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	Editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION, and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running classic Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, and is continuing to edit the Best Horror of the Year series. She has received nine World Fantasy Awards as well as the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Hugo Awards. She is the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction KGB reading series, a legendary nexus of genre fiction luminaries and new talents. She lives in New York City, New York.

Hauntings

by Ellen Datlow, ed.

April 2013 / 978-1-61696-088-9 / $16.95 / Trade paperback / 432 / 6 x 9

Also edited by Ellen Datlow
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
Lovecraft's Monsters

Ellen Datlow "Introduction"
Pat Cadigan "Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie"
Dale Bailey "Hunger: A Confession"
E. Michael Lewis "Cargo"
Lucius Shepard "Delta Sly Honey"
David Morrell "Nothing Will Hurt You"
Caitlín R. Kiernan "The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)"
Joyce Carol Oates "Haunted"
Elizabeth Hand "The Have-Nots"
Neil Gaiman "Closing Time"
F. Paul Wilson "Anna"
Jonathan Carroll "Mr. Fiddlehead"
Terry Dowling "The Fooly"
Paul Walther "The Toll"
Simon Kurt Unsworth "The Pennine Tower Restaurant"
Connie Willis "Distress Call"
Stephen Gallagher "The Horn"
Michael Marshall Smith "Everybody Goes"
Richard Bowes "Transfigured Night"
James P. Blaylock "Hula Ville"
Jeffrey Ford "The Bedroom Light"
Gemma Files "Spectral Evidence"
Kelly Link "Two Houses"
Adam L. G. Nevill "Where Angels Come In"
Peter Straub "Hunger: An Introduction"

This ghastly anthology, compiled 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 exhilarating, horrific and transformative.

*A sweetly vengeful voice on the radio calls a young soldier out to join a phantom patrol.

*A hotel maid who threw her newborn child from a fourth-story window lingers in an interminable state.

*An intern in a paranormal research facility delves deeply into the unexplained deaths of two staff members.

*A serial killer plans his ultimate artistic achievement: the unveiling of an extremely special instrument in a very private concert.

At once familiar and shocking, these riveting stories will haunt you long after you put down your book and turn out the light.

"This anthology of 24 previously published dark fantasy and horror stories, edited by the ever-adept Datlow (Blood and Other Cravings), explores a variety of situations in which people encounter literal or figurative specters from beyond. Some feature the ghosts of lovers or spouses wronged, while others give readers a powerful lens through which to view the evil people can do here on Earth, as in the gut-wrenching 'Cargo' by E. Michael Lewis. The theme is interpreted quite loosely and in varied ways, though many of the stories - such as the atmospheric opener, Pat Cadigan's 'Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie,' and Adam L. G. Nevill's tense 'Where Angels Come In' — hinge on anxieties relating to children in peril. Even so, the collection flows smoothly, capturing the pleasantly shivery dread of a round of ghost stories told by a fire, with only a few hiccups or sour notes (the most sour being Richard Bowes's deeply unpleasant 'Transfigured Night'). Solid entries by Neil Gaiman, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Joyce Carol Oates capture the mood perfectly and will thrill fans of the eerie."
-Publishers Weekly

"Datlow once again proves herself as a master editor. Her mission to broaden readers' concepts of what a haunting can be is nothing short of a success, and the twenty-four stories on display run the gamut from explicitly terrifying to eerily familiar. Readers who wish to be haunted themselves should not miss this one. Highly recommended."
-Arkham Digest

"That delicious sense of tantalization, of maybe and what if, impelled me through page after page, encountering intriguing characters, spine-shivering settings, and bits and pieces (sometimes literally...of corpses)...."
-Hellnotes

"[Ellen Datlow] has this crazy knack of consistently putting together stellar anthologies and Hauntings is no different."
-Horror Talk

"Take a gander at Ellen Datlow's stellar collection Hauntings and learn what being haunted really means...There is no better way to combat the upcoming summer heat than with a fabulous collection of chills."
-Revolution SF

"Ms. Datlow has assembled a formidable community of eminent genre artists working at the very heights of their literary powers to create this outstanding dark fantasy anthology. This is the best of the best; don’t miss it!"
-Tomb of Dark Delights

Praise for Ellen Datlow's Darkness

"Make sure you are in a safe place before you open it up."
-New York Journal of Books

"Datlow is a high-calibre anthologist."
-Innsmouth Free Press

"About as close to horror perfection as any fan could ask for in an anthology."
-Choate Road Horror Blog