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Stephen Jones, Britain's most acclaimed horror editor, has gathered together masters of the macabre from across the world in this cornucopia of classic chills and modern menaces. Within these pages you will discover the most successful and exciting writers of horror and dark fantasy today, with a spine-chilling selection of stories displaying the full diversity of the genre, from classic pulp style to more contemporary psychological tales, to cutting-edge terror fiction that will leave you uneasily looking over your shoulder, or in the wardrobe, or under the bed...

A BOOK OF HORRORS: an original anthology of all-new horror and dark fantasy fiction, in all of its many and magnificent guises, by those devoted to the Dark Side.

In this unique book about horror fiction writer Clive Barker, readers get a fascinating look at the man and his work through a collection of interviews, essays, reviews, and discussions. Heavily illustrated with rare photos, stills, and drawings, 16 in full color. With an introduction by Stephen King.

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (or SWFA)?and the Grand Master Award is given by the SWFA to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.

Frederik Pohl, one of the world's finest SF authors and editors, has been authorized to edit an anthology in three large-format volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. These are the seminal writers within the modern SF field, those whose works are of dominant importance and lasting influence.

Volume Two, presenting the second five writers to receive the award, offers fiction by Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and Ray Bradbury.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Andre Norton b. 1912 - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Recommended Reading by Andre Norton - essay by uncredited
• Mousetrap - (1954) - short story by Andre Norton
• Were-Wrath - (1984) - novelette by Andre Norton
• All Cats Are Gray - (1953) - short story by Andre Norton
• Serpent's Tooth - (1987) - novella by Andre Norton
• Arthur C. Clarke b. 1917 - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Recommended Reading by Arthur C. Clarke - essay by uncredited
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Secret - (1963) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Reunion - (1971) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Star - (1955) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Isaac Asimov 1920-1992 - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Recommended Reading by Isaac Asimov - essay by uncredited
• The Last Question - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• It's Such a Beautiful Day - (1955) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Strikebreaker - (1957) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Martian Way - (1952) - novella by Isaac Asimov
• Alfred Bester 1913-1987 - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Recommended Reading by Alfred Bester - essay by uncredited
• Disappearing Act - (1953) - short story by Alfred Bester
• Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Comment on Fondly Fahrenheit - (1970) - essay by Alfred Bester
• The Four-Hour Fugue - (1974) - short story by Alfred Bester
• Hobson's Choice - (1952) - short story by Alfred Bester
• Ray Bradbury b. 1920 - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Recommended Reading by Ray Bradbury - essay by uncredited
• The City - (1950) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Million-Year Picnic - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• All Summer in a Day - (1954) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• There Will Come Soft Rains - (1950) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Affluence of Despair - (1998) - essay by Ray Bradbury

Two hundred years ago two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, collected together a large selection of folk and fairy tales and published them as Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales). So successful was the first collection of 88 stories that they kept adding more to subsequent editions. Since then, the tales of the Brothers Grimm have been translated into upwards of a hundred different languages and are known and loved throughout the world.

Now award-winning editor Stephen Jones has tasked some of the brightest and best horror writers in Britain, America and Europe with reinterpreting some of the traditional Hausmärchen, putting a decidedly darker spin on the classic stories.

A best of the best anthology that Lovecraft himself appreciated and recommended.

Contents:

• 1 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - [Supernatural Horror in Literature] - (1927) - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
• 66 - The Signalman - (1866) - shortstory by Charles Dickens
• 78 - The House and the Brain - (1859) - novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain)
• 113 - The Body Snatcher - (1884) - shortstory by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 130 - The Spider - (1915) - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• 151 - The Foot of the Mummy - (1882) - shortstory by Théophile Gautier (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
• 161 - The Horla - [Le Horla - 2] - (1890) - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 183 - The Fall of the House of Usher - (1839) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• 202 - The Damned Thing - (1893) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• 211 - The Upper Berth - (1885) - novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 229 - The Yellow Sign - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 248 - The Shadows on the Wall - (1903) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
• 263 - The Dead Valley - (1895) - shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
• 271 - Fishhead - (1913) - shortstory by Irvin S. Cobb
• 282 - Lukundoo - (1907) - shortstory by Edward Lucas White
• 295 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 306 - The Mark of the Beast - (1890) - shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
• 318 - Negotium Perambulans - (1922) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
• 333 - Mrs. Lunt - (1926) - shortstory by Hugh Walpole [as by Sir Hugh Walpole]
• 346 - The Hog - [Carnacki (William Hope Hodgson)] - (1947) - novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• 385 - The Great God Pan - (1894) - novella by Arthur Machen
• 434 - Count Magnus - (1904) - shortstory by M. R. James
• 448 - Lovecraft and the 'Literature of Cosmic Fear' - (1993) - essay by Stephen Jones

THE RESTLESS DEAD

Life is over but the dead live on. Within the drafty rooms of an old house, a tarnished locket tumbles to the floor. The haunted souls of the dearly departed are still among us. Ghosts, phantoms, revenants, lost souls - all these troubled spirits have unfinished business on this side of the veil. Doomed to seek out mortal answers, unable to rest until in death, they accomplish what they failed to achieve in life. This hair-raising collection of haunted tales brings together both new writers and celebrated masters - Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Richard Matheson, Michael Marshall Smith and others - for the ultimate collection from beyond the grave. Their characters are spirits, without bodies but still floating in our world. Some are motivated by love, others by loss or guilt. But sometimes they are driven by much stronger emotions, menacing and diabolical motives that take us up from our reading to check the hallways, secure the locks and question how firmly anchored we ourselves are to our world.

