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Honorable Mentions in the print edition of The Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve

October 31, 2021 by Ellen Datlow 1 Comment

Addison, Linda D. & Manzetti, A.“The Place of Broken Things,” (poem) The Place

Armfield, Julia “Stop Your Women’s Ears With Wax,” Salt Slow.

Barron, Laird “We Used Swords in the ’70s,” Weird Fiction Review Fall.

Bartlett Matthew M. “A Strange Haze,” Wicked Weird.

Baxter, Alan “The Ocean Hushed the Stones,” Served Cold.

Begg, Charlotte “After I Devoured the Beast,” (poem) Vastarien Fall.

Benedict, R.S. “All of Me,” F&SF, March/April.

Bestwick, Simon “And Cannot Come Again,” (novella) And Cannot Come Again.

Bodard, Aliette de “A Burning Sword for Her Cradle,” Echoes.

Breukelaar, J. S. “Fixed,” Collision.

Bruce, Georgina “The Lady of Situations,” This House of Wounds.

Bryski, KT “The Path of Pins, the Path of Needles,” Lightspeed #115, December.

Cadigan, Pat “About the O’Dell’s,” Echoes.

Chronister, Kay “Thin Places,” The Dark #50, July.

Cisco, Michael “Their Silent Faces” Spirits Unwrapped.

Cluley, Ray “6/6,” Black Shuck Books.

Coffman, Frank “The Witches Rite at Beltane,” (poem) Spectral Realms 10.

Connell, Brendan “All the Wild Animals,” A Miscellany of Death and Folly.

Dean, David “The Squatter,” EQMM Sept/October.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Jeweled Wren,” Echoes.

Gardner, Cate “The Mute Swan,” Terror Tales of Northwest England.

Grant, John Linwood “Records of the Dead,” The Twisted Book of Shadows.

Hodge, Brian “One Last Year Without a Summer,” Skidding Into Oblivion.

Holmes, Carly “A Shadow Flits,” Pareidolia.

Jamneck, Lynne “Lies I Told Myself,” Nox Pareidolia.                 

Johnstone, Tom “The Wakeman Recreation Ground,” Last Stop Wellsbourne.

Kassel, Mel “The Coffin, The Ship,” Black Warrior Review fall/winter.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “The Eight People Who Murdered Me…” Nightmare#86November.

Langan, John “Natalya, Queen of the Hungry Dogs” (novella) Echoes.

Larson, Rich “Painless,” Tor.com April 10.

LaValle, Victor “Up From Slavery” Weird Tales #363.

Littlewood, Alison “The July Girls,” Echoes.

Lombardi, Nicola “Striges,” The World of SF, Fantasy and Horror vol. IV.

McCarthy, Cori “You Wake With Him Beside You,” (poem) Betty Bites Back.

McHugh, Maura “Suspension,” The Boughs Withered When I Told You My Dreams.

Meijer, Marys “Pool,” Rag.

Moore, Tegan “A Forest, or a Tree,” Tor.com July 10.

Oates, Joyce Carol “The Surviving Child,” Echoes.

Raye, J. C. “Eternal Roots of Lane County,” Nightscript V.

Read, Sarah “Into the Wood,” Pareidolia.

Rees, Matthew “The Lock,” Keyhole.

Lee, Seulmi “When I Stopped Eating Earth,” Black Warrior Review fall/winter.

Sharma, Priya “Ormeshadow,” (novella) Tor.com

Smith, Michael Marshall “The Burning Woods,”  I Am the Abyss.

Tantlinger, Sara “To be Devoured,”   (novella)

Tem, Steve Rasnic “When You’re Not Looking,” The Night Doctor and Other Tales.

Thomas, Lee “Flowers For Bitsy,” Spirits Unwrapped.

Volk, Stephen “Unchain the Beast,” Black Static #68, March-April.

Warren, Kaaron “Into Bones Like Oil,” (novella) Meerkat Press.

Wilkinson, Charles “The Festival of Conformity,” Dark Lane 8.

 

 

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Honorable Mentions (in the actual print copy) from The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen

October 30, 2021 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mentions.

 

Addison, Linda D. “Mud,” Don’t Turn Out the Lights.

Bailey, Dale “Das Gesicht,” Final Cuts.

Barrett, E. C. “We Aren’t Violent People,” Bourbon Penn #20.

Barron, Laird “Ode to Joad the Toad,” Miscreations

Burke, Kealan Patrick “I Used to Live Here,” A Winter’s Tale.

Day, Victoria “The Mosaic Maze,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes.

Duffy, Steve “White Noise in a White Room,” Weird Horror, issue 1, fall.

Evenson, Brian “The Cabin,” Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2.

Ferrell, Keith “Cronenberg Concerto,” It Came From the Multiplex.

Files, Gemma “Carmagnole,” The Willows: Complete Anthology.

Hand, Elizabeth “The Owl Count,” Grendel’s Kin,  Conjunctions 74.

Ho, Millie “A Moonlit Savagery,” Nightmare 91, April.

Hodge, Brian “Insanity Among the Penguins,” Final Cuts.

Houser, Chip “Smilers,” Bourbon Penn #20.

