Ellen Datlow
Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 4
Major Awards: 31
Locus Awards: 18
Other Awards: 5
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 245
Times Served as Judge: 1
— Career and Special Awards —
World Fantasy Awards — for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
2014:
life achievement — winner
Bram Stoker Awards — for Horror works, voted by Horror Writer's Association professional membership
2011:
lifetime achievement — winner
British Fantasy Awards — for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
2007:
Karl Edward Wagner Award (special award) — winner
Shirley Jackson Awards — for works of psychological horror and dark fantastic, juried
2022:
special award — winner
— Major Awards —
Hugo Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(22 nominations; 10 wins)
2021:
editor, short form — winner
2020:
editor, short form — winner
2017:
editor, short form — winner
2016:
editor, short form — winner
2014:
editor, short form — winner
2010:
editor, short form — winner
2009:
editor, short form — winner
2008:
editor, short form — nomination
2006:
professional editor — nomination
2005:
professional editor — winner
2005:
Sci Fiction (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/) (by ED, ed.; Craig Engler, general manager)
— web site — winner
2004:
professional editor — nomination
2003:
professional editor — nomination
2002:
professional editor — winner
2001:
professional editor — nomination
1996:
professional editor — nomination
1995:
professional editor — nomination
1994:
professional editor — nomination
1993:
professional editor — nomination
1992:
professional editor — nomination
1991:
professional editor — nomination
1990:
professional editor — nomination
World Fantasy Awards — for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
(50 nominations; 10 wins)
2024:
Christmas and Other Horrors (Titan UK)
— anthology — nomination
2023:
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Nightfire)
— anthology — nomination
2022:
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan)
— anthology — nomination
2021:
Edited By (Subterranean)
— anthology — nomination
2020:
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Saga)
— anthology — nomination
2018:
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Pegasus)
— anthology — nomination
2017:
Children of Lovecraft (Dark Horse)
— anthology — nomination
2016:
The Doll Collection (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2015:
Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine)
— anthology — nomination
2014:
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2012:
Blood and Other Cravings (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2011:
Haunted Legends (ED & Nick Mamatas, eds.) (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2010:
Poe (Solaris)
— anthology — nomination
2010:
for editing anthologies
— special award, professional — nomination
2009:
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Del Rey)
— anthology — nomination
2009:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2008:
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — nomination
2008:
Inferno (Tor)
— anthology — winner
2007:
Salon Fantastique (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Thunder's Mouth Press)
— anthology — winner
2005:
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — nomination
2004:
The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2003:
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — winner (tie)
2003:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2003:
for editing
— special award, professional — nomination
2002:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2002:
for editing
— special award, professional — nomination
2001:
Vanishing Acts (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2001:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2001:
for editing Sci Fiction and anthologies
— special award, professional — nomination
2000:
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Avon)
— anthology — winner
2000:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1998:
for editing and anthologies
— special award, professional — nomination
1997:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1995:
Black Thorn, White Rose (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Morrow AvoNova)
— anthology — nomination
1995:
Little Deaths (Millennium)
— anthology — winner
1995:
for editing
— special award, professional — winner
1994:
Snow White, Blood Red (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Morrow AvoNova)
— anthology — nomination
1994:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1994:
for editing
— special award, professional — nomination
1992:
A Whisper Of Blood (Morrow)
— anthology — nomination
1992:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
1991:
Alien Sex (Dutton)
— anthology — nomination
1991:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1991:
for editing
— special award, professional — nomination
1990:
Blood Is Not Enough (Morrow)
— anthology — nomination
1990:
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
1990:
for editing
— special award, professional — nomination
1989:
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
1989:
for Omni; anthologies
— special award, professional — nomination
Bram Stoker Awards — for Horror works, voted by Horror Writer's Association professional membership
(22 nominations; 9 wins)
2023:
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Nightfire)
— anthology — winner
2022:
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan)
— anthology — winner
2020:
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Saga)
— anthology — winner
2019:
