littlewood, Alison “Meet Me at the Frost Fair,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Llewellyn, Livia “ The Low, Dark Edge of Life,” Nightmare #51 December.

Llewellyn, Livia “In the Court of King Cupressaceae,” Furnace.

Lloyd, Rebecca “Fetch,” Ragman & Other Family Curses.

Lloyd, Rebecca “For Two Songs,” Ragman & Other Family Curses.

Lynes, Gethin A. “Cymothoa Cthulhii,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Maberry, Jonathan “Mystic,” Peel Back the Skin.

Machado, Carmen “My Body, Herself,” Uncanny 12.

Mackintosh, Paul St. John “The First Circus of the New Year,” Black Propaganda.

MacLean, Lynne “Storm Wife,” On Spec #101.

Malerman, Josh “I Can Taste the Blood, Vision I” (novella) I Can Taste the Blood.

Malerman, Josh “The Givens Sensor Board,” Lost Signals.

Malik, Usman T. “In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Mamatas, Nick “The Great Armored Train,” Dark Discoveries 35, summer.

Manalili, Jennifer “Hunger,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Mangan, Amelia “The Edifice of Dust,” The Hyde Hotel.

Manuel, Derek “Five Things Successful Clowns Must Do,” Clowns: The Unlikely …

Manzetti, Alessandro “Deadwood Reloaded,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Manzetti, Alessandro “I Am the Fire,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Long Hair’s Inferno,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Obsessed with Autumn,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Marr, Melissa “The Maiden Thief,” Tor.com January 27.

Marshall, Helen “Caro in Carno,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Martin, Valerie “Bromley Hall,” Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Masterson, Vincent “Linger Longer,” Masters Review February.

Matheson, Richard Christian “Infomercial!,” Zoopraxis.

Matheson, Richard Christian “Sea of Atlas,” Zoopraxis.                 

Matsuura, Thersa “The Carp-Faced Boy,” The Beauty of Death.

McAllister, Bruce “Bringing Them Back,” Asimov’s SF February.

McAllister, Bruce “Killer,” F&SF July/August.

McAllister, Bruce “The Blue House,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

McDermott, Kirstyn “Burnt Sugar,” Dreaming in the Dark.

McDonald, Sandra “The Monster of 1928,” Asimov’s SF February.

McDonald, Sandra “The People in the Building,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov.

McDonald, Sandra “When You Work for the Old Ones,” Nightmare #50 November.

McGuire, Seanan “#ConnellyHouse #Weshouldntbehere,” What the #@&% is That?

McGuire, Seanan “In the Desert Like a Bone,” The Starlit Wood.

McGuire, Seanan “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands,” Uncanny 10.

McHugh, Maura “A Rebellious House,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

McHugh, Maura “The Light at the Centre,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

McKenna, Claire “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring,” In Your Face.

McKinney, Joe “The Shed,” Peel Back the Skin.

Meikle, William “ The Lady of the Minch,” Peel Back the Skin.

Meikle, William “A True Telling of the Terror That Came to…” Heroes of Red Hook.

Meikle, William “Sugar Rush,” Dread Shadows in Paradise.

Millard, Adam “He Waits on the Upland,”Great British Horror 1,Green&Pleasant Land.

Miller, Kayla “Today We Go to Noah’s Ark,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Mills, Daniel “A Shadow Passing,” Autumn Cthulhu.
Malerman, Josh “The Bigger Bedroom,” Chiral Mad 3.

Minnion, Keith “Down There,” Cemetery Dance, #73.

Mirabella, Richard “Mold,” One Teen Story Volume IV, Issue V.

Miskowski, S. P. “Muscadines,” Chapbook.

Miskowski, S. P. “Somnabule,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Miskowski, S. P. “Water Main,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Montreuil, Zacharie “”All Roads,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Moore, James A. “In the Woods Somewhere,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Hoodelay,” Ghost Highways.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Imperfect Boy,” You Can Never Spit It All Out.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Nearness,” Nightscript II.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Not Everything Has a Name,” Black Static #54.Sept/Oct.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Trying to Get Back to Nonchalant,” Black Static #52, May/June.

