I was interviewed about my HWA nominated anthology The Doll Collection, but the interview was never posted, so here it is:

HWA Know a Nominee 2016
1. Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each.
ED: I’ve been collecting weird dolls and doll parts for several years now and eventually the idea almost naturally popped into my head to put together a doll horror anthology.
2. What was the most challenging part of bringing the concept(s) to fruition? The most rewarding aspect of the process?
ED: The most difficult part was coming up with the right title. A great title is often the key to actually attracting the interest of a publisher. I had the idea, and noodled around with a proposal for a couple of years, with no idea of what to call it. Finally, during lunch with my friend Veronica Schanoes (a writer and academic with whom I’m friends and who subequently wrote a story for the anthology) she came up with THE DOLL COLLECTION, which I knew was perfect.

For an original anthology, it’s always a challenge to wrangle the writers I’ve solicited into writing a variety of stories tied to one theme. As the stories come in, I need to weigh them against what I’ve already bought. On the other hand, it’s a joy to know that many of the stories that are in any given anthology would not exist if I’d not solicited them.

And of course, the finished book itself, with stories and interior photographs illustrating it, pleases me greatly.

3. What do you think good horror/dark literature should achieve? How do you feel the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated work fits into (or help give shape to) that ideal?
ED: As a reader, I want to experience a distinct feeling of unease, combined with being drawn into a situation by characters that I find interesting and believable. I want stories that work on more than one, superficial level. I want a story to be memorable. An anthology of course contains many stories. The Doll Collection has seventeen stories and I hope that it least a few stick in readers’ minds.
4. I’m curious about your writing and/or editing process. Is there a certain setting or set of circumstances that help to move things along? If you find yourself getting stuck, where and why?
ED: By necessity, I must wait for solicited submissions to arrive. Those submissions usually come in a few months after I initially ask for stories. That’s the point I start reading and accepting stories. If I love a story but think it needs a lot of work, I’ll communicate with the author right away and although I may not at that point commit to buying the story–I’ll suggest we work on it until it’s in good enough shape to accept it. This might require several rewrites. There will be a final line edit by me a couple of months before I need to hand the full mss in to my publisher. The great thing about working on more than one project (different anthologies and Tor.com) at a time is that if I get restless or just can’t focus on one project, I can read for or edit one of the other projects on which I’m working.
I sometimes get stuck thinking up an idea for another anthology to pitch to my various publishers. I’m always burned out toward the end of writing up my summary of the year for the Best Horror of the Year series.
But I try to give my brain a break and always come up with something.

5. As you probably know, many of our readers are writers and/or editors. What is the most valuable piece of advice you can share?
ED: As an editor, you must be able to reject stories, even by writers who are your friends. And always remember, it’s not your story it’s the writer’s. For a writer/editor this is especially important: don’t impose your writing style or voice on another writer’s work while editing them.
6. If you’re attending WHC this year, what are you most looking forward to at this year’s event? If not attending, what do you think is the significance of recognitions like the Bram Stoker Awards?
ED: Seeing and hanging out with writers, artists, editors, and agents, movie makers, and everyone else connected to the business. I just want to have fun.
7. What scares you most? Why? How (if at all) does that figure into your work or the projects you’re attracted to?
ED; In real life I’m scared by political extremism (within and outside the US) and a seemingly increasing intolerance of each other’s rights (in the US). This relates not at all to what I work on.
8. What are you reading for pleasure lately? Can you point us to new authors or works we ought to know about?
ED: I don’t have time to read specifically for pleasure so I try to combine my reading for the Best Horror of the Year with novels I hope will dovetail with that reading. So I only read what’s being published in the year for which I’m reading (best horror). I recently finished Richard Kadrey’s new novel THE EVERYTHING BOX, a non-Sandman Slim novel (the new one in that series is coming soon). They’re very entertaining very dark fantasies with horrific elements. I read Elizabeth Hand’s new Cass Neary novel HARD LIGHT, which is a terrific dark thriller (with supernatural elements) about a great anti-hero- a fucked up photographer famous for her photos of the drug-infested east village of the punk era. Just out. And in the middle of Matt Ruff’s excellent take on Lovecraftian lore called LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.

Victor LaValle’s THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM, a Tor.com novella (I edited it) is another fine take on Lovecraftian horror from the point of view of a young black man from Harlem in the 20s. LaValle is better known in mainstream than horror although his novels BIG MACHINE (winner of the Shirley Jackson Award) and THE DEVIL IN SILVER are both with the sf/f/h genre, particularly the second. He’s someone to watch.

Livia Llewellyn has a new collection out this year-her second-called FURNACE and it’s spectacular. Horrific, often sensual, and always disturbing-the perfect winning combination.

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the ninth volume, which will include all material published in 2016.

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 2016. Submission deadline for individual stories is December 15th 2016. I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. 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.

I will look at e-versions of anthologies and collections if they are navigable and have running heads. Otherwise I will not read them.  But I really really prefer print, if your book is available that way.

You can query me as to whether I have your collection or an anthology in which you have a story at datlow@yahoo.com

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 30th, 2016.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly read many magazines and webzines that publish horror (Black Static, Dark Discoveries, Cemetery Dance, Supernatural Tales, F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, 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, I prefer that you email me individual files.

Please do not send an SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. For confirmation that I‘ve received something, email me at datlow@yahoo.com
thank you
Ellen Datlow
Editor and reviewer
www.datlow.com

Lloyd, Rebecca “Gone to the Deep,” Strange Tales IV.

Lloyd, Rebecca “Lucky Cat,” Mercy and Other Stories.

Lloyd, Rebecca “Maynard’s Mountain,” Mercy and Other Stories.

Lloyd, Rebecca “The Reunion,” Mercy and Other Stories.

Lockley, Steve “Don’t Leave Me Down Here,” Terror Tales of Wales.

Logan, Sean “The Tagalong,” Supernatural Tales 27.

Lowder, James “The Paper Shield,” Sojourn.

Luckhurst, Rogetr “Circulation,” Irregularity.

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz “Deepwater,” (poem) Mythic Delirium #11.

Luz, Alegría Luna “The Monkey’s Other Paw,” The Monkey’s Other Paw.

Lyris, Sonia Orin “Done,” Lore April.

Maberry, Jonathan “Bug Hunt,” SNAFU.

Maberry, Jonathan “Three Guys Walk into a Bar,” Limbus, Inc, Book II.

Maberry, Jonathan “Toby’s Closet,” Streets of Shadows.

MacFarlane, Alex Dally “The (De) Composition of Evidence,” Noir.

