Night  Day, Ellen Datlow
Night  Day, Ellen Datlow
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Night & Day
Dreadful Dark: Tales of Night Time Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror

Author: Ellen Datlow

Series: Saga Doubles

Narrator: Eilidh Beaton, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kevin R. Free, Cindy Kay, Helen Laser

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2025

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy


Synopsis

A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series.

This anthology contains stories from some of the most evocative and bestselling writers of horror and speculative fiction.

Night—Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror

Table of Contents
Trash Night by Clay McLeod Chapman
We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark by Eric LaRocca
The Door of Sleep by Stephen Graham Jones
At Night, My Dad by Dan Chaon
The Night House by Gemma Files
The Night-Mirrors by Pat Cadigan
Fear of the Dark by Benjamin Percy
The Picknicker by Josh Malerman
Secret Night by Nathan Ballingrud

Day—Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight

Table of Contents
The Bright Day by Priya Sharma
Faire by Rachel Harrison
Trick of the Light by Brian Evenson
One Day by Jeffrey Ford
The Wanting by A.T. Greenblatt
Hold Us in the Light by A.C. Wise
Dismaying Creatures by Robert Shearman
Bitter Skin by Kaaron Warren
Cold Iron by Sophie White

About Ellen Datlow

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gyalten Lekden on July 19, 2025

This collection packs a punch! Look, I went into this anthology with high expectations, because I have enjoyed every anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that I have read, and because I recognized more than half of the contributing authors, and I was not disappointed! This collection spans the horror ge......more

Goodreads review by Curtis on September 10, 2025

The new Nathan Ballingrud story is a total banger. It deserves to be in all the Best Horror reprint anthologies.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on June 24, 2025

Like all anthologies, there will be stories that work for you and some that might not, but Night & Day is a very strong collection of stories by some of the brightest (and darkest) voices in horror. My standouts from Night were The Door of Sleep by Stephen Graham Jones, Secret Night by Nathan Balling......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on August 26, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and Saga Press for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. 4.25 stars, rounding down to 4 for GoodReads. Overall, I really enjoyed this collection of stories, both on the night side and the day side. I think I enjoyed the Day stories more than the Night if I had to pick a s......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on August 31, 2025

I got early access to the upcoming "Day and Night" horror anthology by Ellen Datlow. Here are my individual "reviews" for each story Day: (The Bright Day- 4/5) I loved the setting of the world and how the story managed to establish so many interesting concepts with so few pages. The ending was a huge......more