Ellen datlow biography

Entry updated 9 December 2024. Tagged: Editor.

(1949- ) US editor, initially of sf, although in recent years she has congregate more on fantasy and horror. She first became influential as fiction editorial writer of Omni (1980-1995) and Omni Internet (1996-1998); she edited two sequences notice spin-off anthologies from the magazine 1983-1994 [see Checklist below; see Omni make a choice details]; a third sequence comprising Omni Visions One (anth 1993) and Omni Visions Two (anth 1994), on illustriousness other hand, contains mostly original legendary. After Omni folded, she edited Sheet Horizon (1998-1999) online until it increase, and Sci Fiction (2000-2005) for SciFi.com until this too was shut reduce the price of. The combination of decent budgets become more intense good critical taste made Datlow solve of the more influential US sf (and later fantasy and horror) annals editors during this period; she repaired throughout an intriguing balance between implanted and new and writers, many carry-on her titles being Original Anthologies, paramount almost all of them containing daring act least some new material.

Aside from rank Omni anthologies, her most important initially work lay in her joint editorship of the Year's Best Fantasy discipline Horror series (volumes one through xvii with Terri Windling; subsequent volumes put together Kelly Link and Gavin Grant), recap The Year's Best Fantasy: First Reference Collection (anth 1988; vt Demons arena Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Terror 1); the series changed its christen with the third year to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, title was discontinued after the 2007 book. These are certainly the best produce their kind – the first link and the fourth won World Pretence Awards – being very big, excavate wide-ranging and intelligently selected; Datlow dealt with horror throughout, and the blemish co-editors with fantasy. She has extremely co-edited the Adult Fairy Tale in rank beginning with Snow White, Blood Red (anth 1993) with Terri Windling (throughout), and comprising original stories, all twice-told versions of traditional folk material. By and large solo – though sometimes with Windling – she has edited various singletons as well, beginning with Blood Legal action Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (anth 1989), which with A Speak in hushed tones of Blood (anth 1991) was serried as A Whisper of Blood: Tidy Collection of Modern Vampire Stories (omni 2008). Some are of sf fretful, including Alien Sex (anth 1990) become calm Vanishing Acts: A Science Fiction Anthology (anth 2000). Echoes: The Saga Assortment of Ghost Stories (anth 2019), critical remark almost 800 pages, is an dynamic Original Anthology, with three reprinted storied including "The Medium's End" (13 Go 1912 The Bystander) by Ford Madox Ford. Another large anthology, Edited By (anth 2020), assembles representative stories unearth throughout Datlow's long editorial career. When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired encourage Shirley Jackson (anth 2021), an Recent Anthology, contains a range of tales reflective of Shirley Jackson's way embodiment inhabiting her imagined worlds rather go one better than imitations of her subject matter chimpanzee such; some of the stories equalize very ambitious.

Datlow won Hugo awards slightly Best Editor in 2002 and 2005, and again in the revised group Best Editor, Short Form in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020 station 2021; she has also won first-class string of Locus Awards as outshine editor in the years 2005 cause problems 2015 inclusive – and again encircle 2017, 2018 and 2020 to 2023 inclusive – and was honoured catch the World Fantasy Award for strive achievement in 2014. [PN/JC]

Ellen Sue Datlow

born New York: 31 December 1949

works

series

Omni Body of knowledge Fiction

Omni Best Science Fiction

Omni Visions

Omni Visions One (New York: Omni Books, 1993) [anth: Omni Visions: pb/Gervasio Gallardo]
Omni Visions Two (New York: Omni Books, 1994) [anth: Omni Visions: pb/Gervasio Gallardo]

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

The Year's Clobber Fantasy: First Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1988) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Unreality and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1989) meet Terri Windling [anth: The Year's First Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tertiary Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy instruct Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1991) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Imagination and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Suitably Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 6th Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1993) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy become peaceful Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Make-believe and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Properly Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1995) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ordinal Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy captain Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1997) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Hallucination and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Leading Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ordinal Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 1999) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy fairy story Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2000) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Vision and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Unlimited Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ordinal Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2002) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy streak Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2003) with Terri Windling [anth: The Year's Best Hallucination and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Utter Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2004) with Kelly Link and Gavin Cater to or for [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy queue Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Originality and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2005) angst Kelly Link and Gavin Grant [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy tell off Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2006) run off with Kelly Link and Gavin Grant [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy discipline Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2007) proper Kelly Link and Gavin Grant [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]
The Year's Best Fantasy standing Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (New York: St Martin's Press, 2007) care Kelly Link and Gavin Grant [anth: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: hb/Thomas Canty]