Machado, Carmen Maria “The Husband Stitch,” Granta 129: Fate.

MacLeod, Bracken “In the Bones,” Widowmakers.

MacLeod, Catherine “Sideshow,” Women Destroy Horror.

MacLeod, Catherine “The Attic,” Fearful Symmetries.

Malik Usman T. “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar PakistaniFamily”Qualia Nous.

Malik, Usman T. “Ishq,” Black Static #44, November/December.

Malik, Usman T. “Resurrection Points,” Strange Horizons August.

Mamatas, Nick “Der Kommissar’s in Town,” Streets of Shadows.

Mamatas, Nick “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” Searchers After Horror.

Mamatas, Nick “Work, Hook, Shoot, Rip,” Nightmare Carnival.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Lu’lu” Dark Gates.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Nature’s Oddities,” The Shaman and Other Shadows.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Regnum Congo,” The Shaman and Other Shadows.

Manzetti, Alessandro “The Mont Meru,” The Shaman and Other Shadows.

Manzetti, Alessandro “The Shaman,” The Shaman and Other Shadows.

Manzetti, Alessandro “The Wolf Gate,” The Shaman and Other Shadows.

Marshall, Amy K. “The Ghosts of Kuskulana,” Carnacki: The New Adventures.

Marshall, Helen “All My Love, a Fishhook,” Gifts for the One Who Comes After.

Marshall, Helen “All Things Fall Apart and Are Built Again,” Dangerous Games.

Marshall, Helen “Ship House,” Gifts for the One Who Comes After.

Marshall, Helen “The Gallery of the Eliminated,” Gifts for the One Who Comes After.

Massie, Elizabeth “18P37-C After Andrea Was Arrested,” Qualia Nous.

Mather, Matthew “Enlightenment,” The End is Nigh.

Matheson, Michael “Jenny of the Long Gauge,” Fractured.

Matsuura, Thersa “The Spider Sweeper,” Black Static #41, July/August.

Maurer, Jason “In Your Dark…,” A Dark Phantastique.

McAllister, Bruce “La Signora,” Tor.com August 13.

McAllister, Bruce “The Witch Moth,” Fearful Symmetries.

McCammon, Robert “White,” RobertMcCammon.com

McDonald, Keris “Darkling I Listen,” Weird Tales 362.

McDonald, Keris “Under His Wing, Poor Thing,” Hauntings.

McGuire, Seanan “Spores,” The End is Nigh.

McGuire, Seanan “The Right of It,” (poem) Goblin Fruit winter.

McHugh, Maura “The Hanging Tree,” Black Static #38, January/February.

McIntosh, A. J. “Forth,” Strange Tales Volume IV.

McKenzie, Shane “Polaroid,” Mia Mojo.

McKiernan, Andrew J. “A Prayer for Lazarus,” Last Year, When We Were Young.

McMahon, Gary “Dull Fire” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

McMahon, Gary “Kaiju,” Fearful Symmetries.

McMahon, Gary “Only Bleeding,” Horror Uncut.

McMahon, Gary “Ready or Not,” Dangerous Games.

McMahon, Gary “The Night Just Got Darker,” Nightwatch Press.

McMahon, Gary “The Yellow Film,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Meikle, William “Bedlam in Yellow,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Meikle, William “Carnacki:Captain Gault’s Nemesis,” Carnacki: The New Adventures.

Meikle, William “No Sleep for the Just,” Sword and Mythos.

Mejía, Lynette “Terra Firma,” (poem) Goblin Fruit summer.

Meloy, Paul “Reclamation Yard,” Black Static #40 May/June.

Miller, Eric “Culling the Herd,” Hell Comes to Hollywood II.

Mills, Daniel “House of the Caryatids,” The Lord Came at Twilight.

Mohebali, Mahsa “My Own Marble Jesus,” Tehran Noir.

Monahan, Hilary “The Bone Man’s Bridge,” Dangerous Games.

Moore, Alison “Eastmouth,” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Moore, James A. “Blank White Page,” SNAFU.

Moore, James A. “He Dreads the Cold,” Phantasm Japan.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Kebob Bob,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Moore, Ralph Robert “When They Come for You, They’ll…”Journeys into Darkness.

Moore, Ralph Robert & Cluley, Ray “The Space Between,”Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Moraine, Sunny “So Sharp That Blood Must Flow,” Lightspeed February.

Morgan, Christine “Little Johnny Jump-Up,” SNAFU.

Morgan, Christine “The Viking in Yellow,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Morris, Mark “They Walk As Men,” Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Morrison, Matthew J. “The Stain on the Lake,” Aurealis #70.
Nelson, David Erik “The Traveling Salesman Solution,” F&SF July/August.

Mudge, Faith “Twelve,” Phantazein.

Mullins, Ian “Into the Woods,” Hellfire Crossing volume 2.

Mulroy, Sean “Hypnos,” (poem) Glitterwolf Halloween Special.

Murrell, Neil “Rain Blush,” Lovecraft Ezine 33.

Nahrung, Jason “The Preservation Society,” Dimension XI, issue one.

Narayan, Shweta “Triumph XXI: Atman,” (poem) Goblin Fruit summer.

Naturale, Lauren “Her Last Appearance,” Phantasm Japan.

Ness, Mari “Death and Death Again,” Nightmare July #22.

Neugebauer, Annie “Hide,” Black Static #44, November/December.

Nicholls, Mark “The Other Man,” The Ghosts & Scholars 25.

Nickle, David “The Exorcist: A Love Story,” Knife Fight.

Nicolay, Scott “Phragmites,” Ana Kai Tangata.

Nicolay, Scott & Douthit-Nicolay, Jesse James“ Tenebrionidae,”The Children of Old Lee

Nikita, Seras “Bog Dog,” Nightmare December #27.

Niveau, Thana “The Curtain,” Far Voyager Postscripts 32/33.

Niveau, Thana “The Face,” Terror Tales of Wales.

Norris, Gregory L. “Malediction on a Gray Summer Morning,” Twisted Boulevard.

O’Neill, Patrick “The Westhoff Version,” Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Odell, Sandra M. “The Hydra Wife,” Jamais Vu Issue 1 winter.

Ogawa, Yukimi “In Her Head, In Her Eyes,” The Book Smugglers October.

Ogawa, Yukimi “Perfect,” The Dark #4, March.

Olausson, Elin “Scar,” Black Apples.

Older, Daniel José  “Anyway, Angie,” Tor.com, March 26.

Oldknow, Antony “Ruelle des Martyrs,” Supernatural Tales 26.

