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All Hallows Eve
Written by R.J. MacReady Published by Titan Books Edited by Ellen Datlow 2026, 330 pages, Fiction Released on September 8th, 2026 Review: I love Halloween, as so many of us do. There have been so many great anthologies over the years like Halloween, October Dreams, This is Halloween, Dark Hallows, Doorbells at Dusk, October Screams, Halloween Horrors, Literally Dead, and dozens of others.
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
Published by Open Road Media Award-winning and New York Times–bestselling authors adapt classic fairy tales into their own fantastical visions in this short story collection.
Troll's-Eye View
Published by Open Road Media Classic fairy tale villains get to share their sides of the story in this collection from the multi-award-winning anthologists. In a bookshop in rural Maine, a good for nothing, unambitious young man finds his calling, in Delia Sherman’s “Wizard’s Apprentice.” A wife’s giant confronts a mischievous thief who dares to invade her home in Peter S.
Swan Sister
Published by Open Road Media The multi-award-winning anthologists present a story collection of modern interpretations of classic fairy tales.
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror
Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft's Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, CaitlĂn R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.
To nejlepší z hororu a fantasy
Domů Knihy To nejlepší z hororu a fantasy Přehled Antologie hororových a fantasy povídek editorek Ellen Datlowové a Terri Windlingové přináší na 40 povídek různých autorů a autorek, zahrnujících přes 200 000 slov strachu, hrůzy, napětí a kouzelných asociací. Seznam povídek: Krásné nestříhané vlasy hrobů (David Morell) Vtělení (Nancy Springerová) Dveře někam (Fred Chappel) Milující anděl (Kathe Kojaová) Vivian (Midori Snyderová) Opravdová láska (K. W. Jeter) Druhá nejkrásnější žena na světě (A. R.
Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror (Saga Doubles)
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Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror
Description A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series. This anthology contains stories from some of the most evocative and bestselling writers of horror and speculative fiction.
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror
Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft's Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, CaitlĂn R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.
Landline - Reactor
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers that “daddy” isn’t there and her six-year-old son is all alone in the dark… Short story | 5,040 words “It’s dark,” Liam said, his soft, little-kid voice barely audible over the crackle of the landline. “Daddy’s not here.” “What do you mean, honey?” Amanda asked her son. “Is he in the bathroom?” “No, he’s gone.” “Maybe he went outside for a smoke?” “No.” She typed a text to Kevin, Call me right away.
Agate Way - Reactor
A pair of sisters are hired to find–and if necessary, dispose of–whatever is killing neighborhood pets in a dying town. Novelette | 8,730 words Two and a half hours before sunset, the Jeffers sisters, Casey and Tara, drove through an underpass tunnel into the south end of Eel Neck. The tunnel entrance dripped with bittersweet vines. Dark. Went on longer than it should’ve, Tara decided in a weirdly extended moment between the impression of falling down a mine shaft and the return of sunlight.
Not Alone - Reactor
Mel relishes running the “Enchanted Jungle,” a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with live parrots, concrete dinosaurs, and other unexpected wonders. Short story | 4,400 words Under the placid gaze of a concrete stegosaurus, I open the gate to the Enchanted Jungle’s parking lot. As a child, opening the gate to the parking lot each morning was my favorite task. Even now, at age seventy-five, I love it. The stegosaurusis wearing a garland of flowers.
Bright Hearts - Reactor
A florist becomes obsessed with the strange, haunting red flowers she buys from an equally strange old lady… I hadn’t seen the old lady with her pram full of flowers for months. In A Bunch of Love, we joked our takings were up; without her five-dollar bunches of flowers, people came in to us instead. My boss didn’t find it funny. “You know she steals those flowers? No outlay.” “And spends the profit on bad men,” I said. I kind of loved the resourcefulness of the old lady.
Everybody Is in the Place
The fair comes every year with its wild music, boys, and rides, but Maybelle and Enid are far more interested in the rumored return of the Labyrinth, which hasn’t been seen in several years… We’re coming up, coming up, coming up, coming up, we took the acid half an hour ago, and I can hear the fair music rising up louder and louder, washing over our boring town like a wave.
