Rich Horton, who regularly reviews short fiction for Locus, does a wrap up at the beginning of the next year, covering the last year in short fiction. A couple of days ago he posted his wrap up of my anthologies on his blog The Elephant Forgets

I saw Farenheit 451 for the first time ever on a large screen at a friend's home last Friday--it was terrific. Much better than I expected, and that 60s decor. Not my taste but still, yum.

Watched more Angel and also Penelope, a lovely sharp-edged fairy tale with Christine Ricci as a girl born with pig's nose and ears because of a curse, her ( Read more... )

A new Mindmeld is up and here a bunch of anthologist were asked exactly how they put together anthologies. Some of our responses were so long (guilty, as charged) that a second half is being posted next week. But here you can see Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)

Here's the most recent list of anthologies that I've got on-hand so far this year. As usual there's a mix of horror, fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and here and there a mixed-genre anthology ( Read more... )

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My reprint anthology is going well, but I'd like some more suggestions of GREAT cat stories--from after 1980. So forget the obvious ones like "Spacetime for Springers ( Read more... )

This is an anthology of original stories inspired by regional ghost stories and urban legends. It'll be coming out from Tor (hopefully in 2010). We're just about to hand it in to our editor ( Read more... )

Here is the TOC and the tentative jacket --please note that the names on the front of the jacket are not final. There will be more/others. Not sure about the back cover, but we may put all the names there. I'm also assuming the snake will show up more than it does here. The book will be out from Tachyon February 2010.

Darkness: 25 Years of Modern ( Read more... )

For anyone interested, I'm finishing up two all-reprint anthologies right now: Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror for Tachyon and Best Horror of the Year#1 for Night Shade. When I can post TOC I will--I'm guessing there will be much discussion of my choices for Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror and about who/what I've left out. (The book ( Read more... )

After opening my mail, I've discovered that I have received my author copies of the new trade paperback of Twists of the Tale, my cat horror antho and also The Coyote RoadI will be giving away some of these titles for blogging (and I'd love for whoever blogs about them to also post your review on amazon--don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt). ( Read more... )