Morgan, Chris “Dark Furnaces,” Something Remains.

Morris, K. L. “The Wombly,” Shimmer 32, July.

Morris, Mark “Eating Disorder,” Wrapped in Skin.

Morris, Mark “Full Up,” Black Static #51.

Morris, Mark “The Complicit,” Wrapped in Skin.

Morton, Lisa “Erasure,” Cemetery Riots.

Morton, Lisa “Trigger Fate,” The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Mundy, John J. “Redux,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Murphy, John P. “The Liar,” (novella) F&SF March/April.

Myers, D. L. “Dark House of Hunger,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Nahrung, Jason “A House in the Blue,” In Your Face.

Navarro, Yvonne “Superheated,” Peel Back the Skin.

Neal, Harmony “Dare,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Nelscott, Kris “Still Life 1931,” In Sunlight or in Shadow.

Ness, Mari “After Midnight,” (poem)Mythic Delirium October-December 3.2.

Nickle, David “The Caretakers,” Tor.com January 20.

Nickle, David “The Long Dream,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Nickle, David “The Parable of the Cylinder,” Canadian Notes & Queries 95, spring.

Niveau, Thana “Joining In,” Ghost Highways.

Niveau, Thana “Wasps,” Shock Totem 10.

North, Bennett “Smooth Stones and Empty Bones,” F&SF January/February.

O’Leary, P. R. “The Howard Family Tradition,” Weirdbook #32.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Big Mama,” EQMM March/April.

Oates, Joyce Carol “The Crawl Space,” EQMM Sept./Oct.

Oates, Joyce Carol “The Woman in the Window,” In Sunlight or in Shadow.

Ochse, Weston & Wellington, David “The Lessons of Room 19,” Urban Allies.

Ogawa, Yukimi “Kokuri’s Palace,” Asian Monsters.

Oliver, Reggie “Love at Second Sight,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Opperman, K. A. “Medusa,” (poem) The Audient Void No. 1.

Opperman, K.A. “Among the Gargoyles,” (poem) Spectral Realms 4.

Palisano, John “Long Walk Home,” All That Withers.

Parker, K.J. “Priest’s Hole,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Parrish, Marie Johnson “Final Girls,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Partridge, Norman “Backbite,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Pastorella, Bob “Cocoa,” Borderlands 6.

Pate, Gavin “Red House,” Nightmare, July #46.

Pelayo, Cynthia “Forjadura,” (poem) Poems of My Night.

Pelayo, Cynthia “Una Pesadilla,”(poem) Poems of My Night.

Peters, Brock “Like Faltering, Lisping Tongues,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Pierce, Cameron “Asseblief,” Dark Discoveries #33.

Pietersen, David “The Left Hand of Aux-Cevoires,” The Audient Void No. 1.

Pinsker, Sarah “Talking to Dead People,” F&SF September/October.

Pinsker, Sarah “Under One Roof,” Uncanny 12

Popkes, Steven “The Sweet Warm Earth,” F&SF Sept/October.

Power, Kit “Like a Charm,” Kzine 14.

Probert, John Llewellyn “The Missing,” Something Remains.

Ptacek, Kathryn “City Girl,” Fright Mare.

Ptacek, Kathryn “The I of the Beholder,” The Beauty of Death.

Pugmire, W. H, “A Gentleman of Darkness,” Heroes of Red Hook.

Pugmire,” W. H. “The Ghoul’s Dilemma,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Trick…or the Other One,” Autumn Cthulhu.

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Honorable Mentions 2016-Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (1)

October 12, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 3 Comments

Abnett, Dan “The Beams of the Sun,” Out of Tune Book Two.

Addison, Linda “Shadow Rainbow and Other Fragile Types,” (poem) Dark Disc. #34

Alering, Alisa “We Will Hold,” Mythic Delirium April-June.

Allan, Nina “Maggots,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Allred, Rebecca J. “The Last Plague Doctor,” Borderlands 6.

