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Nightmare Carnival
ByPublisher Description
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow as the ringmaster.
In Stephen Graham Jones's "The Darkest Part," three men are driven to madness by the clown that has haunted them since one misguided Tunnel of Love ride during their childhoods. The deaths of three circus performers—two brothers and a beautiful fire dancer—become the burning obsession of an author who wrote a book about the tragedy in "The Firebrand" by Priya Sharma. "Skullpocket" by Nathan Ballingrud takes you to an alternate fantasy world where a well-respected ghoul from a town near Chesapeake Bay grieves the death of his one true love, a freak show attraction known as the Orchid Girl.
Under the tent, you'll find more chilling stories by Genevieve Valentine, Robert Shearman, N. Lee Wood, Nick Mamatas, A. C. Wise, Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Glen Hirshberg, Jeffrey Ford, Dennis Danvers, and Livia Llewellyn.
"To Datlow's credit a number of her selections take the dark carnival theme into provocative new territory. . . . Ballingrud's tale is a magnificent piece of storytelling. Accompanied by another 14 estimable acts, it makes admission into
well worth the price." —
"There's not a bad story in the bunch." —
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“I’m not even sure where to start with this one. I liked it but my brain is like why??? The spice was definitely spicing though!!! The shit this man did to her was so over the top….but I couldn’t stop reading it so I don’t know what that says about me 🤣. It gives a whole new meaning to the word obsession…”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
Terry Dowling
Terry Dowling has been called “Australia’s finest writer of horror” by
magazine.
series featured more horror stories by Dowling in its twenty-one–year run than any other writer. Dowling is author of
(International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection, 2007),
,
, and
. He can be found at www.terrydowling.com.
Other books by Terry Dowling
Joel Lane
Joel Lane was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and anthology editor. In addition to his dark fantasy and horror short fiction, Lane published two novels,
and
.
He received the World Fantasy Award in 2013 for his collection,
, and won the British Fantasy Award twice. His short stories have been collected in seven volumes. He died in 2013.
Other books by Joel Lane
Glen Hirshberg
Glen Hirshberg’s novels include
,
, and the
trilogy. He is also the author of five widely praised story collections:
,
,
,
, and
. Hirshberg is a three-time International Horror Guild Award winner and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. Hirshberg won the Shirley Jackson Award for the novelette, “The Janus Tree.” His Substack is at glenhirshberg.substack.com. He lives with his family and cats in the Pacific Northwest.
Other books by Glen Hirshberg
Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the
–bestselling author of more than forty novels, collections, novellas, and comic books, including
and the Indian Lake Trilogy. Jones received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has won honors ranging from the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award to the Bram Stoker Award. Jones lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado. Visit his website at stephengrahamjones.com.
Other books by Stephen Graham Jones
Nathan Ballingrud
Nathan Ballingrud is the author of the collections
, and
. He is a two-time winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards. His novella “The Visible Filth” was adapted into the movie
, written and directed by Babak Anvari;
was filmed as
an anthology series for Hulu. His first novel,
, was recently published. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Other books by Nathan Ballingrud
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
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