The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction, Paperback

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 Nagata
• 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 Datlow
  Lowland Sea--Suzy McKee Charnas
  Wingless Beasts--Lucy Taylor
  The Nimble Men--Glen Hirshberg
  Little America--Dan Chaon
  Black and White Sky--Tanith Lee
  The Monster Makers--Steve Rasnic Tem
  Chapter Six--Stephen Graham Jones
  In a Cavern, in a Canyon--Laird Barron
  Allochthon--Livia Llewellyn
  Shepherds' Business--Stephen Gallagher
  Down to a Sunless Sea--Neil Gaiman
  The Man from the Peak--Adam Golaski
  In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos--John Langan
  The Moraine--Simon Bestwick
  At the Riding School--Cody Goodfellow
  Cargo--E.Michael Lewis
  Tender as Teeth--Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski
  Wild Acre--Nathan Ballingrud
  The Callers--Ramsey Campbell
  This Stagnant Breath of Change--Brian Hodge
  Grave Goods--Gemma Files
  The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine--Peter Straub
  Majorlena--Jane Jakeman
  The Days of Our Lives--Adam L. G. Nevill
  You Can Stay All Day--Mira Grant
  No Matter Which Way We Turned--Brian Evenson
  Nesters--Siobhan Carroll
  Better You Believe--Carole Johnstone
  About the Authors
  Acknowledgment of Copyright
  About the Editor

About the Author:

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Sci Fiction and has edited almost one hundred anthologies. Datlow has also won lifetime achievement awards from three prominent genre organizations, and currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com.