Parthenogenesis - Reactor
When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stories about the strange carving in front of the motel where they’re awaiting a mechanic . . . “It’s a bear, isn’t it?” Matty asks, his voice riding a ramp up. “That’s what they look like?” He’s talking about the ten-foot-tall wooden statue in front of the one-story motel in a town in western Colorado neither he nor Jac had planned on stopping in for a whole afternoon.
The Alice Run - Reactor
A comatose patient undergoes an experimental procedure that uses favorite childhood stories to pull the patient back into consciousness—but the experiment doesn’t go quite as planned… Six people ringed the patient’s gurney. Amy Cole, Dr. James Ericson’s assistant, didn’t understand why two of the men were here, nor why the procedure was being done away from Jim’s medical-research lab, but it wasn’t her place to question Jim. Not that she ever would. You didn’t question genius.
Breathing Constellations
Misunderstanding threatens a commune whose survival is dependent on precise communication with another species… “They don’t want to talk, Vega.” Vega readjusted the waterproof screen hooked to their sonar. The pod was still circling below, graceful black-and-white behemoths rendered as drifting pixels. The babeltech transmitter was still functional, squealing a standard Patagonian greeting into the dark waves. But just like yesterday, and all the days prior, not a single orca spoke back.
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen TOC:
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen TOC: The Importance of a Tidy Home Christopher Golden Dodger Carly Holmes Rock Hopping Adam L.G. Nevill That Maddening Heat Ray Cluley Jack O’Dander Priya Sharma The Assembled Ramsey Campbell R is For Remains Steve Rasnic Tem The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs E.
The Best Ellen Datlow Anthologies For Devourers of Short Horror Stories
Editor Ellen Datlow is a veritable legend in the world of horror, science fiction, and across genre boundaries. For the last four decades, she has built a truly marvelous and foundational oeuvre of short stories and novellas that demonstrate the best that the darker side of fiction can offer. In addition, she’s consistently discovered and developed the work of emerging writers and worlds. Truly, Ellen Datlow knows a thing or two (or three) about what makes a story really jump off the page.
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A woman visiting Las Vegas for a fun weekend encounters her ne’er-do-well ex-husband, who begs her for a favor that gambles with life and death… I put off the unveiling of my daughter’s headstone as long as I could. We didn’t do it until the eleventh month after she died, when the yahrzeit was in sight and I couldn’t stall any longer.
In Datlow We Trust: How Ellen Datlow Became an Instant Buy for Many
Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over four decades. She was Fiction Editor of OMNI Magazine for seventeen years, then Editor of SCIFICTION, the fiction arm of the SCIFI Channel’s website, for six years. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and its horror imprint, Nightfire.
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A professional caregiver’s commute takes an unsettling detour when car trouble forces her to pull over on the highway, where she begins receiving distressing phone calls from strangers… When Carla’s little car broke down on the highway, she was in the fast lane, and instead of pulling over to the far side of the road, she had to stop on the median. She sat there, jiggling the wheel with one hand and fiddling the ignition with the other, a hot, low sun glaring through the hatchback’s rear glass.
Instar - Reactor
Searching for her daughter, a woman confronts the man she believes stole the child…and the strange truth behind local legends. Ginny’s car broke down in the forest, minutes after she slowed down around a curve and saw the campfire just off the road. It was exactly the kind of campfire she would have imagined, out in the woods, a man staring at her as her car slid past. She had her windows down, as the night was mild and the smell of the damp earth was sweet.
Liminal Spaces
An engineer who frequently travels for her job, suddenly finds herself in airports other than the one she arrived in… When she got off the plane, Amelia was thinking about her boyfriend, Jerome. They’d been arguing about the laundry. “If you want me to do the laundry, just tell me to do it!” Jerome had said. They’d been together for six years. During the pandemic they’d bought a townhouse in South Austin and were now in huge joint debt, plus Amelia’s student loan.
The Sound of Reindeer
Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she discovers the family’s unusual Christmas Eve tradition… The first thing Ada Cirillo noticed on the way to her girlfriend’s family’s Christmas Eve party was the way Lil looked out the window. Usually Lil was the talkative type, the beak that broke through Ada’s shell and hurled her out to experience the world.
Blood and Other Cravings
Published by Open Road Media A collection of “mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next” that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal). When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism.
