Dark : An All Star Collection of Terrifying Original Ghost Stories

llen Datlow, referred to by some as the Mistress of Horror, has gathered ghost stories by fifteen masters of the macabre in this deliciously frightening anthology of original terror. Her orders to her contributors: Scare the hell out of me! A mere glance at the roster of authors should make any lover of the strange, the horrific, or the uncanny whet his or her lips in anticipation of ghoulishly twisted and flat-out terrifying hours of reading. The voices of the dark are: Daniel Abraham, Jack Cady, Ramsey Camp-bell, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Stephen Gallagher, Charles L. Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Kathe Koja, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, Mike O'Driscoll, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. Winners collectively of more than a dozen World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards, these authors will keep readers off balance and wondering what kind of a shivery scare will come next. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Ellen Datlow is a winner of six World Fantasy Awards, of the Hugo Award for Best Editor, and of the Bram Stoker Award. In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, she has been the long-time fiction editor of Omni and more recently the fiction editor of SCIFI.COM. She has edited many successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, A Whisper of Blood, and with Terri Windling Snow White, Blood Red and the rest of their Fairy Tales series. She has also edited the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, The Green Man, and for younger readers The Wind at the Door and Swan Sister. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan.