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Call for Submissions: Best Horror of the Year volume 3

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the third volume, which will include all material published in 2010.

I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark thrillers, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only read...

What I've been up to

...that is, in addition to suffering the heat of NYC. Today's weather is utterly miserable and by the time I got home from my errands I felt like a pack horse ready to be put out of my misery.

But it's cool in my air-conditioned living room and I'm drinking iced tea and looking at the bound galleys of TEETH: Vampire Tales edited by me and Terri. I also got a cover flat of the corrected cover (the text on the galley is the incorrect text --please note if you see it around) and I'll be taking i...

movie catch-up

Shutter Island was a good flick. It's 1953 and two federal marshals are sent to Shutter Island, off Boston, to a hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the report of a missing patient. The movie trailers didn't do it justice. Suspenseful and riveting to the end, which is, I think, perfect.

Grizzly Man is a 2005 documentary about Timothy Treadwell, a troubled, idealistic guy who spends 13 summers in grizzly country in Alaska, studying them, "protecting them" (although from what, is n...

Photos from around Seattle

Here are the last photos of my trip taken while driving around Seattle.

Whidbey Island and Environs

Here are the photos from Eileen and my day trip to Whidbey Island and the towns on the island.

First batches of Seattle photos

Pre-Clarion West, hanging out with Leslie Howle and Graham Joyce around Seattle.

and
some of the Clarion West students plus me being interviewed by Nancy Kress at the University Bookstore.

The rest tomorrow

and another review of Haunted Legends

From Locus online and written by Lois Tilton.


Locus Online

Which is mostly positive, but seems to have missed Nick's introduction which says that "The ghost story doesn't even necessarily require a ghost. In "The Ash-Tree" by M. R. James, there is a curse and a witch and "an enormous spider, veinous and seared," but no real ghost."

thanks to Bev Vincent for pointing the review out.

Teeth cover and TOC

 
Here is the cover for Terri and my YA vampire anthology, which is possibly the anti-sparkly vampire book. I'm currently in the process of trying to video all the contributors responding to two questions.

 

Table of Contents

 Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

Things to Know About Being Dead  Genevieve Valentine

 All Smiles by    Steve Berman                          

 Gap Year by Christopher Barzak         

 Bloody Sunrise by Neil Gaiman

  Flying   by

Home from Seattle and the first review of Haunted Legends

Just home a couple of hours ago (I loathe Delta's terminal at JFK and swear I'll never use them from there again).
But ahem, Laird Barron and Nick Mamatas pointed out this to me:


Haunted Legends
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...

Invigorating fun day on Whidbey Island

Eileen and I took the ferry to Whidbey Island and drove all over the place, stopping in several towns along the way: In Langley we ate lunch at the excellent french Prima Bistro that Eileen knew of and I had the best Reuben I've ever had. Then later in Coupeville, we had tea at Tea and Treasure, a storefront with a tea garden and lily pond out back, and Deception Pass, where I took lots of photos of the magnificent bridge there.

We also stopped at various shops and bought a few items--nothing...