Barbara Roden

Barbara Roden
Born	1963 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian

Barbara Roden (born 1963) is a Canadian horror writer and editor.

Biography

Barbara Roden was born in 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied journalism. With her husband Christopher Roden, she founded Ash-Tree Press in 1994. ^{[1] [2]} She is editor of All Hallows for the Ghost Story Society. She is a longstanding Sherlock Holmes fan, and she and her husband have edited a number of titles as well as one she wrote. Roden has won World Fantasy Awards as editor and publisher. She has also written fiction and her work has gained awards. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Roden now lives in Ashcroft, British Columbia, and in 2018 she was elected mayor of the village. She is the editor of the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal and in 2018 was awarded the Jack Webster Award for community reporting. ^{[11] [12]}

Awards

• 1997 World Fantasy Awards—special award
• 2000 Bram Stoker Awards—specialty press award
• 2005 World Fantasy Awards—anthology, Acquainted with the Night
• 2005 International Horror Guild Awards—anthology, Acquainted with the Night

Bibliography

As author

• Northwest Passages (2009)

As editor or co-editor

• All Hallows (journal, 1994–2007)
• Lady Stanhope's Manuscript and Other Supernatural Tales (1994)
• Forgotten Ghosts: The Supernatural Anthologies of Hugh Lamb (1996)
• Midnight Never Comes (1997)
• Shadows and Silence (2000)
• Acquainted with the Night (2004)
• At Ease with the Dead (2007)
• Shades of Darkness (2008)

Short fiction

• "Dead Man's Pears" (1994)
• "The Adventure of the Suspect Servant" (1997)
• "Tourist Trap" (2000)
• "Northwest Passage" (2004)
• "The Appointed Time" (2005)
• "The Palace" (2007)
• "The Wide, Wide Sea" (2007)
• "The Hiding Place" (2007)
• "Association Copy" (2008)
• "Endless Night" (2008)
• "Back Roads" (2008)
• "The Things That Shall Come upon Them" (2008)
• "The Haunted House in Etobicoke" (2009)
• "The Brink of Eternity" (2009)
• "After" (2009)
• "Out and Back" (2009)
• "Home on the Range" (2009)
• "Flu Season" (2010)
• "404" (2011)
• "Sweet Sorrow" (2011)
• "Night Visitors" (2012)
• "All Souls Day" (2013)
• "Undesirable Residence" (2013)
• "Strone House" (2015)

References and sources

1. "The Ash-Tree Anthologies, edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden – Black Gate". Black Gate – Adventures in Fantasy Literature. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
2. Dirda, Michael (31 October 2004). "The season of mellow fruitfulness is also fright time". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
3. "Barbara Roden – File 770". File 770. 2018-12-30. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
4. "Summary Bibliography: Barbara Roden". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
5. "sfadb : Barbara Roden Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2020-02-16.
6. "Barbara Roden". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
7. Roden, B. (2012). Mammoth Books presents Out and Back. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 3. ISBN   978-1-4721-0241-6 . Retrieved 2020-02-16.
8. Prepolec, C.; Campbell, J.R.; Klinger, L.S.; Volk, S.; Connolly, L.C.; Meikle, W.; Moore, J.A.; Maynard, W.P.; Trenholm, H.; Jackson, N. (2009). Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Hades Publications Incorporated. p. 228. ISBN   978-1-894063-70-8 . Retrieved 2020-02-16.
9. Datlow, E. (2009). Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Rebellion. p. 92. ISBN   978-1-84997-210-9 . Retrieved 2020-02-16.
10. Roden, Barbara (2019-07-17). "Barbara Roden – Page 5 – BC Local News". BC Local News. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
11. Jure, Brendan Kyle (2018-10-20). "Barbara Roden elected mayor of Ashcroft". Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
12. "Council Bio – Village of Ashcroft". Village of Ashcroft – Wellness Awaits You. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2020-02-16.