Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow
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Ellen Datlow is a winner of eight World Fantasy Awards, two Hugo Awards for Best Editor, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, she has been the long-time fiction editor of Omni and more recently the fiction editor of SCIFI.COM. She has edited many successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, A Whisper of Blood, Alien Sex, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and, with Terri Windling, Sirens, Salon Fantastique, Snow White, Blood Red and five other titles in their adult Fairy Tales anthology series; The Green Man, The Faery Reel, and The Coyote Road for young adults; and, for younger readers, A Wolf at the Door, Swan Sister, and forthcoming Troll's Eye View. She also co-edits the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan.


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Blood and Other Cravings

Edited by Ellen Datlow
Tor Books

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...


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Naked City

edited by Ellen Datlow
St. Martin's Griffin

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of...


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Haunted Legends

Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
Tor Books

An anthology of all-new, fresh, original ghost stories by such award-winning, popular authors as Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford,...


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Inferno

Ellen Datlow
Tor Books

Multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents twenty original tales of terror


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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008

Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant
St. Martin's Griffin

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


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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007

Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant
St. Martin's Griffin

For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged....


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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
St. Martin's Griffin

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,...


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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection

Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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The Dark

Edited by Ellen Datlow
Tor Books

Modern audiences have long inured themselves to fear, trained themselves to shut off their childish nighttime terrors and scoff in the face of deliberate...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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

edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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Vanishing Acts

Edited by Ellen Datlow
Tor Books

Stories by Suzy McKee Charnas, Ted Chiang, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, Paul McAuley, Brian Stableford, and others. The theme of this anthology is...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

This renowned series, recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, continues to captivate and fascinate readers. Stories by such notables as: Scott Bradfield, A.S....


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

Edited by Ellen Daltow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael...


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

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael...


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

Edited by Ellen Daltow and Terri Windling
St. Martin's Griffin

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,...


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