Amundsen, Erik “The Red Round Eye of War,” Go Now January.

Anderson, Michael Paul “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief,” Chiral Mad 3.

Arkenberg, Megan “Palingenesis,” Shimmer 29 January.

Avery, Simon” A Very Lonely Revolution,” Black Static #55 November-December.

Bacon, Stephen “Happy Sands,” The Dragons of the Night.

Badger, Dora “Counting Mississippis,” Kaleidotrope winter 2016.

Barber, Richard Farren “Government Work,”  The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Bark, Jasper “Quiet Places,” (novella) Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Barker, David “The Crawling Dead,” The Audient Void No. 1.

Barron, Laird “A Clutch,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “An Atlatl,” (novella) Limbus Inc. Book III.

Barron, Laird “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “Mobility,” What the #@&% is That?

Barron, Laird “Oblivion Mode,” Children of Lovecraft.

Barron, Laird “Tomahawk Park Survivor’s Raffle,” (novella) Swift to Chase.

Bartlett, Matthew M. “No Abiding Place on Earth,” Nightscript II.

Bates, Jeremy “Box of Bones,” self-published.

Bell, Brandon H. “The Teratologist’s Brother,” Apex April.

Bell, Peter “Blackberry Time,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows 3.

Bell, Peter “Last of the Line,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “Southwold,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “The Swing,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Bell, Peter “Walking with the Cross,” Phantasms.

Benedict, A. K. “Misericord,” Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Berry, Jedediah “Houk, Emily “Hansel, Gretel, Grendel,” Conjunctions 66: Affinity.

Bestwick, Simon “Wrath of the Deep,” The Hyde Hotel.

Bissett, Carina “Swimming with the Shark Boys,”(poem)Mythic Delirium April-June 2.4.

Black, Archie “The Wall,” BFS Horizons #3.

Black, Carlington “The Urge,” At the Edge.

Boatman, Michael “Across the Black Plains,” 13.

Boatman, Michael “Christmastime in Zombietown,” 13.

Bolander, Brooke “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Uncanny

Bonfanti, Daniele “Game,” (novella) The Beauty of Death.

Boomer, Clinton J. “The Sky Isn’t Blue,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Booth, III, Max “Blood Dust,” Chiral Mad 3.

Boskovich, Desirina “The Great Dying of the Holocene,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Boston & Manzetti, “Sandoval’s Nightmare Sampler,”(poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce “Fade Away (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce & Manzetti, Alessandro “Slade, Mary And Pet,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce and Simon, Marge “Cold Finale,” The Beauty of Death.

Bourelle, Andrew “Little Healers,” Swords & Steam Short Stories.

Bowes, Richard “Lunching with the Sphinxes,” Grendelsong June.

Brantley, Avalon “Window Widows,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Braum, Daniel “How To Make Love and Not Turn to Stone,” The Beauty of Death.

Braum, Daniel “The Night Marchers,” The Night Marchers.

Brown, Simon “Moonshine,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Burgess, Tony “Bad Lieutenant,” Lost Signals.

Burke, Chesya “They Deal in Pain, But Pleasure is Better,” Into Painfreak.

Burnett, Jeff “Borean Soul,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Butler, Robert Olen “Soir Bleu,” In Sunlight and in Shadow.

Cade, Octavia “Carnival Microbial,” Grendelsong Issue 2.

Cadieux, Keith “Stuck,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Caine, Rachel “I Lay Stretched Out On Your Grave,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Campbell, Ramsey “Know Your Code,” Chiral Mad 3.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Wrong Game,” Dead Letters.

Capria, Alana I. “The Mother Chase,” Turn Into Ash Volume 1.

Carrol, Taye “Childhood’s Dread,” Weirdbook #32.

Carroll, Jonathan “Plane Light, Plane Bright,” Conjunctions May.

Carroll, Siobhan “Thermidor,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Cashmore, S. M. “Waiting for Breakfast,” Supernatural Tales 32.

Castle, Mort “Prayer,” Chiral Mad 3.

