The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (in English)
Synopsis "The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (in English)"
Here is the best of the best horror--from Laird Barron, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and many more! For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. In this anniversary edition, Datlow brings back her favorite stories of the series' last decade in a special edition encompassing highlights from each edition of the work. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagat, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, And many others With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers. And in this anniversary edition, we share the most important stories which have been covered in the last decade of horror writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction--Ellen DatlowLowland Sea--Suzy McKee CharnasWingless Beasts--Lucy TaylorThe Nimble Men--Glen HirshbergLittle America--Dan ChaonBlack and White Sky--Tanith LeeThe Monster Makers--Steve Rasnic TemStephen Graham JonesIn a Cavern, in a Canyon--Laird BarronAllochthon--Livia LlewellynShepherds' Business--Stephen GallagherDown to a Sunless Sea--Neil GaimanThe Man from the Peak--Adam GolaskiIn Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos--John LanganThe Moraine--Simon BestwickAt the Riding School--Cody GoodfellowCargo--E.Michael LewisTender as Teeth--Stephanie Crawford & Duane SwierczynskiWild Acre--Nathan BallingrudThe Callers--Ramsey CampbellThis Stagnant Breath of Change--Brian HodgeGrave Goods--Gemma FilesThe Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine--Peter StraubMajorlena--Jane JakemanThe Days of Our Lives--Adam L. G. NevillYou Can Stay All Day--Mira GrantNo Matter Which Way We Turned--Brian EvensonNesters--Siobhan CarrollBetter You Believe--Carole Johnstone
