The Best Horror of the Year
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Publisher Description
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. Now, with the eleventh 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
Kim Stanley Robinson
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After 22 years of pulling the horror content for the now-discontinued Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) goes solo with this stellar start to a new "best of" annual. As in the past, her picks confirm that "horror" is a storytelling approach with endlessly inventive possibilities. In E. Michael Lewis's "Cargo," a haunting Twilight Zone type tale, an airplane picks up something otherworldly as part of its latest transport. Euan Harvey's creepy "Harry and the Monkey" turns an urban legend into reality. R.B. Russell's "Loup-garou" is a highly original shape-shifter story with a subtle psychological twist, and Daniel LeMoal's "Beach Head" a bracing conte cruel with a Lord of the Flies cast. In addition to the richly varied stories, Datlow provides her usual comprehensive coverage of the year in horror in an introduction that's indispensable reading for horror aficionados.
