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Ellen Datlow

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Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley ...more

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	Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Elizabeth A. Lynn (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 6,804 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naked City by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Patricia Briggs (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 5,474 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovecraft Unbound by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Dale Bailey (Contributor), Richard Bowes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 3,258 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Holly Black (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 3,247 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Charles Vess (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 3,092 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Heart, Ivory Bones by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Brian M. Stableford (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 1,981 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teeth: Vampire Tales by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 2,083 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Lisa Goldstein (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 1,913 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Genevieve Valentine (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovecraft's Monsters by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (Foreword), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 1,970 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Table of Contents for Nightmare Carnival, forthcoming this fall from Dark Horse.

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Preface Ellen Datlow
Introduction Katherine Dunn
Scapegoats N. Lee Wood
The Firebrand Priya Sharma
Work, Hook, Shoot, Rip Nick Mamatas
And the Carnival Leaves Town A.C. Wise
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“It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal romance novels that followed, while also shaping the broader urban fantasy field from the late 1990s onward.

Many of you reading this book will be too young to remember when Buffy debuted, so you'll have to trust us when we say that nothing quite like it had existed before. It was thrillingly new to see a young, gutsy, kick-ass female hero, for starters, and one who was no Amazonian Wonder Woman but recognizably ordinary, fussing about her nails, her shoes, and whether she'd make it to her high school prom. Buffy's story contained a heady mix of many genres (fantasy, horror, science-fiction, romance, detective fiction, high school drama), all of it leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor yet underpinned by the serious care with which the Buffy universe had been crafted. Back then, Whedon's dizzying genre hopping was a radical departure from the norm-whereas today, post-Buffy, no one blinks an eye as writers of urban fantasy leap across genre boundaries with abandon, penning tender romances featuring werewolves and demons, hard-boiled detective novels with fairies, and vampires-in-modern-life sagas that can crop up darn near anywhere: on the horror shelves, the SF shelves, the mystery shelves, the romance shelves.”
― Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Teeth: Vampire Tales

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The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

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The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

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