The best horror of the year
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San Francisco : Night Shade Books, [2009-].
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Volume | Location | Call Number | Status |
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v.5 | Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Short Story Anthologies | Short Stories Bes v.5 | On Shelf |
v.12 | New City Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | HORROR BEST v.12 | On Shelf |
v. 7 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.08738 BES v. 7 | On Shelf |
v.13 | New City Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | HORROR BEST v.13 | On Shelf |
Vol. 13 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction | Best Vol. 13 | On Shelf |
v.14 | New City Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | HORROR BEST v.14 | On Shelf |
v.15 | New City Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy | HORROR BEST v.15 | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
Summation 2008 / Ellen Datlow --
Cargo / E. Michael Lewis --
If angels fight / Richard Bowes --
The clay party / Steve Duffy --
Penguins of the apocalypse / William Browning Spencer --
Esmeralda / Glen Hirshberg --
The hodag / Trent Hergenrader --
Very low-flying aircraft / Nicholas Royle --
When the gentlemen go by / Margaret Ronald --
The Lagerstatte / Laird Barron --
Harry and the monkey / Euan Harvey --
Dress circle / Miranda Siemienowicz --
The rising river / Daniel Kaysen --
Sweeney among the straight razors / JoSelle Vanderhooft --
Loup-garou / R. B. Russell --
Girl in pieces / Graham Edwards --
It washed up / Joe R. Lansdale --
The thirteenth hell / Mike Allen --
The goosle / Margo Lanagan --
Beach head / Daniel LeMoal --
The man from the peak / Adam Golaski --
The narrows / Simon Bestwick.
Summation 2009 / Ellen Datlow --
Lowland sea / Suzy McKee Charnas --
The end of everything / Steve Eller --
Mrs. Midnight / Reggie Oliver --
Each thing I show you is a piece of my death / Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer --
The nimble men / Glen Hirshberg --
What happens when you wake up in the night / Michael Marshall Smith --
Wendigo / Michaela Morrissette --
In the porches of my ears / Norman Prentiss --
Lonegan's luck / Stephen Graham Jones --
The crevasse / Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud --
The lion's den / Steve Duffy --
Lotophagi / Edward Morris --
The gaze dogs of nine waterfall / Kaaron Warren --
Dead loss / Carole Johnstone --
Strappado / Laird Barron --
The lammas worm / Nina Allan --
Technicolor / John Langan.
Summation 2010 / Ellen Datlow --
At the riding school / Cody Goodfellow --
Mr. Pigsny / Reggie Oliver --
City of the dog / John Langan --
Just outside our windows, deep inside our walls / Brian Hodge --
Lesser demons / Norman Partridge --
When the zombies win / Karina Sumner-Smith --
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Laird Barron --
Fallen boys / Mark Morris --
Was she wicked? Was she good? / M. Rickert --
The fear / Richard Harland --
Till the morning comes / Stephen Graham Jones --
Shomer / Glen Hirshberg --
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside / Christopher Fowler --
The obscure bird / Nicholas Royle --
Transfiguration / Richard Christian Matheson --
The days of flaming motorcycles / Catherynne M. Valente --
The folding man / Joe R. Lansdale --
Just another desert night with blood / Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. --
Black and white sky / Tanith Lee --
At night, when the demons come / Ray Cluley --
The revel / John Langan.
Vol. 1 Summation 2008 / Ellen Datlow --
Cargo / E. Michael Lewis --
If angels fight / Richard Bowes --
The clay party / Steve Duffy --
Penguins of the apocalypse / William Browning Spencer --
Esmeralda / Glen Hirshberg --
The hodag / Trent Hergenrader --
Very low-flying aircraft / Nicholas Royle --
When the gentlemen go by / Margaret Ronald --
The Lagerstatte / Laird Barron --
Harry and the monkey / Euan Harvey --
Dress circle / Miranda Siemienowicz --
The rising river / Daniel Kaysen --
Sweeney among the straight razors / JoSelle Vanderhooft --
Loup-garou / R. B. Russell --
Girl in pieces / Graham Edwards --
It washed up / Joe R. Lansdale --
The thirteenth hell / Mike Allen --
The goosle / Margo Lanagan --
Beach head / Daniel LeMoal --
The man from the peak / Adam Golaski --
The narrows / Simon Bestwick.