Jack O’Dander
The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . The backdrop Graham uses for the Zoom meeting makes it look like he lives in a luxury apartment, which is highly unlikely because Graham is hanging on to life by his fingernails. Of a group defined by absences, he’s had it the hardest. His mum told him that she was going out for a loaf. She locked him in and told him to stay out of sight if anyone knocked. He was six.
Headhunting
Headhunting Rich Larson A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a cathedral–but why would someone want it? Amir wakes up from a dream about a flesh-and-bone piano, and when he gropes his phone out from under his pillow he sees three missed calls. Bravetti never puts anything in text, or even encrypted text, but they’re not together anymore, or even drunk-dialling, so it must be a job.
Burning Girls
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, edited by Ellen Datlow and illustrated by Anna & Elena Balbusso. A finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, “Burning Girls” first published in 2013 and won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella.
Veronica Schanoes
To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes, edited by Ellen Datlow and illustrated by Anna & Elena Balbusso. A finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, “Burning Girls” first published in 2013 and won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella.
Ceffo
On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life… “Beneath my sorrows, I hold a city.” Nizar Qabbani She quickly realized they should never have come back. Because she was in a town she loved with a man she no longer loved and was beginning to hate. This time everything about the place was only loud plaintive ghosts of what might have been and now-stained lovely memories of their last visits here.
Pretty Good Neighbor
There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands… It was a June night, warm but breezy. Lynn and the kids had gone to bed, and I was sitting out next to the giant rose bush with my neighbor Phil. The back of our house faced across our small yard and garden, to the side of the Victorian his dad had left him. We were drinking beer and smoking cigarettes and weed.
Jeffrey Ford
I see a lot of reading lists offered by readers and writers around Halloween time, which is great, but three quarters of them have different variations of the same works. It’s hard to avoid Stephen King, simply because there are so many terrific short stories you might choose. On the other hand, you also get a tsunami of H. P. Lovecraft, which, for my money, is akin to a fist full of Ambien. To each his own, I suppose.
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 15-Table of Contents
Table of Contents Solivagant Angela Slatter Gate 9 Jeffrey Ford Flaming Teeth Garry Kilworth On the Hills, the Knitters Steve Toase New Fox Smell Livia Llewellyn The Harvester of Ladsgrove Steve Duffy Incident at Bear Creek Lodge Tananarive Due The Myth of Pasiphaë Andy Davidson The Loneliness of the Long-Distant Reporter Daniela Tomova In the Wabe Alison Littlewood New Meat(™) Jordan Shiveley Eyes Like Small Black Stones David Surface Bb Minor, or The Suicide Choir: An Oral History Gemma...
Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror (Hardcover)
Praise For… Praise for When Things Get Dark "This compilation of stories that make the mundane seem terrifying is chilling and uncanny, offering tropes that will be familiar to readers of Jackson’s work (witchy women, eerie suburbia) but with unique touches that could come only from these individuals authors." - New York Public Library Best Books Other stories are equally memorable, but for me, the outstanding one is Skinder's Veil, a breathtaking blend of fairytale, dream and reality by the...
Christmas and Other Horrors coming from Titan October 24
I’ve just handed in the final story for my next anthology and the book is DONE DONE DONE. Introducting Christmas and Other Horrors coming from Titan in hc and ebook October 24th.
The Dark House
A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t be contained by frames… Author’s note: This story contains fictional depictions of suicide and mention of harm to children. There was nothing remarkable about the photograph, no reason it should be the first to catch my eye. Because it was a palladium print, it made the house into a kind of medium gray that looked almost silky, the way certain black-and-white pictures do.
A.C. Wise
Fiction and Excerpts [2] Horror || A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t be contained by frames… Horror || "Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)" by A.C. Wise is a disturbing horror novelette about a young woman, who like many others, goes to Hollywood to become a star and is haunted by the murders of several other aspiring actresses. And of her influence, rippling up through the years, on the man who “discovered” her and on film itself.
Even If Such Ways Are Bad
A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of burrowing through space. What lies on the other end is unknown—as is what they will do once they get there. The job comes with an implant, punched into the fleshiest part of Chimezie’s thigh. It’s still aching as he walks down the quay to the waiting wormship. Iron-laced snow falls from the dark sky. Fever sweat freezes on his few exposed slices of skin: forehead, eyelids, the back of his neck.
