Colin Harvey chooses Inferno as his Desert Island anthology, saying very nice things about it here.

Rue Morgue October
In Poe, Hugo Award winning editor Ellen Datlow celebrates Poe’s 200th birthday by assembling nineteen original stories inspired by the master. Standout tales include Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s decidedly vicious “Flitting Away,” about a woman who is beaten and left for dead after a date rape, Laird Barron’s “Strappado,” concerning ( Read more... )

A thoughtful review by someone to whom I sent a “freebee for blogging” copy.

Datlow's Inferno

First three readers/posters who would like Inferno, let me know now.
And if you win just email me your address at datlow at yahoo dot com
and let me know if you want the book signed.

Come and get em!

Inferno and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy made this top ten list (they count from December to December, I think). Whoopie!
The 2008 Tomb Top Ten

These recommended stories will be losing their eligibility at the end of the month, so if you are an SFWA member and had intended to read them and/or rec them do it NOW--I can email you a copy or you can read them through the link on the NAR ( Read more... )

As I'm sure everyone has heard, the nominations are out, The Coyote Road and Inferno both made the ballot in the anthology category and Kij Johnson's extraordinary story "The Evolution of Trickster Tales Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" is also nominated ( Read more... )

...wherein I extol the virtues of short horror fiction:
Interview of Ellen Datlow by Charles Tan

and
Sarah Monette talks about the stories in The Bone Key
Interview with Sarah Monette

I've just been informed that the following stories made the final ballot ( Read more... )

Mostly with work the past day as I got almost nothing done from Wed-Friday after Wiscon. So read and edited all today until movie time this evening.

I watched two episodes of Deadwood and Stray Dog by Kurosawa and with Toshira Mifune, about a rookie cop whose stolen gun is used to commit crimes and is driven by his guilt to solve the crimes ( Read more... )