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Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more.
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Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over four decades. She was Fiction Editor of OMNI Magazine for seventeen years, then Editor of SCIFICTION, the fiction arm of the SCIFI Channel’s website for six years.
She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and its horror imprint, Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror, Screams From the Dark: 19 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Christmas and Other Horrors, and Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Horror.
She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the Splatterpunk Award, and in 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor.
Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre" and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. recently presented her with a special award in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).
She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel.
She can be found on the website Datlow.com, and on twitter and facebook (google her).
Laird Barron
Laird Barron spent his early years in Alaska. He is the author of several books, including The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All; The Wind Began to Howl; and Not a Speck of Light (Stories). His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Rondout Valley writing stories about the evil that men do.
Theresa DeLucci
Theresa DeLucci's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Weird Horror. Her short story "Only My Skin That Crawled Away" received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Horror Vol. 14. She also loves talking film, TV, and video games for Wired.com's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast, Den of Geek, and Tor.com. She lives in Queens, New York. Find her at theresadelucci.com.
Bracken MacLeod
Bracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, is the author of the novels, MOUNTAIN HOME, STRANDED, COME TO DUST, and CLOSING COSTS (available in hardcover, paperback coming 9/20 from William Morrow).
His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in WHITE KNIGHT AND OTHER PAWNS and 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS, which the New York Times Book Review called, "Superb."
Before devoting himself to full time writing, he worked as a civil and criminal litigator, a university philosophy instructor, and a martial arts teacher. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.