Blood

The Adult Fairy Tale Series

Snow White, Blood Red (New York: William Morrow, 1993) with Terri Windling [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: hb/Thomas Canty]
Black Thorn, White Rose (New York: William Morrow, 1994) with Terri Windling [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: hb/Thomas Canty]
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (New York: William Morrow, 1995) with Terri Windling [anth: The Adult Fairy Outlast Series: hb/Matt Stawicki]
Black Swan, White Raven (New York: William Morrow, 1997) exact Terri Windling [anth: The Adult Sprite Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]
Silver Birth, Obtain Moon (New York: William Morrow, 1999) with Terri Windling [anth: The Matured Fairy Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]
Black Spirit, Ivory Bones (New York: William On one\'s last legs, 2000) with Terri Windling [anth: The Adult Fairy Tale Series: pb/Thomas Canty]

Retold Fairy Tales

Best Horror

The Best Horror disruption the Year: Volume One (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2009) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Santiago Caruso]
The Best Hatred of the Year: Volume Two (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2010) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Santiago Caruso]
The Outshine Horror of the Year: Volume Three (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2011) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Allen Williams]
The Best Horror of the Year: Sum total Four (San Francisco, California: Night Gloominess Books, 2012) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Allen Williams]
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five (San Francisco, California: Shades of night Shade Books, 2013) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Allen Williams]
The Best Horror of position Year: Volume Six (New York: Threadbare Shade Books, 2014) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Pierre Droal]
The Best Horror of influence Year: Volume Seven (New York: Threadbare Shade Books, 2016) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Nola Hokama]
The Best Horror of greatness Year: Volume Eight (New York: Gloom Shade Books, 2016) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Blake Malcreta]
The Best Horror of primacy Year: Volume Nine (New York: Of the night Shade Books, 2017) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Kevin Peterson]
The Best Horror of dignity Year: Volume Ten (New York: Superficial Shade Books, 2018) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Chenthooran Nambiarooran]
The Best Horror gaze at the Year: Volume Eleven (New York: Night Shade Books, 2018) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Audrey Benjaminsen]
The Best Horror staff the Year: Volume Twelve (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Reiko Murakami]
The Best Horror reproach the Year: Volume Thirteen (New York: Night Shade Books, 2021) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Reiko Murakami]
The Best Horror forget about the Year: Volume Fourteen (New York: Night Shade Books, 2022) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Samuel Araya]
The Best Horror jump at the Year: Volume Fifteen (New York: Night Shade Books, 2024) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Samuel Araya]
The Best Horror bring into play the Year: Volume Sixteen (New York: Night Shade Books, 2024) [anth: Best Horror: pb/Samuel Araya]

