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I Remember Nothing by Anne Billson

Monkeys on the Beach by Ralph Robert Moore

Painted Wolves by Ray Cluley

Shit Happens   by Michael Marshall Smith

You Know How the Story Goes by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Back Along the Old Track by Sam Hicks

Masks by Peter Sutton

The Donner Party by Dale Bailey

Milkteeth         by Kristi DeMeester

Haak                by John Langan

Thin Cold Hands by Gemma Files

A Tiny Mirror by Eloise C. C. Shepherd

I Love You Mary-Grace by Amelia Mangan

The Jaws of Ouroboros by Steve Toase

A Brief Moment of Rage by Bill Davidson

Golden Sun     by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt

White Mare by Thana Niveau

Girls Without Their Faces On by Laird Barron

Thumbsucker  by Robert Shearman

You Are Released by Joe Hill

Red Rain                     by Adam-Troy Castro

Split Chain Stitch by Steve Toase

No Exit by Orrin Grey

Haunt  by Siobhan Carroll

Sleep   by Carly Holmes

 

 

Call for Submissions

 

I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the twelfth volume, covering material published in 2019.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify. This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2019. Deadline is December 1st 2019. Authors please confirm that your publishers are sending me review copies. If a book or magazine is coming out after my deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. The only excuse is if you’re a foreign publisher and shipping everything at one time saves postage. If you want your work to get a fair read, do not do this. I do not have time to carefully read a year’s worth of magazine issues and 10-20 original anthologies in two weeks.

I’ll look at e-versions of anthos and collections only if they’re navigable and have running heads. Otherwise, they won’t be read. I always prefer print, if available.

Authors can query as to whether I have/need your collection or an anthology/magazine in which you have a story at datlow@yahoo.com

My summation of “the year in horror” in the front of every volume includes novels, anthologies, collections, chapbooks, nf, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that might interest horror readers. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it.

Ellen Datlow

Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve

PMB 391

511 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly cover many magazines/webzines that publish horror (Black Static, Cemetery Dance, F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, crime digests, and webzines such as Horrorzine, Uncanny, Apex, etc.-when their publishers send me the material).

 

Please ask your publisher to send the entire magazine or book-unless the venue doesn’t regularly publish horror. In that case, you can send me a word file of your story. For online publications, email individual word doc files—not pdf files– including on the ms where the story has been published.

 

If I choose a story you will be informed. Otherwise, you will not hear back.

thank you

Ellen Datlow

www.datlow.com

 

 

 

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the eleventh volume, covering material published in 2018.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark crime, or anything else that might qualify. This is reprint, so I’m only reading material published in or about to be published in 2018. Deadline is December 15th 2018. Authors should check that their publishers are sending review copies to me as I only request them once. If a book or magazine is coming out after the deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts.

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

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

There is 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 might interest horror readers. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I regularly read many magazines/webzines that publish horror (Black Static, Dark Discoveries, Cemetery Dance, F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, and crime digests, etc) and I receive many anthologies and single author collections.

Again, ask your publisher to send me the magazine or book. For online publications, email individual files, mentioning on the ms where the story has been published.

