Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

[ellen_datlow]

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 Horror


Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament Clive Barker 1984

Dancing Chickens Edward Bryant 1984

The Greater Festival of Masks Thomas Ligotti 1985

The Pear-Shaped Man George R.R. Martin 1987

The Juniper Tree Peter Straub 1988

Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds Dan Simmons 1988

The Power and the Passion Pat Cadigan 1989

The Phone Woman Joe R. Lansdale 1990

Teratisms Kathe Koja 1991

Chattery Teeth Stephen King 1992

A Little Night Music Lucius Shepard 1992

Calcutta, Lord of Nerves Poppy Z. Brite 1992

The Erl King Elizabeth Hand 1993

The Dog Park Dennis Etchison 1993

Rain Falls Michael Marshall Smith 1994

Refrigerator Heaven David J. Schow 1995

---- Joyce Carol Oates 1995

Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) Neil Gaiman 1996

The Specialist’s Hat Kelly Link 1998

The Tree is My Hat Gene Wolfe 1999

Heat Steve Rasnic Tem 1999

No Strings Ramsey Campbell 2000

Stitch Terry Dowling 2002

Dancing Men Glen Hirshberg 2003

My Father’s Mask Joe Hill 2005

Comments

[kestrell.livejournal.com]

Wow! Lots of stories I have not seen anthologized to death, very nice selection. Now I'm prompted to go try to locate a Joyce Carol Oates story I read once which keeps coming back to me (it involves a young girl trespassing into an old abadnoned house and meeting up with this creepy Baba Yaga/old woman figure who is very creepy).

I vote for more snakes, too.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Oh good. That's what I like to hear (that not all the stories have been over-anthologized).

I doubt there will be MORE snakes but there should be more SNAKE :-), in other words, it will "pop" more as an image.

I don't recall that specific Oates story. Maybe someone else will.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

kestrell: You don't mean "Face" do you? It was in my own antho Inferno and might be the one you're referring to--although she meets the old woman on the road while riding her bicycle. The old woman has a growth on her neck...

[kestrell.livejournal.com]

No, it's definitely from _Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque_, which also contains Oates reimaginings of Poe's "The Black Cat" and James _The Turn of the Screw_.