Ellen Datlow reports that she’s “in the process of final line edits, deciding on story order, and finishing up an Introduction” for her forthcoming anthology Poe: New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. She plans to turn it in to her editor at Solaris within the week. Solaris will be publishing the book in the US and the UK in early 2009, “in honor of the Poe bicentennial.”
Contents of the book (though not necessarily in final order) are:
“Illimitable Domain” by Kim Newman
“The Pickers” by Melanie Tem
“The Final Act” by Gregory Frost
“Truth and Bone” by Pat Cadigan
“Flitting Away” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Mountain House” by Sharyn McCrumb
“Beyond Porch and Portal” by E. Catherine Tobler
“Shadow” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Red Piano” by Delia Sherman
“The Heaven and Hell of Robert Flud” by David Prill
“The Pikesville Buffalo” by Glen Hirshberg
“The Tell” by Kaaron Warren
“The Brink of Eternity” by Barbara Roden
“Sleeping with Angels” by M. Rickert
“The Reunion” by Nicholas Royle
“Kirikh’quru Krokundor” by Lucius Shepard
“Strappado” by Laird Barron
“Lowland Sea” by Suzy McKee Charnas