Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 72

off to San Jose

Email's down again today although hopefully it'll go back up to give me time enough to download and read all messages before leaving. Back the 4th. Online maybe. (I will have laptop and free wireless at hotel).

photos of Lovecraft Unbound NYC launch at the Soho Gallery of Digital Art

The event went very well, with a pretty full house, despite the crappy weather and the fact that several people who would have come were already on the west coast for the World Fantasy Convention. Refreshments were provided by Jim Freund

Photos from the Lovecraft Unbound launch

Starred review for The Best Horror of the Year in Publishers Weekly

*The Best Horror of the Year: Vol. One Edited by Ellen Datlow. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $15.95 paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4

After 22 years of pulling the horror content for the now-discontinued Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) goes solo with this stellar start to a new "best of" annual. As in the past, her picks confirm that "horror" is a storytelling approach with endlessly inventive possibilities. In E. Michael Lewis's "Cargo," a haunting...

A bunch of horror geeks being asked questions

Jonathan Maberry asked the following questions about horror:
me
Christopher Golden
Ramsey Campbell
Del Howison
Deborah LeBlanc
Scott Nicholson
Joe R. Lansdale
Ray Garton
David Wellington
Joe Nassise


Still Scary After All These Years

March Hares

March Hares
Originally uploaded by Ellen Datlow

Vivian Maier, street photographer

Maier's work was discovered by John Maloof, who bought thousands of her undeveloped negatives during a Chicago auction of the contents of her storage locker after her death last April.

Vivian Maier's photographs

thanks to Jonathan Carroll

And an elderly war veteran speaks out

Philip Spooner speech


thanks to The Swivet

For your delectation- from the BBC

Epic humpback whale battle filmed

Photos from KGB reading with John Langan and Michael Cisco October 21, 2009

KGB October 21, 2009

You can read interviews with the writers at genreville.com.

Midway Message from the Gyre

"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking."

Midway Message from the G...