The “HWA Know a Nominee” interview
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...
View ArticleMy long list of HMs for The Best Horror of the Year volume 8 (pt 1)
Aickman, Robert “ The Coffin House,” The Strangers. Aickman, Robert “ The Strangers,” (novella) The Strangers. Allan, Nina “A Change of Scene,” Aickman’s Heirs. Allen, Mike “Sad Wisps of Empty...
View ArticleMy long list of HMs for The Best Horror of the Year volume 8 (pt 2)
Hargadon, Stephen “The Visitors,” Black Static #45. Headley, Maria Dahvana “The Cellar Dweller,” Nightmare, June #33. Headley, Maria Dahvana “The Thirteen Mercies,” F&SF November/December....
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Patrick, Den “Blood in the Water,” Sharkpunk. Petrie, Simon “Like a Boojum,” Aurealis #77. Polson, Aaron “Nine,” Death’s Realm. Pugmire, W. H. & Barker, David “In the Gulfs of Dream,” In the Gulfs...
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Children of Lovecraft is out today
Children of Lovecraft is out today from Dark Horse, with a gorgeous cover by Mike Mignola and stories by: Nesters Siobhan Carroll Little Ease...
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Fearful Symmetries
From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror’s established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful,...
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Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales is out February 7th, 2017
A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre. Birds are usually loved for their beauty and...
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The Doll Collection
The Doll Collection is exactly what it sounds like: a treasured toy box of all-original dark stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby...
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Nightmare Carnival
A man determined to kill a clown. A child’s eleventh birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage. A suicidal performer just can’t seem to die. All of these weird marvels and more can be...
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Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror
Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide...
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Children of Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s stories shaped modern horror more than any other author’s in the last two centuries: Cthulhu, the Old Ones, Herbert West: Reanimator, and more terrifying nightmares emerged...
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Black Feathers
A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre. Birds are usually loved for their beauty and...
View ArticleFinal TOC for The Best Horror of the Year volume 9
Table of Contents Nesters Siobhan Carroll The Oestridae Robert Levy The Process is a Process All its Own Peter Straub The Bad Hour Christopher Golden Red Rabbit Steve Rasnic Tem It’s All the Same Road...
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Mad Hatters and March Hares
Here is what you can expect from Mad Hatters and March Hares: “An all original anthology of stories inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What...
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Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9
An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers?including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst...
View ArticleHonorable Mentions 2016-Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (1)
Abnett, Dan “The Beams of the Sun,” Out of Tune Book Two. Addison, Linda “Shadow Rainbow and Other Fragile Types,” (poem) Dark Disc. #34 Alering, Alisa “We Will Hold,” Mythic Delirium April-June....
View ArticleHonorable Mentions 2016 -Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (2)
Harland, Richard “His Shining Day,” Dreaming in the Dark. Harris, Joanne “In Memorium,” Dead Letters. Hartley, David “Pigskin,” Black Static #55 November-December. Hayes, Martin “Wellaway,”...
View ArticleHonorable Mentions 2016 -Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (3)
Raab, Jonathan “The Secret Goatman Spookshow,” The Lovecraft ezine #38. Rath, Tina “Barefoot Withouten Shoon,” A Midwinter Entertainment. Reed, Nathaniel “The Serpent Borne of Helios,” (poem) Spectral...
View ArticleA Q&A about inspirations for Mad Hatters and March Hares
Romantic Times was only able to use a very small portion of the responses to two questions about Alice in Wonderland and its influence on me and my contributors. Here is the link to what they published...
View ArticleMy editing work during 2017
For those interested: What I’ve worked on as an editor in 2017: I acquired and edited the novellas The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford and Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones for Tor.com...
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