Oliver, Reggie “Absalom,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadow. #2.

Orphanides, K.G. “Burning Stars,” Lovecraft eZine 29.

Osborne, Emma “Clean Hands, Dirty Hands,” Aurealis #71.

Palmer, Suzanne “House Party,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Parenti, Dino “Chiaroscuro,” American Nightmare.

Parker, Zachery C. “Hearts of Women, Hearts of Men,” Shock Totem Valentine.

Parseliti, Daniels “Stabilization,” Stamps, Vamps & Tramps.

Patridge, L.T. “The Establishment of the Doctors Hamilton,” Lovecraft eZine 29.

Peek, Ben “In the Broken City,” Shimmer 18.

Penkas, Michael “Not Seen,” Dark Fuse volume 1.

Peploe, Sarah “Stella’s,” Hauntings.

Phillips, Adam “The Medicine Cabinet,” Disturbed Digest June.

Piccirilli, Tom “My Secret is the Faces in My Hands,” Dark Discoveries 27

Picirrilli, Tom “What I Am,” Streets of Shadows.

Pierce, Cameron “Help Me,” Letters to Lovecraft.

Pillsworth, Anne P. “The Madonna of the Abbatoir,” Tor.com May 6.

Pratt, Tim “Those Who Hunt Monster Hunters,” Phantasm Japan.

Prentiss, Norman “The Shell,” Four Zombies.

Pugmire, W. H. “To Dance Among Your Puppets,” Songs of the Satyrs.

Pugmire, W.H. “An Element of Nightmare,” Searchers After Horror.

Rabarts, Dan “Children of the Tide,” Midnight Echo March.

Rambo, Cat “All the Pretty Little Mermaids,” Asimov’s SF March.

Rambo, Cat “Rappacinni’s Crow,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #151.

Rao, Dinesh “The Aerophone,” F&SF July/August.

Raven, Paul Graham “A Boardinghouse Heart,” Noir.

Rawlik, Peter “The Sepia Prints,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Read, Sarah “Golden Avery,” Black Static #40 May/June.

Rega, Angela “The Bush Bride of Badgery Hollow,” Sq Mag 14/M ay.

Regalado, Becky “Longboat,” Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Reynolds, Josh “The Brigg’s Hill Path,” Songs of the Satyrs.

Robertson, S. Brackett The Dryad to the Woodcarver,” (poem) Niteblade 27.

Robins, Lane “The Black Window,” Nightmare July #22.

Rockwell, Marsheila and Mariotte, Jeffrey J. “John Barleycorn Must Die,” Out of Tune.

Runofson, J. C. “L’Inconnue de la Seine,” (poem) Coping.

Russell, Karen “Bad Graft,” The New Yorker, June 9^th.

Russell, Karen “Sleep Donation,” (novella) Kindle single.

Russo, Patricia “In the Whiteness” Coping.

Rutledge, Charles R. “The Beautiful Lady Without Pity,” Widowmakers.

Saab, Sara “Be Light. Be Pure. Be Close to Heaven,” Black Static #42 Sept/Oct.

Salmonson, Jessica A. & Pugmire, W. H. “Underneath An Arkham Moon,” Black WiIII.

Samatar, Sofia “How to Get Back to the Forest,” Lightspeed March.

Samatar, Sofia “The Ogres of East Africa,” Long Hidden.

Samatar, Sofia “Walkdog,” Kaleidoscope.

Samuels, Mark “Alistair,” Written in Darkness.

Samuels, Mark “My World Has No Memories,” Written in Darkness.

Samuels, Mark “Outside Interference,” Written in Darkness.

SanGiovanni, Mary “Okiku,” Mia Mojo.

SanGiovanni, Mary “The Mime,” Lamplighter March.

Santoro, Lawrence “A Chittering in the Forest,” Bugs.

Schaller, Eric “The Glamour,” Kaleidotrope autumn.

Schaller, Eric “The Three Familiars,” The Dark #6.

Schanoes, Veronica “Among the Thorns,” Tor.com April 30.

Schillace, Brandy “Ghost Pine Lake,” Hauntings.

Schneyer, Kenneth “Levels of Observation,” Mythic Delirium 0.3.

Schwader, Ann K. “Dark Equinox,” Searchers After Horror.

Schwader, Ann K. “The Laundrymen,” (poem) Spectral Realms #1.

Schwader, Ann K. “The Queen’s Speech,” (poem) Lovecraft Ezine 30.

Schwaeble, Hank, “Phantom Hill,” Dark Discoveries 26.

Schweitzer, Darrell “Going to Ground” Searchers After Horror.

Schweitzer, Darrell “Hanged Man and Ghost,” Weird Fiction Review #5.

Schweitzer, Darrell “The Warm,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Scott, Donna “The Grimoire,” Noir.

Shallcross, Leif “Music for an Ivory Violin,” Aurealis #74.

Shaw, Kendra Langford “Puffin Season,” Mid-American Review XXV, #1.

Shearman, Robert “Carry Within Some Small Sliver of Me” The Spectral Bk of Horror.

Shearman, Robert “Sounding Brass Tinkling Symbol,” They Do the SameThings Differ..

Shearman, Robert “Suffer Little Children,” Fearful Symmetries.

Shearman, Robert “The Monogamy of Wild Beasts,” Dangerous Games.

Sheen, Jonathan Andrew “The Shadow in the Corner,” F&SF May/June.

Sims, Maynard “I Hear His Footsteps Drawing Near,” Journeys into Darkness.

Skipp, John “Rose Goes Shopping,” Four Zombies.

Slatsky, Christopher “The Ocean is Eating Our Graves,” Innsmouth Magazine #15.

Slatter, Angela “Home and Hearth,” Spectral Press chapbook.

Slatter, Angela “Now, All Pirates Are Gone,” The Bitterwood Bible.

Slatter, Angela “Only the Dead and the Moonstruck, “Letters to Lovecraft.

Slatter, Angela “Terrible as an Army with Banners,” The Bitterwood Bible.

Slatter, Angela “The Badger Bride,” Strange Tales IV.

Slatter, Angela “The Burnt Moon,” The Bitterwood Bible.

Slatter, Angela “The Maiden in the Ice,” The Bitterwood Bible.

Slatter, Angela “The Night Stair, “ The Bitterwood Bible.

Slatter, Angela “The October Widow,” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Smith, Clint “What About the Little One?” Ghouljaw and Other Stories.

Smith, David C. “Coven House,” Weird Tales 362.

