“Fine in the Fire” © 2013 by Lee Thomas. First published in Like Light for Flies, Lethe Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Majorlena,” © 2013 by Jane Jakeman. First published in Supernatural Tales 24, edited by David Longhorn. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Withering” © 2013 by Tim Casson. First published in Black Static 32, edited by Andy Cox. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Down to a Sunless Sea” © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published online on www.guardian.com on March 22, 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Jaws of Saturn,” © 2013 by Laird Barron. First published in The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Night Shade Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Halfway Home” © 2013 by Linda Nagata. First published in Nightmare Magazine #12. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Same Deep Waters as You” © 2013 by Brian Hodge. First published in Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, the six volume series of retold fairy tales starting with Snow White, Blood Red, and Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (the latter anthologies with Terri Windling).
Forthcoming are Nightmare Carnival, The Cutting Room, and The Doll Collection.
She’s won nine World Fantasy Awards and has also won multiple Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named 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.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on twitter as @EllenDatlow.
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six © 2014 by Ellen Datlow
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