The Devil and the Deep (Night Shade)
— anthology — winner
2018:
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Pegasus)
— anthology — nomination
2016:
The Doll Collection (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2015:
Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine)
— anthology — winner
2012:
Blood and Other Cravings (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2012:
Supernatural Noir (Dark Horse)
— anthology — nomination
2011:
Haunted Legends (ED & Nick Mamatas, eds.) (Tor)
— anthology — winner
2010:
Lovecraft Unbound (Dark Horse)
— anthology — nomination
2010:
Poe (Solaris)
— anthology — nomination
2008:
Inferno (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2005:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
2004:
The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2004:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (by ED & Terri Windling, ed.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2003:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2002:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2001:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
2000:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1999:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
British Fantasy Awards — for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
(11 nominations; 2 wins)
2022:
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan)
— anthology — nomination
2019:
The Devil and the Deep (Night Shade)
— anthology — nomination
2016:
The Doll Collection (Tor)
— anthology — winner
2007:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (ED, Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2005:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2003:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2002:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
2000:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1996:
Little Deaths (Millennium)
— anthology/collection — nomination
1995:
Little Deaths (Millennium)
— anthology/collection — nomination
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award — (renamed the Otherwise Award in 2020)
(2 nominations)
2000:
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Avon)
— long list
1999:
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (HarperPrism)
— long list
Shirley Jackson Awards — for works of psychological horror and dark fantastic, juried
(14 nominations; 4 wins)
2023:
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Nightfire)
— anthology — nomination
2020:
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Saga)
— anthology — nomination
2018:
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Pegasus)
— anthology — nomination
2016:
The Doll Collection (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2015:
Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine)
— anthology — winner
2014:
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2012:
Blood and Other Cravings (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2012:
Supernatural Noir (Dark Horse)
— anthology — nomination
2012:
Teeth: Vampire Tales (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (HarperCollins)
— anthology — nomination
2011:
Haunted Legends (ED & Nick Mamatas, eds.) (Tor)
— anthology — nomination
2010:
Lovecraft Unbound (Dark Horse)
— anthology — nomination
2010:
Poe (Solaris)
— anthology — winner
2008:
Inferno (Tor)
— anthology — winner
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(112 nominations; 18 wins)
2025:
editor — 3rd place
2024:
Christmas and Other Horrors (Titan UK)
— anthology — 7th place (tie)
2024:
editor — 2nd place
2023:
Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Nightfire)
— anthology — 6th place
2023:
editor — winner
2022:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen (Night Shade)
— anthology — 8th place
2022:
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan)
— anthology — 4th place
2022:
editor — winner
2021:
Edited By (Subterranean)
— anthology — 7th place
2021:
editor — winner
2020:
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Saga)
— anthology — 9th place
2020:
editor — winner
2019:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten (Night Shade)
— anthology — 9th place
2019:
editor — 2nd place
2018:
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology (Pegasus)
— anthology — 5th place
2018:
editor — winner
2017:
Children of Lovecraft (Dark Horse)
— anthology — 7th place
2017:
editor — winner
2016:
editor — 2nd place
2015:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six (Night Shade)
— anthology — 22nd place
2015:
Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine)
— anthology — 9th place
2015:
Lovecraft's Monsters (Tachyon)
— anthology — 11th place
2015:
Nightmare Carnival (Dark Horse)
— anthology — 17th place
2015:
editor — winner
2014:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five (Night Shade)
— anthology — 8th place
2014:
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Tor)
— anthology — 3rd place
2014:
editor — winner
2013:
After (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Hyperion)
— anthology — 3rd place
2013:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (Night Shade)
— anthology — 10th place
2013:
editor — winner
2012:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three (Night Shade)
— anthology — 16th place
2012:
Blood and Other Cravings (Tor)
— anthology — 17th place
2012:
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 10th place
2012:
Teeth: Vampire Tales (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Harper)
— anthology — 12th place
2012:
editor — winner
2011:
The Beastly Bride (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — 5th place
2011:
