Haunted Legends
A Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world.
Wherever you’re from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives’ tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and dark fantasy writers in the world. Among the contributors are award-winners Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and many others.
Here are stories from America’s big cities and small towns, as well as far-flung corners of the globe. Discover the fox spirits of Vietnam, the specter of communism still haunting Russia in the form of Comrade Beria’s ghost, the famed vampires of Rhode Island, a haunted amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, the Indian ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, and more.
Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Laird Barron, Richard Bowes, Gary A. Braunbeck, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Dedman, Jeffrey Ford, Lily Hoang, M. K. Hobson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Laben, Joe R. Lansdale, Kit Reed, Steven Pirie, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherine Turgeon, Catherynne M. Valente, Kaaron Warren, Erzebet YellowBoy, John Mantooth
<B>Ellen Datlow</B> was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of <I>Omni</I> for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of <I>The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror</I>. <br><br><I>Terri Windling</I> is an editor, writer, painter, and passionate advocate of mythic arts. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, as well as the Mythopoeic Award for her novel <I>The Wood Wife</I>. During the last two decades she's edited over twenty-five anthologies with Ellen Datlow, as well as several other anthologies, including one called <I>Faery</I>. Her paintings, which are based on folklore and feminist themes, have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States, England, and France.
