Quotes About Ellen Datlow

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

I'd go with her, like a flash I'd go, if this were anything more than a dream, anything more than an infidel's sour regret, anything more than eleven thousand words cast like a handful of sand across the face of the ocean.

a hatred I was going to feel anyway for men whose evil came not from some grand design, but cost-benefit analysis and spite.

Kelly Link is the author of three collections: Magic for Beginners, Stranger Things Happen, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have appeared in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales; Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things; Firebirds Rising; The Starry Rift; The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales; and The Restless Dead.

Deduction was for the highbrows in top hats and great coats; I performed my detecting with a boot and a six-gun.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.