Ellen Datlow

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  • Bibliography:
    118 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Black Thorn, White Rose (Sep-1994)
Snow White, Blood Red (Apr-1995)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Dec-1995)
Black Swan, White Raven (Oct-1998)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Mar-2000)
A Wolf at the Door (Jun-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

A Wolf at the Door (Jun-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Black Thorn, White Rose (Sep-1994)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Dec-1995)
Black Swan, White Raven (Oct-1998)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (Mar-1999)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Mar-2000)
Swan Sister (Jun-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Dec-1995)
Black Swan, White Raven (Oct-1998)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Mar-2000)
Swan Sister (Jun-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

Snow White, Blood Red (Apr-1995)

Book List in Order: 118 titles

  • The First Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: First Annual Collection

  • The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

  • Blood Is Not Enough

    Seventeen tales revolving around the vampire legend explore diverse variations on the classic theme and include stories of a method actress who sucks emotion from co-stars, a nightmarish version of The Walrus and the Carpenter, and other chilling tal...

  • The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction



  • Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction

  • The Year's Best Fantasy

    Drawn from a range of periodicals, anthologies, and small-press publications, this collection of fantasy and horror fiction encompasses works by Jane Yolen, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Disch, and other notable authors...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

  • Alien Sex: 19 Tales

    Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love An incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fant...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection

    Collecting the creme de la creme of the horror and fantasy fields, this third volume amasses the best from 1989, including works by Scott Baker, Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Jonah Carroll, Robert McCammon and Bruce Sterling, as well as exte...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection

  • Alien Sex

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection

    A anthology of the fantasy and horror stories recognized by the World Fantasy Awards features the work of Ellen Kushner, S. P. Somtow, Charles de Lint, Karl Edward Wagner, Kara Dalkey, Pat Cadigan, K. W. Jeter, Midori Snyder, Jane Yolen, and others....

  • Omni Best Science Fiction One

  • Omni Best Science Fiction Two



  • Omni Visions One

  • Omni Best Science Fiction Three

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection

  • Omni Visions Two

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection

  • Black Thorn, White Rose

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    The compilers of Snow White, Rose Red present eighteen retellings of classic fairy tales in contemporary and adult formats, including the writings of such authors as Peter Straub and Roger Zelazny. 10,000 first printing....

  • Snow White, Blood Red

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White
    Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

    Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children...But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders--magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our d...

  • Little Deaths

    A World Fantasy Award"winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others. The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term “la petite mort,” a...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection

    The acclaimed collection of fantastic fiction features entries from established authors and talented newcomers--including Scott Bradfield, Charles de Lint, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, and Nicholas Royle--along with editors' summations of the year in fan...

  • Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    "Once upon a time ... " So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri ...



  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection

    The ninth installment of this popular annual series features horror and fantasy stories by some of the genre's most noted writers, including Stephen King, Terry Bisson, Jane Yolen, and Scott Bradfield....

  • Twists of the Tale; An Anthology of Cat Horror

  • Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex

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  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

    More than forty stories and poems are included in this anthology of the year's finest horror and fantasy fiction, accompanied by a roundup of the year's fantasy films and a guide to the year's notable fiction. 20,000 first printing....

  • Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

  • Black Swan, White Raven

    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    A fourth anthology from the editors of Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears presents contemporary retellings of traditional fairy tales, in Gregory Frost's "Sparks," "The Dog Rose" by Sten Westgard, and other works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Na...

  • Silver Birch, Blood Moon

    in Silver Birch, Blood Moon
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Collects contemporary adaptations of traditional fairy tales by such authors as Harvey Jacobs, Nancy Kress, Michael Cadnum, Nalo Hopkinson, Wendy Wheeler, Susan Wade, Tanith Lee, Patricia McKillip, and Richard William Asplund...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection

    Over 250,000 words of the finest fantasy and horror

    A. S. Byatt
    Charles de Lint
    Karen Joy Fowler
    Neil Gaiman
    Lisa Goldstein
    Stephen King
    Ellen Kushner
    Patricia A. McKillip
    Steven Millhauser
    Michael Marshall Smith
    ...

  • Black Heart, Ivory Bones

    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    Hair bright as gold.… Lips red as blood.… Heart black as sin.… Truth sharp as bone.…

    As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling ...



  • Vanishing Acts

    “A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species -- be they human or animal, mythical or alien.” -- Publishers Weekly In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories ...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection

    For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunnin...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2

    Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the...