Howell, A.P. “5:37,”Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 3, August.

Iglesias, Gabino “The Song of the Lady Rose,” Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2.

Jennings, Kathleen Flyaway, (novella) Tor.com.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Wait for Night,” Tor.com September 2.

Jones, Stephen Graham Night of the Mannequins (novella)  Tor.com

Kadrey, Richard “Razor Pig,” Tales of Dark Fantasy 3.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Cherry Street Tango, Sweatbox Waltz,” Tales of Dark Fantasy 3.

Kilworth, Garry “Lirpaloof Island,” The Alchemy Book of Horrors #2.

Kornher-Stace, Nicole “Getaway,” Uncanny 33.

Langan, John “Altered Beast, Altered Me,” (novella) Final Cuts.

Littlewood, Alison “Swanskin,” After Sundown.

Malerman, Josh “One Last Transformation,” Miscreations.

Malik, Usman T. “City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat” Tor.com October 21.

Manzetti, Alessandro “From Hell,” (poem) Whitechapel Rhapsody.

Marr, Melissa “Of Roses and Kings,” Tor.com April 27

Mason, Rena “To the Marrow,” Weird Tales 364.

Mason, Rena “To the Marrow,” Weird Tales 364.

Moraine, Sunny “If Living is Seeing I’m Holding My Breath,” Come Join Us…Season 2.

Nix, Garth “Many Mouths to Make a Meal,” Final Cuts.

Parenti, Dino “Blue Was Her Favorite Color,” Arterial Bloom.

Parker, Michael “Las Llorasangres,” Penumbra No.#1.

Rebecca, Parfitt “Sometimes They Come Late,” New Gothic Review #2.

Richardson, Endria Isa “The Black Menagerie,” Fiyah #15.

Rickert, M. “The Little Witch,” Tor.com Tor.com October 28.

Rogers, Ian “Go Fish,” Tor.com April 15.

Van Samson, Steve “No God But Hunger,” Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire.

Volk, Stephen “The Naughty Step,” After Sundown.

Wagner, Wendy N. “The Smell of Night in the Basement, PseudoPod 730.

Ward, C.E. “Real Estate,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes.

Watson, D.A. “Restless Natives,” Footsteps in the Dark.

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Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous

August 30, 2021 by Ellen Datlow 2 Comments

Coming from the Tor/Nightfire imprint in April 2022

Table of Contents

  • You Have What I Need by Ian Rogers
  • The Midway by Fran Wilde
  • Wet Red Grin by Gemma Files
  • The Virgin Jimmy Peck by Daryl Gregory
  • The Ghost of a Flea by Priya Sharma
  • The Atrocity Exhibitionists by Brian Hodge
  • “The Father of Modern Gynecology”: J. Marion Syms, M.D. (1813-1883) by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Here Comes Your Man by Indrapramit Das
  • Siolaigh by Siobhan Carroll
  • What Is Love But the Quiet Moments After Dinner? by Richard Kadrey
  • The Island by Norman Partridge
  • Flaming Teeth by Garry Kilworth
  • Strandling by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The Special One by Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
  • Devil by Glen Hirshberg
  • Crick Crack Rattle Tap by A. C. Wise
  • Children of the Night by Stephen Graham Jones
  • The Smell of Waiting by Kaaron Warren
  • Now Voyager by Livia Llewellyn
  • The Last Drop by Carole Johnstone
  • Three Mothers Mountain by Nathan Ballingrud
  • Widow-Light by Margo Lanagan
  • Sweet Potato by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Knock, Knock by Brian Evenson
  • What is Meat with No God? by Cassandra Khaw
  • Bitten by Himself by Laird Barron
  • Burial by Kristi DeMeester
  • Beautiful Dreamer by Jeffrey Ford
  • Bloedzuiger by John Langan

 

 

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When Things Get Dark -coming this September

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Books for sale

July 14, 2021 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment


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Books for sale (US only/Prices plus postage)

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Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (Tachyon) 3 copies-$ 10
Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton) HWA Halloween antho (Blumhouse/Anchor)3 copies
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories 3 copies $15 each
The Coyote Road (With TW) 1 $10
Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice in Wonderland) Tor 1 copy $10
Blood and other Cravings (Tor) vampirism $10 1
Hauntings (Tachyon) reprint -haunted houses and other types of hauntings $10 2
Troll’s Eye View (with Terri Windling) middle grade fairy tales from he villains pov 1 $5
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse & Dystopia (with Windling) Hyperion $10 1

Hardcover
The Doll Collection (Tor) 4 copies $15 each
Off Limits: More tales of Alien Sex (St Martin’s Press) 1 copy $10
The Beastly Bride (me and TW) Viking hc $15 2
Black Feathers (avian horror) Pegasus hc $15 3
YBF&H 2006 19th annual ed by me, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant St Martin’s Press hc $15 1
Mad Hatters and March Hares (stories inspired by Alice in Wonderland) Tor $15 2
Blood and other Cravings (Tor) vampirism $15 2

Mass market
Alien Sex (Grafton -UK ed) 2 copies $5 each
The Fifth Omni BOOK OF SF 1 Zebra $5


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