Castro, Adam-Troy “Four Haunted Houses,” Nightmare #48, September.

Castro, Adam-Troy “The Old Horror Writer,” Nightmare #44, May.

Chabin, Matthew “Father of Dread,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Chan, Eliza “Datsue-Ba,” Asian Monsters.

Child, Michelle “Narco,” At the Edge.

Chizmar, Richard “A Long December,” (novella) A Long December.

Chizmar, Richard “Ditch Treasures,” A Long December.

Chokshi, Roshani “A Trade at the Fox Wedding,” Mythic Delirium April –June 2.4

Chronister, Kay “The Fifth Gable,” Shimmer 29 January.

Cisco, Michael “The Righteousness of Conical Men,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Clark, G.O. “Postcard from the Night Desert,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Clay, K. S “Bad Luck,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Cluley, Ray “Housekeeping,” The Hyde Hotel.

Cluley, Ray “Sideways,” Interzone 266, Sept/October.

Cole, Cait “Dollhouse,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Collings, Michael R. “Catacomb,” (poem) Corona Obscura.

Collings, Michael R. “Evil,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Moon,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Obsession (2),” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Prophecy,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Witch,” (poem) Ibid.

Colman, Keith “A Thing Like Rage,” Supernatural Tales 33.

Cormick, Craig “The Lost Boys,” In Your Face.

Cotronis, George “Darkhorse Actual,” Lost Signals.

Coupland, Krishan “When You Lived Inside the Walls,” The Masters Review online.

Cratty, Micah “Goon,” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXXVII, #1.

Crich, Kelda “Jorōgumo,” Weirdbook #32.

Crow, Richard “Waiting Room,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Daegmorgan, Raven “Winter Things,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Davis, Amanda C. “Voices without Voices,Words Without Words,”Cemetery Dance #73.

Dawes, Sue “Artifice,” Bloody Hull.

Dawson, Delilah S. “The First Blood of Poppy Dupree,” Upside Down.

Dejasu, Barry Lee “The Place of Bones,” Wicked Witches.

DeMeester, Kristi “All the World, When it is Thin,” The Dark #11 February.

DeMeester, Kristi “In the Dark, Quiet Places,” Nightscript II.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Dream Eaters,” Split Tongues chapbook.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Rim of the World,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Denfeld, Rene “The Sturgeon Queen,” City of Weird.

Dent, Karen and Dent, Roxanne E. “The Demon of Spitalfields,” Cemetery Riots.

Dermatis, Dayle A. “Queen and Fool,” Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix.

Devlin, Malcolm “Breadcrumbs,” Interzone #264, May-June.

Devlin, Malcolm “White Elephants,” Nightscript II.

Di Orazio, Paulo “Carousel Riser,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Dikeman, Kris “Miskatonic Nightmare,” Miskatonic Nightmares.

Dikeman, Kris “Thimble Hearts and Tamarind Eyes,” Kill Those Damn Cats.

Dorei, Megan “Glass,” Dystopia Utopia.

Dowling, Terry “Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Downum, Amanda “The Sea Inside,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Dries, Aaron “Love Amongst the Redback Spiders,” Tales from the Lake vol. 2.

Edelman, Scott “Man Without the Blue Balloon, Woman…,”The Dragons of the Night.

Edelman, Scott “The Perilous Stuff,” Chiral Mad 3.

Eikamp, Rhonda “Some Pictures of Monsters,” The Dark 15.

Enriquez, Mariana “Spiderweb,” The New Yorker Dec 19 &26.

Erdelac, Edward M. “Beyond the Black Arcade,” Heroes of Red Hook.

Etchison, Dennis “Princess,” Nightmare #41, February.

Etchison, Dennis “The Man Who Knew What Time It Was,” Cemetery Riots.

Evenson, Brian “Click,” Granta #133/A Collapse of Horses.

Evenson, Brian “Smear,” Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Everington, James “A Glimpse of Red,”Great British Horror 1,Green andPleasant Land.

Faherty, JG “The Lazarus Effect,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Fawver, Kurt “Special Collections,” F&SF November/December.

