Ellen Datlow: Teeth: Vampire Tales

LUCIUS SHEPARD’s short fiction has won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the National Magazine Award, Locus Awards, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and the World Fantasy Award.

His most recent books are a short fiction collection, Viator Plus , and a short novel, The Taborin Scale. Forthcoming are another short fiction collection, Five Autobiographies , and two novels, tentatively titled The Piercefields and The End of Life as We Know It (the latter young adult), and a short novel, The House of Everything and Nothing.

DELIA SHERMAN’s most recent short stories have appeared in the Viking young adult anthologies Firebirds, The Faery Reel , and Coyote Road , and in the adult anthologies Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy . Her adult novels are Through a Brazen Mirror and The Porcelain Dove (winner of the Mythopoeic Award), and, with fellow fantasist and partner Ellen Kushner, The Fall of the Kings .

She has coedited anthologies with Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling, as well as Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing , edited with Theodora Goss, and Interfictions 2 , edited with Christopher Barzak.

Changeling , her first novel for younger readers, was published in 2007, followed by The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen in 2009. She is a past member of the James Tiptree Jr. Awards motherboard, an active member of the Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts, and a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation board.

Delia has taught writing at Clarion, the Odyssey Workshop in New Hampshire, the Cape Cod Writers’ Workshop, and the American Book Center in Amsterdam. She lives in New York City, loves to travel, and writes wherever she happens to find herself.

Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, CATHERYNNE M. VALENTEis the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest , the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless , and crowd-funded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making . She is a winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, the Andre Norton Award, and the Million Writers Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Spectrum Awards, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009 and for the Hugo Award. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner and two dogs.

GENEVIEVE VALENTINE’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine , and anthologies Federations, The Living Dead II , and Running with the Pack . Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti , about a mechanical circus troupe, is coming in 2011 from Prime. She has an insatiable appetite for bad movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, www.genevievevalentine.com.

KAARON WARREN’s third novel, Mistification , was published by Angry Robot Books in 2010, following the award-nominated Slights and Walking the Tree . Her short fiction has appeared in a number of publications edited by Ellen Datlow, including Haunted Legends; Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe; The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two ; and Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories . She lives in Canberra, Australia, with her family.

TERRI WINDLINGis an editor, artist, folklorist, and essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field, and her book The Armless Maiden was placed on the short list for the Tiptree Award. She has edited more than thirty anthologies of magical fiction (many of them in collaboration with Ellen Datlow); she created the Borderland series (a pioneering work of urban fantasy); and she’s been a consulting editor for the Tor Books fantasy line since 1986. As a painter, she has had her art exhibited in museums and galleries in England, France, and the United States; she is also codirector of the Endicott Studio, a transatlantic organization dedicated to mythic arts. A former New Yorker, Terri now lives in a small country village in the west of England with her husband, stepdaughter, and a lively black dog. For more information, please visit her website, www.terriwindling.com; her blog, http://windling.typepad.com/blog; and the Endicott Studio’s website, www.endicott-studio.com.

Introduction © 2011 by Terri Windling

“Things to Know About Being Dead” copyright © 2011 by Genevieve Valentine

“All Smiles” copyright © 2011 by Steve Berman

“Gap Year” copyright © 2011 by Christopher Barzak

“Bloody Sunrise” copyright © 2008, 2010 by Neil Gaiman, written as a song lyric for Claudia Gonson and recorded on the CD accompanying The Lifted Brow Volume 4, published in November 2008. This is the piece’s first print publication.

“Flying” copyright © 2011 by Delia Sherman

“Vampire Weather” copyright © 2011 by Garth Nix

“Late Bloomer” copyright © 2011 by Suzy McKee Charnas

“The List of Definite Endings” copyright © 2011 by Kaaron Warren

“Best Friends Forever” copyright © 2011 by Cecil Castellucci

“Sit the Dead” copyright © 2011 by Jeffrey Ford

“Sunbleached” copyright © 2011 by Nathan Ballingrud

“Baby” copyright © 2011 by Kathe Koja

“In the Future When All’s Well” copyright © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente

“Transition” copyright © 2011 by Melissa Marr

“History” copyright © 2011 by Ellen Kushner

“The Perfect Dinner Party” copyright © 2011 by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

“Slice of Life” copyright © 2011 by Lucius Shepard

“My Generation” copyright © 2011 by Emma Bull

“Why Light?” copyright © 2011 by Tanith Lee