Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 5

2019. The year certainly made its mark on the world—and more than its share of scars. It also made for a bounty of good horror stories of the extreme kind, the best of which the tales herein serve to illustrate. 


2019 was the year Year's Best Hardcore Horror went global. Not by design but because the stories inside just happened to have been written by authors hailing from various parts of the globe. From Australia by way of South Africa, to Italy, Scotland, Norway, Taiwan, North America and India--the common denominator being that their tales come from darkest regions of imagination. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS


GOING GLOBAL: INTRODUCTION by Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax


FEAST FOR SMALL PIECES by Hailey Piper


GODDESS OF GALLOWS by Kristopher Triana


LATE NIGHT INCIDENT AT THE WHITE TRASH MOTEL by Duane Bradley


A NEW MOTHER’S GUIDE TO RAISING AN ABOMINATION by Gwendolyn Kiste


UPPER CRUST by Michael Paul Gonzalez


REDLESS by Annie Neugebauer


A TOUCH OF MADNESS by Tim Waggoner


PARADISUM VOLUPTATIS by Joanna Koch


RADIX MALORUM by Sean Patrick Hazlett


LACKERS by Leo X. Roberson


WHY DO BIRDS SUDDENLY APPEAR? by Rajiv Moté


DARJEELING by Syon Das


MRSA ME by Alicia Hilton


WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE CHILDREN? by David L Tamarin


HAVE A HEART by Matthew V. Brockmeyer


SWINGS AND SUSPENSIONS by D.A. Xiaolin Spires


KIRTI by Alessandro Manzetti


THE TEA AND SUGAR TRAIN by DEBORAH SHELDON


SCREAMS FOR STARGIRL by Ben Pienaar


QUEER WEATHER by Scáth Beorh