Files, Gemma “Caligarism,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Files, Gemma “Ghost Pressure,” What the #@&% is That?

Fitch, John Paul “Principal,” Burrow Month of Horror.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Blameless,” A Natural History of Hell.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Thousand Eyes,” The Starlit Wood.

Foster, Alan Foster “Castleweep,” What the #@&% is That?

Foster, John C. “Armageddon Baby,” Lost Signals.

Fowler, Christopher “Spine,” Interzone #263, March-April.

Fowler, Christopher “Wonders to Come,” Dead Letters.

Fracassi, Philip “Altar,” Dunhams Manor Press chapbook.

Friesner, Esther M. “Woman in the Reeds,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.

Fulz, John R. “The River Flows to Nowhere,” Weirdbook 33.

Gardner, Cate “Blood Moth Kiss,” Shadow Moths.

Gardner, Cate “In the Macabre Theatre of Nightshade Place,” The Dragons of the Night.

Gardner, Cate “We Make Our Own Monsters Here,” Shadow Moths.

Gavin, Richard “Breathing Black Angels,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Gavin, Richard “Mare’s Nest,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Tending the Mists,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Thistle Latch,” Sylvan Dread.

Gerrold, David “The Thing on the Shelf,” F&SF July/August.

Gilman, Laura Anne “First Dance,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Glasser, Lynnea “Service,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Golaski, Adam “Ruby,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Goldstein, Lisa “Sawing,” Nightmare #44, May.

Gonzalez, Michael Paul “How the Light Gets In,” Lost Signals.

Goodfellow, Cody “Snakeladder,” Black Wings V.

Goodfellow, Cody “The Free School,” Dim Shores chapbook.

Goodfellow, Coty “Archons,” Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales.

Goss, Theodora “Red As Blood and White As Bone,” Tor.com, May 4.

Gowin, Amanda “Cellar’s Dog,” Gutted.

Grant, John “Everything Finishes,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grant, John “The Second Runner,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grey, Orrin “Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Grey, Orrin “Mortensen’s Muse” Children of Lovecraft.

Grey, Orrin “The Well and the Wheel,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Griffin, Michael “Endure with a Dying Frame,” The Lovecraft ezine, #38.

Griffin, Michael “The Black Vein Runs Deep,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Griffin, Michael “The Human Alchemy,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Griffin, Michael “The Jewel in the Eye,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Grimm, Marcus “Catch Me If You Can,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Grimwood, Terry “The Dark Above the Fair,” Something Remains.

Guffey, Robert “The Wedding Photographer,” The Dragons of the Night.

Guignard, Eric “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co. Nightscript II.

Hall, Steven “The Green Letter,” Dead Letters.

Hamilton, Paul H. “The Henson Curse,” Shock Totem 10.

Hannett, Lisa L. “In Syllables of Elder Seas,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Hardy, Lynn “Beyond the Shore,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Hargadon, Stephen “McMara’s Rock,” (novella) Black Static #55 Nov-Dec.

Hargadon, Stephen “Mittens,” Black Static #53, July/August.

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Final TOC for The Best Horror of the Year volume 9

March 8, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 7 Comments

Table of Contents

Nesters Siobhan Carroll
The Oestridae Robert Levy
The Process is a Process All its Own Peter Straub
The Bad Hour Christopher Golden
Red Rabbit Steve Rasnic Tem
It’s All the Same Road in the End Brian Hodge
Fury DB Waters
Grave Goods Gemma Files
Between Dry Ribs Gregory Norman Bossert
The Days of Our Lives Adam LG Nevill
House of Wonders C.E Ward
The Numbers Christopher Burns
Bright Crown of Joy Livia Llewellyn
The Beautiful Thing We Will Become Kristi DeMeester
Wish You Were Here Nadia Bulkin
Ragman Rebecca Lloyd
What’s Out There? Gary McMahon
No Matter Which Way We Turned Brian Evenson
The Castellmarch Man Ray Cluley
The Ice Beneath Us Steve Duffy
On These Blackened Shores of Time Brian Hodge

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