Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow in Helsinki, 2017.

Ellen Sue Datlow (* 31 December 1949 in New York City ) is an American horror - fantasy - and science fiction - editor . She has received numerous awards for her work as editor.

career

Ellen Datlow was the editor of the magazines Omni and Omni Online from 1981 to 1998 and was also the editor of the annual anthologies during this time. For 21 years, from 1988 to 2008, she was editor of the series Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , until 2003 with Terri Windling , then together with Gavin Grant and Kelly Link until the series was discontinued in 2009.

Datlow has been editor of The Best Horror of the Year anthologies at Night Shade Books since 2009 . In addition to the anthology series, she has also published several dozen individual anthologies, some of them in collaboration with Terri Windling.

From 1998 to 1999 she was the editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and editor of the Hugo Award winning website Sci Fiction until it was closed in 2005. Datlow is currently editor and proofreader for Tor.com . Since 2000 she has hosted Fantastic Fiction , a series of monthly readings by young authors of speculative literature at the KGB literary bar in New York , with Matthew Kressel . She is a longtime member of the Horror Writers Association and has been a board member since 2006.

Datlow has won numerous awards for her work, many of them multiple times. She won the Hugo Award nine times, the Bram Stoker Award five times, the World Fantasy Award ten times , the International Horror Guild Award twice , the Shirley Jackson Award three times and the Locus Award twelve times . In 2007 she received the Karl Edward Wagner Award at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contributions to the genre” . In 2011 she was recognized by the Horror Writers Association for Lifetime Achievement.

In addition to her work as an editor, Datlow has written numerous essays and book reviews.

Awards

• 1989 World Fantasy Award for The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 1990 World Fantasy Award for The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 1991 Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll in the "Pro Editor / Books" category
• 1992 Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll in the "Pro Editor / Books" category
• 1992 World Fantasy Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 1995 World Fantasy Award for Little Deaths as best anthology
• 1995 World Fantasy Award in the category "Special Award, Professional"
• 2000 World Fantasy Award for Silver Birch, Blood Moon as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 2001 Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 2002 Hugo Award in the "Professional Editor" category
• 2003 World Fantasy Award for The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 2004 International Horror Guild Award for The Dark: New Ghost Stories as best anthology
• 2005 Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection as best anthology (with Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant)
• 2005 Hugo Award in the "Professional Editor" category
• 2005 Hugo Award for Sci Fiction as best website
• 2005 Locus Award for best editor
• 2006 Locus Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection as best anthology (with Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant)
• 2006 Locus Award for best editor
• 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award
• 2007 Locus Award for best editor
• 2007 World Fantasy Award for Salon Fantastique as best anthology (with Terri Windling)
• 2008 International Horror Guild Award for Inferno as best anthology
• 2008 Locus Award for best editor
• 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Inferno as best anthology
• 2008 World Fantasy Award for Inferno as best anthology
• 2009 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category
• 2009 Locus Award for best editor
• 2010 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category
• 2010 Locus Award as best editor
• 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Poe as best anthology
• 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Haunted Legends as best anthology (with Nick Mamatas)
• 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2011 Locus Award as best editor
• 2012 Locus Award as best editor
• 2013 Locus Award as best editor
• 2014 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category
• 2014 Locus Award as best editor
• 2014 World Fantasy Award for life's work
• 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Fearful Symmetries as best anthology
• 2015 Locus Award as best editor
• 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Fearful Symmetries as best anthology
• 2016 British Fantasy Award for The Doll Collection as best anthology
• 2016 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category
• 2017 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category
• 2017 Locus Award as best editor
• 2018 Locus Award as best editor
• 2019 Bram Stoker Award for The Devil and the Deep as best anthology
• 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories as best anthology
• 2020 Hugo Award in the "Editor, Short Form" category

bibliography

Anthology series

The rows are arranged according to the year of publication of the first volume.

Omni Science Fiction - Omni Best Science Fiction

• 1 Omni Best Science Fiction One (1992)
• 1 Omni Best Science Fiction (1991)
• 2 Omni Best Science Fiction Two (1992)
• 3 Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993)

Omni Science Fiction - Omni Books of Science Fiction

• 1 The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
• 2 The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
• 3 The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
• 4 The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
• 5 The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1987)
• 6 The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989)
• 7 The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989)

Omni Science Fiction - Omni Visions

• 1 Omni Visions One (1993)
• 2 Omni Visions Two (1994)

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

• 1 The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection (1988; also: Demons and Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 ; with Terri Windling)
  • English: The new book of fantasy. Bastei Lübbe Paperback # 28191, 1990, ISBN 3-404-28191-8 .
• 2 The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989; also: Demons and Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 2 ; with Terri Windling)
• 3 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1990; with Terri Windling)
• 4 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991; with Terri Windling)
• 5 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (1992; with Terri Windling)
• 6 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993; with Terri Windling)
• 7 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994; with Terri Windling)
• 8 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995; with Terri Windling)
• 9 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996; with Terri Windling)
• 10 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (1997; with Terri Windling)
• 11 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998; with Terri Windling)
• 12 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999; with Terri Windling)
• 13 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000; with Terri Windling)
• 14 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001; with Terri Windling)
• 15 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002; with Terri Windling)
• 16 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003; with Terri Windling)
• 17 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 17th Annual Collection (2004; with Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link)
• 18 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 18th Annual Collection (2005; with Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link)
• 19 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 19th Annual Collection (2006; with Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link)
• 20 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 20th Annual Collection (2007; with Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link)
• 21 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection (2008; with Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link)

