Barbara Roden

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.{{cite web | title=The Ash-Tree Anthologies, edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden – Black Gate | website=Black Gate – Adventures in Fantasy Literature | date=2 February 2020 | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2020/02/02/the-ash-tree-anthologies-edited-by-barbara-roden-and-christopher-roden/ | access-date=27 January 2024}}{{cite news | last=Dirda | first=Michael | title=The season of mellow fruitfulness is also fright time. | newspaper=Washington Post | date=31 October 2004 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2004/10/31/the-season-of-mellow-fruitfulness-is-also-fright-time/fa902414-d7d6-4767-80f3-1d9e06a3f982/ | access-date=27 January 2024}} 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.{{cite web | title=Barbara Roden – File 770 | website=File 770 | date=2018-12-30 | url=http://file770.com/tag/barbara-roden/ | access-date=2020-02-16}}{{cite web | title=Summary Bibliography: Barbara Roden | website=The Internet Speculative Fiction Database | url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10770 | access-date=2020-02-16}}{{cite web | title=sfadb : Barbara Roden Awards | website=Science Fiction Awards Database | url=http://www.sfadb.com/Barbara_Roden | language=bs | access-date=2020-02-16}}{{cite web | title=Barbara Roden | website=Worlds Without End | url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=5297 | access-date=2020-02-16}}{{cite book | last=Roden | first=B. | title=Mammoth Books presents Out and Back | publisher=Little, Brown Book Group | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-4721-0241-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GvadBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3 | access-date=2020-02-16 | page=3}}{{cite book | last1=Prepolec | first1=C. | last2=Campbell | first2=J.R. | last3=Klinger | first3=L.S. | last4=Volk | first4=S. | last5=Connolly | first5=L.C. | last6=Meikle | first6=W. | last7=Moore | first7=J.A. | last8=Maynard | first8=W.P. | last9=Trenholm | first9=H. | last10=Jackson | first10=N. | title=Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes | publisher=Hades Publications Incorporated | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-894063-70-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImQvDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT228 | access-date=2020-02-16 | page=228}}{{cite book | last=Datlow | first=E. | title=Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe | publisher=Rebellion | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-84997-210-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CcDXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 | access-date=2020-02-16 | page=92}}{{cite web | last=Roden | first=Barbara | title=Barbara Roden – Page 5 – BC Local News | website=BC Local News | date=2019-07-17 | url=https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/measles-catch-up-program-making-strides/ | access-date=2020-02-16}}

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.{{cite web | last=Jure | first=Brendan Kyle | title=Barbara Roden elected mayor of Ashcroft | website=Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal | date=2018-10-20 | url=https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/municipal-election/barbara-roden-elected-mayor-of-ashcroft/ | access-date=2020-02-16}}{{cite web | title=Council Bio – Village of Ashcroft | website=Village of Ashcroft – Wellness Awaits You | date=2018-10-10 | url=https://ashcroftbc.ca/council-bio/ | access-date=2020-02-16}}

• 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

• Northwest Passages (2009)

• 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)

• "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)

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