I’d like to thank Gordon Van Gelder, who came up with the title several years ago at a dinner party. During the discussion of a good title for a non-theme horror anthology that I wanted to edit, he said, “How about ‘Datlow’s Inferno’?” We all laughed and I thought, how silly … yet when I actually wrote up the proposal, “Inferno” as a title didn’t seem so bad. And, of course, when anyone asks for it, I hope they’ll request “Datlow’s Inferno.”
I’d also like to thank my editor, James Frenkel, who fought hard to buy the book, and who has been supportive all along the way to the anthology’s completion.