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December 31, 2023

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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One of genre fiction’s most acclaimed editors, Ellen Datlow first rose to prominence as the fiction editor of Omni, where she helped usher in the cyberpunk movement and published works by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Following the magazine’s demise in 1997, Datlow assumed the same role for the online Event Horizon. After that site’s closing, she moved in 2000 with a similar role to Sci Fiction, the freshly created online venue from the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). She stayed there until the site’s shuttering in 2005. Since 2013, Datlow has been with Tor.com, where she edited work by Jeffrey Ford, Stephen Graham Jones, Victor LaValle, Kelly Robson, and others.

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, fifteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won nine Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021]), seven Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018], and When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson [2021]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), Edited by (2020), BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR (2021), Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022), and Christmas and Other Horrors (2023). FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR is being published by Tachyon in the fall of 2024.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday! Enjoy your fireworks and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

December 31, 2022

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

Rick Klaw birthday, blog birthday, darkness: two decades of modern horror, Ellen Datlow, hauntings, lovecraft's monsters, nightmares: a new decade of modern horror, screams from the dark, the cutting room: dark reflections of the silver screen, the monstrous, when things get dark

Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, fourteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), Edited by (2020), BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR (2021), and Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

August 17, 2022

The Ghosts & Apparitions Bundle features superstar editor Ellen Datlow’s acclaimed anthology HAUNTINGS

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**The Ghosts & Apparitions Bundle, curated by Tricia Reeks and made available by the folks at StoryBundle, delivers a superior selection of supernatural tales.**

The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno
The Bridge by J.S. Breukelaar
Remains by Andrew Cull
HAUNTINGS edited by Ellen Datlow
Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
The Ghost Club by William Meikle
You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert
Smoke City by Keith Rosson
Into Bones Like Oil by Kaaron Warren
Bayou Whispers by R.B. Wood

It isn’t a requirement to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story. Most of us have wondered what happens after this life, and what better way to explore the infinite possibilities than by reading the imaginative takes writers have on the topic. I have long been drawn to tales of ghosts and hauntings: starting with early reads, such as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, to later stories like Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits.

For me, the very wrongness of spirits that refuse to move on can somehow be so right. Perhaps it is the ability of authors to make us feel the intensity of emotions strong enough to keep an entity tethered to this world that can be so intoxicating. Love, hate, grief, longing. And let’s not forget revenge.

The manifestation of ghosts in fiction is almost endless. Haunted houses, haunted ships, haunted forests. Spirits of bad intent. Others that stay to lend a helping hand. Ghostly apparitions. Entities that are invisible to the eye yet devastating to the soul. Stories that evoke emotions that range from terror to despair to hope.

The books in this bundle are purposefully wide-ranging in tone as well content. From the hopefulness and redemption of Keith Rosson’s Smoke City and J.S. Breukelaar’s The Bridge, to the gut-wrenching devastation of Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs and Andrew Cull’s Remains. From the poignant prose of Mary Rickert’s stories to the masterful storytelling styles in William Meikle’s The Ghost Club. If you like tales of the supernatural, then we think that this selection will have something that appeals to everyone.

Tricia Reeks

For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay.

April 12, 2022

Join the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow for StokerCon 2022

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The acclaimed Ellen Datlow will be attending StokerCon 2022, May 12-15 in Denver, CO.

StokerCon is the annual convention hosted by the Horror Writers Association wherein the Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in horror writing are awarded.

GUESTS OF HONOR

Kevin Wetmore
Linda Addison
Brian Keene
Sheree Renee Thomas
John Edward Lawson
Ernest Dickerson
Gemma Files
Jennifer McMahon

Datlow will be participating in the extensive programming.

Friday May 13

12PM

Stronger than the Sum of its Parts: The Author-Editor Relationship

Good editors do more than copyedit. They point out where characters or story could be improved. Writers do more than write. They work with editors to improve the work. Our panelists discuss the editor-author relationship, how it works best, and some how to avoid its pitfalls.

Heather Romanowski, Gemma Files, Sheree Renée Thomas, Ellen Datlow, Stephen Jones, Tim Waggoner

Cover by Nihil
Design by Elizabeth Story

Saturday, May 14

11AM

The HWA General Meeting

The HWA General Meeting with the Officers and Trustees. Moderated by HWA Secretary Becky Spratford.