Blood

• Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (1989)
• A Whisper of Blood (1991)
• A Whisper of Blood (collective edition of 2 anthologies; 2008, collective edition)
• Blood and Other Cravings (2011)

Fairy Tale Anthologies

• 1 Snow White, Blood Red (1993; with Terri Windling)
• 2 Black Thorn, White Rose (1994; with Terri Windling)
• 3 Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995; with Terri Windling)
• 4 Black Swan, White Raven (1997; with Terri Windling)
• 5 Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999; with Terri Windling)
• 6 Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000; with Terri Windling)

Fairy Tales Retold

• A Wolf At the Door (2000)
• A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000; with Terri Windling)
• Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (2003; with Terri Windling)
• The Dark of the Woods (2006, collective edition; with Terri Windling)
• Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (2009; with Terri Windling)

Mythic fiction

• 1 The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2002; with Terri Windling)
• 2 The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004; with Terri Windling)
• 3 The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (2007; with Terri Windling)
• 4 The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People (2010; with Terri Windling)

Best Horror of the Year

• 1 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 1 (2009)
• 2 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2 (2010)
• 3 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3 (2011)
• 4 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4 (2012)
• 5 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 5 (2013)
• 6 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 6 (2014)
• 7 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 7 (2015)
• 8 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 8 (2016)
• 9 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 9 (2017)
• 10 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 (2018)
• 11 The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11 (2019)
• 12 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Twelve (2020)
• The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018)

Some of the Best from Tor.com

• 3 Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2013 Edition (2013, with Claire Eddy, Melissa Frain, Liz Gorinsky, George RR Martin , Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ann VanderMeer, Noa Wheeler)
• 4 Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015, with Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, David G. Hartwell , Peter Joseph, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Marco Palmieri, Paul Stevens, Ann VanderMeer)
• 5 Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition (2016, with Claire Eddy, Carl Engle-Laird, David G. Hartwell, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Marco Palmieri, Ann VanderMeer)
• 6 Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition (2017, with Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, Justin Landon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Diana Pho, Ann VanderMeer, Miriam Weinberg)

Individual anthologies

• Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989)
• Alien Sex (1990)
• Little Deaths: 24 Tales of Sex and Horror (1994)
• Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (1996)
• Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories (1996)
• Lethal Kisses (1996)
• Vanishing Acts (1996)
• Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998; with Terri Windling)
• Wild Justice (1999)
• The Dark: New Ghost Stories (2003)
• Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2006; with Terri Windling)
• The Dark of the Woods (2006; with Terri Windling)
• Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2007)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008)
• Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008)
• Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy and Horror (2009)
• Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009)
• The Beastly Bride (2009; with Terri Windling)
• Nebula Awards Showcase: 2009: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy (Nebula Awards # 43, 2009)
• Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010)
• Tails of Wonder and Imagination (2010)
• Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010)
• Haunted Legends (2010; with Nick Mamatas)
• Teeth: Vampire Tales (2011; with Terri Windling)
• Supernatural Noir (2011)
• Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (2011)
• After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012; with Terri Windling)
• Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (2013; with Terri Windling)
• Hauntings (2013)
• Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013; with David D. Levine )
• Lovecraft's Monsters (2014)
• Fearful Symmetries (2014)
• Nightmare Carnival (2014)
• The Cutting Room (2014)
• The Doll Collection (2015)
• The Monstrous (2015)
• Children of Lovecraft (2016)
• Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (2016)
• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales (2017)
• Haunted Nights (2017; with Lisa Morton)
• Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017)
• The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (2018)
• Devil and the Deep (2018)
• Echoes (2019; with Siobhan Carroll)
• Edited By (2019)
• Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight # 3: A Selection of Novellas (2019)
• Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Jörg M. Munsonius, Hermann Urbanek: Lexicon of Fantasy Literature. Fantasy Productions, Erkrath 2005, ISBN 3-89064-566-6 , p. 119.
• John Clute : Datlow, Ellen. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition).

Web links

Commons : Ellen Datlow  - Collection of Images

• Ellen Datlow in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Ellen Datlow in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Ellen Datlow in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Ellen Datlow in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
• Ellen Datlow in the bibliography of German science fiction ( article , edition )
• Literature by and about Ellen Datlow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ellen Datlow in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Works by and about Ellen Datlow at Open Library
• Ellen Datlow , official website
• Ellen Datlow on LibraryThing (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror . Small Beer Press notice dated January 12, 2009, accessed August 29, 2020.
2. ↑ Fantastic Fiction at KGB . Retrieved August 29, 2020.
3. ↑ Females of Fright: Ellen Datlow . Interview with Datlow on the HWA website on February 12, 2020, accessed on August 29, 2020.