2024 the best horror series review
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From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.
For more than four 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. Now, with the fifteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, 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.
Publisher : Night Shade (January 16, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 1949102726
ISBN-13 : 978-1949102727
Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Axel Kohagen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another Solid Entry.
Review: Another year, another collection of solid work. Highlights include:"The Myth of Pasiphae" by Andy Davidson, a noir with the same blood as Cormac McCarthy."The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reporter" by Daniela Tomova. A bizarre, dystopian sport that goes further than you think."BFlat Minor, or the Su1cide Choir: An Oral History" by Gemma Files. Making a terrible noise."The Tell-Tale Tit" by Margo Lanagan. A brief moment of bitter disquiet."The Last Box" by Luigi Musolino (translated by James D. Jenkins) Sadness at the circus."1855" by Jacob Steven Mohr. VERY good. A small boy and the love he needs."Enough for Hunger and Enough for Hate" by John Langan. The jewel of the collection. Langan's horrific villains are always too human, too real.
Reviewer: Theron A. Akers
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What I've read so far is scary, disturbing, and weird.
Review: This is an anthology of horror stories. I've only read three so far, and if the remaining 18 are as good as the first 3, then they will be really worth reading. The authors are talented, and the stories are really weird and well written. What I've read so far is not gruesome horror, but strange and disturbing. I'm tempted to read them quickly one after another, but I'm going to take my time and savor them.
Reviewer: Vladd
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Horror of 2021
Review: This anthology collects the best horror stories of 2021 in Ellen Datlow's opinion. Included (and this is my favorite part) is a summation of the year, with a list (and a few sentences about) of the best novels, collections, anthologies etc.
Reviewer: Donna Gallipeau
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best of the best
Review: Her usual excellent collection.Just too short.
Reviewer: DFC
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: With 15 I"m finished .
Review: I always read the years summation of the genre as well as the obits , like to be informed about new authors and prizes issued for the best . 15 has 20 short stories and 1 novella . I actually liked 4 or 5 out of the 21 . I think the word " Horror " should be removed and replaced with " dark " or even "weird " unfortunately . Many of these stories could appear in Best Short Stories of the Year , not a lot of " horror " I admire the work that Datlow has done over the many years , but I think it's the content she has to choose from . I understand the difficulty in writing a short story , but still , many can excel in being concise yet thorough .
Reviewer: Anna
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you've seen it all, maybe it's time to retire?
Review: That's a question for Ellen Datlow, because this volume of BHotY is filled with stories that desperately try to be so much more than some silly horror tale. They also fail miserably. She was so bent on picking things that were DiFfErEnT for this year's issue it ended up a circus. I enjoyed about 3 stories out of however many are included; the rest was simply tiring in their sweaty attempts to be original and elevated and oh my god so profound. So if Ellen Datlow's horse became too high for her to enjoy the less pompous and experimental horror (seriously, not everything needs to be hip and avant-garde all the time), then perhaps it's a good moment to step aside, because her selection for this collection screams she's burnt out.
Reviewer: SQUIDMAN
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: not very scary
Review: The whole collection is nothing to write home about. Not very interesting or scary.