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Haunted Legends

by Ellen Datlow

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Publisher Comments:

Winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!
 
Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over.

Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Tales to make readers shiver with fear, jump at noises in the night, keep the lights on.

These twenty nightmares, brought together by two renowned editors of the dark fantastic, are delightful visions sure to send shivers down the spines of horror readers.

Review:

"Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) and Mamatas (Spicy Slipstream Stories) collect 20 original stories based on ghost legends from around the world. A few famous figures appear (such as the mysterious hitchhiker in Kaaron Warren's 'That Girl' and Gary A. Braunbeck's 'Return to Mariabronn'), and lesser-known regional tales inspire two top-notch stories: Jeffery Ford's intriguing 'Down Atsion Road,' set in southern New Jersey, and Laird Barron's incredibly creepy 'The Redfield Girls,' about a haunted lake in Washington State. International entries include Ekaterina Sedia's disturbing 'Tin Cans,' about girls murdered by Stalin aide Lavrenty Beria, and Catherynne M. Valente's '15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai,' a whimsical and dreamy foray into Japanese myth. Another standout is the riveting 'The Folding Man' by Joe Lansdale, featuring a mysterious, murderous pack of nuns. Only a few weak choices feel more like rehashings than retellings. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)

Synopsis:

An anthology of all-new, fresh, original ghost stories by such award-winning, popular authors as Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others.

About the Author

ELLEN DATLOW has won eight World Fantasy Awards, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, two Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards for her work as an editor. In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, she has been the fiction editor of OMNI and SCIFI.COM. Datlow has edited many successful anthologies, including The Dark, The Coyote Road, and Inferno. She has also co-edited the Years Best Fantasy and Horror series, The Faery Reel, A Wolf at the Door, and Swan Sister. She lives in Manhattan.

NICK MAMATAS, co-editor of the groundbreaking fiction magazine Clarkesworld, lives in Northern California.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780765323002
Author:
Datlow, Ellen
Publisher:
Tor Books
Author:
Mamatas, Nick
Subject:
Horror - General
Subject:
Horror
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Publication Date:
20100914
Binding:
Electronic book text in proprietary or open standard format
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 in

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Product details 352 pages Tor Books - English 9780765323002 Reviews:
"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) and Mamatas (Spicy Slipstream Stories) collect 20 original stories based on ghost legends from around the world. A few famous figures appear (such as the mysterious hitchhiker in Kaaron Warren's 'That Girl' and Gary A. Braunbeck's 'Return to Mariabronn'), and lesser-known regional tales inspire two top-notch stories: Jeffery Ford's intriguing 'Down Atsion Road,' set in southern New Jersey, and Laird Barron's incredibly creepy 'The Redfield Girls,' about a haunted lake in Washington State. International entries include Ekaterina Sedia's disturbing 'Tin Cans,' about girls murdered by Stalin aide Lavrenty Beria, and Catherynne M. Valente's '15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai,' a whimsical and dreamy foray into Japanese myth. Another standout is the riveting 'The Folding Man' by Joe Lansdale, featuring a mysterious, murderous pack of nuns. Only a few weak choices feel more like rehashings than retellings. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)
"Synopsis" by ,
An anthology of all-new, fresh, original ghost stories by such award-winning, popular authors as Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others.
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