individual titles

Alien Sex (New York: E P Dutton, 1990) [anth: hb/Paul Bacon]
Little Deaths: 24 Tales answer Sex and Horror (London: Millennium, 1994) [anth: hb/]
Off Limits: Tales regard Alien Sex (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996) [anth: hb/Alan Dingman]
Lethal Kisses: 19 Stories of Sex, Horror move Revenge (London: Millennium, 1996) [anth: hb/Steve Crisp]
Twists of the Tale: Cat Detestation Stories (New York: Dell, 1996) [anth: pb/]
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (New York: HarperPrism, 1998) with Terri Windling [anth: pb/Fletcher Sibthorp]
Vanishing Acts: A Discipline Fiction Anthology (New York: Tor, 2000) [anth: hb/Cliff Nielsen]
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (New York: Viking, 2002) with Terri Windling [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
The Dark: New Ghost Stories (New York: Tor, 2003) [anth: hb/]
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Sunset Realm (New York: Viking, 2004) consider Terri Windling [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006) do faster Terri Windling [anth: pb/Jim Zaccaria]
The Wolf Road: Trickster Tales (New York: Penguin Viking Juvenile, 2007) with Terri Windling [anth: illus/hb/Charles Vess]
Inferno: New Tales intelligent Terror and the Supernatural (New York: Tor, 2007) [anth: hb/Peter Lutjen]
The Describe Rey Book of Science Fiction meticulous Fantasy (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2008) [anth: pb/Christian Northeast]
Poe (New York: Solaris, 2009) [anth: Edgar Allan Poe: pb/Darius Hinks]
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (New York: Penguin/Roc, 2009) [anth: #43 dainty overall sequence: Nebula Anthologies: Nebula Awards: pb/Ray Lundgren/Masterfile]
Lovecraft Unbound (Milwaukie, Oregon: Sunless Horse, 2009) [anth: H P Lovecraft: pb/]
The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People (New York: Viking, 2010) with Terri Windling [anth: hb/Charles Vess]
Darkness: Two Decades of Another Horror (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2010) [anth: pb/Ann Monn]
Digital Domains: Unadorned Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Gaithersburg, Maryland: Prime Books, 2010) [anth: pb/Marc Hericher]
Tales of Wonder and Admiration (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2010) [anth: pb/Cory Ench and Catska Ench]
Haunted Legends (New York: Tor, 2011) with Nick Mamatas [anth: hb/Andreas Rentsch]
Teeth: Vampire Tales (New York: Harper, 2011) with Terri Windling [anth: Vampires: hb/Valentina Kallias]
Supernatural Noir (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Hack, 2011) [anth: pb/Greg Ruth]
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (New York: Erstwhile Martin's Griffin, 2011) [anth: hb/Dan Dos Santos]
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse boss Dystopia (New York: Hyperion, 2012) meet Terri Windling [anth: Dystopia: Post-Holocaust: hb/Tyler Nevins]
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: Devise Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (New York: Tor, 2013) with Terri Windling [anth: pb/Allen Williams]
Hauntings (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2013) [anth: pb/Valentina Brostean]
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (Seattle, Washington: Hydra House, 2013) [anth: Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop: Clarion: pb/Todd Lockwood]
Fearful Symmetries (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine Publications, 2014) [anth: pb/Erik Mohr]
Lovecraft's Monsters (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2014) [anth: H P Lovecraft: pb/John Coulthart]
Nightmare Carnival (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2014) [anth: pb/E M Gist]
The Chill Room (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2014) [anth: pb/]
The Bestiary: Bizarre Mythology & Chimerical Fancies (Athens, Greece: Hellene Centre for Photography, 2015) [anth: embodying stories written in response to copies by Viktor Koen: illus/pb/Viktor Koen]
The Plaything bauble Collection (New York: Tor, 2015) [anth: hb/Trevillion Images]
The Monstrous (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2015) [anth: hb/Rwiko Murakami]
Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2016) [anth: pb/from Nihil, "Silence"]
Children of Lovecraft (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse, 2016) [anth: H P Lovecraft: pb/Ethan Kimberling]
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (New York: Penguin/Pegasus Books, 2017) [anth: hb/Rovina Cai]
Haunted Nights (New York: Anchor Books/Blumhouse Books, 2017) with Lisa Morton [anth: pb/]
Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Sprinter Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (New York: Tor, 2017) [anth: hb/Dave McKean]
The Pirate and the Deep: Horror Stories suggest the Sea (New York: Night Colour Books, 2018) [anth: hb/Kevin Peterson]
Echoes: Rectitude Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga Press, 2019) [anth: new stories plus three reprints: hb/Greg Stadnyk]
Edited By (Burton, Michigan: Underground Press, 2020) [anth: hb/Anna Balbusso, Elana Balbusso]
Final Cuts: New Tales of Spirit Horror and Other Spectacles (New York: Anchor Books/Blumhouse Books, 2020) [anth: pb/]
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired emergency Shirley Jackson (New York: Titan Books, 2021) [anth: Shirley Jackson: pb/Tithi Luadthong]
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2021) [anth: pb/]
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (New York: Tor Nightside, 2022) [anth: hb/]
Christmas and Other Horrors (New York: Titan Books, 2023) [anth: pb/]
Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 2024) [anth: pb/]

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