Barbara Roden Explained

Barbara Roden
Birth Date:	1963
Birth Place:	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)

Notes and References

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