  • Vanishing Acts: A Science Fiction Anthology

    Ellen Datlow has been nominated for the Hugo Award for best editor and has won the World Fantasy Award. In Vanishing Acts she has gathered together an extraordinary group of stories, including a long novella by Ted Chiang, that cohere around the idea...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection

    For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories b...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2001

    Collecting the creme de la creme of the horror and fantasy fields, this third volume amasses the best from 1989, including works by Scott Baker, Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Jonah Carroll, Robert McCammon and Bruce Sterling, as well as exte...

  • The Green Man

    Drawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up “a tasty treat for fantasy fans” (Booklist).   There are some “genuine gems” in this “enticing collection” of fifteen sto...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2002

    This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, ...

  • Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Se

    A dangerously seductive collection of tales that -- like the sirens themselves -- are impossible to resistSensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers incl...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection

    For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with anothe...



  • The Faery Reel

    This “wondrous” collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others “is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   For this enchanting anthology -- a World Fantasy Aw...

  • Dark

    This award-winning horror anthology is the “yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured” -- featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow -- praised by...

  • The Dark of the Woods

    New twists on old classics! Twenty-one award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends...including Snow White, Cinderella, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty,...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection

    For nearly two decades, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with anothe...

  • Salon Fantastique

    Expand your vision of what a fantasy story can be with tales by Peter S. Beagle, Lucius Shepard, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Di Filippo, and others.Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Inspired by the literary salons of...

  • The Coyote Road

    Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature--and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third "mythic" anthology. The Coyote Road featur...

  • Inferno

    As stated in her introduction to Inferno, Ellen Datlow asked her favorite authors 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 sen...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007

    For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kel...

  • The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy

    “Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America.” -- Peter Straub With original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and others From Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most...

  • A Whisper of Blood

  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection

    As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of tales and poems.On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size of  the collect...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008

    As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of short stories and poems.

    On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size o...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2009

    Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: ?The pulse of modern science fiction.?(New York Times Book Review)

    This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year?s stor...

  • Twists Of The Tale

    In ancient Egypt they were worshiped. In the Middle Ages they were crucified. From a gentle purr to a sudden scratch, enter the dark, secret world of the creature who is definitely not man's best friend - and who likes it just fine that way. In this ...

  • The Best Horror of the Year 1

    An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes ...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume 1

    An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes ...

  • Tails of Wonder and Imagination

    From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats....

  • Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

    This sophisticated, scary anthology collects the best horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005, one of horror’s most innovative eras. These exceptionally diverse stories, hand-picked by horror-expert editor Ellen Datlow, are tales of the subt...

  • The Beastly Bride

    What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In The Beastly Bride, acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors includ...

  • Digital Domains

    A girl who eats dreams, a woman who chooses the apes, and a barbarian hero rendered as a collage. These are just a few of the people readers first met online thanks to the explosion of webzines. Ellen Datlow, editor of Omni Online, Event Horizon, and...

  • Teeth: Vampire Tales

    Fascinated by vampires? Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful -- and touch on nearly every...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3

    A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruth...

  • Supernatural Noir

    A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret... Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecra...

  • Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

    To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, it presents some of th...

  • Blood and Other Cravings

    When we think of vampires, instantly the image arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, Ellen Datlow has commissioned stories from many of the mo...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4

    The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness. Now, for the fourth consecutive year, editor Ellen Datlow has explored the entirety of the diverse horror market, disti...

  • After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

    If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very...

  • Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

    “Gaslamp Fantasy,” or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr No...

  • Hauntings

    This fiendish anthology, complied by the horror genre's most acclaimed editor, drags you into the twisted minds of modern literary masters at their fiendish best. Visionary storytellers fill this collection of tales lyrical and strange, monstrous and...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five

    Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, readers have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildl...

  • Swan Sister

    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar. In this book you will fi...

  • A Wolf at the Door

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    Did you ever wonder what happened to the seven dwarfs after Snow White ditched them, or what life was like for the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk?" Can you imagine a wicked stepsister who really gets what she deserves, and a Cinderella who isn't da...

  • Telling Tales

    Telling Tales collects stories from award-winning and highly acclaimed alumni of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington. These sixteen stories display a range of styles that exemplify the talents of writers who have pass...

  • After

    If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very ...

  • Lovecraft's Monsters

    Prepare to meet the wicked progeny of the master of modern horror. In Lovecraft's Monsters, H. P. Lovecraft's most famous creations -- Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, Elder Things, Yog-Sothoth, and more -- appear in all their terrifying glory. Each st...

