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We are pleased to announce that 6 of the 13 contributors to Dark Tales: Volume XV have received 'honorable mentions' in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Volume Four :

Georgina Bruce - “The Illustrated Dreams of the Ancestors"
Bruce Currie - “The Head Gardener”
Kate Measom - “The Wolf Runs it the Barley”
Sally Quilford -  “The Paper Garden"
Richard Smith - “The Puddle"
Benjamin Mitchell - "Die Kuche".
Congratulations to you all!

Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. 

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Win up to £500 for your short story...

Our Short Story Competition has a current deadline
of 30th September 2012 and is open to writers worldwide. 
First prize is £500, £250 goes to the runner-up and third place £100.
As ever, all other published entrants receive £5.
We also offer a proof edit for your story for just £15 including the entry fee.
Full rules and printable entry form here.
Read extracts from four of the winning stories in a previous contest here.

Pay for your entry using the button below and then you can upload your story
or email it to us. If preferred, you can enter by post using the printable entry
form here.

Dark Tales: Volume XIV is now available as an e-book!