Vol. 2 Summation 2009 / Ellen Datlow --
Lowland sea / Suzy McKee Charnas --
The end of everything / Steve Eller --
Mrs. Midnight / Reggie Oliver --
Each thing I show you is a piece of my death / Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer --
The nimble men / Glen Hirshberg --
What happens when you wake up in the night / Michael Marshall Smith --
Wendigo / Michaela Morrissette --
In the porches of my ears / Norman Prentiss --
Lonegan's luck / Stephen Graham Jones --
The crevasse / Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud --
The lion's den / Steve Duffy --
Lotophagi / Edward Morris --
The gaze dogs of nine waterfall / Kaaron Warren --
Dead loss / Carole Johnstone --
Strappado / Laird Barron --
The lammas worm / Nina Allan --
Technicolor / John Langan.
Vol. 3 Summation 2010 / Ellen Datlow --
At the riding school / Cody Goodfellow --
Mr. Pigsny / Reggie Oliver --
City of the dog / John Langan --
Just outside our windows, deep inside our walls / Brian Hodge --
Lesser demons / Norman Partridge --
When the zombies win / Karina Sumner-Smith --
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Laird Barron --
Fallen boys / Mark Morris --
Was she wicked? Was she good? / M. Rickert --
The fear / Richard Harland --
Till the morning comes / Stephen Graham Jones --
Shomer / Glen Hirshberg --
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside / Christopher Fowler --
The obscure bird / Nicholas Royle --
Transfiguration / Richard Christian Matheson --
The days of flaming motorcycles / Catherynne M. Valente --
The folding man / Joe R. Lansdale --
Just another desert night with blood / Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. --
Black and white sky / Tanith Lee --
At night, when the demons come / Ray Cluley --
The revel / John Langan.
Vol. 4 The little green god of agony / Stephen King --
Stay / Leah Bobet --
The moraine / Simon Bestwick --
Blackwood's baby / Laird Barron --
Looker / David Nickle --
The show / Priya Sharma --
Mulberry boys / Margo Lanagan --
Roots and all / Brian Hodge --
Final Girl theory / A. C. Wise --
Omphalos / Livia Llewellyn --
Dermot / Simon Bestwick --
Black feathers / Alison J. Littlewood --
Final verse / Chet Williamson --
In the absence of Murdock / Terry Lamsley --
You become the neighborhood / Glen Hirshberg --
In Paris, in the mouth of Kronos / John Langan --
Little pig / Anna Taborska --
The ballad of Ballard and Sandrine / Peter Straub.
Vol. 5 Nikishi / Lucy Taylor
Little America / Dan Chaon
A natural history of autumn / Jeffrey Ford
Mantis wives / Kij Johnson
Tender as teeth / Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski
The callers / Ramsey Campbell
Two poems for hill house / Kevin McCann
Mariners' round / Terry Dowling
Nanny Grey / Gemma Files
The magician's apprentice / Tamsyn Muir
Kill all monsters / Gary McMahon
The house on Ashley Avenue / Ian Rogers
Dead song / Jay Wilburn
Sleeping, I was Beauty / Sandy Leibowitz
Bajazzle / Margo Lanagan
The pike / Conrad Williams
The crying child / Bruce McAllister
This circus the world / Amber Sparks
Some pictures in an album / Nathan Ballingrud
Final exam / Megan Arkenberg
None so blind / Stephen Bacon
The ballad of boomtown / Priya Sharma
Pig thing / Adam L. G. Nevill
The world-made flesh / Richard Gavin
Into the penny arcade / Claire Massey
Magdala Amygdala / Lucy A. Snyder
Frontier death song / Laird Barron.
Vol. 6 Summation: 2013 / Ellen Datlow --
Apports / Stephen Bacon --
Mr. Splitfoot / Dale Bailey --
The good husband / Nathan Ballingrud --
The tiger / Nina Allan --
The house on Cobb Street / Linda E. Rucker --
The soul in the bell jar / KJ Kabza --
Call out / Steve Toase --
That tiny flutter of the heart I used to call love / Robert Shearman --
Bones of crow / Ray Cluley --
Introduction to the body in fairy tales / Jeannine Hall Gailey --
The tin house / Simon Clark --
The fox / Conrad Williams --
Stemming the tide / Simon Strantzas --
The anatomist's mnemonic / Priya Sharma --
The monster makers / Steve Rasnic Tem --
The only ending we have / Kim Newman --
The dog's paw / Derek K©ơnsken --
Fine in the fire / Lee Thomas --
Majorlena / Jane Jakeman --
The withering / Tim Casson --
Down to a sunless sea / Neil Gaiman --
Jaws of Saturn / Laird Barron --
Halfway home / Linda Nagata --
The same deep waters as you / Brian Hodge.
