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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year | Ellen Datlow
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***One of Publishers Weekly's ""Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018""*** A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders. For more than three decades, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger on the pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from the first ten years of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, includes fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more. 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
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This tended to lean to more opaque stories that I had a hard time getting into and are actually my least favorite kind in the regular editions of Best Horror of the Year. There were still plenty I enjoyed but these were just under half of the total stories.
Favorites were Lowland Sea, Black and White Sky, Chapter Six, Shepherds' Business, Tender as Teeth, The Callers, This Stagnant Breath of Change, and The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.