She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor.

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 currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.Įllen 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. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. Now, with the fourteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” ( New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available.įor more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror.

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