Poe New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

by Datlow, Ellen; Shepard, Lucius; Cadigan, Pat; McCrumb, Sharyn

• ISBN13: 9781844165957
• ISBN10: 1844165957
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-06
• Publisher: Solaris

Summary

Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allen Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn MCCrumb, Lucius Sheppard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Chamas and others. This all-star line-up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tipptree and British Fantasy Award winners

Author Biography

 

 


Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online, and edited the ten associated anthologies. She has edited the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, and also edited numerous original science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies solo, or with Terri Windling. She was editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, and was the editor of Sci Fiction. Datlow won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor twice, has received two Bram Stoker Awards, eight World Fantasy Awards, three Locus Awards for Best Editor, the Shirley Jackson Award, and has twice led the Science Fiction Chronicle reader's poll.

 

 

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Ellen Datlow
• Illimitable Domain, Kim Newman
• The Pickers, Melanie Tem
• Beyond Porch and Portal, E. Catherine Tobler
• The Final Act, Gregory Frost
• Strappado, Laird Barron
• The Mountain House, Sharyn McCrumb
• The Pikesville Buffalo, Glen Hirshberg
• The Brink of Eternity, Barbara Roden
• The Red Piano, Delia Sherman
• Sleeping with Angels, M. Rickert
• Shadow, Steve Rasnic Tem
• Truth and Bone, Pat Cadigan
• The Reunion, Nicholas Royle
• The Tell, Kaaron Warren
• The Heaven and Hell of Robert Flud, David Prill
• Flitting Away, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Kirikh’quru Krokundor, Lucius Shepard
• Lowland Sea, Suzy McKee Charnas
• Technicolor, John Langan