Smith, Stephanie “What Do You Dream?” (poem) Disturbed Digest June.

Snyder, Lucy A. “Kudzu,” A Dark Phantastique.

Soini, Kat “Keep Me in a Hole,” (poem) Glitterwolf Halloween Special.

Spencer, William Browning “How The Gods Bargain,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Sr., Pulver, Joseph S. “White Fire,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Stableford, Brian “Further Beyond,” Black Wings III.

Steele, James L. “Whiteness” Bourbon Penn Issue 9.

Stenhouse, Meryl “No Home for Us,” Aurealis #76.

Stephen, Christopher M. “Shuffle,” Prison Noir.

Stewart, Andy “The New Cambrian,” F&SF January/February

Stinchcombe, Jan “The Woodsman,” Luna Station Quarterly #17.

Strantzas, Simon “Burnt Black Suns,” Burnt Black Suns.

Strantzas, Simon “On Ice,” Burnt Black Suns.

Strantzas, Simon “Thistle’s Find,” Black Wings III.

Strantzas, Simon “Youth’s Folly,” Dark Discoveries 29.

Straub, Peter “The Collected Short Stories of Freddie Prothero…”Conjunctions 62: Exile.

Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo “The Damaged,” Interzone #250 January.

Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo “Where You Come From” Three-Lobe Burning Eye #26.

Surface, David “Faces of the Missing,” Supernatural Tales 26.

Surface, David “Writings Found in a Red Notebook,” Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Suzuki, Koji “Beyond the Darkness,” Death and the Flower.

Suzuki, Koji “Key West,” Death and the Flower.

Taaffe, Sonya “Godfather Drosselmeyer,” (poem) Goblin Fruit winter.

Takács, Bogi “Spirit Forms of the Sea,” Sword and Mythos.

Tambour, Anna “The Walking-stick Forest,” Tor.com May 21.

Tarry, Chris “Nennorluk Goes Down Deep,” On Spec #96 spring.

Taylor, Lucy “A Respite for the Dead,” chapbook Omnium Gatherum.

Taylor, Lucy “Soul Eaters,” Fatal Journeys.

Taylor, Lucy “Summerland,” Fatal Journeys.

Taylor, Lucy “The High and the Mighty and Me,” Fatal Journeys.

Tem, Melanie “Cantata,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “A House By the Ocean,” Here with the Shadows.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “Est Enim Magnum Chaos,” Here with the Shadows.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “G is for Ghost,” Here with the Shadows.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “The Hanged Man,” Black Static #40 May/June.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “The Still, Cold Air,” Here with the Shadows.

Thomas, Jeffrey “Snake Wind,” The Children of Old Leech.

Thomas, Leah “The Driveway,” Black Static #41, July/August.

Thomas, Llinos Cathryn “The Flock,” Luna Station Quarterly #17.

Thomas, Richard “Asking for Forgiveness,” Menacing Hedge Summer.

Thompson, Tade “Honourable Mention,” Dangerous Games.

Tidhar, Lavie “Die,” Dangerous Games.

Tidhar, Lavie “Selfies,” Tor.com September 17.

Tiedemann, Mark W. “By Other Names,” Gravity Box.

Tobler, E. Catherine “And After the Fire, a Still Small Voice,” Sword and Mythos.

Tobler, E. Catherine “Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds,” Clarkesworld 92.

Tobler, E. Catherine “Pithing Needle,” Clarkesworld 97.

Tobler, E. Catherine “We As One, Trailing Embers,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #147.

Tolbert, Jeremiah “Wet Fur,” Asimov’s Science Fiction August.

Tom, Laurie “Unfilial Child,” Streets of Shadows.

Tonso, K.M. “Last Rites,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Tregillis, Ian “Testimony of Samuel Frobisher….” F&SF July/August.

Tremblay, Paul “————” Letters to Lovecraft.

Tremblay, Paul “Notes for ‘The Barn in the Wild,’” The Children of Old Leech

Tugwell, Graham “Women Who Go Down in Fives,” Postscripts to Darkness 5.

Turzillo, Mary “Funeral Rite,” (poem) Sweet Poison.

Tyson, Donald “The Dog Handler’s Tale,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Tyson, Donald “Waller,” Black Wings III.

Ueda, Sayuri (tran. Jim Hubbert) “The Street of Fruiting Bodies,” Phantasm Japan.

Underberg, Tom “Sir Pagan’s Gift,” F&SF September/October.

Unsworth, Emma Jane “Smoke,” Poor Souls’ Light.

Unsworth, Simon Kurt “Hotel Guest,” Strange Gateways.

Unsworth, Simon Kurt “The Private Ambulance,” Noir.

Urbanski, Debbie “Devotion,” The Southern Review autumn.

Valentine, Genevieve “Dream Houses,” (novella) WSFA Press.

Valentine, Mark “Goat Songs,” Songs of the Satyrs.

Valentine, Mark “Seaweed Tea,” Dreams of Shadow and Smoke.

Venturini, Fred “Gasoline,” Burnt Tongues.

Vincent, Nik “The Stranger Cards,” Dangerous Games.

Volk, Stephen “Matilda of the Night,” Terror Tales of Wales.

Volk, Stephen “Newspaper Heart,” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Waggoner, Tim “This is Not a Horror Story,” Equilibrium Overturned.

Walker, Lindsey “Enwreathed,” (poem) Goblin Fruit summer.

Wallace, Elsa “A Tale from Kildonan,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows #2.

Walters, Damien Angelica “A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take,” Lightspeed December.

Walters, Damien Angelica “This Is the Way I Die,” Nightmare May #20.

Walters, Damien Angelica “U is for Umbrella,” A is for Apocalypse.

Wandless, William H. “Doorways,” Supernatural Tales 28.

Ward, C.E. “11334,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows volume 2.

Warren, Kaaron “Bridge of Sighs,” Fearful Symmetries.

Warren, Kaaron “The Nursery Corner,” Fearsome Magics.

Warren, Kaaron “The Optimist,” The Many Faces of Anthony Cardno,

Warrick, Douglas F. “The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens,” Streets of Shadows.

Watt, D. P. “14ml of Matt Enamel #61,” The Phantasmagorical Imperative.

Watt, D. P. “By Nature’s Power Enshrined,” The Phantasmagorical Imperative.

Webb, David “A Handful of Dust, “ Hauntings.

Webb, Janeen “Lady of the Swamp,” Death at the Blue Elephant.

Weber, Nancy “Might Have Been,” Ad Parnassum.

Wehunt, Michael “Onanon,” Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Wehunt, Michael “Stabat Mater,” Shock Totem #8.