Vol. 7 Summation 2014 / Ellen Datlow --
The atlas of hell / Nathan Ballingrud --
Winter children / Angela Slatter --
A dweller in amenty / Genevieve Valentine --
Outside heavenly / Rio Youers --
Shay Corsham worsted / Garth Nix --
Allochton / Livia Llewellyn --
Chapter six / Stephen Graham Jones --
This is not for you / Gemma Files --
Interstate love song (murder ballad no. 8) / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
The culvert / Dale Bailey --
Past Reno / Brian Evenson --
The coat off his back / Keris McDonald --
the worms crawl in / Laird Barron --
The dog's home / Alison Littlewood --
Tread upon the brittle shell / Rhoads Brazos --
Persistence of vision / Orrin Grey --
It flows from the mouth / Robert Shearman --
Wingless beasts / Lucy Taylor --
Departures / Carole Johnstone --
Ymir / John Langan --
Plink / Kurt Dinan --
Nigredo / Cody Goodfellow --
Honorable mentions.
Vol. 8 We are all monsters here / Kelley Armstrong --
Universal horror / Stephen Graham Jones --
Slaughtered lamb / Tom Johnstone --
In a cavern, in a canyon / Laird Barron --
Between the pilings / Steve Rasnic Tem --
Snow / Dale Bailey --
Indian giver / Ray Cluley --
My boy builds coffins / Gary McMahon --
The woman in the hill / Tamsyn Muir --
The underground economy / Jon Langan --
The rooms are high / Reggie Oliver --
All the day you'll have good luck / Kate Jonez --
Lord of the sand / Stephen Bacon --
Wilderness / Letitia Trent --
Fabulous beasts / Priya Sharma --
Descent / Carmen Maria Machado --
Hippocampus / Adam Nevill --
Black dog / Neil Gaiman --
The 21st century shadow / Stephanie M. Wytovich --
The stagnant breath of change / Brian Hodge.
Vol. 9 Summation 2016 / Ellen Datlow --
Nesters / Siobhan Carroll --
The Oestridae / Robert Levy --
The process is a process all its own / Peter Straub --
The bad hour / Christopher Golden --
Red rabbit / Steve Rasnic Tern --
It's all the same road in the end / Brian Hodge --
Fury / DB Waters --
Grave goods / Gemma Files --
Between dry ribs / Gregory Norman Bossert --
The days of our lives / Adam L. G. Nevill --
The house of wonders / C.E. Ward --
The numbers / Christopher Burns --
Bright crown of joy / Livia Llewellyn --
The beautiful thing we will become / Kristi DeMeester --
Wish you were here / Nadia Bulkin --
Ragman / Rebecca Lloyd --
What's out there? Gary McMahon --
No matter which way we turned / Brian Evenson --
The Castellmarch man / Ray Cluley --
The ice beneath us / Steve Duffy --
On these blackened shores of time / Brian Hodge.
Vol. 10 Better you believe / Carole Johnstone --
Liquid air / Inna Effress --
Holiday romance / Mark Morris --
Furtherest / Kaaron Warren --
Where's the harm? / Rebecca Lloyd --
Whatever comes after Calcutta / David Erik Nelson --
A human stain / Kelly Robson --
The stories we tell about ghosts / A.C. Wise --
Endoskeletal / Sarah Read --
West of Matamoros, north of Hell / Brian Hodge --
Alligator Point / S.P. Miskowski --
Dark warm heart / Rich Larson --
There and back again / Carmen Maria Machado --
Shepherd's business / Stephen Gallagher --
You can stay all day / Mira Grant --
Harvest song, gathering song / A.C. Wise --
The granfalloon / Orrin Grey --
Fail-safe / Philip Fracassi --
The starry crown / Marc E. Fitch --
Eqalussuaq / Tim Major --
Lost in the dark / John Langan.
Vol. 11 Summation 2018 / Ellen Datlow --
I remember nothing / Anne Billson --
Monkeys on the beach / Ralph Robert Moore --
Painted wolves / Ray Cluley --
Shit Happens / Michael Marshall Smith --
You know how the story goes / Thomas Olde Heuvelt --
Back along the old track / Sam Hicks --
Masks / Peter Sutton --
The Donner party / Dale Bailey --
Milkteeth / Kristi DeMeester --
Haak / John Lanagan --
Thin cold hands / Gemma Files --
A tiny mirror / Eloise C. C. Shepherd --
I love you Mary-Grace / Amelia Mangan --
The jaws of Ouroboros / Steve Toase --
A brief moment of rage / Bill davidson --
Golden Sun / Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt --
White mare / Thana Niveau --
Girls without their faces on / Laird Barron --
Thumbsucker / Robert Shearman --
You are released / Joe Hill --
Red Rain / Adam-Troy Castro --
Split chain stitch / Steve Toase --
No exit / Orrin Grey --
Haunt / Siobhan Carroll --
Sleep / Carly Holmes.
