Ellen Datlow

Fiction Editor

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

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Call for Submissions

 

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

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

There will be a summation of “the year in horror” in the front of the volume. This includes novels, nonfiction, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for submissions to this section is December 15th, 2014.

Ellen Datlow

Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven

PMB 391

511 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011-8436

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

Please do not send an SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. For confirmation that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived.

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

thank you

Ellen

 

 

Recent acquisitions for Tor.com

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

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

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

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

 

And forthcoming are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

A Celebration of Lucius Shepard & his work

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Rob Killheffer and I are going to host a celebration of Lucius Shepard and his work Sunday evening 7-9 pm June 15, 2014 at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave), New York, NY.

Lucius read there a number of times over the years and I think it’s the perfect venue in NYC to celebrate his life with readings from his work and remembrances by his friends.

Everyone is welcome. Entrance to the bar is free, just buy a drink or two in honor of Lucius.

More info tk.

 

 

The Doll Collection

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For anyone wondering why I’ve been pretty quiet these past few weeks, it’s because I was finishing up two original anthologies: Nightmare Carnival and The Doll Collection.

I handed in Nightmare Carnival a couple of weeks ago and posted the cover art here. I’m about to hand in The Doll Collection, as soon as I finish my Introduction.

No cover art yet for this one. This is probably the order of the stories, but it’s not carved in stone.

The book will be published by Tor Books on their spring 2015 list.  (which could be any time between February and May, I believe).

Introduction                                                      by Ellen Datlow

Heroes and Villains                                           by Stephen Gallagher

The  Doll-Master                                                 by Joyce Carol Oates

Gaze                                                                          by Gemma Files

In Case of Zebras                                                by Pat Cadigan

Miss Sibyl-Cassandra                                       by Lucy Sussex

Skin and Bone                                                     by Tim Lebbon

There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold by Seanan McGuire

Goodness and Kindness                                   by Carrie Vaughn

Daniel’s Theory of Dolls                                   by Stephen Graham Jones

After and Back Before                                    by Miranda Siemienowicz

Doctor Faustus                                     by Mary Robinette Kowal

Doll Court                                                        by Richard Bowes

Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line by Genevieve Valentine

Ambitious Boys Like You                                 by Richard Kadrey

The Permanent Collection                                 by Veronica Schanoes

Homemade Monsters                                       by John Langan

Word Doll                                                        by Jeffrey Ford

 

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