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Ellen Datlow
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Ellen Datlow
The renowned SF, fantasy, and horror editor Ellen Datlow has served as Omni’s fiction editor, as well as the editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction, and the series editor for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She is currently a consulting editor with Tor.com, the editor of Best Horror of the Year, and the cohost for KGB Bar’s Fantastic Fiction reading series. She has received two Hugo Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, ten World Fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, twelve Locus Awards, and the Horror Writers Association Life Achievement Award.

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Vol. 83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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November 20, 2024
As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.
Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren
November 13, 2024
In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!
November 6, 2024
His body had been in the trunk some hours already when she began to feel him next to her in the cab as well. She couldn’t see him at first, could only sense he was there. But soon the hair on her right arm stood up and the air beside her began to shimmer. Before she began to see him fully, she whipped her gaze away.