TOC Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Horror Half) #21

[ellen_datlow]

Best of the year 2007/Horror half (missing two poems from mainstream venues because we may not get the rights)

Follow Me Home Sonya Taaffe (poem) Lone Star Stories Feb

Closet Dreams Lisa Tuttle Postscripts #10, spring

Holiday M. Rickert Subterranean Issue #7

Valentine, July Heat Wave Joyce Carol Oates EQMM March/April

Winter’s Wife Elizabeth Hand Wizards

A Thing Forbidden Donald Mead F&SF, April

The Monsters of Heaven Nathan Ballingrud Inferno.

The Tenth Muse William Browning Spencer Subterranean #6

The Hill Tanith Lee The Mammoth Book of Monsters

Hum Drum Gary McMahon The 1st Humdrumming Bk of Horror Stories

Mr. Poo-Poo Reggie Oliver At Ease with the Dead.

Toother Terry Dowling Eclipse One

The Swing Don Tumasonis At Ease with the Dead

England and Nowhere Tim Nickels Zencore!

The Forest Laird Barron Inferno

A Perfect and Unmappable Grace Jack Haringa Bandersnatch.

The House of Mechanical Pain Chaz Brenchley Phantoms at the Phil III.

Splitfoot Paul Walther New Genre #5

Comments

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Yay! Does that mean the reading pile for #21 is done?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Nah. Not really. But I'm satisfied that at least the story choices are made.

I'm still slogging through various novellas and other items for the HM list and will soon be going through the nonfiction magazines and books for the summary.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Looks good. Thanks for another fun time at the KGB Bar!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Great to see you there! (even if we didn't sit at the same table--so THAT's what you were doing? Creating a Gavin Grant award--tsk tsk --I read your blog ;-))

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Good luck then!

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

I'm sure in your expansive reading for Year's Best you've come across a writer or two you'd pay good money to never have to read again!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

MMMM. That's my lips zipped closed.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten A Thing Forbidden (had to go look at it quickly), but skimming a few pages in brought it back to mind--I remember it standing out fairly well and wanting to share it with someone who would be interested. Sounds like that's going to happen on a large scale, so cool. :)

Hadn't read that Lone Star piece but ran back to it quickly. Looks like the year's shaping up to have been pretty good. ;)

And I'll keep my fingers crossed something jumps out at your more from GUD's 2008 offerings, of course. ;)

[lonesome-crow.livejournal.com]

Looks great, Ellen!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It was a very strong year-- I could have filled the book up with at least another 60,000 words easily.

[orrin.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to it!

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

Excellent! (You made me a very happy editor when you chose Sonya's poem.)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I'll bet :-)

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

*big grin*

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Awesome list :)

[lynnejamneck.livejournal.com]

great list! looking forward to it.
and submitting again next year :)