Final cover for Inferno, plus TOC

[ellen_datlow]

I just got the final cover (back and front, but as I don't have a paid account or photobucket, I can't attach jpg files. I was able to use the url from my website to bring over the front cover at least) and I love it! Peter Straub and Joe R. Lansdale kindly give us blurbs (you can see Peter's on the front cover below). Inferno is my first non-theme horror anthology and is coming out from Tor in early December.
Below is the final order of stories:

Riding Bitch K.W. Jeter
Misadventure Stephen Gallagher
The Forest Laird Barron
The Monsters of Heaven Nathan Ballingrud
Inelastic Collisions Elizabeth Bear
The Uninvited Christopher Fowler
13 O’clock Mike O’Driscoll
Lives John Grant
Ghorla Mark Samuels
Face Joyce Carol Oates
An Apiary of White Bees Lee Thomas
The Keeper P. D. Cacek
Bethany’s Wood Paul Finch
The Ease With Which We Freed The Beast Lucius Shepard
Hushabye Simon Bestwick
Perhaps the Last Conrad Williams
Stilled Life Pat Cadigan
The Janus Tree Glen Hirshberg
The Bedroom Light Jeffrey Ford
The Suits at Auderlene Terry Dowling

Comments

[pm-again.livejournal.com]

You go anthology queen :)

I'm getting a kick out of the mention of the New York Times on the front cover. There's some poetic justice in there somewhere.

and yeah those folk are kinda scary. It's a memorable cover.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I figured out how to make the image smaller so now you can't read the quote--but that's ok--it was wayyy to large.
I hope it'll get potential readers to pick the book up!

[pm-again.livejournal.com]

I think it will help and the contents will too!

[aqeldroma.livejournal.com]

I love that cover. The masks make it very eerie and the fonts work very well with the title.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I love the font--it's very unusual--I've never seen it before. In fact, I think I'll ask the designer if it's a custom font or what.

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Love the clean design.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[lonesome-crow.livejournal.com]

Nice. And that's a great photo of you on the back.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It's one of my many self-portraits. thanks :-)

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Looks interesting!

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Nice cover. I had a chance to read "Lives" a while back and enjoyed it quite a bit. I even told John I was certain the story would find a good home. Turns out I was right. :)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

John rewrote parts of it several times for me, so you might find it a bit different from when you originally read it--particularly the ending.

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Actually, after I read his original ending, I was so curious about it that I went out of my to email him, specifically asking him about it. He was nice enough to explain his take on it, which was interesting, so I'll be curious to see how it's different. Won't say more one way or the other, for fear of dropping spoilers about the story.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I loved the story from the get-go but we worked on clarifying some things. Hopefully, that was done without losing the "mystery" of it.

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

I think I have a general idea about what your suggestions may have entailed. I'm excited to see it (and the other stories, of course).

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It was one of the delicate operations where you don't want to spell it out but you DO want everyone to comprehend.

Did you read M. M. O'Driscoll's story in The Dark? Very different story but similar problem.

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Haven't read it. Where can I find it?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It's in The Dark and I picked it for the YBFH#17.

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Oh! I read your last post too fast and mistook The Dark for the name of the short story. My mistake. I'll have to check this one out. Thanks.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Sorry--my fault. The title is "The Silence of the Falling Stars" but I can never remember it without looking it up;-)

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Cool title ...and kind of coincidental. A few minutes ago I just finished doing some edits on a short story I'm writing called "The Songs of Dreaming Stars." The very first line is about a falling star.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Synchronicity exists--I can't explain it but I know it does.

[douglascohen.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, Bear, Shepard, Cadigan -- I don't usually read horror, but maybe I can push the library to get this.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, as a hardcover most libraries will get it...you can always request it I suppose :-)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know the person who orders. I don't push very often, though, that would be rude.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Well, a request isn't a push really...any library patron can surely ask for a book to be ordered (they'll either do it or not).

[splinister.livejournal.com]

Great cover. I love the masks and flames. Nice lineup too.

[jplangan.livejournal.com]

I'm very excited by this--it should be the horror anthology of the year, I reckon!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks John...we shall see--you know you may hate it!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I asked the designer of the wonderful cover, Tor's Peter Lutjen, the name of the typeface and he told me it's called Xodus --with some customization to make some of the letters more legible.

[dbraum.livejournal.com]

What a great TOC ! Love the titles of Lee Thomas and Lucius Shepard's stories !

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel the stories themselves measure up to their titles :-) (I do).