Inferno
By Nathan Ballingrud & Laird Barron &Publisher Description
To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would “provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights very bright and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.”
Mission accomplished. The resulting collection draws together some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories’ characters toil within their own hell.
Winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology.
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Simon Bestwick
Simon Bestwick is the author of several novels, the novellas Breakwater and Angels of the Silences, and full-length short story collections. His short fiction has appeared in Black Static,The Devil and the Deep,and The London Reader and has been reprinted in TheBest Horror of the Year and Best British Fantasy. Four times shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award, he is married to fellow author Cate Gardner. His latest book is the collection And Cannot Come Again. He’s usually to be found watching films, reading, or writing, which keeps him out of mischief. Most of the time. Bestwick lives on the Wirral while pining for Wales.
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P. D. Cacek
Still writing after all these years, three decades to be precise, P. D. Cacek has written over two hundred pieces of short fiction, eight novels, and six theatrical plays. Her latest novels are Second Lives, Second Chances, and Sebastian. Cacek lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
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Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan is the author of more than a dozen books, including two nonfiction titles, a young adult novel, and two Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning novels, Synners and Fools. She has won two Scribe Awards for a novelization of Alita: Battle Angel and an adaptation of William Gibson’s unproduced screenplay for Alien 3, along with three Locus Awards and a Hugo Award for her novelette “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi.” Pat lives in North London with her husband, Chris Fowler.
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Ellen Datlow
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Terry Dowling
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Paul Finch
He is best known for his crime thriller novels, one of which, Strangers, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and for his recent historical adventure novel, Usurper.
Finch lives in Lancashire, England, with his wife and business-partner, Cathy.
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Jeffrey Ford
Ford’s fiction has been translated into twenty languages. In addition to writing, he has been a professor of literature and writing for thirty years and has been a guest lecturer at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, the Stone Coast MFA in Creative Writing Program, Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Ford lives in Ohio and currently teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Christopher Fowler
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Stephen Gallagher
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John Grant
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Glen Hirshberg
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K. W. Jeter
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Mike O'Driscoll
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Mark Samuels
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Lucius Shepard
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Lee Thomas
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