Horror: Another 100 Best Books features one hundred of the top names in the horror field discussing one hundred of the most spine-chilling novels ever written. Each entry includes a synopsis of the work as well as publication history, biographical information about the author of each title, and recommended reading and biographical notes on the contributor. Author Ramsey Campbell also offers a new foreword to the book describing the evolution of horror over the past two decades — from the way it's written by a crop of new and exciting writers to the way it's received by a new market of readers. Horror: Another 100 Best Books will be the definitive guide to the tremendous library of horror fiction available today —a reference that no fan can live without.

Selections range from Tourneur/Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1607) to Michael Marshall Smith's More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003).

Editors Jones and Newman have paired horror's leading authors with the genre's milestones, featuring Peter Straub on Stephen King, Nell Gaiman on Anthony Boucher, Joe R. Lansdale on Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clive Barker on Christopher Marlowe, and many equally inspired matches.

The book consists of reviews of 100 books in chronological order, ranging from 1592 (Marlow's Doctor Faustus) to 1987 (Campbell's Dark Feasts). Unlike Pringle's seminal 100 Best books, this book features reviews from 100 different reviewers, so there are inevitable variances in taste, style and approach.

The books and authors covered in this volume are the basis for our Horror: 100 Best Books list.

The most blasphemous of tomes sit upon a dusty shelf in the Library of the Damned.

And amongst those titles - that should never be named - there is one volume that is the most terrible, the most hideous of them all. That book is the Lexicon of Fear.

But, long ago, some of its pages were ripped from the binding and spirited away by a lowly student of the ancient science of Horrorology, who was determined the secrets contained therein would one day be shared with the world.

And now that day has come. These are the words that comprise the very language of horror itself, and the tales they tell are not for the fainthearted. But be warned: once you have read them, there is no turning back. Soon, you too will know the true meanings of fear...

Featuring stories from Clive Barker, Robert Shearman, Michael Marshall Smith, Pat Cadigan, Mark Samuels, Joanne Harris, Muriel Gray, Kim Newman, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Angela Slatter and Lisa Tuttle.

Table of Contents:

• The Library of the Damned - (2015) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Ripper - (2015) - short fiction by Angela Slatter
• Guignol - (2015) - short fiction by Kim Newman
• Accursed - (2015) - short fiction by Robert Shearman
• Afraid - (2015) - short story by Clive Barker
• Afterlife - (2015) - short fiction by Michael Marshall Smith
• Chilling - (2015) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Decay - (2015) - short fiction by Mark Samuels
• Faceless - (2015) - short fiction by Joanne Harris
• Forgotten - (2015) - short fiction by Muriel Gray
• Nightmare - (2015) - short fiction by Ramsey Campbell
• Possessions - (2015) - short fiction by Reggie Oliver
• Vastation - (2015) - short fiction by Lisa Tuttle
• Epilogue - (2015) - essay by Stephen Jones

A collection of funny, frivolous and frightening poems by thirty of the world's best known science fiction, fantasy and horror authors, all written in the style of A. A. Milne's Now We are Six.

Table of Contents:

• A Landlady's Lament - (1986) - poem by Ramsey Campbell
• A Mother's Tender Love - (1986) - poem by Jo Fletcher
• A Slice of Life - (1986) - poem by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Good Ship "Revenger": or, What the Crew Don't Know Won't Hurt Me - (1991) - poem by Galad Elflandsson
• Another Cursed House Story (or) Always Enquire About the Prior Tenants - (1986) - poem by John M. Ford
• Auntie Ethel - (1991) - poem by Richard Hill
• Catcawls - (1991) - poem by Samantha Lee
• Chocolate and Worms - (1991) - poem by David Garnett
• In the Dark - (1991) - poem by Storm Constantine
• Lights Out - (1991) - poem by Alex Stewart
• Mummy's Blocked the Lav Again - (1991) - poem by John Grant
• Nasty Snow - (1991) - poem by Jody Scott
• Now We Are Sick - (1986) - poem by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones
• Radio Nasty - (1991) - poem by Stephen Gallagher
• Rice Pudding - (1991) - poem by Brian W. Aldiss
• Something Came Out of the Toilet - (1991) - poem by John Brosnan
• The Answering Machine - (1991) - poem by S. P. Somtow
• The Borgia Brats - (1991) - poem by Garry Kilworth
• The Children's Hour - (1986) - poem by Alan Moore
• The Dangers of Colour TV - (1991) - poem by John Brosnan
• The Dream of Omar K. Yam - (1991) - poem by David Sutton
• The Haunted Henhouse: or The Irate Ghost of Thomas Hood - (1991) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Secret Book of the Dead - (1991) - poem by Terry Pratchett
• The Thing at the Top of the Stairs - (1991) - poem by Sharon Baker
• Things that Go Bump in the Night - (1991) - poem by Ian Pemble
• Waiting... - (1991) - poem by James Herbert
• Warning: Death May Be Injurious to Your Health - (1991) - poem by Robert Bloch
• When the Music Breaks - (1991) - poem by R. A. Lafferty
• Why Private War or, "Why They Pinned This Name on My Progenitor" - (1986) - poem by Gene Wolfe
• You Always Eat the One You Love - (1991) - poem by Kim Newman
• You're Deceased, Father William - (1991) - poem by Colin Greenland