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (Tachyon)
— anthology — 12th place
2011:
editor — winner
2010:
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (Night Shade)
— anthology — 22nd place
2010:
Lovecraft Unbound (Dark Horse)
— anthology — 5th place
2010:
Poe (Solaris)
— anthology — 6th place
2010:
Troll's Eye View (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — 13th place
2010:
editor — winner
2009:
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Del Rey)
— anthology — 10th place
2009:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's Griffin)
— anthology — 2nd place
2009:
editor — winner
2008:
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — 3rd place
2008:
Inferno (Tor)
— anthology — 10th place
2008:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection (by ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 4th place
2008:
editor — winner
2007:
Salon Fantastique (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Thunder's Mouth)
— anthology — 3rd place
2007:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
2007:
editor — winner
2006:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — winner
2006:
editor — winner
2005:
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— young adult book — 3rd place
2005:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (ED, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
2005:
editor — winner
2004:
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Simon & Schuster)
— young adult book — 4th place
2004:
The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Tor)
— anthology — 5th place
2004:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
2004:
editor — 2nd place
2003:
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Viking)
— anthology — 5th place
2003:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
2003:
Wildside Press
— editor — 21st place
2002:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
2002:
editor — 2nd place
2001:
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 6th place
2001:
Vanishing Acts (Tor)
— anthology — 4th place
2001:
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Simon & Schuster)
— anthology — 17th place
2001:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
2001:
editor — 2nd place
2000:
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Avon)
— anthology — 8th place
2000:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 4th place
2000:
editor — 5th place
1999:
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (HarperPrism)
— anthology — 15th place
1999:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 5th place
1999:
editor — 4th place
1998:
Black Swan, White Raven (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Avon)
— anthology — 7th place
1998:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
1998:
editor — 4th place
1997:
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 8th place
1997:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
1997:
editor — 3rd place
1996:
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Morrow AvoNova)
— anthology — 6th place
1996:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
1996:
editor — 3rd place
1995:
Black Thorn, White Rose (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Morrow AvoNova)
— anthology — 4th place
1995:
Little Deaths (Millennium)
— anthology — 6th place
1995:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
1995:
editor — 3rd place
1994:
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (Omni Books)
— anthology — 9th place
1994:
Snow White, Blood Red (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (Morrow AvoNova)
— anthology — 4th place
1994:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
1994:
editor — 3rd place
1993:
Omni Best Science Fiction One (Omni Books)
— anthology — 11th place
1993:
Omni Best Science Fiction Two (Omni Books)
— anthology — 13th place
1993:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 2nd place
1993:
editor — 3rd place
1992:
A Whisper Of Blood (Morrow)
— anthology — 4th place
1992:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
1992:
editor — 3rd place
1991:
Alien Sex (Dutton)
— anthology — 2nd place
1991:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
1991:
editor — 2nd place
1990:
Blood Is Not Enough (Morrow)
— anthology — 6th place
1990:
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 3rd place
1990:
editor — 3rd place
1989:
Blood Is Not Enough (Morrow)
— anthology — 10th place
1989:
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — 5th place
1989:
editor — 4th place
1986:
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (Zebra)
— anthology — 25th place
— Other Awards —
Ditmar Awards — for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2022:
Tool Tales (ED & Kaaron Warren, eds.) (IFWG Australia)
— collected work — winner
International Horror Guild Awards — for horror works, juried
(4 nominations; 2 wins)
2008:
Inferno (Tor)
— anthology — winner
2004:
The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Tor)
— anthology — winner
2000:
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (St. Martin's)
— anthology — nomination
1999:
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (ED & Terri Windling, eds.) (HarperPrism)
— anthology — nomination
Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll — for SF/F works, polled by readers of Science Fiction Chronicle magazine
(7 nominations; 2 wins)
1995:
pro editor/magazines — 3rd place
1994:
pro editor/books — 3rd place
1993:
pro editor/magazines — 3rd place
1992:
pro editor/books — winner
1991:
pro editor/books — winner
1990:
pro editor/magazines — 3rd place
1988:
pro editor/magazines — 3rd place
— As Judge —
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