Editor Paula Guran chats about the latest Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror from Prime.
Can you talk about how you became Prime’s resident horror editor?
My background was in horror, for a long time. And of course I have nice connections and friends there. However I got totally away from horror for a while, and I’m glad I did because I needed a break—it’s not as if horror was my only “love.” I hadn’t been a horror fan to start with, but I discovered all this great dark stuff in the mid-nineties and fell into it and then got immersed in it. But even ten-twelve years ago, as a reviewer, I was doing mostly fantasy—people just didn’t realize it. My horror reviews and columns were bylined; my fantasy reviews for Publishers Weekly weren’t. And I was also doing fantasy and science fiction for other venues. Then I started editing Juno Books, a fantasy line, about six years ago. A lot of it was dark fantasy, though.
The rest is here.