Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

by Ellen Datlow (Editor)

Modern Horror (1)

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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 subtly psychological, the unpredictably mischievous, and the disturbingly visceral. Here are classics, such as horror master Stephen King's "Chattery Teeth," the tautly drawn account of a traveling salesman who unwisely picks up yet another hitchhiker; show more Peter Straub's eerie "The Juniper Tree," describing a man whose nostalgia for the movies of his childhood leads to his stolen innocence; and George R. R. Martin's sinister "The Pear-Shaped Man," in which a young woman encounters a neighbor who likes her a bit too much. Whether you grew up on Clive Barker's Books of Blood; Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Neil Gaiman's Sandman; or are newly discovering Stephen King's son, breakout author Joe Hill; there is something here for everyone who enjoys being more than just a little bit scared. show less

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Ellen Datlow
Editor
194+ Works 28,102 Members
Ellen Datlow is the editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies. She was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981-1998. Then she was the editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from September 1998-December 1999. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, the Bram Stoker show more Award twice with her co-editors and the Hugo Award for Best Editor in 2002 and 2005. She currently lives in New York City and edits fiction for Scifi.com. In 2011 she was given the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.She is a long time trustee of the Horror Writers Association. She has been the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000, a series which features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Barker, Clive (Contributor)
Brite, Poppy Z. (Contributor)
Bryant, Edward (Contributor)
Cadigan, Pat (Contributor)
Campbell, Ramsey (Contributor)
Dowling, Terry (Contributor)
Etchison, Dennis (Contributor)
Gaiman, Neil (Contributor)
Hand, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Hill, Joe (Contributor)
Hirshberg, Glen (Contributor)
King, Stephen (Contributor)
Koja, Kathe (Contributor)
Lansdale, Joe R. (Contributor)
Ligotti, Thomas (Contributor)
Link, Kelly (Contributor)
Martin, George R. R. (Contributor)
Oates, Joyce Carol (Contributor)
Schow, David J. (Contributor)
Shepard, Lucius (Contributor)
Simmons, Dan (Contributor)
Smith, Michael Marshall (Contributor)
Straub, Peter (Contributor)
Tem, Steve Rasnic (Contributor)
Wolfe, Gene (Contributor)

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Modern Horror
Ellen Datlow
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2010

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
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813.0873808054 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror fiction; Ghost fiction Horror fiction Anthologies Collections
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PS648 .H6 .D378 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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