(? - ) US editor, reviewer, anthologist, agent, and columnist heavily involved in many aspects of the genre since the 1990s, specializing in dark fantasy. She produced and edited the pioneering weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (which won International Horror Guild awards as best publication in 1998 and 1999, and a Bram Stoker award for nonfiction in 1999), and was editor of Horror Garage magazine from 2000-2002.
She has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to many professional publications and edited/produced for Omni Online and Universal Studios' Horror Online. She reviewed regularly for Publishers Weekly for over a decade; she was reviews editor for Fantasy, a columnist for Cemetery Dance from 2001 onwards and a consulting editor for Cinefantastique. She also served as nonfiction editor for Weird Tales.
As editor she ran the Juno fantasy imprint for six years from its Small Press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Simon and Schuster's Pocket Books. Currently she is the senior editor for Prime Books, and regularly reviews short dark-fantasy fiction for Locus.
Guran has edited several Anthology series starting with Best New Romantic Fantasy, whose first volume was Best New Paranormal Romance (anth 2006). Most notably, from 2010 onwards, she has edited The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror as well as producing many non-series dark fantasy anthologies. [RR]
Paula Guran
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works as editor
Best New Romantic Fantasy
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2010 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2010) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Travis Anthony Soumis]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2011) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Ivan Bliznetsov]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2012 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Man In Black]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2013 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Andre Kiselev]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2014 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2014) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Fer Gregory]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2015 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2015) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/NKMandic]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2016 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2016) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Fergregory]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2017 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2017) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Breakermaximus]
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2018 (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2018) [anth: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: pb/Fernando Cortés]
New Cthulhu
The Mammoth Book of ...
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas
individual titles as editor
- Embraces: Dark Erotica (no place found: Venus or Vixen Press, 2000) [anth: pb/Rick Berry]
- Zombies: The Recent Dead (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2010) [anth: pb/Szabo Balasz]
- Vampires: The Recent Indead (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2011) [anth: pb/Szabo Balasz]
- Halloween (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2011) [anth: pb/Andrey Kiselev]
- Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press Teens, 2012) [anth: pb/]
- Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/]
- Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/Rick Blackwell]
- Extreme Zombies (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/]
- Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/FrozenStarro/Fotalia]
- Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/Scott Grimando]
- Season of Wonder (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) [anth: pb/Nick Deligaris]
- Future Games (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: pb/Michael King]
- Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: pb/]
- After the End: Recent Apocalypses (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: pb/Aurélien Police]
- Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: pb/Sandra Cunningham]
- Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2013) [anth: pb/Golda Reyes]
- Magic City: Recent Spells (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2014) [anth: pb/Joseph Corsentino]
- Time Travel: Recent Trips (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2014) [anth: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Zombies: More Recent Dead (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2014) [anth: pb/Szabo Balasz]
- Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2015) [anth: pb/Renu Sharma]
- Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2015) [anth: pb/]
- Warrior Women (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2015) [anth: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Street Magicks (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2016) [anth: pb/]
- Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2016) [anth: pb/Marta Sokolowska]
- Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2017) [anth: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Swords Against Darkness (Rockville, Maryland: Prime Books, 2017) [anth: pb/Rodrigo Ramos]
- New York Fantastic (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2017) [anth: pb/]
- Mythic Journeys (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2019) [anth: pb/]
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