Vol. 12
Summation 2019 / Ellen Datlow
Ice Cold Lemonade 25 cents Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person / Paul Tremblay
A Song For Wounded Mouths / Kristi DeMeester
Birds of Passage / Gordon B. White
The Puppet Motel / Gemma Files
The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team / Joe R. Lansdale
The Night Nurse / Sarah Langan
They Are Us (1964): An Oral History / Jack Lothian
As Dark As Hunger / S. Qiouyi Lu
I Say (I Say, I Say) / Robert Shearman
The Pain-Eater's Daughter / Laura Mauro
The Hope Chest / Sarah Read
Nor Cease You Never Now / Ren Warom
Playscape / Diana Peterfreund
Adrenaline Junkies / Ray Cluley
Watching / Tim Lees
Mr. And Mrs. Kett / Sam Hicks
Below / Simon Bestwick
My Name is Ellie / Sam Rebelein
Slipper / Catriona Ward
How To Stay Afloat When Drowning / Daniel Braum
This Was Always Going to Happen / Stephen Graham Jones
The Butcher's Table / Nathan Ballingrud.
Vol. 13
Summation 2020 / Ellen Datlow
Exhalation #10 / A.C. Wise
A hotel in Germany / Catriona Ward
A deed without a name / Jack Lothian
Lords of the matinee / Stephen Graham Jones
Cleaver, meat, and block / Maria Haskins
The eight-thousanders / Jason Sanford
Scold's bridle: a cruelty / Richard Gavin
Come closer / Gemma Files
It doesn't feel right / Michael Marshall Smith
Mine seven / Elana Gomel
Sicko / Stephen Volk
Mouselode maze / Christopher Harman
Heath Crawler / Sam Hicks
The Devil will be at my door / David Surface
Let your hinged jaw do the talking / Tom Johnstone
Scream queen / Nathan Ballingrud
We do like be bedside / Pete W. Sutton
Contrition (1998) / J. A. W. McCarthy
Tethered dogs / Gary McMahon
Bloody rhapsody / Allesandro Manzetti
In the English rain / Steve Duffy
A treat for your last day / Simon Bestwick
Trick of the light / Andrew Humphrey
Two truths and a lie / Sarah Pinkster
The whisper of stars / Thana Niveau.
Vol. 14
Summation of the year 2021 / Ellen Datlow
Redwater / Simon Bestwick
Caker's man / Matthew Holness
Black leg / Glen Hirshberg
The offering / Michael Marshall Smith
Fox girl / Lee Murray
Shuck / G.V. Anderson
The hunt at Rotherdam / A.C. Wise
Dancing sober in the dust / Steve Toase
The God bag / Christopher Golden
The Strathantine imps / Steve Duffy
The quizmasters / Gerard McKeown
All those lost days / Brian Evenson
Anne Gare's rare and import video catalogue October 2022 / Jonathan Raab
Three sisters bog / Eóin Murphy
The Steering Wheel Club / Kaaron Warren
The king of stones / Simon Strantzas
Stolen property / Sarah Lamparelli
Shards / Ian Rogers
Chit chit / Steve Toase
Poor butcher-bird / Gemma Files
Trap / Carly Holmes
I'll be gone by then / Eric LaRocca
Jack-in-the-box / Robin Furth
Tiptoe / Laird Barron.
Vol. 15
Summation of the year 2022 / Ellen Datlow
Solivagant / Angela Slatter
Gate 9 / Jeffrey Ford
Flaming teeth / Garry Kilworth
On the hills, the knitters / Steve Toase
New fox smell / Livia Llewellyn
The harvester of Ladslove / Steve Duffy
Incident at Bear Creek Lodge / Tananarive Due
The myth of Pasiphaë
The loneliness of the long-distance reporter / Daniela Tomova
In the wabe / Alison Littlewood
New meat / Jordan Shiveley
Eyes like small black stones / David Surface
Bb minor, or the suicide choir: an oral history / Gemma Files
Lifelike / Gary McMahon
The zoo / Gemma Amor
Dinner plans with Baba Yaga / Stephanie M. Wytovich
The collection / Charlie Hughes
Tell-tale tit / Margo Lanagan
The last box / Luigi Musolino ; translated by James D. Jenkins
1855 / Jacob Steven Mohr
Enough for hunger and enough for hate / John Langan.
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Published
San Francisco : Night Shade Books, [2009-].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
volumes ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Includes short biographical sketches on collected short stories' authors.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened.
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Datlow, E. (2009). The best horror of the year . Night Shade Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Datlow, Ellen. 2009. The Best Horror of the Year. Night Shade Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Datlow, Ellen. The Best Horror of the Year Night Shade Books, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Datlow, Ellen. The Best Horror of the Year Night Shade Books, 2009.
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