Weighell, Ron “Now Feel That Pulse No More,” Summonings.

Weiss, Buck “The Magician’s Study,” Carnacki: The New Adventures.

Weiter, Bear “Words Unbound,” Of Devils and Deviants.

Wickliff, Dot “Love Grudge,” (poem) Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Wiewiora, Chris “Way Out,” Thin Air #24.

Wild, Lilah “W is for Water,” A is for Apocalypse.

Wilkinson, Charles “Hidden in the Alphabet,” Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Williams, Conrad “Shaddertown,” Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Willis, Suzanne “The Psychometrist,” Far Voyager Postscripts 32/33.

Willis, Suzanne J. “Rag and Bone Heart,” Phantazein.

Willis, Suzanne J. “When the Sea is Blue…” Luna Station Quarterly #17.

Wilson, Kai Ashante “The Devil in America,” Tor.com, April 2.

Wise, A. C. “Chasing Sunset,” Whispers from the Abyss.

Wise, A. C. “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” Shimmer 21.

Wise, A.C. “And the Carnival Leaves Town,” Nightmare Carnival.

Wong, Alyssa “Scarecrow,” Black Static #42, September/October.

Wong, Alyssa “The Fisher Queen,” F&SF May/June.

Wood, N. Lee “Scapegoats,” Nightmare Carnival.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Eventually, You Become Immune,” Jamais Vu Issue 1 winter.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Knot Undone,” (poem) Mourning Jewelry.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Lullabye,” (poem) Mourning Jewelry.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Naked for Neptune,” (poem) Mourning Jewelry.

Wytovich, Stephanie M. “The Women,” (poem) Mourning Jewelry.

Zebedee, Jo “Silver Threads of Coralline,” Malevolence.

Zelanyj, Alexander “Forevermore Yours, the Hatred Chord,” Songs for the Lost.

Zelanyj, Alexander “Maria, Here Come the Death Angels,” Ibid.

 

Agelopoulou, Kallirroe “Piling Up,” Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Allen, Mike “Monster,” Nameless spring/summer 2013 (published 2014).

Allen, Mike “Tardigrade,” A Darke Phantastique.

Allen, Mike “The Lead Between the Panes,” Unseaming.

Allen, Mike “The Quiltmaker,” Unseaming.

Anderson, M.T. Quick Hill,” Monstrous Affections.

Anding, Rachel “Grandma Elspeth’s Enchiridion for Domestic…” American Nightmare.

Ardanuy, David Yale “One Last Meal, Before the End,” Letters to Lovecraft.

Arkenberg, Megan “Godfather,” Niteblade 27.

Arkenberg, Megan “Six Things the Owl Said,” (poem) Goblin Fruit spring.

Arnold, Joel “The Toyol,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Aronovitz, Michael “The Girl Between the Slats,” Searchers After Horror.

Ashley, Garrett “Straight of Solitude,” Lore April.

Avery, Simon “In October We Buried the Monsters, “ Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Bacon, Stephen “The Summer of Bradbury,” Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Bahrami, Azardokht “A Stoning Before Breakfast,” Tehran Noir.

Bailey, Dale, “The End of the End of Everything,” Tor.com April 23.

Bailey, Michael “Dandelion Clocks,” Inkblots and Blood Spots.

Baker, Harry “Fat Betty,” Shock Totem #8.

Baker, Harry “The Carrion Birds and the Drone, Lovecraft eZine 29.

Baker, Scott “Feral Frolics,” F&SF November/December.

Ballingrud, Nathan “Skullpocket” Nightmare Carnival.

Ballingrud, Nathan “The Diabolist,” Monstrous Affections.

Barker, David “Chamber of Shards,” (poem) Cyäegha 12 winter.

Barnham, Chris “Ravello Steps,” Black Static #40, May/June.

Barrass, Glynn Owen “Future Imperfect,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Barron, Laird “(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness,” Dark Discoveries 29.

Barron, Laird “Screaming Elk, Mt.,” Nightmare Carnival.

Baxter, Alan “The Darkness in Clara,” Sq Mag 14/May.

Baxter, Alan “Thirty-Three Tear to a Teaspoon,” Far Voyager, PS 32/33.

Beals, Megan Lee “Flies in the Ink,” Stamps, Vamps & Tramps.

Bear, Elizabeth “Formidable Terrain,” Weird Tales 362.

Bear, Elizabeth “Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle,” Dead Man’s Hand.

Bell, Helena “Burial,” The Dark #3, February.

Bell, Helena “Lovecraft,” Clarkesworld 97.

Bell, Peter “Princess of the Highway,” Dreams of Shadow and Smoke.

Bell, Peter “The Sands o’Dee,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows vol. 2.

Bennett, Robert Jackson and Liss, David “Hollow Choices,” Dark Duets.

Berger, Paul M. “Subduction,” F&SF July/August.

Berman, Steve “Passion, Like a Voice–That Buds,” Glitterwolf Halloween Special.

Bestwick, Simon “As White as Bone,” Matter #13.

Bestwick, Simon “Night Templar,” Black Static #44, November/December.

Bestwick, Simon “The Battering Stone,” Horror Uncut.

Bestwick, Simon “The Lowland Hundred,” Dead Water.

Biancotti, Deborah “No Mercy for the Executioner,” Review of Aust. Fiction vol.11#6.

Blundell, Ed “Penny for the Guy,” Hellfire Crossing volume 2.

Bodner, Hal “Hot Tub,” Hell Comes to Hollywood II.

Bossert, Gregory Norman “Spinning the Thread,” Kaleidotrope autumn.

Bowes, Richard “Sleep Walking Now and Then,” Tor.com, July 9.

Bowker, John “Old Meat,” Space & Time spring, #120.

Bradley, James “Changeling,” Fearsome Magics.

Bradley, James “Skinsuit,” Island 137.

Braunbeck, A. Gary “Shikata Ga Nai: The Bag Lady’s Tale,” Phantasm Japan.

Braunbeck, Gary A. “Photo Captions, Jamais Vu Issue 1 winter.

Brennan, Gerard “Morrigan’s Girls,” Streets of Shadows.

Buie, Keith “The Routine,” Burnt Tongues.

Bulkin, Nadia “Truth is Order and Order is Truth,” Sword and Mythos.

Burgess, Rand “The Lust of Ebon Teeth,” Innsmouth Magazine #15.

Burke, Kealan Patrick “Visitation Rights,” Holiday Horrors.

Byrt, Richard “It Just So Happens,” (poem) Glitterwolf Halloween Special.

