Synopses & Reviews
1. Features Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, Nebula and British Fantasy Award winners
2. To commemorate the second centenary of Poe's birth - January 19, 1809 and the 160th anniversary of his death in Oct 1849.
3. Compiled by multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow
4. Each story is based on a EA Poe story.
5. Original stories the above are based on will be available as a download from our website
Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Charnas and others. This all-star line-up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree and British Fantasy Award winners.
Review
"[Datlow's] introduction states that she didn't want Poe pastiches but stories inspired by his work. This has resulted in several of the best pieces being modern-day takes on the master's themes and obsessions....Recommended." The Guardian (U.K.)
Synopsis
Compiled by multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Charnas, and others.
This all-star line-up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, and British Fantasy Award winners.
Synopsis
To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, it presents some of the foremost talents of the genre, who have come together to reimagine tales inspired by Poe. Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, M. Rickert, and more, have lent their craft to this anthology, retelling such classics as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death, exploring the very fringes of the genre.
Synopsis
Compiled by a multi-award winning editor, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the fieldan all-star lineup featuring several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, and British Fantasy Award winners
About the Author
Ellen Datlow has been editing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was fiction editor of
Omni magazine and
Scifiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the annual
Best Horror of the Year;
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe;
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror;
Lovecraft Unbound;
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy;
Blood and Other Cravings;
Supernatural Noir;
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy; and two YA anthologies:
Teeth: Vampire Tales and
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia.
She’s won nine World Fantasy Awards, plus multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career.