LAUNCH PARTY: All Hallows Eve

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We're thrilled to welcome Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow back to The Twisted Spine to present an exciting new anthology that delves into the histories and traditions of the most haunting time of year.

Join us on September 8 at 7 PM as Datlow, Clay McLeod Champan, Theresa DeLucci, Jeff Ford, Livia Llewellyn celebrate the release of ALL HALLOWS EVE. Following the discussion there will be readings from the anthology.

cnavAbout ALL HALLOWS EVE:

A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, including Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix, and many more.
Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when spirits can cross over, and when the boundary between the living and the dead is far, far too thin.
A young boy encounters a woman with an ancient and terrifying link to the holiday, a group of college students attend a Halloween party to die for, and a troubled girl exploits a local urban legend to try and turn her life around.
From America to New Zealand via the rural Romanian wilderness, this anthology explores our worldwide obsession with the spookiest season of the year, when the veil is lifted and the spirits come alive. Featuring 19 original stories from bestselling and award-winning masters of the genre, and from Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, this anthology invites you to carve a pumpkin, light the lanterns and welcome in trick or treaters from across the world.
With stories by:
Josh Malerman
Lee Murray
Rich Larson
Clay McLeod Chapman
Livia Llewellyn
Michael Marshall Smith
Stephen Graham Jones
Linda D. Addison
Christopher Golden
Alma Katsu
Brian Evenson
Siobhan Carroll
Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
Theresa DeLucci
Garth Nix
Jeffrey Ford
Richard Kadrey
Nathan Ballingrud
John Langan

About the speakers:

Ellen Datlow has been editing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was fiction editor of Omni magazine and Scifiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the annual Best Horror of the Year; Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe; Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror; Lovecraft Unbound; Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy; Blood and Other Cravings; Supernatural Noir; Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy; and two YA anthologies: Teeth: Vampire Tales and After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. She’s won nine World Fantasy Awards, plus multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, K*ll Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.

Theresa DeLucci joined Saga Press in 2025 with over fifteen years of publishing experience in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. During her long tenure at Tor Books, she led numerous multi-channel marketing campaigns for bestselling authors and brands including Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive series, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, V.E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series. Her love of horror made her an integral part of the team that founded Tor's horror imprint, Nightfire Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and received honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Horror series, edited by Ellen Datlow. As a professional journalist she has covered film & TV for Den of Geek, Wired.com, and Reactor and loves hearing about people’s favorite binge watches.

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, The Twilight Pariah, Ahab's Return, and Out of Body. His collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, A Natural History of Hell, The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Big Dark Hole and The Pandemonium Waltz. Ford’s fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies from Reactor.com to McSweeney’s to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories and been widely translated. It has garnered World Fantasy, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, Hyakawa, Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire, awards and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year mention.

Livia Llewellyn fiction has appeared in over forty anthologies and magazines and has been reprinted in multiple best-of anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Her short fiction collections Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors and Furnace were both nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, and “One of These Nights” has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Short Story. You can find her online at liviallewellyn.com and on Twitter and Instagram.

Event guidelines:

Each ticket includes either a copy ALL HALLOWS EVE or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card.

A signing will follow the discussion.

If you have any questions about the guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].

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