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The Dark - by Ellen Datlow (Paperback)

The Dark - by  Ellen Datlow (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>These new ghost stories are written by 16 masters of the macabre--a deliciously frightening anthology of original terror.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Modern audiences have long inured themselves to fear, trained themselves to shut off their childish nighttime terrors and scoff in the face of deliberate scares. But award winning anthologist Ellen Datlow--called the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions by William Gibson, author of <i>Neuromancer</i>--was convinced that there was life in the ghost story yet. So she challenged a list of varied and talented contributors to scare the heck out of her. <p/>The resultant collection singlehandedly redefines the ghost story, going far beyond the accustomed tropes and gore of horror stories to consider the only realm that still truly scares us: the unknown. <i>The Dark</i> takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two. <p/>Under the covers of <i>The Dark</i>, you will find a gathering of sixteen original, unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. No two stories are alike; all are calculated to make it hard to be alone with the lights out. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This book is sure to provide a yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured." --<i>Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)</i> <p/>"Top-drawer." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Ellen Datlow</b> is a winner of seven World Fantasy Awards, two Hugo Awards for Best Editor, two Bram Stoker Awards, and the International Horror Guild 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 <i>Blood Is Not Enough</i>, <i>A Whisper of Blood</i>, and, with Terri Windling, <i>Snow White, Blood Red</i> and five other titles in their adult Fairy Tales anthology series; <i>The Green Man</i> and <i>The Faery Reel</i> for young adults; and, for younger readers, <i>A Wolf at the Door</i> and <i>Swan Sister</i>. She also co-edits the <i>Year's Best Fantasy and Horror</i> series. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan.</p>

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