With a nod to the great ACE Doubles series, Saga Press has published a series of Saga Doubles with the tête-bêche binding format (upside down covers) for the two books bound together. Both covers are eye-catching, but I prefer the Night cover by Samuel Araya.
My favorite story in Day/Night (2025) is Jeffrey Ford’s “One Day.” This killing spree in a placid neighborhood will send chills down your spine!
If you’d like a story by story breakdown, check out https://happygoathorror.com/2026/02/02/when-daylight-is-as-scary-as-full-dark-night-and-day-edited-by-ellen-datlow/
I’ve read a number of Ellen Datlow’s anthologies and enjoyed them all. GRADE: B
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Day—Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight
Preface — ix
The Bright Day by Priya Sharma — 1
Faire by Rachel Harrison — 16
Trick of the Light by Brian Evenson — 33
One Day by Jeffrey Ford — 43
The Wanting by A.T. Greenblatt — 58
Hold Us in the Light by A.C. Wise — 65
Dismaying Creatures by Robert Shearman — 88
Bitter Skin by Kaaron Warren — 108
Cold Iron by Sophie White — 129
Night—Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror
Preface — vii
Trash Night by Clay McLeod Chapman — 1
We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark by Eric LaRocca –25
The Door of Sleep by Stephen Graham Jones — 33
At Night, My Dad by Dan Chaon — 55
The Night House by Gemma Files — 63
The Night-Mirrors by Pat Cadigan — 92
Fear of the Dark by Benjamin Percy –120
The Picknicker by Josh Malerman — 141
Secret Night by Nathan Ballingrud — 157
I was already a long-term fan of Datlow’s editing work when she shortlisted my first pro story, “Bedtime”, from a 1994 issue of Algis Budrys’s TOMORROW SPECULATIVE FICTION in the ’95 volume of the Datlow/Windling BOTY volume of fantasy and horror…we’ve met and chatted a bit a few times since. No one in this volume’s contents whose work I don’t like, though I’ve not yet read Greenblatt, White nor LaRocca’s work. Seems as if I should pick this up!
Todd, I’ve read many of Ellen Datlow’s anthologies and enjoyed them. I like the Saga Press nod to the ACE Double format.
Sounds good, and I like some of the authors.
Jeff, Datlow seems to be able to recruit a mix of writers for her anthologies. Some Name Writers, some Unknowns…
Very, very nice cover. I am sure I would like some of the stories too.
Tracy, you need to be in the mood for Horror with this anthology!
Never heard of her! Worse yet, she’s never heard of me!
Bob, Ellen Datlow has edited more than 100 science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies over a career spanning more than 35 years. Her work includes numerous award-winning annual series, stand-alone thematic anthologies, and magazine collections.
Thanks for that warning, George.
Though she has edited sf and fantasy anthologies as well (and came to early prominence as the second fiction editor of OMNI in the ’80s), she has tended to concentrate on horror over the last few decades.
Todd, the HORROR market for anthologies has proved to be more resilient than SF and Fantasy.
All these years, and a couple shelves of Ace Doubles and I never came across “tete/beche” as the proper term for that binding oddity. Well taught!
Art, you know me: I try my best to give my readers accurate information.