Becky Spratford, Angela Yuriko Smith, Brian Matthews, Ellen Datlow, James Chambers, John Palisano, Linda D. Addison, Lisa Kröger, Maxwell I. Gold, Meghan Arcuri

December 31, 2021

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, thirteen annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon (2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won nine Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021]), six Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DARKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), and Edited by (2020), When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (2021), and BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

December 31, 2020

Happy birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, twelve annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won six Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018]), eight Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

Other notable books include Alien Sex (1990), Snow White, Blood Red (1993 w Terri Windling), Vanishing Acts (2000), Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), DA RKNESS: TWO DECADES OF MODERN HORROR (2010), Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011), Blood and other Cravings (2011), After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012 w Terri Windling), HAUNTINGS (2013), LOVECRAFT’S MONSTERS (2014), THE CUTTING ROOM: DARK REFLECTIONS OF THE SILVER SCREEN (2014), THE MONSTROUS (2015), Children of Lovecraft (2016), NIGHTMARES: A NEW DECADE OF MODERN HORROR (2016), Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017), Echoes (2019), Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020), and Edited by (2020).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

October 7, 2020

Heighten the thrills and chills of this Halloween with The Tachyon Scare Package: Spooky Books at 50% Off!

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This Halloween season, dare to curl up with some of Tachyon’s spookiest books, now at 50% off! Selected by our own Scary Rhino, here are truly (well, mostly) terrifying tales: horror movie survivors in group therapy; a tyrant with hypnosis rallying the troops; a vampire who stalks famous poets; and of course, fast, slow, and even kinda smart zombies — because who doesn’t love zombies? Authors in the Scare Package include Joe R. Lansdale, Peter Straub, Carrie Vaughn, Kelly Link, Daryl Gregory, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Peter Straub, Lisa Goldstein, Neil Gaiman, and many more.

Limited to 10 packages only

Available in the U.S. only

Retail value: $124.60
Care Package, 50% off: $62.00

$7.50 for shipping and handling

This pack includes:

PROMISES TO KEEP by Charles de Lint
THE STRESS OF HER REGARD by Tim Powers
UNCERTAIN PLACES by Lisa Goldstein
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE by Daryl Gregory
THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI by James Morrow
DEADMAN’S ROAD by Joe R. Lansdale
HAUNTINGS edited by Ellen Datlow
THE IMMORTAL CONQUISTADOR by Carrie Vaughn

2017 Shirley Jackson Award nominee

B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of June 2017
Amazon Best Books of the Month: Editor’s Picks (June 2017)
io9 Summer Reading List Best Summer Books,
Campus Circle Feature,
Barnes & Noble.com Week’s New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

If you think today’s profiteers are diabolical, blink again. In this witty, satiric tour de force, James Morrow (The Last Witchfinder) offers a provocative take on a film classic.

1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner
1990 World Fantasy Award nominee
1990 Locus Award runner-up

“Good serious fantasy doesn’t come much better than The Stress of Her Regard.”
—Oxford Times

Michael Crawford is forced to flee when he discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, trapped by the embrace of the malignant spirit claiming him as her bridegroom. Telling a secret history of passion and terror, Tim Powers masterfully recasts the tragic lives of the Romantic poets.

2012 Mythopoeic Award Winner

“An exquisitely beautiful, eerily compelling modern fairy tale.”
—Library Journal, starred review

This haunting tale of an ages-old family secret breaches the boundaries between reality and magic, revealing the places between them. It is the story of the Feierabend women, whose luck is so good that it is as though they are living in a fairy tale without a dark side.

World Fantasy Award Winner
Shirley Jackson Award Winner
Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominees

“[Gregory’s] plotting, characterisations, and yes, the writing itself, is all that good. In short, this one completely blew me away.”
—Horror After Dark

What happens when five seemingly-insane outcasts—survivors of horror movie scenarios—form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within…and which are lurking in plain sight.

Cover art by Travis J. Elston
Cover design by Elizabeth Story

“Deadman’s Road is a delightfully pulpy, wickedly funny, satisfying read. Saddle up, because you are in for one helluva ride!”
—The Grimdragon

When renegade author Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade; The Stars Are Legion) takes you to the future, be prepared for the unexpected. It will be dangerous, frequently brutal, and often devastating. But also, savagely funny and deliciously strange. In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world—from her plague-casting former wife.

“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

This spine-tingling anthology—complied by the horror genre’s most acclaimed editor—collects a chilling array of ghost stories from the past twenty-five years. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Connie Willis, Jeffrey Ford, and more.

