About the Author

Ellen Datlow has been editing short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for almost thirty years. She was co-editor of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horrorfor twenty-one years and currently edits The Best Horror of the Year. She has edited or co-edited many other anthologies, most recently The Coyote Road and Troll's Eye View (with Terri Windling), Inferno, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspiredby Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound, Digital Domains: A Decade of ScienceFiction and Fantasy, and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. Forthcoming are Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, The Best Horror ofthe Year Volume Two, Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas), The Beastly Bride, and Teeth (the latter two with Terri Windling). She has won multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy, Locus, Hugo, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and Stoker Awards. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for 'outstanding contribution to the genre.' For more information, visit her website at www.datlow.com.