Cacek, P.D. “The Note,” (poem) Journals of Horror.

Cade, O.J. “The Absence of Feathers,” Luna Station Quarterly #17.

Cade, Octavia “The Mussel Eater,” Book Smugglers November.

Cadieux, Agnes “Empty Heart,” On Spec #97.

Cadigan, Pat “Lefty Plays Bridge,” Dangerous Games.

Cadigan, Pat “Unfair Exchange,” Women Destroy Horror.

Cadigan, Pat Will The Real Psycho In This Story Please Stand Up? Fearful Symmetries.

Cahill, Martin “It Was Never the Fire,” Nightmare April #19.

Caine, Rachel “Easy Mark,” Stamps, Vamps & Tramps.

Calloway, Adam “His Body Scattered by The Plague Winds,” Stamps, Vamps & Tramps.

Campbell, Ramsey “On the Tour,” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Impression,” Weird Tales 362.

Carroll, Siobhan “Wendigo Nights,” Fearful Symmetries.

Caselberg, Jay “Bite Marks,” Noir.

Caselberg, Jay “Sailor’s Rest,” Night Terrors III.

Casson, Tim “The Crone at the Meadow Gate,” Black Static #40, May/June.

Castro, Adam-Troy “In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures,” Nightmare May #20.

Castro, Adam-Troy “The Totals,” Nightmare February #17

Cataneo, Emily B. “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles,” Qualia Nous.

Cato, Beth “Bird Girl,” (poem) Niteblade 27.

Chambers, Seth “In Her Eyes,” F&SF January/February.

Chandrasekera, Vajra “The Brack,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Chehelnabi, Amin, “Shameful Sofalee,” Innsmouth Magazine #15.

Cheney, Matthew “Patrimony,” Black Static #42, September/October

Chomichuk, GMB, Janzen, Curtis, and Turner, Thomas “Manitou-Wapow,” Fractured.

Clark, Pete “Earth Risen,” Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Clark, Simon “The Rhubarb Festival,” Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Cluley, Ray “The Hutch,” Black Static #41, July/August.

Cluley, Ray “Under the Windings of the Sea,” Terror Tales of Wales.

Cluley, Ray “Water for Drowning,” (novella) This is Horror.

Connor, Lloyd “Some Corner of a Dorsett Field… Three-Lobe Burning Eye #25.

Cook, Diane “Moving On,” Tin House #59.

Copley-Woods, Haddayr “Belly,” F&SF July/August.

Cowdrey, Albert E. “Golden Girl,” F&SF November/December.

Cowdrey, Albert E. “Out of the Deep,” F&SF January/February.

Cowen, David “Crossing the Realms,” (poem) The Madness of Empty Spaces.

Cowen, David “Nightmares of an Old House,” (poem) The Madness of Empty Spaces.

Cowen, David “Seven Hauntings in Seven Storms,”(poem)TheMadness ofEmpty Spaces.

Cowen, David “Waking the Woodman,” (poem) The Madness of Empty Spaces.

Crichton, Katherine “You’re Hand in Mine, We’ll Be All Right,” Flash Fiction online.

Crighton, Katherine “The Inside and the Outside,” Women Destroy Horror.

Darwin, Emma “A Cold Vehicle for the Marvellous,” Dreams of Shadow and Smoke.

DeHaan, Laura ‘Long Hot Wait,” ASIM #59.

Deshane, Evelyn “The Plague,” Postscripts to Darkness 5.

Devlin, Malcolm “Passion Play,” Black Static #38, January/February.

Di Orazio, Paolo “Hell,” Dark Gates.

Dickinson, Seth “Anna Saves Them All,” Shimmer 21.

Dines, Steven J. “The Broken and the Unmade,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Dioses, Ashley “Carathis,” (poem) Spectral Realms #1.

Dixon, Lauren “Sheela of Good Shepard,” Three-Lobe Burning Eye #25.

Dowling, Terry, “Corpse Rose,” Nightmare Carnival.

Dowling, Terry, “The Four Darks,” Fearful Symmetries.

Duffy, Steve “Old as the Hills,” Terror Tales of Wales.

Dunlap, Margaret “Jane,” Shimmer 19, May.

Dunwoody, David “The Good Man,” Darkness Ad Infintum.

Edgeworth, Mitchell “What Manner of Creature,” Postscripts to Darkness 5.

Eeles, Terence James “Lemming,” Burnt Tongues.

Eikamp, Rhonda “The Occluded,” Unlikely Story, Cartography, issue 9.

Elliott, Julia “Caveman Diet,” The Wilds.

Elliott, Julia “Feral,” The Wilds.

Emelumadu, Chikodil “Tunbi,” Luna Station Quarterly #18.

Emrys, Ruthanna “The Litany of Earth,” Tor.com May 15.

Epstein, Alex “Death in Pajamas,” Tel Aviv Noir.

Erdelac, Edward M. “The Wood of Ephraim,” Sword and Mythos.

Etchison, Dennis “Breakfast in Tasmania,” A Darke Phantastique.

Etchison, Dennis “The Walk,” Tor.com October 20.

Evenson, Brian “Cult,” Conjunctions: 62 Exile.

Evenson, Brian “The Blood Drip,” Granta online, October 31.

Evenson, Brian “The Punish,” Monkey Business volume 4.

Evenson, Brian “The Window,” Fearful Symmetries.

Evenson, Brian BearHeart tm Dark Discoveries 27.

Everington, James “The Man in the Blue Boots,” Hauntings.

Fawver, Kurt “The Waves from Afar,” Weird Tales 362.

Ferebee, K. M. “The Earth and Everything Under,” Shimmer 19, May.

Ferguson, Anthony “Thicker than Water,” Midnight Echo February.

Files, Gemma “A Wish From a Bone,” Fearful Symmetries.

Files, Gemma “Satan’s Jewel Crown,” Dark Discoveries 26.

Files, Gemma “That Place,” Letters to Lovecraft.

Files, Gemma “The Harrow,” The Children of Old Leech.

Finlay, C.C. “The Man Who Hanged Three Times,” F&SF January/February.

Fletcher, Thomas “The Exotic Dancer,” Poor Soul’s Light.

Flynn, Gillian “What Do You Do?” Rogues.

Ford, Jeffrey “Hibbler’s Minions,” Nightmare Carnival.

Ford, Jeffrey “La Madre Del Oro,” Dead Man’s Hand.

Ford, Jeffrey “Mount Chary Galore,” Fearful Symmetries.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Order of the Haunted Wood,” Letters to Lovecraft.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Prelate’s Commission,” Subterranean winter.