Cover art by Rebecca Harp
Design by Elizabeth Story

“A must-have for Kitty Norville fans, but also an excellent standalone for readers new to Vaughn’s worlds.”
—Kelley Armstrong

From the author of the beloved Kitty Norville werewolf talk-show host series, comes the vampire origin story of Kitty’s famed ally, Rick—and his sudden turn to darkness in the seventeenth century. More than 500 years before his friendship with Kitty, noble Ricardo de Avila’s life met a fate-changing twist, and his morally-complex, blood-soaked existence as an immortal began.

Cover art by Mike Dringenberg
Design by Elizabeth Story

“De Lint returns to Newford and Jilly Coppercorn’s youth . . . de Lint presents Jilly’s choices, the memories impelling them, and the solution to the riddle of Donna in his characteristic powerful yet intimate style. Jilly’s reader friends, including those first meeting her, will be more than delighted.”
—Booklist

Jilly Coppercorn of Newford is back. With the help of a mentor and an anonymous benefactor, the talented young artist has overcome her troubled past and is enrolled in art school. The future is full of bright promise.

Suddenly, when a tempting opportunity roars into town, Jilly’s life takes a turn for the supernatural.

December 31, 2019

Happy 70th birthday to the award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow

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Beginning with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984), Datlow has edited over 75 anthologies including 12 collections of Omni fiction, 21 annual volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy (1988-89; then as …& Horror 1999-2008; Vols. 1-16 with Terri Windling and 17-21 with Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link), and beginning in 2009, eleven annual volumes of The Best Horror of The Year, which lead to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018). Her first non-Omni related anthology Blood Is Not Enough (1988) began Datlow’s long association with horror, which eventually led to Publisher’s Weekly referring to her as “horror anthologist extraordinaire.”

The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1989) garnered Datlow her first of 10 World Fantasy Awards. The other nine came from The Year’s Best Fantasy Second (1990) and Fourth (1992) Annual Collections, Little Deaths (1995), editor (Special Award, Professional 1995), Silver Birch, Blood Moon(2000), The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2003), Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2007), Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008), and Life Achievement (2014). She has also won six Stoker (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth [2000] and Seventeenth [2004] Annual Collections, Haunted Legends [2010], Lifetime Achievement [2010], Fearful Symmetries [2014], The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea [2018]), seven Hugo (Best Professional Editor [2002], Sci Fiction [2005], Best Editor Short Form [2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017]), four British Fantasy Awards (Karl Edward Wagner Award [2007], The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection [2007], The Doll Collection [2016], and Tor.Com [2017]), and three Shirley Jackson (Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural [2008], Poe [2010], and Fearful Symmetries [2015]) awards.

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday and as always, we look forward to whatever is next.

February 14, 2019

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January 24, 2019

Get a pair of extraordinary anthologies from the award winning editors Ellen Datow and Jacob Weisman for only $1.99 each!

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Both Ellen Datlow’s entertaining and disquieting anthology HAUNTINGS and Jacob Weisman’s INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE are Kindle Daily Deals for Thursday, January 24.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

“[HAUNTINGS is] apt to entertain and disquiet the horror fans.”
—SF Site, featured review

This fiendish anthology, complied 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.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

“Invaders is a playful and imaginative exploration of what it means to write in the field of science fiction”
—AV Club

The invasion of the future has begun.

Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up.

In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company that controls the world from an alley in Greenwich Village. You’ll find nanotechnology that returns memories to the residents of a nursing home. You’ll rally an avian-like alien to become a mascot for a Major League Baseball team.

The Invaders are here. But did science fiction colonize them first?

A Kirkus Science Fiction and Fantasy Book You’ll Want to Read in July
A 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Summer Read
A Foreword 4 Great Indie Sci-Fi Titles for Summer 2016

For more info about HAUNTINGS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Valentina Brostean

For more info on INVADERS: 22 TALES FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF LITERATURE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Goro Fujita

Design by Elizabeth Story

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The Ghosts & Apparitions Bundle, curated by Tricia Reeks and made available by the folks at StoryBundle, delivers a superior selection of supernatural tales.

The acclaimed Ellen Datlow will be attending StokerCon 2022, May 12-15 in Denver, CO.

GUESTS OF HONOR

Friday May 13

12PM

Saturday, May 14

11AM

Limited to 10 packages only

Available in the U.S. only

Retail value: $124.60Care Package, 50% off: $62.00

**The Ghosts & Apparitions Bundle, curated by Tricia Reeks and made available by the folks at StoryBundle, delivers a superior selection of supernatural tales.**

Retail value: $124.60
Care Package, 50% off: $62.00