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

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Schweigart, Bill “The Expedition,” Dark Screams Volume Seven.
Sconiers, Nicole D. “Kim,” Sycorax’s Daughters.
Shamsie, Kamila “Foreboding,” Eight Ghosts.
Sharma, Priya “The Crow Palace,” Black Feathers.
Shearman, Robert “The Swimming Pool Party,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Sheldon, Deborah “Angel Hair,” Perfect Little Stitches.
Sheldon, Deborah “Species Endangered,” Perfect Little Stitches.
Shinn, Ken “Your Honest Sonsie Face,” The Dark Half of the Year.
Simon, Marge “The Old Woman and the Sea,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Simon, Marge & Manzetti, Alessandro “Night of Tears,” HWA Poetry Showcase IV.
Singleton, Sarah “The Memory of Stone,” Terror Tales of Cornwall.
Slatsky, Christopher “The Carcass of the Lion,” Darker Companions.
Slatter, Angela “Better Angels,” Review of Australian Fiction, vol 24, issue 5.
Slatter, Angela “No Good Deed,” New Fears.
Slatter, Angela “Our Lady of Wicker Bridge,” Great Brit Horror 2: Dark Satanic Hills.
Slatter, Angela “Run, Rabbit,” Mad Hatters and March Hares.
Slatter, Angela “The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners,” Murder Ballads.
Slatter, Angela “The Little Mermaid, in Passing,” The Rev of Australian Fiction, April.
Smith, Aaron C. “Agency Cost,” California Screaming.
Smith, Clint “The Undertow and They That Dwell Therein,” Nightscript III.
Sng, Christina “Little Red in Haiku,” (poem) Star*Line 40. 4 fall.
Snyder, Lucy “Antumbra,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Snyder, Lucy A. “Sunset on Mott Island,” Shadows over Main Street volume 2.
Southard, Nate “Bucket of Teeth,” Lamplight September.
Southard, Nate “Things Crumble, Things Break,” Nightmare 54, March.
St. George, Carlie “If We Survive the Night,” The Dark 22, March.
Steadman, Ian “Stanislav in Foxtown,” Black Static #56, January/February.
Stevenson, Jeff C. “The Lights Unseen,” Shopping List.
Stewart, Kelly “A Performance for Painting Bones,” The Dark 26, July.
Stiteler, William “Peddler,” Grimdark Magazine, Issue 12.
Strantzas, Simon “In the Tall Grass,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo “The Maneaters,” Black Static #56, January/February.
Surface, David “Something You Leave Behind,” Nightscript III.
Taaffe, Sonya “Andromache,” (poem) Not One of Us #57.
Taaffe, Sonya “The Creeping Influences,” Shimmer 39, September.
Taaffe, Sonya “The House Always Wins,” (poem) Not One of Us #58.
Tallerman, David “Casualty of Peace” Horror Library Volume 6.
Taylor, Lucy “Sweetlings,” Tor.com May 3.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Mister Ainsley,” Black Wings VI.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Whatever You Want,” A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem.
Thomas, Jeffrey “Good Will toward Men,” Haunted Worlds.
Thomas, Jeffrey “riaH gnoL,” Haunted Worlds.
Thomas, Jeffrey “Stranger in the House,” Looming Low.
Thomas, Jeffrey “Uncanny Valley,” Darker Companions.
Thomas, Jonathan “The Once and Future Waite,” Black Wings VI.
Thomas, Lee “The Facts in the Case of My Sister,” Halloween Carnival Vol. 2.
Thomas, Richard “Nodus Tollens,” Deciduous fall/winter Volume 1, issue 1.
Toase, Steve “Mask,” BFS Horizons #5.
Tobler, E. Catherine “Figure 8,” Gamut #2.
Tremblay, Paul “It Won’t Go Away,” Dark Discoveries 37.
Tremblay, Tony “Blue Stars,” Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
Trent, Letitia “Rest Stop,” Gamut #5.
Tumblety, Patrick “Fiends of the Southern Plains,” Weirdbook 35.
Turnbull, Cadwell, “Loneliness Is in Your Blood,” Nightmare 52, January.
Tuttle, Lisa “The Last Dare,” Halloween Carnival Volume Five.
Tyler, Tanesha Nicole “Polydactyly,” (poem) Sycorax’s Daughters.
Tyson, Donald “Missing at the Morgue,” Black Wings VI.
Valente, Catherynne M. “Down and Out in R’lyeh,” Uncanny #18.
Valentine, Genevieve “A Comfort, One Way,” Mad Hatters and March Hares.
Vaughn, Carrie “Redcap,” Nightmare 52, January.
Vaughn, KH “They, Too, Want to Be Remembered,” Wicked Haunted.
Vaz, Katherine “Moon, Memory, Muchness,” Mad Hatters and March Hares.
Vernon, Ursula “The Dark Birds,” Apex, January.
Vlek, Aaron “A Thousand Mothers,” A Breath from the Sky.
Vocab “Dyer Died in Silence,” (poem) Sycorax’s Daughters.
Waggoner, Tim “Plague Doctor,” Through a Mythos Darkly.
Wagner, Wendy N. “The Burnt Sugar Stench,” Tales from a Talking Board.
Walker, Bonnie Rae “Lycanthrope,”(poem), Star*Line spring.
Walters, Damien Angelica “Kai Monstrai Ateik (When the…” Through a Mythos Darkly.
Walters, Damien Angelica “What They Lost in the Storm,” Gamut 8.
Warren, Kaaron “Exceeding Bitter,” Evil is a Matter of Perspective.
Warren, Kaaron “We Are All Bone Inside,” Looming Low.
Warren, Kaaron “Whither,” Darker Companions.
Watson, Dawn “Creep,” (poem), The Stinging Fly #35.
Watt, DP “Four Windows and a Door,” Terror Tales of Cornwall.
Webb, Don “Slowly Ticking Time Bomb,” Tales From Miskatonic U Library.
Webb, Don “To Kill a King,” Through a Mythos Darkly.
Wehunt, Michael “Dreaming God,” Shadows over Main Street Volume 2.
Wehunt, Michael “In Canada,” Looming Low.
Wehunt, Michael “Root-Light,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Wellington, David “Orbital Decay,” Nights of the Living Dead.
Wheldon, David “The Automaton,” Nightjar chapbook.
Whitbourn, John “‘Mebyon Versus Suna’” Terror Tales of Cornwall.
White, Gordon B. “Open Fight Night at the Dirtbag Casino,” A Breath From the Sky.
Wild, Dean H. “The Gaff,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Wilkinson, Charles “Absolute Possession,” Supernatural Tales 35.
Wilkinson, Charles “Might Be Mordiford,” Nightscript III.
Wilkinson, Charles “Slimikins,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Wilkinson, Charles “The Migration of Memories,” Weirdbook 35.
Wilkinson, Charles “The Solitary Truth,” Black Static #56, January/February.
Williams, Conrad “Cwtch,” I Will Surround You.
Williams, Conrad “Succulents,” New Fears.
Williams, Conrad “The Closure ,” Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7.
Williams, Conrad “Trash Polka,” I Will Surround You.
Winward, Shannon Connor “Witch’s Hour,” F&SF, May/June.
Wise, A. C. “Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)” Tor.com, March 21.
Wise, A. C. “The Secret of Flight,” Black Feathers.
Wise, A.C. “The Paradox Collection,” Tales from the Miskatonic Library.
Woodbury, Sheldon “The Midnight Circus,” (poem) Indiana Horror Review.
Wooldridge, Trisha J. “Ghosts in Their Eyes,” Wicked Haunted.
Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Because I’m Stained Red,”(poem)SheetMusicto My Acoustic…
Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Runaway Bride,”(poem)SheetMusicto My Acoustic Nightmare
Wytovich, Stephanie M. “The Apocalyptic Mannequin,” HWA Poetry Showcase IV.
Yardley, Mercedes M. “The Absolutionist,” Gamut 10.
Yolen, Jane “Feisty Girls,” (poem) Mythic Delirium March.
Zivko-Clark, Alex “A Cottage Watched,” Hellfire Crossroads 6.