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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five
Synopsis
Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, readers have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildly imaginative new generation of dark dreamers is carrying on in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft and King, crafting exquisitely disturbing literary nightmares that gaze without flinching into the abyss--and linger in the mind long after.
Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow knows the darkest corners of fiction and poetry better than most. Once again, she has braved the haunted landscape of modern horror to seek out the most chilling new works by both legendary masters of the genre and fresh young talents. Here are twisted hungers and obsessions, human and otherwise, along with an unsettling variety of spine-tingling fears and fantasies. The cutting edge of horror has never cut deeper than in this comprehensive showcase of the very best the field has to offer. Enter at your own risk.
Table of Contents:
- Nikishi - (2012) - shortfiction by Lucy Taylor
- Little America - (2012) - shortstory by Dan Chaon
- A Natural History of Autumn - (2012) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
- Mantis Wives - (2012) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
- Tender as Teeth - (2012) - shortfiction by Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski
- The Callers - (2012) - shortfiction by Ramsey Campbell
- Two Poems for Hill House - (2013) - poem by Kevin McCann
- Mariners' Round - (2012) - shortfiction by Terry Dowling
- Nanny Grey - (2012) - shortfiction by Gemma Files
- The Magician's Apprentice - (2012) - shortstory by Tamsyn Muir
- Kill All Monsters - (2012) - shortfiction by Gary McMahon
- The House on Ashley Avenue - (2012) - shortfiction by Ian Rogers
- Dead Song - (2012) - shortfiction by Jay Wilburn
- Sleeping, I Was Beauty - (2012) - poem by Sandi Leibowitz
- Bajazzle - (2012) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
- The Pike - (2012) - shortfiction by Conrad Williams
- The Crying Child - (2013) - shortfiction by Bruce McAllister
- This Circus the World - (2012) - shortfiction by Amber Sparks
- Some Pictures in an Album - (2012) - shortfiction by Gary McMahon
- Wild Acre - (2012) - novelette by Nathan Ballingrud
- Final Exam - (2012) - shortstory by Megan Arkenberg
- None So Blind - (2012) - shortfiction by Stephen Bacon
- The Ballad of Boomtown - (2012) - shortfiction by Priya Sharma
- Pig Thing - (2012) - shortfiction by Adam Nevill
- The Word-Made Flesh - (2012) - shortfiction by Richard Gavin
- Into the Penny Arcade - (2012) - shortfiction by Claire Massey
- Magdala Amygdala - (2012) - shortfiction by Lucy A. Snyder
- Frontier Death Song - (2012) - novelette by Laird Barron
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