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Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real... tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2016's best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique ? sure to delight as well as disturb.

Table of Contents:

• "Lullaby for a Lost World", short story by Aliette de Bodard (Tor.com, June 2016)
• "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies", short story by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny #13, Nov-Dec 2016)
• "Wish You Were Here", short story by Nadia Bulkin (Nightmare #49, Oct 2016/PoC Destroy Horror)
• "A Dying of the Light", short story by Rachel Caine (The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft)
• "Season of Glass and Iron", short story by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
• "Grave Goods", short story by Gemma Files (Autumn Cthulhu)
• "The Blameless",Jeffrey Ford (The Natural History of Hell)
• "As Cymbals Clash", short story by Cate Gardner (The Dark #19, Dec 2016)
• "The Iron Man", short story by Max Gladstone (Grimm Future)
• "Surfacing", short story by Lisa L. Hannett (Postscripts #36/37: The Dragons of the Night, May 2016)
• "Mommy's Little Man", short story by Brian Hodge (DarkFuse Magazine, Nov 4 2016)
• "The Sound of Salt and Sea", short story by Kat Howard (Uncanny #10, May-Jun 2016)
• "Red Dirt Witch", short story by N. K. Jemisin (Fantasy #60, Dec 2016/PoC Destroy Fantasy)
• "Birdfather", short story by Stephen Graham Jones (Black Static #51, Mar-Apr 2016)
• "The Games We Play", short story by Cassandra Khaw (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
• "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. Ten)", short story by Caitlin Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #130, Nov 2016)
• "Postcards from Natalie", short story by Carrie Laben (The Dark #14, Jul 2016)
• "The Finest, Fullest Flowering", short story by Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare #45, Jun 2016)
• "The Ballad of Black Tom", novella by Victor LaValle (Tor.com, Feb 16 2016)
• "Meet Me at the Frost Fair", short story by Alison Littlewood (A Midwinter Entertainment)
• "Bright Crown of Joy", short story by Livia Llewellyn (Children of Lovecraft)
• "The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch", short story by Seanan McGuire (Lightspeed #72, May 2016)
• "My Body, Herself", short story by Carmen Maria Machado (Uncanny #12, Sep-Oct 2016)
• "Spinning Silver", short story by Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
• "Whose Drowned Face Sleeps", short story by An Owomoyela & Rachael Swirsky (Nightmare #46, Jul 2016/What the #@&% Is That?)
• "Grave Goods", short story by Priya Sharma (Albedo One #6)
• "The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner", short story by John Shirley (Lovecraft Alive!)
• "The Red Forest", short story by Angela Slatter (Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales)
• "Photograph", short story by Steve Rasnic Tem (Out of the Dark)
• "The Future is Blue", short story by Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
• "October Film Haunt: Under the House", Michael Wehunt (Greener Pastures)
• "Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left", short story by Fran Wilde (Shimmer #33, Sep 2016)
• "When the Stitches Come Undone", short story by A.C. Wise (Children of Lovecraft)
• "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers", short story by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, Mar 2 2016)
• "An Ocean the Color of Bruises", short story by Isabel Yap (Uncanny #11, Jul-Aug 2016)
• "Fairy Tales are for White People", short story by Melissa Yuan-Innes (Fireside Magazine #30, Feb 2016)
• "Braid of Days and Nights", short story by E. Lily Yu (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan-Feb 2016)

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