Foster, John C. “Highballing Through Gehanna,” Shock Totem #8.

Fowler, Karen Joy “Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story,” Subterranean Winter

Freivald, Patrick “Trigger Warning,” Demonic Visions 4.

Fuller, Andrew S. “Immigrant,” A Darke Phantastique.

Furr, Nickolas “In the Wardrobe,” A Dark Phantastique.

Futter, Ian “Pursuit,” (poem) Spectral Realms #1.

Fylan, Jason M. “Engines, O-rings, and Astronauts,” Burnt Tongues.

Gaskin, John “Addendum to a Confession,” The Master of the House.

Gaskin, John “The Master of the House,” The Master of the House.

Gaskin, John “The Memento Mori,” Strange Tales IV.

Gavin, Richard “The Old Pageant,” The Children of Old Leech.

German, Wade “A Voyage to Carcosa,” (poem) Dreams from a Black Nebula.

German, Wade “Ghost Mountains,” (poem) Dreams from a Black Nebula.

German, Wade “Nightfall in Sesqua,” (poem) Dreams from a Black Nebula.

Gilbow, S. L. “Mr. Hill’s Death,” The Dark #4, March.

Ginther, Chadwick “A Taste of the Other Side,” Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls.

Gladstone, Max “A Kiss with Teeth,” Tor.com October 29.

Godby, Ben “Anuta Fragment’s Private Eyes,” Shimmer 18.

Godby, Ben “Nightchild,” Innsmouth Magazine #15.

Golden, Christopher “Wendy Darling,” Out of Tune.

Gonzalez, Michael Paul “Worth the Having,” Halloween Tales.

Gordon, Alan Ira “Vincent and Paul in The Yellow House,” Disturbed Digest June.

Goto, Hiromi “Covalent Bond,” Room Magazine December.

Gowin, Amanda “The Line Forms on the Right,” Burnt Tongues.

Grandbois, Peter “The Stability of Large Systems,” Double Monster Feature.

Grant, Helen “The Third Time,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows #2.

Grant, John “Ghost Story,” Interzone #251, March/April.

Grant, John “His Artist Wife,” Black Static #38 January/February.

Grau, T.E. “Monochrome,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Gray, Caspian “Separation Distress,” ASIM #60.

Greaves, Jeanette “The Eighth Pane Sash,” Hauntings.

Greenwood, John “The House Warming,” Supernatural Tales 27.

Gregory, Daryl We Are All Completely Fine (novella) Tachyon.

Gresh, Lois H. “Old Enough to Drink,” A Darke Phantastique.

Grey, Orrin “Walpurgisnacht,” The Children of Old Leech.

Griffith, Nicola “Cold Wind,” Tor.com April 9.

Grintalis, Damien Walters “Broken BeneaththePaperweight”ShockTotemValentine issue.

Gussoff, Caren “Peculiar Institution,” Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls.

Gutiérrez, Peter “Anteroom,” (poem) Shock Totem 9.

Halbany, Laurel “Lights Fade,” In the Court of the Yellow King.

Hall, Kate “The Scrimshaw and the Scream,” Women Destroy Fantasy.

Halsall, Rachel “The Conch,” Hauntings.

Hannett, Lisa & Slatter, Angela “The Female Factory,” The Female Factory.

Hardinge, Frances “Devil’s Bridge,” Fearsome Magics.

Hargadon, Stephen “The Bury Line,” Black Static #42, September/October.

Hargadon, Stephen “World of Trevor,” Black Static #40 May/June.

Harman, Christopher “A True Yorkshireman,” Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Harman, Christopher “Slapstick,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows #2.

Harris, Charlaine and Caine, Rachel “Dark Witness,” Dark Duets.

Harrow, Alix E. “A Whisper in the Weld,” Shimmer 22, November.

Hauser, Nik “Son of Abyss,” Monstrous Affections.

Hawks, Rhodi and Wilson, F. Paul “Renascence,” Dark Duets.

Hayes, Martin “Echoes,” Dreams of Shadow and Smoke.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “Taxidermist in the Underworld,” Clarkesworld 97.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “What There Was to See,” Subterranean summer.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “Who is Your Executioner?” Nightmare November #26.

Hellisen, Cat “The Girls Who Go Below,” F&SF July/August.

Heuler, Karen “Stray Curse,” Indiana Review, summer.

Hickson, Robin “The Apothecary’s Tale,” BFS Journal #13.

Hirshberg, Glen “A Small Part in the Pantomime,” Nightmare Carnival.

Hirshberg, Glen “Hexenhaus,” Dark Discoveries 29.

Hodge, Brian “Cures for a Sickened World” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Hodson, Brad C. “The Scottish Play,” Hell Comes to Hollywood II.

Holder, Nancy “In Arkham Town, Where I Was Bound,” Out of Tune.

Hook, Andrew “A Knot of Toads,” Black Static #38, January/February.

Hook, Andrew “Softwood,” La Femme.

Hopkinson, Nalo “Left Foot, Right,” Monstrous Affections.

Howard, John “Falling into Stone,” Horror Uncut.

Howard, Kat “Dreaming Like a Ghost,” Nightmare February #17

Howard, Kat “Hath No Fury,” Subterranean spring.

Howle, Bryan “Bike,” Burnt Tongues.

Huang, S. L. “Hunting Monsters,” Book Smugglers October.

Hunter, Justin “Flyweight,” Bugs.

Hutchison, Scott T. “Breaking a Witch’s Fingers, “ (poem) Star*Line summer.

Jackson, Roger “No-Man’s Land,” Equilibrium Overturned.

Jackson, Shirley “The Man in the Wood,” The New Yorker, April 28.

Jager, Michelle “Bones,” SQ Mag 14/May.

Jakeman, Jane “Quarry Hogs,” Supernatural Tales 27.

James, M.R. & Grant, Helen “The Game of Bear,” Weird Tales 362.

Jansson, Mathias “Door to Insanity,” (poem) Darkness Ad Infinitum.

Jantunen, John “The Body Politic,” Fractured.

Jason, Philip “Panacea,” Mid-American Review volume XXXIV, #2.

Jeffreys, Tim “The Well,” Whispers from the Abyss.

John, Derek “The Desecrator,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows #2.

Johnson, Alaya Dawn “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” F&SF July/August.

Johnson, Erik T. “Krug’s Pen,” BFS Journal #10.

Johnstone, Carole “Catching Flies,” Fearful Symmetries.

Johnstone, Carole “Equilibrium,” Black Static #41, July/August.

