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Darkness:Two Decades of Modern Horror Starred review in PW

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror Edited by Ellen Datlow. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $15.95 paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-892391-95-7
This diverse 25-story anthology is a superb sampling of some of the most significant short horror works published between 1985 and 2005. Editor extraordinaire Datlow (Poe) includes classic stories from horror icons Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Stephen King as well as SF and fantasy luminaries Gene Wolfe, Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, and Lucius Shepard. The full divers...

Tails of Wonder and Imagination--book giveaway

Jason Sizemore just let me know that he's giving away a brand new copy of Tails of Wonder and Imagination at Apex

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

To my embarrassment, I just realized (prompted by my publisher) that I haven't mentioned that I received the advance reader's copy of my forthcoming anthology Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. The book ranges from 1984 and Clive Barker's wonderful tale of sex and horror  "Jacqueline Ess : Her Will and Testament" to 2005 and Joe Hill's chilling "My Father's Mask." Although I've written a brief Introduction, Stefan Dziemianowicz has supplied a preface with a much more detailed overview of...

Snow Day

It started late, much later than predicted. Nothing by 1:30 am when I went to bed. Not much but a wee bit of snowfall and lots of slush when I went out to do my errands around 12:30 today. But enroute home, finally the snow began to fall in earnest and I can now say yes, we have a lovely snowy blizzard blanketing NYC with the white stuff.

Now that it's here and is supposed to continue through the night, I'm hoping it clears up enough by tomorrow morning so that I can fly out to Radcon in the ...

Poe wins the third annual Black Quill Award

Black Quill Award Winners Announced
FLYNN, SIMMONS TAKE TOP HONORS IN BLACK QUILL AWARDS

LONG ISLAND, NY, February 9, 2010 — A master of otherworldly suspense and a literary fiction darling have taken top honors in the 3rd Annual Black Quill Awards, as winners were announced today by DARK SCRIBE MAGAZINE, the virtual magazine "dedicated to the books that keep readers up at night."

Chicago-based author Gillian Flynn snagged the coveted Editor's Choice award for DARK GENRE NOVEL OF THE YEAR for he...

My schedule for Radcon, this weekend

Fri Feb 12 5:00-6:00: Writing Markets --Ruby

What are the current short work markets - magazines, blogs, contests, collaborative?
Ellen Datlow, Jane Fancher, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Margaret Bonham, Sue Bolich

Fri Feb 12 6:00-7:00 An interview with Ellen Datlow --Bronze Room
Ellen Datlow is interviewed by long time friend Eileen Gunn



Fri 7:00-8:00:pm Opening Ceremonies --Bronze Room

Opening Ceremonies. Dancing, music, comedy, A new and totally unimaginably evil joke on Jay Lake. This is RadC...

The Best Horror of the Year, volume one sold to Italy!

Mondadori has picked up the rights for their Epix, mass market series. Hooray...

Just in time for Valentine's Day

Generate your own candy hearts at the candy heart generator at despair.com, a wonderful site.

via Jonathan Carroll

My Aggiecon Schedule

I'm Editor GOH at Aggiecon this weekend and here is my schedule (although I'll also be signing, but that time hasn't yet been set). I hope everyone in the neighborhood (College Station, Texas) will drop by:
http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/

Friday 5pm:
"Journey to the Beginning of Sci Fi" - These are the classics modern sci fi is beholden to. Our panelists debate who is the mother (or father) of all science fiction. [Bowers, Cupp*, Datlow, Montz, Gould:]

Friday 7pm: Opening Ceremonies


Friday 9pm:
"Zombies,...

The Preliminary Stoker Ballot

This is not the final ballot so NONE of the below are "nominations"...


2009 PRELIMINARY STOKER BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel

AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
SACRIFICE by John Everson (Leisure)
ETERNAL VIGILANCE II: DEATH OF ILLUSIONS by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
TWISTED LADDER by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson (Jove)
THE BONE FACTORY by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)AUDREY'S DOOR by Sarah Langan (Harper)
PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry (St...