Ellen Datlow, Author . Night Shade $15.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4
After 22 years of pulling the horror content for the now-discontinued Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound
) goes solo with this stellar start to a new “best of” annual. As in the past, her picks confirm...
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Ellen Datlow, Author . Night Shade $15.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-59780-173-7
Prolific anthologist Datlow continues her fine showcase series (originally part of the long-running Year's Best Fantasy and Horror) with 17 scary stories published in 2009. Perhaps the creepiest is “each thing i show you is a piece of my...
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Ellen Datlow, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-688-08526-1
Datlow, the fiction editor of Omni , has put together an excellent collection whose premise is that some vampires have a taste for sustenance a bit less substantial than bloodone might call it the ``life force.'' The two poems and 15 stories, all...
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Ellen Datlow, Author Omni Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87455-308-6
What exactly Omni 's vision might be isn't clear in longtime fiction editor Datlow's terse introduction to this second anthology, nor does it become obvious in her curt prologues to these 13 stories, nor in the stories themselves. Published in Omni...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2828-1
This strong anthology of 17 contemporary horror tales addresses the concept of vampirism from a variety of angles, though the uniformity of theme does eventually become wearying. Talented contributors, including well-known fantasists Barry Malzberg...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (350p) ISBN 978-1-77148-193-9
Datlow’s “experimental” crowdfunded horror anthology is nicely unthemed, avoiding vampires, werewolves, and zombies while including ghosts, witches, and newly trendy wendigos. The last merges quite nicely with an Arctic setting in Siobhan Carroll’s “
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Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Edited by Ellen Datlow. Tor, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9106-3
The stories in this Alice in Wonderland–themed weird fantasy anthology, the latest from renowned editor Datlow, blur together into a sea of Victoriana, edginess for the sake of edginess, and dream logic. Most of them have characters (or archetypes...
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Ellen Datlow, Author, William Gibson, Foreword by Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24863-7
Sex in science fiction is far from conventional: it can take place between humans and extraterrestrials, by telepathy or by proxy. But as this remarkable collection shows, sex in the best sci-fi serves the same purposes as it does in mainstream...
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Ellen Datlow, Author, Terri Windling, With Avon Books $23 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97523-5
John Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates and Michael Cadnum are the biggest names among the 21 authors who contribute to this sterling fourth collection of retold fairy tales edited by Datlow and Windling (Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears). A few of the stories...
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Ellen Datlow, Author, Ellen Datlow, Editor, Gavin Grant, Editor . St. Martin's Griffin $35 (608p) ISBN 978-0-312-34193-0
The 18th volume in Datlow's well-regarded series continues to take the pulse of contemporary fantastic literature with intriguing results, but without Terri Windling, Datlow's co-editor through volume 16, some of the fantasy selections,...
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Ellen Datlow, Author, Terri Windling, Editor St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-04447-3
The 48 stories and poems in this third annual collection encompass a wide variety of subjects and styles. Several pieces, such as Dan Daly's ``Self-Portrait Mixed-Media on Pavement, 1988,'' are set in a recognizable time and place but offer a...
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Ellen Datlow, Author, Terri Windling, Editor St. Martin's Press $29.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-312-15700-5
The 39 stories and four poems included in the 10th volume in this series, which has won two World Fantasy Awards, range from the confusing to the sublime. The fantasy tales reinforce Windling's view, as expressed in her introductory summation, that...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Tor, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3227-1
Datlow and Windling (After) collect 18 stories of elegant beauty and gothic murk in this anthology of “gaslamp fantasy,” an umbrella term for speculative works set in or inspired by the Victorian era. In the title story by Delia Sherman, a young...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas, Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2300-2
Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) and Mamatas (Spicy Slipstream Stories) collect 20 original stories based on ghost legends from around the world. A few famous figures appear (such as the mysterious hitchhiker in Kaaron Warren's "That Girl" and Gary A....
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Ellen Datlow, Author, Parkin, Author, Terri Windling, Editor St. Martin's Griffin $17.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-312-14450-0
The delicious promise of the first piece, ""Home for Christmas,"" a lyrical tale of modern-day magic by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, is fully realized in this year's offering of the best fantasy and horror by today's finest writers, including Terry Bisson,...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. Nightfire, $28.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-250-79706-3
“What is a monster?” Datlow (the Best Horror of the Year series, editor) asks in her introduction to this excellent anthology, which brings together a tremendous variety of answers from the leading voices in horror. Indrapramit Das depicts a home...
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