Fascinated by vampires?Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead.The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful--and touch on nearly every emotion in between. The one thing they have in common is th[...]

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales?but the villains themselves beg to differ. In "Troll?s-Eye View," you?ll hear from the Giant's wife (?Jack and the Beanstalk?), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of[...]

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-n[...]

A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. "Black Swan, White Raven" revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth - carrying us aloft in[...]

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1935 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries:[...]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
--H. P. Lovecraft
This statement was true when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it remains true at the beginning of the twenty-[...]

From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who[...]

This ghastly anthology, compiled by the horror genre's most acclaimed editor, drags you into the twisted minds of modern literary masters, including Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Connie Willis, and Peter Straub, at their fiendish best. Visionary storytellers fill this collection of twenty-four tal[...]