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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
Reviewer: Riva Kelton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another great job by Ellen Datliw
Review: Another great anthology by Ellen Datlow. Of course the quality varies and I liked some more than others, but overall, a great book.
Reviewer: Jack M. Walter
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Writing but Weak Stories
Review: This collection is indicative of the problem with all types of short stories nowadays. The writing quality is excellent, but the content of the stories is not. In some of these tales, the horror element seems like something that is just thrown in or happens off-handedly. I won't give the collection less than four stars, but it is not the best in my opinion.
Reviewer: ross lambert
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Horror Collection I've Ever Read
Review: Really really good selection of stories. I can't recommend it enough.
Reviewer: Mike E. Walsh Jr.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must read
Review: AWESOME BOOK
Reviewer: Edward Brock
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great collection, great series
Review: A great collection of a great series of macabre and entertaining stories.
Reviewer: L. Johnson
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Better than Some Anthologies
Review: This had some truly remarkable works and some that were more "weird" than "horror". "The Nimble Men" would have been absolutely brilliant were it not for the fact the author knew nothing about airline operations (please look up "sterile cockpit"). That's what beta readers are for.
Reviewer: Classic George
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What a big disappointment !!
Review: I thought this was her choice of the best from her on going series of Horror anthologies each year. Was I wrong. It almost seems she picked the worst stories for the series to give them a new life. I almost gave up after the first 7 stories. Then came Laird Barron's "In a Cavern, in a Canyon", by far the only really good scary story in the whole book. Definitely not "The best of the best".
Reviewer: Isaiah Pittman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delivers What It Promises - Best of the Best Horror Stories
Review: After finishing this book, I counted to see how many stories I consider favorites, by which I mean: they took up space in my head rent-free, and I truly deem them worthy of the title Best. I won't say which ones, but the total was sixteen out of twenty-eight. More than half! What a delight to read an anthology with so many standouts!Jumping around to a lot of different stories and types of scares; usually you have just enough time to get attached before youâre wrenched away to the next one. With slow-burning suspense that gnaws at your nerves, straight-up supernatural scares, traditional monsters and strange new unclassified creatures, thereâs something here for every kind of horror fanatic. Itâs like The Twilight Zone in book form! Plus, of course, Ellen Datlow's introduction includes a long list of recommended material for further reading, expertly-crafted and bound you to keep you busy for a long time.Bottom line: if you want to read some good, short horror fiction (AND maybe come away with a lot of impressive new authors and titles to read up on) you can't go wrong with this book.
Reviewer: Robert DeLeskie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ellen Datlow's snapshot of the state-of-the-art of (short) horror writing finds the genre thriving with a heady concoction of old blood and new. There's a terrific mix of weird, literary, kitchen sink naturalism, dark fiction and even old-school gross-out stories to be found between these pages. Monsters - not only the ones in the mirror - are amply represented too. Really, they're all worth reading. Standouts for me included: "In a Cavern, in a Canyon," by Laird Barron; "Allochthon," by Livia Llewellyn; "The Man from the Peak," by Adam Golaski; and "Wild Acre," by Nathan Ballingrud. Read these and you still have stories by Tanith Lee, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Hodge, Gemma Files and Peter Straub to send a shiver down your spine, and many others besides. This is a perfect introduction for new horror fans, and a great way for someone who's been away from the genre to jump back in and see what's been lurking in the dark.