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“A Human Stain” by Kelly Robson. Copyright © 2017. First published on Tor.com, January 4, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Stories We Tell about Ghosts” by A. C. Wise. Copyright © 2017. First published in Looming Low Volume 1 edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan, Dim Shores. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Endoskeletal” by Sarah Read. Copyright © 2017. First published in Black Static #59, July/August. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“West of Matamoros, North of Hell” by Brian Hodge. Copyright © 2017. First published in Dark Screams Volume Seven , edited by Brian James Freeman, Cemetery Dance/Hydra). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Alligator Point” by S. P. Miskowski. Copyright © 2017. First published in Looming Low Volume 1 edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan, Dim Shores. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Dark Warm Heart” by Rich Larson. Copyright © 2017. First published on Tor.comApril 12, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“There and Back Again” by Carmen Maria Machado. Copyright © 2017. First published in Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) For the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) edited by Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer, Skyhorse Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Shepherds’ Business” by Stephen Gallagher. Copyright © 2017. First published in New Fear s, edited by Mark Morris, Titan Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“You Can Stay All Day” by Seanan McGuire (as by Mira Grant). Copyright © 2017. First published in Nights of the Living Dead edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero (St. Martin’s Griffin). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Harvest Song, Gathering Song” by A. C. Wise. Copyright © 2017. First published in For Mortal Things Unsung edited by Alex Hofelich, Escape Artists, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Granfalloon” by Orrin Grey. Copyright © 2017. First published in Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell selected and edited by Scott David Aniolowski and Joseph S. Pulver Sr., PS Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Fail-Safe” by Philip Fracassi. Copyright © 2017. First published in Behold the Void , JournalStone. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Starry Crown” by Marc E. Fitch. Copyright © 2017. First published in Horror Library Volume 6 edited by Eric J. Guignard, Cutting Block Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Eqalussuaq” by Tim Major. Copyright © 2017. First published in Not One of Us #58 October . Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lost in the Dark” by John Langan. Copyright © 2017. First published in Haunted Nights , edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, A Blumhouse Book/ Anchor Books Original. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Ellen Datlowhas been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost forty years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor. com. In addition, she has edited about ninety science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the series The Best Horror of the Year, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Children of Lovecraft, Black Feathers, Mad Hatters and March Hares , and The Devil and the Deep .

Forthcoming is Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories .

She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre” was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and the Life Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention.

She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter at @EllenDatlow.

A Whisper of Blood

A Wolf at the Door (with Terri Windling)

After (with Terri Windling)

Alien Sex

Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales

Black Heart, Ivory Bones (with Terri Windling)

Black Swan, White Raven (with Terri Windling)

Black Thorn, White Rose (with Terri Windling)

Blood is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism

Blood and Other Cravings

Children of Lovecraft

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Fearful Symmetries

Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas)

Haunted Nights (with Lisa Morton)

Hauntings

Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Lethal Kisses

Little Deaths

Lovecraft Unbound

Lovecraft’s Monsters

Mad Hatters and March Hares

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

Nebula Awards Showcase 2009

Nightmare Carnival

Nightmares

Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex

Omni Best Science Fiction: Volumes One through Three

Omni Books of Science Fiction: Volumes One through Seven

OmniVisions One and Two

Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (with Terri Windling)

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (with Terri Windling)

Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (with Terri Windling)

Silver Birch, Blood Moon (with Terri Windling)

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling)

Snow White, Blood Red (with Terri Windling)

Supernatural Noir

Swan Sister (with Terri Windling)

Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories

Teeth: Vampire Tales (with Terri Windling)

Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology

The Beastly Bride: And Other Tales of the Animal People (with Terri Windling)

The Best Horror of the Year: Volumes One–Ten

The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (with Terri Windling)

The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen

The Dark: New Ghost Stories

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Devil and the Deep

The Doll Collection

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

The Green Man: Tales of the Mythic Forest (with Terri Windling)

The Monstrous

Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (with Terri Windling)

Twists of the Tale

Vanishing Acts

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (with Terri Windling, Gavin J. Grant, and Kelly Link)

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten © 2018 by Ellen Datlow

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten © 2018 by Night Shade Books, an imprint of Start Publishing LLC

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