Synopses & Reviews
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 sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.”
Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlows standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
Ellen Datlow is a winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, seven World Fantasy Awards, and the Hugo Award for Best Editor. 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, and, with Terri Windling, Snow White, Blood Red and the rest of their Fairy Tales series. She has also edited the Years Best Fantasy and Horror series, The Green Man, and, for younger readers, The Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan. Winner of the World Fantasy Award
For Inferno, Ellen Datlow asked some of her favorite authors to write 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 sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.”
Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlows standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
Excellent . . . Award-winning sf/fantasy editor Datlow's first nonthemed collection includes 20 stories by British and Australian writers that run the gamut from the grotesque (by Joyce Carol Oates, K.W. Jeter, and Mark Samuels), to family-security worries (Simon Bestwick, Mike O'Driscoll, and Nathan Ballingrud), to horror with the classic bells and whistles (Conrad Williams's 'Perhaps the Last'). Glen Hirshberg's 'The Janus Tree' and Stephen Gallagher's 'Misadventure' offer a powerful sense of place. Much of the horror in this volume contains a bonus touch of weariness and depression. All of the stories are wisely chosen and deserve attention and comment.”Jonathan Pearce, California State University, Stanislaus, Library Journal
Datlow makes a solid claim to being the premiere horror editor of her generation with this state-of-the-art anthology of 20 new stories by some of horror fiction's best and brightest. Several outstanding selections feature imperiled children and explore the horrific potential of childhood fears, among them Glen Hirshberg's 'The Janus Tree,' which gives a creepy supernatural spin to a poignant memoir of adolescent angst and alienation, and Stephen Gallagher's 'Misadventure,' in which a young man's near-death experience as a child endows him as an adult with consoling insight into the afterlife. The compilation's variety of approaches and moods is exemplary, ranging from the natural supernaturalism of Laird Barron's cosmic horror tale 'The Forest,' to the unsettling psychological horror of Lucius Shepard's 'The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast'; the metaphysical terrors of Conrad Williams's 'Perhaps the Last'; and the slapstick grotesquerie of K.W. Jeter's black comedy 'Riding Bitch.' If this book can be taken as a gauge of the vitality of imagination in contemporary horror fiction, then the genre is very healthy indeed.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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"Datlow makes a solid claim to being the premiere horror editor of her generation." --
Publishers Weekly (starred review) on
Inferno “One good ghost story, one truly effective tale, is usually sufficient to scare the bejesus out of a person. The Dark contains sixteen tales, enough to keep fans tossing and turning and peeking under the bed for a fortnight and then some. Watch your hackles when you read this book; Ms. Datlow and her horrormongers are out to raise them.” --Dallas Morning News
“Sure to provide a yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Dark
Review
"Datlow makes a solid claim to being the premiere horror editor of her generation." --
Publishers Weekly (starred review) on
Inferno“One good ghost story, one truly effective tale, is usually sufficient to scare the bejesus out of a person. The Dark contains sixteen tales, enough to keep fans tossing and turning and peeking under the bed for a fortnight and then some. Watch your hackles when you read this book; Ms. Datlow and her horrormongers are out to raise them.” --Dallas Morning News
"With all that being said, I can assure you that this is quite possibly the most literary of all anthologies I have ever read. Datlow brings together the very best of every type of classic horror stories. I cannot recommend this anthology highly enough and I appreciate horror being treated as fine as it has been in this anthology. Buy it, read it, share it.” --The Fantasy Times
“Fans of horror fiction owe it to themselves to pick up this creepy, stylish anthology.”--Jeff VanderMeer, SCI FI Weekly
Synopsis
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 sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear."
Mission accomplished.
Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories' characters toil within their own hell.
An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlow's standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
Synopsis
Award-winning editor Datlow presents 20 original tales of terror from some of the most powerful voices in the horror genre. In this aptly titled anthology, each contributor approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories' characters toil within their own hell.
Synopsis
Multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents twenty original tales of terror.
Synopsis
Multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents twenty original tales of terror
Synopsis
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 sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.”
Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories characters toil within their own hell. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlows standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
Synopsis
Multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents twenty original tales of terror
Synopsis
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 sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear."
Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories' characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlow's standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.
About the Author
Ellen Datlow is a winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, seven World Fantasy Awards, and the Hugo Award for Best Editor. 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 The Dark, and The Dell Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy and, with Terri Windling, Fairy Reel and Coyote Road: Trickster Tales and the rest of their Fairy Tales series. She has also edited the Years Best Fantasy and Horror series, The Green Man, and, for younger readers, The Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan.
Table of Contents
Introduction • Ellen Datlow
Riding Bitch • K.W. Jeter
Misadventure • Stephen Gallagher
The Forest • Laird Barron
The Monsters of Heaven • Nathan Ballingrud
Inelastic Collisions • Elizabeth Bear
The Uninvited • Christopher Fowler
13 O'clock • Mike O'Driscoll
Lives • John Grant
Ghorla • Mark Samuels
Face • Joyce Carol Oates
An Apiary of White Bees • Lee Thomas
The Keeper • P. D. Cacek
Bethany's Wood • Paul Finch
The Ease With Which We Freed The Beast Lucius Shepard
Hushabye • Simon Bestwick
Perhaps the Last • Conrad Williams
Stilled Life • Pat Cadigan
The Janus Tree • Glen Hirshberg
The Bedroom Light • Jeffrey Ford
The Suits at Auderlene • Terry Dowling