Johnstone, Carole “Gettin’ High,” The Bright Day is Done.

Johnstone, Carole “Victoria Sponge,” The Bright Day is Done.

Johnstone, Tom “An to Bury Ring,” Supernatural Tales 27.

Johnstone, Tom “Kravolitz,” Wicked Women.

Jones, Mark Howard “The Turn of the Tide,” Black Wings III.

Jones, S. Marcus “Summertime in Paris,” BFS Journal #13.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Brushdogs,” The Children of Old Leech.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Dear Final Girls,” Shock till You Drop October.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Doc’s Story,” Letters to Lovecraft.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Tenderizer,” The Cutting Room.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Darkest Part,” Nightmare Carnival.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Dead Are Not,” Bourbon Penn Issue 9.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Elvis Room,” This is Horror.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Spider Box,” After the People Lights Have Gone Off.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Spindly Man,” Fearful Symmetries.

Jones, Stephen Graham “When Swords Had Names,” The Dark #5, April.

Jones, Stephen Graham “You Are Here,” Shock Totem 9.

Jourdan, Phil “Mind and Soldier,” Burnt Tongues.

Joy, B.T. “Crawler SQ Magazine #12, January.

Joyce, Mere “Moon Child,” Hauntings.

Kaftan, Vylar “Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #149.

Karney, Rue “A Place for Everyone,” Hauntings.

Kastn, D. T. “Real Live Lobsters,” A Darke Phantastique.

Keene, Brian “Musings,” Pages From Four Killers.

Keevil, Tyler “Hot Feet,” Black Static #39, March/April.

Kemper, Erinn L. “The Claim,” A Darke Phantastique.

Kendall, Mikki “If God is Watching,” The Revelator #138.

Kennett, Rick “Dolls for Another Day,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows #2.

Keret, Etgar “Allergies,” Tel Aviv Noir.

Ketchum, Jack “Listen,” Night Terrors III.

Ketchum, Jack “Oldies,” Jamai Vu Issue two, spring.

Kiernan Caitlín R. “Far from Any Shore,” Sirenia Digest 101.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “A Mountain Walked,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Blind Fish,” Searchers After Horror.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Chewing on Shadows,” Sirenia Digest 97.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Idyll for a Limbo Dancer,” Sirenia Digest 96.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “One Tree Hill,” Black Wings III.

Kiernan, Caitlin R. “Pushing the Sky Away (Death of a Blasphemer), Subterranean sum

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Beginning of a Year Without Summer,” Sirenia Digest 99.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Cats of River Street (1925), Sirenia Digest #102.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Peddler’s Tale, or Isobel’s Revenge,” Sirenia Digest 95.

Kim, Alice Sola “Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because…” Monstrous Affections.

Kindred, Sally Rosen “Said Rapunzel to the Wolf,” (poem) Goblin Fruit winter.

Kitano, Yusaki (trans. Nathan Collins)“Scissors or Claws, and Holes,” Phantasm Japan.

Kornher-Stace, Nicole “Present,” Mythic Delirium 0.3.

Kratz, Al “Rabbit,” BFS Journal #10.

Kurzawa, Greg “Old Bones,” Interzone #251 March/April.

Langan, John “Kore,” Shock Totem Halloween issue.

Langan, John “Children of the Fang,” Lovecraft’s Monsters. (novella)

Langan, John “Tragôidia,” Song of the Satyrs.

Lansdale, Joe R. “Fishing for Dinosaurs,” Limbus Inc, Book II.

Lansdale, Joe R. “The Case of the Four-Acre Haunt,” A Darke Phantastique.

Lansdale, Kasey and Lansdale, Joe R. “Blind Love,” Dark Duets.

Larner, S. G. “Chasing the Storm,” SQ Mag 14/May.

Larson, Rich “The Air We Breathe is Stormy, Stormy,” Strange Horizons August.

Larson, Richard “Capricorn,” Abyss & Apex October.

LaSart, C.W. “The Gift of Infidelity,” Of Devils and Deviants.

LaValle, Victor “Lone Women,” Long Hidden.

Lebeda, William “Charlie’s Angel,” Hell Comes to Hollywood II.

LeFanu, Sarah “Alicia Harker’s Story,” Dreams of Shadow and Smoke.

Legend, Kara “Still Red,” Fiction River #7: Fantasy Adrift.

Leibowitz, Sandi “Braiding,” (poem) Niteblade 27.

Leibowitz, Sandi “Old Bone,” (poem) Mythic Delirium 0.3.

Lemmer, Richard “Ingredients,” Burnt Tongues.

Leslie, V. H. “Preservation,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows volume 2.

Leslie, V.H. “The Quiet Room,” Shadows & Tall Trees 2014.

Levine, David D. “Goat Eyes,” Black Static #42, September/October.

Libling, Michael “Hollywood North,” F&SF November/December.

Lieder, Tim “Hey Man,” Shock Totem 9.

Ligotti, Thomas “Metaphysica Morum,” The Spectral Link.

Ligotti, Thomas “The Small People,” The Spectral Link.

Link, Kelly “I Can See Right Through You,” McSweeny’s Quarterly 48.

Lipkin, Shira “The Final Girl,” Strange Horizons April.

Little, Bentley “The Pen,” Dark Discoveries 27.

Littlewood, Alison “A Legion of Echoes,” Far Voyager Postscripts 32/33.

Littlewood, Alison “Bluebeard’s Child,” Black Apples.

Littlewood, Alison “On Ilkley Moor,” Terror Tales of Yorkshire.

Liu, Ken “The Ussuri Bear,” Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls.

Liu, Ken “What I Assume You Shall Assume,” Dead Man’s Hand.

Livia Llewellyn “The Mysteries,” Nightmare Carnival.

Llewellyn, Livia “It Feels Better Biting Down,” Women Destroy Horror.

Llewellyn, Livia “The Last, Clean, Bright Summer,” Primeval #2.

Lloyd, Rebecca “All That Follows,” Mercy and Other Stories.

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the eighth volume, which will include all material published in 2015. 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 2015. Submission deadline for individual stories is December 15th 2015. I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. 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.

You can query me as to whether I have your collection or anthology at datlow@yahoo.com

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, 2015.

Ellen Datlow

Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight

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New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly read many magazines that publish horror (Black Static, Dark Discoveries, Cemetery Dance, Supernatural Tales, 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 email me doc files of your stories.  I will also accept printouts of stories produced and first “published” in 2015 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.

thank you

Ellen Datlow

Editor and reviewer

www.datlow.com