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Exclusive Interview: “Body Shocks” Editor Ellen Datlow

 

Over the course of her more than thirty-five year career, Ellen Datlow has edited numerous collections of horror short story collections, including twenty annual installments of The Year’s Best Fantasy And Horror and a dozen more in The Best Horror Of The Year series. But in the following email interview about her latest anthology, the aptly titled Body Shocks: Extreme Tales Of Body Horror (paperback, Kindle), she says this is, “probably the most visceral and graphic anthology I’ve ever edited.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Strange Thing We Become” Author Eric LaRocca

 

It’s October, and that means it’s time to read some scary stories (though, really, when is it not?). But while writer Eric LaRocca says the ones in his short story collection The Strange Thing We Become And Other Dark Tales (paperback, Kindle) are “mainly horror stories,” he also says in the following email interview that they’re driven by sorrow and grief.

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Exclusive Interview: Evil In Technicolor Editor Joe M. McDermott

 

Given what’s going on in the world lately, you might think this isn’t a good time for some tales of horror. But the new anthology Evil In Technicolor (paperback, Kindle) isn’t just a collection of; instead, it’s an anthology of novelettes inspired by the iconic (and distinctive) horror films made by Hammer Studios in the 1960s and ’70s. In the following email interview, editor Joe M. McDermott discusses how this collection came together.