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous|Paperback
A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters. From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question.
Add All 19 of These New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Your September Reading List
September’s new books feature aliens, superheroes, time travel, and what sounds like a wonderfully genre-busting new novel from Alan Moore. This list includes our picks from last week’s fall preview, as well as plenty of additional titles to add to your exponentially growing reading list. 1) Angel Catbird Vol. 1 by Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Tamra Bonvillain The acclaimed author pens her first graphic novel, book one of a trilogy, with illustrations by artists Christmas and Bonvillain.
Recommendations for Best Horror #14-long list
Acevedo, Mario “Xipe Totec,” Shadow Atlas. Addison, Linda D. “Veiled Intentions,” (poem) Under Twin Suns. Aguirre, Forrest “Obverse Reverse,” Underland Arcana 4 Albrecht, Andrin “Gloria,” Not One of Us #68. Alexander, Phoenix “Nails,” The Dark #76, September. Anderson, Colleen “Cinnabar,” Shadow Atlas. Antonia, Nina “Away,” Uncertainties Volume V. Arcuri, Meghan “Green With Hunger,” Classic Monsters Unleashed.com Arnzen, Michael “The Umami of Blood,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII.
Recommendations for Best Horror #14-long list
Da Silva, M. Lopes “A House Without Ghosts,” In Somnio. Daniels, Gillian “Frost Bloom,” Nightmare #108, September. Dansky, Richard “On Seas of Blood and Salt,” The Jewish Book of Horror. Davitt, Deborah L. “A Garden of Flesh,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII. Dawn, Randee “Cat Person,” Horror For the Throne. Dawn, Randee “Rough Beast, Slouching,” Dim Shores Presents Volume 2 spring Dawson, Sam “A Fine Cellar,” Pariah and Other Stories.
Recommendations for Best Horror #14-long list
Machado, Carmen Maria “A Hundred Miles and a Mile,” When Things Get Dark. MacLeod, Bracken “Weightless Before She Falls,” Fright Train. MacVaugh, Morgan “Creature,” The Fabulist Magazine, October. Madrigano, Clara “Into the River,” Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology… Madrigano, Clara “Little Doors,” The Dark #70, March. Madrigano, Clara “There, in the Woods,” The Dark #68, January. Major, Tim “The Cardboard Voice,” Nightscript VII. Malerman, Josh “Door To Door,” Shadow Atlas.
Recommendations for Best Horror #14-long list
Tallerman, David “A Cold Yesterday in Late July,” The Dark #72, March. Tang, Michelle “The Sound of a Bamboo Forest,” Terrifying Ghost Stories. Tantlinger, Sara “Anthropophagus,” (poem) Vastarien Vol. 4 Issue 2 Fall. Tantlinger, Sara “Deliria Dreams of the Universe,” (poem) Southwest Review, Autumn. Taqvi, Fatima “Secrets of the Kath,” Strange Horizons, January 18. Tay, Lisabelle “Surat Daru Hantu,” Strange Horizons, October. Taylor, Ingrid L. “The Collar,” (poem) Southwest Review, Autumn.
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 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.
Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man
When an illicit trade deal goes wrong and Quandary is blamed for it, she goes on the run to avoid the crosshairs of a bioengineered killer that only lives for 24 hours. If Q can evade it for that long, she just might survive. Jow is emptying the last container of slurry into the claw-footed bathtub when the knock comes: one thud, then two, then one, just how the anonymous script on his fone predicted. He sets the jug down too quickly, nearly knocks it over.
Must-Read Joe Haldeman Books
Joe Haldeman is the winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, has been named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Haldeman is best known for The Forever War, a military sci-fi novel that began as his thesis project at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. But his bibliography is far more extensive than just this acclaimed work—he's written over 20 novels, as well as short fiction, poetry, and essays.
Porgee’s Boar
An artist’s work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best customer. But when he commissions a painting based on a childhood photograph, the artist fears his reaction to the final product. Porgee was not supposed to arrive for another half hour but the painter was already afraid. It wasn’t because of the painting. She knew it was one of the best she had done in a long time. She was certain Porgee would like it and most likely buy it.
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