About the Author: Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow has been an award-winning editor of short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for over twentyfive years.
She is editor of the Best Horror of the Year and has edited or co-edited a large number of award-winning original anthologies. Her most recent are Supernatural Noir, Naked City, Blood and Other Cravings, The Beastly Bride, Teeth, Trolls Eye View, and After (the last three with Terri Windling).
She is the winner of multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award, Hugo Award, International Horror Guild Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." And has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
She co-hosts the popular Fantastic Fiction at KGB Bar series of readings in New York City where she lives.
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Find the best price forQueen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner, Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Vale
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Paperback, Published in Mar 2013 by Tor Books
ISBN10: 0765332272 | ISBN13: 9780765332271
Page count: 352
      Gaslamp Fantasy, or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period.
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Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells
is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.
The Line-up:
“The Fairy Enterprise†by Jeffrey Ford
“From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)†by Genevieve Valentine
“The Memory Book†by Maureen McHugh
“Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells†by Delia Sherman
“La Reine D’Enfer†by Kathe Koja
“Briar Rose†by Elizabeth Wein
“The Governess†by Elizabeth Bear
“Smithfield†by James P. Blaylock
“The Unwanted Women of Surrey†by Kaaron Warren
“Charged†by Leanna Renee Hieber
“Mr. Splitfoot†by Dale Bailey
“Phosphorus†by Veronica Schanoes
“We Without Us Were Shadows†by Catherynne M. Valente
“The Vital Importance of the Superficial†by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
“The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown†by Jane Yolen
“A Few Twigs He Left Behind†by Gregory Maguire
“Their Monstrous Minds†by Tanith Lee
“Estella Saves the Village†by Theodora Goss
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