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The Dark
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Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied and talented authors and invited them to scare the heck out of her.
The resulting anthology redefines the ghost story, venturing beyond the accustomed tropes and into horror's true realm: the unknown.
takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two.
Under the covers of
, you will find a gathering of sixteen unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.
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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
Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) was born in the United Kingdom. Although she couldn’t read until she was eight, she began writing at nine and never stopped, producing more than ninety novels and three hundred short stories. She also wrote for the BBC television series
and various BBC radio plays. After winning the 1980 British Fantasy Award for her novel
, endless awards followed. She was named a World Horror Grand Master in 2009 and honored with the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2013. Lee was married to artist and writer John Kaiine.
Other books by Tanith Lee
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
Mike O'Driscoll
Mike O’Driscoll’s fiction has appeared in
and anthologies including
and
. O’Driscoll has published several collections of stories, including
,
, and
, which was the first of a series of standalone novellas. His story, “Sounds Like,” was adapted by Brad Anderson for an episode of the mid-noughts horror anthology show,
.
Other books by Mike O'Driscoll
Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson’s cartoons may be what he was most famous for, but he was a master of macabre writing as well. His cartoons, which appeared primarily in
and
were gathered in over twenty book collections through the years. He wrote and illustrated a number of children’s books, mystery novels, several anthologies, and a collection of his own short stories.
Wilson was honored with the Horror Writer’s Association’s Life Achievement Award in 1992 and the 2004 Life Achievement Award given by the World Fantasy Convention. He died in 2019.
Other books by Gahan Wilson
Jack Cady
Jack Cady was an American author known mostly as an award-winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He published over ten novels and his short fiction was published in several collections. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. He died in 2004.
Other books by Jack Cady
Stephen Gallagher
Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of the British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has built a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. His fourteen novels include
,
,
,
, and
, which features Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor’s Visitor in Lunacy.
Other books by Stephen Gallagher
Daniel Abraham
Daniel Abraham is best known as the co-author and executive producer of the Hugo Award–winning series
under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey. He has also written novels under his own name and as M. L. N. Hanover.
Other books by Daniel Abraham
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
Sharyn McCrumb
SHARYN MCCRUMB is the author of
bestselling
and many other acclaimed novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by
and the
. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.
Other books by Sharyn McCrumb
Charles L. Grant
–bestselling author Charles L. Grant published in many different genres: science fiction, historical romance, gothic, suspense, fantasy, and horror. However, he is primarily known for his dark fantasy novels and short stories, many of them set in his beloved New Jersey. Grant edited a number of anthologies, including the
series, and also created Oxrun Station, a small and very spooky town in Connecticut. Grant died in 2006.
Other books by Charles L. Grant
Kathe Koja
Kathe Koja is a writer and producer based in Detroit. Her work includes
, and
Other books by Kathe Koja
Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, grew up in Daytona, Florida, and lived the last years of his life in Portland, Oregon. His short fiction won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the National Magazine Award, the Locus Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He died in 2014.
Other books by Lucius Shepard
Kelly Link
Kelly Link is a MacArthur recipient and the author of five collections, most recently
. She is the owner of the bookstore Book Moon in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and the cofounder, with her husband Gavin J. Grant, of Small Beer Press. Together they publish the zine
. You can find her on Twitter @haszombiesinit.
Other books by Kelly Link
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
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