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Haunted Legends
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Wherever you're from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some
that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives' tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In
, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and dark fantasy writers in the world. Among the contributors are award-winners Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and many others.
Here are stories from America's big cities and small towns, as well as far-flung corners of the globe. Discover the fox spirits of Vietnam, the specter of communism still haunting Russia in the form of Comrade Beria's ghost, the famed vampires of Rhode Island, a haunted amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, the Indian ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, and more.
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About Ellen Datlow
was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of
for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of
.
Other books by Ellen Datlow
Nick Mamatas
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including
and
. His short fiction has appeared in
,
, and many other anthologies and magazines. Nick’s previous anthologies include the Bram Stoker Award-winner
(co-edited with Ellen Datlow) and The Locus Award nominees
and
(both co-edited with Masumi Washington). Nick’s editorial work has also been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. He resides in the California Bay Area.
Other books by Nick Mamatas
Laird Barron
Laird Barron spent his early years in Alaska. He is the author of several books, including
and
His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Rondout Valley writing stories about the evil that men do.
Other books by Laird Barron
Richard Bowes
Richard Bowes has, over the last thirty-five years, published several novels, four short story collections, and eighty-plus stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Lambda, Million Writers, and International Horror Guild Awards for his work.
Other books by Richard Bowes
Gary A. Braunbeck
Gary A. Braunbeck is a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including
, the first novel in the ongoing Cedar Hill Cycle. He has published two hundred short stories. Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio, the city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories. He co-edited with Hank Schwaeble the Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology
His work has been honored with seven Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award.
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell is described by
as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer,” and the
names his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction.” The two volumes of
offer a sixty-year retrospective of his short fiction.
collects his novellas, and
his film reviews. Campbell’s latest novel is
.
Other books by Ramsey Campbell
Stephen Dedman
Stephen Dedman grew up (though many would dispute this) on the outer limits of Perth’s metropolitan area, far enough from a good library that he had to make up his own science fiction and horror stories. He continued to do this when he should have been studying, and after false starts at two other universities, received a bachelor’s in creative writing and film in 1984. Since then, he’s held too many boring jobs and a few interesting ones, including actor, tutor, experimental subject, editorial assistant for
magazine, education officer and used dinosaur salesman for the WA Museum, and the manager of a science fiction bookshop. He has been writing for fun for more than thirty years, and for money for twenty; he sold his first short story in 1977, and his first novel in 1995. He quit yet another boring job in 1996 to write full time, and is currently working on two novels and writing one new story a month. Dedman is the author of the novels
(Tor, 1997) and
(Tor, 1999), and the nonfiction book
(Omnibus, 1998). His short stories have appeared in an eclectic range of magazines and anthologies, including
,
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. His work has won the Aurealis Award and Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, and been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
Dedman lives in western Australia, and enjoys reading, travel, movies, complicated relationships, talking to cats, and startling people.
Other books by Stephen Dedman
Lily Hoang
Lily Hoang is the author of six books, including
(winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award),
(PEN/USA Nonfiction Award finalist), and
(recipient of a PEN/Open Book Award). Her micro-tale collection
is forthcoming. She is a Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she teaches in their MFA program.
Other books by Lily Hoang
M. K. Hobson
M. K. Hobson is a multimedia artist. She has way too many creative irons in the proverbial fire—writer, photographer, musician, textile artist, and video producer. She also reads short stories for “Beneath Ceaseless Skies.” Her personal website is www.demimonde.com.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín R. Kiernan is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. Their novels include
and
and their prolific short fiction has been collected in numerous volumes, including
and
Kiernan is also a vertebrate paleontologist and currently a research associate at the Alabama Museum of Natural History in Tuscaloosa.
Other books by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Carrie Laben
Carrie Laben is the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of the novel
. Their work has appeared in such venues as
and
; they’ve been a MacDowell Fellow and a resident at the Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. They hold an MFA from the University of Montana and live in Queens.
Joe R. Lansdale
is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including
, the Edgar-award winning
,
, and
. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Other books by Joe R. Lansdale
Steven Pirie
Steven Pirie lives in Liverpool, England. His fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies around the world. His comic fantasy novel,
, came out in paperback in 2007, recently followed by the related (although not sequel),
.
Ekaterina Sedia
Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. She has written several critically-acclaimed novels,
,
,
, and
. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and she is the editor of several anthologies. Her short story collection,
, was released in 2012. She co-wrote a script for
, a fantasy puppet film with voicework by Nathan Fillion, George Takei, Abigail Breslin, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Other books by Ekaterina Sedia
Catherine Turgeon
Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novels, including
and
, as well as
,
, and
. She’s been the editor-in-chief and co-owner of
, a quarterly print magazine, since 2013. Turgeon can be found at carolynturgeon.com.
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is the
and
–bestselling author of over forty books, including
, the Fairyland series,
, and
. She is the winner of the Hugo, Locus, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Otherwise Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner and child.
Other books by Catherynne M. Valente
Kaaron Warren
Shirley Jackson Award winner Kaaron Warren has published five novels and seven short story collections. She’s sold two hundred short stories to publications big and small around the world and has appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best anthologies. Her novel
won three major Australian genre awards. She has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Fiji, and Canberra; her most recent works are “The Deathplace Set” in
, and
, a novella. Warren won the inaugural Mayday Hills Ghost Story Competition.
Other books by Kaaron Warren
Erzebet YellowBoy
Erzebet YellowBoy is an author, artist, editor, bookbinder, and independent publisher. She is inspired by fairy tales, folklore, and the wild places in the world. She owns and manages Papaveria Press, a micropress devoted to miniature books and the literature of the fantastic, and Hadean Press, an esoteric press exploring the union of myth and magic. Her stories have appeared in
,
, in anthologies, and more. Visit her at www.erzebetbarthold.com.
John Mantooth
John Mantooth is the award-winning author of two novels and a short story collection. His first novel,
, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. He has also published three crime novels under the pseudonym Hank Early, including
, which was a Next Generation Indie Book Award winner and 2017 Foreword Indies Silver Award winner. He lives in Alabama with his wife and two children.
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