Hey kids, Poe, Ellen Datlow's anthology of short horror stories inspired by the classic American author Edgar Allan Poe, has been critically acclaimed over and over and listed in "Best Of" lists all over webland, and now it's starting to show up in the awards lists. Two recent accomplishments are: Dark Scribe Magazine's third annual Black Quill Awards were announced last month, and ...

Another week, another haul of books for review from publishers: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 2 by Ellen Datlow (Trade Paperback 3/09/2010 Night Shade Books) – The second volume in the latest incarnation of Ellen Datlow’s annual retrospective on horror Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have...

Joel Glover has reviewed Juliet McKenna's Irons in the Fire for the David Gemmell Awards website. Review can be read here. Don't forget to get involved and vote for all your favourite Solaris Books!There's a year-end review of Ellen Datlow's anthology New Tales Inspired by Edger Allen Poe at the Dark Recesses Magazine website, which charts all the celebrations in 2009 which mar...

Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Viking, 2009, upper middle grade, 199pp) In their introduction to this anthology of re-imagined fairy tales, Datlow and Windling asked the contributors "to take a long, hard look at fairy-tale villains. Witches, wizards, giants, trolls, ogres: what's the truth behind their stories? And are the fairy-...

It´s the Mind Meld in which I participated in SF Signal. you can see my answer to that here, along with a number of good names in the genre, such as Rachel Swirsky, Rose Fox, Jeremiah Tolbert, the omnipresent Jeff VanderMeer, Ellen Datlow, Michael A. Burstein, and Paul Melko, among others. My thanks to John De Nardo for the invitation. In fact, I should add that, since I answered the questio...

Okay, yes, I do realise that the father of the mystery and science-fiction story has been dead quite a while, but Ellen Datlow (editor of the stunning anthology Poe) has been involved in a memorial service to arguably one of the finest and most important genre writers to have walked this earth. You can see the coverage at Ellen's blog. Jon

Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature—and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s third "mythic" anthology. The Coyote Road features a remarkable range of authors, each with his or her fictional look at a trickster character. These authors include Holly Black (The Spider...

I grew up on the Disney fairy tales which is something I feel like i need to apologize for now. I did enjoy the movies enormously though - all the pageantry and excitement with some scariness thrown in as well. But this post is not about Disney and princesses but rather how many other options today's readers have. Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow have pretty much been my adult education on the...

It's that time again..Time to pass on some short stories. Thanks to Penguin Books I've got some short stories to pass on to a lucky winner. Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, Edited by Ellen Datlow Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: “The pulse of modern science fiction.”(New York Times Book Review) This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantas...

This is a review of Inferno, an anthology of stories edited by Ellen Datlow and published by Tor. It features fiction by the likes of Elizabeth Bear, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, and more! Read the review after the jump . . . ARTICLEURL Related posts:Book Review - Star Trek: “Strange New Worlds 10″Book Review - The Empire of Ice CreamBook Review - Viewpoints Critica...