Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Ellen Datlow

Macmillan, Mar 31, 2009 - Fiction - 384 pages

As stated in her introduction to Inferno, Ellen Datlow asked her favorite authors for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear."

Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories' characters toil within their own hell. An aptly titled anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlow's standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.


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Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 13
• Riding Bitch: 19
• Misadventure: 41
• The Forest: 55
• The Monsters of Heaven: 83
• Inelastic Collisions: 101
• The Uninvited: 111
• 13 OClock: 125
• Lives: 145
• Ghorla: 157
• Face: 175
• An Apiary of White Bees: 181
• The Keeper: 201
• Bethanys Wood: 215
• The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast: 245
• Hushabye: 261
• Perhaps the Last: 273
• Stilled Life: 287
• The Janus Tree: 313
• The Bedroom Light: 345
• The Suits at Auderlene: 357

About the author

Ellen Datlow is a winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, seven World Fantasy Awards, and the Hugo Award for Best Editor. 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 Wolf at the Door and Swan Sister. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
• Author: Ellen Datlow
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2009
• ISBN: 1466817674, 9781466817678
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror