Ellen Datlow - The Best Horror of the Year. Volume 6

He resides in Toronto, Canada.

“Stemming the Tide” was originally published in Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction , edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Steve Rasnic Tem’slatest novel is Blood Kin from Solaris, his second novel for them after 2012’s Deadfall Hotel . His two most recent collections are Celestial Inventories and Here with the Shadows . Upcoming are a novella, In the Lovecraft Museum , and a massive 225K collection of uncollected horror— Out of the Dark, A Storybook of Horrors .

“The Monster Makers” was originally published in Black Static , edited by Andy Cox.

Lee Thomasis the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award — winning author of The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Like Light for Flies , and Butcher’s Road . You can find him online at www.leethomasauthor.com .

“Fine in the Fire” was originally published in Like Light for Flies .

Steve Toaselives in North Yorkshire, England, and occasionally Munich, Germany.

His work has been published in Scheherezade’s Bequest, Liquid Imagination, Jabberwocky Magazine, Sein und Werden, Cafe Irreal, streetcake magazine, Weaponizer and nthPosition amongst others. He is currently working on his first novel. His website can be found online at: www.stevetoase.co.uk

“Call Out” was first published in Innsmouth Magazine #12 , edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles.

Conrad Williamsis the author of seven novels, four novellas and more than one hundred short stories, some of which are collected in Use Once, then Destroy and Born with Teeth . In addition to his International Horror Guild Award for his novel The Unblemished , he is a three-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award, including Best Novel for One. He’s also editor of the acclaimed anthology Gutshot .

He is currently teaching creative writing at Edge Hill University and working on a new anthology for Titan Books as well as a sequel to his 2010 novel Blonde on a Stick .

“The Fox” was originally published as a chapbook by This is Horror.

“Apports” © 2013 by Stephen Bacon. First published in Black Static 36 , September/October. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Mr. Splitfoot” © 2013 by Dale Bailey. First published in Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells , edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Tor Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Good Husband” © 2013 by Nathan Ballingrud. First published in North American Lake Monsters , Small Beer Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Tiger” © 2013 by Nina Allan. First published in Terror Tales of London , edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The House on Cobb Street” © 2013 by Lynda E. Rucker. First published in Nightmare Magazine #9 . Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Soul in the Bell Jar,” © 2013 by KJ Kabza. First publishing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , November/December. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Call Out” © 2013 by Stephen Toase. First published in Innsmouth Magazine #12 , edited by Paula R. Stiles and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love” © 2013 by Robert Shearman. First published in Psycho-Mania , edited by Stephen Jones, Robinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bones of Crow” © 2013 by Ray Cluley. First published in Black Static 37 , November/December. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales” © 2013 by Jeannine Hall Gailey. First published in Phantom Drift, Issue Three (fall 2013), edited by David Memmott, Martha Bayliss, Leslie What, and Matt Schumacher. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Tin House” © 2013 by Simon Clark. First published in Shadow Masters: An Anthology from the Horror Zine , edited by Jeani Rector. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Fox” © 2013 by Conrad Williams. First published by This is Horror as a limited edition chapbook. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Stemming the Tide” © 2013 by Simon Strantzas. First published in Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction , edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Anatomist’s Mnemonic” © 2013 by Priya Sharma. First published in Black Static 32 , January/February. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Monster Makers” © 2013 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First published in Black Static 35 , edited by Andy Cox. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Only Ending We Have” © 2013 by Kim Newman. First published in Psycho-Mania , edited by Stephen Jones, Robinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Dog’s Paw” © 2013 by Derek Künsken. First published in Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I , edited by Michael Kelly, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Fine in the Fire” © 2013 by Lee Thomas. First published in Like Light for Flies , Lethe Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Majorlena,” © 2013 by Jane Jakeman. First published in Supernatural Tales 24 , edited by David Longhorn. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Withering” © 2013 by Tim Casson. First published in Black Static 32 , edited by Andy Cox. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Down to a Sunless Sea” © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published online on www.guardian.com on March 22, 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Jaws of Saturn,” © 2013 by Laird Barron. First published in The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All , Night Shade Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Halfway Home” © 2013 by Linda Nagata. First published in Nightmare Magazine #12 . Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Same Deep Waters as You” © 2013 by Brian Hodge. First published in Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth , edited by Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Ellen Datlowhas been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries , the six volume series of retold fairy tales starting with Snow White, Blood Red , and Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (the latter anthologies with Terri Windling).

Forthcoming are Nightmare Carnival, The Cutting Room , and The Doll Collection .