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

Biography

Barbara Roden was born in 1963 in

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. She studied journalism. With her husband Christopher Roden, she founded Ash-Tree Press in 1994. 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

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as editor and publisher. She has also written fiction and her work has gained awards. Roden now lives in

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, 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

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for community reporting.

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

1963 births Living people Writers from Vancouver 21st-century Canadian women writers Jack Webster award recipients British Columbia municipal councillors Mayors of places in British Columbia Canadian horror writers Women mayors of places in British Columbia 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians {{horror-stub