  • Fearful Symmetries

    **Winner of the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology**
    Edited by Hugo award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.
    So what can you look forward to in Fearful Symmetries? There are monstershuman and non-human. There are childrenthose who...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Six

    "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." --H.P. Lovecraft This statement was true when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth century, and ...

  • The Cutting Room

    The credits have rolled, but the lights are still off. Something is lurking on the other side of the screen. There are dark secrets, starving monsters, and haunted survivors who refuse to be left on the cutting room floor. But that's okay, right? Aft...

  • Nightmare Carnival

    A boy's eleventh birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage, a suicidal diva just can't seem to die, and a washed up wrestler goes toe-to-toe with a strange new foe. All of these queer marvels and more can be found at the Nightmare Carni...

  • The Doll Collection

    The Doll Collection is exactly what it sounds like: a treasured toy box of all-original dark stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby dolls. Featuring everything from life-sized clockw...

  • Best Horror of the Year

    For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the sixteenth volume of the series,...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven

    A sin-eater plies the tools of her dangerous trade; a jealous husband takes his rival on a hunting trip; a student torments one of his teachers; a cheap grafter is selling artifacts form hell; something is haunting the departure lounge of an airport....

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight

    A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on Halloween brings back memories better left forgotten; one misstep changes the balance of survival during the apocalypse; a group of seemingly typical travele...

  • Lethal Kisses

    Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more. From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology conta...

  • Children of Lovecraft

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s stories shaped modern horror more than any other author’s in the last two centuries: Cthulhu, the Old Ones, Herbert West: Reanimator, and more terrifying nightmares emerged from the mythos of this legendary writer.  ...

  • Nightmares

    Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies o...

  • Black Feathers

    There's definitely a dark side to the avian. Birds of prey sometimes kill other birds (the shrike), destroy other birds eggs (blue jays), and even have been known to kill small animals (the kea sometimes eats live lambs). And who isn't disgusted by b...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine

    "Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion." --Clive Barker For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the mo...

  • Mad Hatters and March Hares

    From master anthologist Ellen Datlow comes an all-original of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Between the hallucinogenic, wei...

  • The Devil and the Deep

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten

    A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; An American band finds more than they bargained for in Mexico while scouting remote locations for a photo shoot; A young student’s exploration into the origins of a ...

  • The Best of the Best Horror of the Year

    For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. In this anniversary edition, Datlow brings b...

  • Echoes

    The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre -- including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay. Everyon...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven

    For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series,...

  • Final Cuts

    Legendary genre editor Ellen Datlow brings together eighteen dark and terrifying original stories inspired by cinema and television. A BLUMHOUSE BOOKS HORROR ORIGINAL. From the secret reels of a notoriously cursed cinematic masterpiece to the deba...

  • Edited By

    In dozens of anthologies published over the last thirty years, the words edited by have been followed by a singularly reassuring name: Ellen Datlow. For countless readers (and writers), Datlow's name has served as a virtual guarantee of quality. Each...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve

    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. For ...

  • Body Shocks

  • When Things Get Dark

    in When Things Get Dark

    The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, El...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen

    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.For more tha...

  • Screams From the Dark

    A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters.WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!A Shirley Jackson and Locus Aw...

  • The Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen

    From Ellen Datlow -- “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times -- comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For more than f...

  • Lovecraft Unbound

    “Readers who know Lovecraft’s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stori...

  • Christmas and Other Horrors

    Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of 18 original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephe...

  • Haunted Legends

    A Bram Stoker Award"winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world. Wherever you’re from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to...

  • Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen

    From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. ...

  • Fears

    Simon Bestwick, Annie Neugebauer, Josh Malerman, Dale Bailey, Steve Duffy, Margo Lanagan, Bracken MacLeod, Tim Nickels, Stewart O’Nan, Priya Sharma, John Patrick Higgins, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Theresa DeLucci, Sharon Gosling, Joyce Carol O...

  • The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen

    From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. ...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection

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    For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunnin...

Award-Winning Books by Ellen Datlow

Echoes
2019 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology
Fearful Symmetries
2014 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology
The Green Man
2003 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology
Inferno
2008 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology
Salon Fantastique
2007 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology
When Things Get Dark
2021 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ellen Datlow has published 118 books.

Ellen Datlow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Ellen Datlow, The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction, was published in January 1984.

No. Ellen Datlow does not write books in series.
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