Twenty-six terrifying tales set on the scariest night of the year!

Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Halloween... All Hallows' Eve... Samhain... Día de los Muertos... the Day the Dead Come Back... When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest?when ghosts, goblins, and grisly things can cross over into our dimension?then for a single night each year the natural becomes the supernatural, the normal becomes the paranormal, and nobody is safe from their most intimate and terrifying fears.

The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories brings you a dark feast of frightening fiction by some of the most successful and respected horror writers working today, including Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Helen Marshall, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Angela Slatter, Steve Rasnic Tem, and many more, along with a very special contribution by award-winning poet Jane Yolen.

Here you will encounter witches, ghosts, monsters, psychos, demonic nuns, and even Death himself in this spooky selection of stories set on the night when evil walks the earth...

Modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into.

From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula.

This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Children of the Night - essay by Stephen Jones
• Human Remains - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Necros - (1986) - short story by Brian Lumley
• The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - (1988) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• For the Blood Is the Life - (1905) - short story by F. Marion Crawford
• The Brood - (1980) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Hungarian Rhapsody - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Ligeia - (1838) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Vampire - (1986) - poem by Richard Christian Matheson
• Stragella - (1932) - novelette by Hugh B. Cave
• A Week in the Unlife - (1991) - short story by David J. Schow
• The House at Evening - (1982) - short story by Frances Garfield
• The Labyrinth - (1974) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Beyond Any Measure - (1982) - novella by Karl Edward Wagner
• Doctor Porthos - (1968) - short story by Basil Copper
• Dracula's Guest - (1914) - short story by Bram Stoker
• It Only Comes Out at Night - (1976) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• Dracula's Chair - (1980) - short story by Peter Tremayne
• The Better Half - (1989) - short story by Melanie Tem
• An Episode of Cathedral History - (1914) - short story by M. R. James
• Chastel - (1979) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen - (1976) - short story by Howard Waldrop
• The Room in the Tower - (1912) - short story by E. F. Benson
• Laird of Dundain - short story by Graham Masterton
• Midnight Mass - (1990) - novella by F. Paul Wilson
• Blood Gothic - (1985) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Yellow Fog - (1986) - short story by Les Daniels
• Vintage Domestic - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Red Reign - novella by Kim Newman
• Vampire Sestina - (1989) - poem by Neil Gaiman

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Even a Man Who is Pure of Heart... - essay by Stephen Jones
• Twilight at the Towers - (1985) - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Dream of the Wolf - (1984) - novelette by Scott Bradfield
• Night Beat - (1973) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Werewolf - (1978) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Rain Falls - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Guilty Party - (1988) - short story by Stephen Laws
• Essence of the Beast - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Immortal - short story by Mark Morris
• Cry Wolf - (1974) - short story by Basil Copper
• Rug - short story by Graham Masterton
• The Whisperers - (1942) - short story by Hugh B. Cave
• And I Shall Go in the Devil's Name - short story by David Sutton
• The Foxes of Fascoum - novelette by Peter Tremayne
• One Paris Night - (1992) - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• Soul of the Wolf - short story by Brian Mooney
• The Hairy Ones Shall Dance - (1938) - novella by Manly Wade Wellman
• Heart of the Beast - short story by Adrian Cole
• Wereman - (1990) - short story by Les Daniels
• Anything but Your Kind - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Nighthawk - (1978) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Cell - (1969) - novella by David Case
• Boobs - (1989) - short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright ... - novella by Kim Newman
• Bright of Moon - poem by Jo Fletcher

IN THE DARKNESS, SOMETHING WICKED SPREADS ITS WINGS THE ETERNAL BATTLE between fallen angels and their Heavenly counterpoints plays out daily here on Earth. Without warning, ordinary people find their lives forever changed by the intervention of divine beings. But meddling with the living does not always go according to plan and the angels themselves fall under an all-too-mortal spell--longing for love or thirsting for wicked revenge. With stories from such world-renowned authors of fantasy and horror as Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Graham Masterton, Robert Silverberg, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Jane Yolen, Visitants presents a breathtaking collection of stories in which Heaven's hosts reveal themselves on Earth and fallen angels struggle toward final redemption.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: An Angelology, or Sorts - essay by Stephen Jones
• Murder Mysteries - (1992) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• The Houses of the Favored - short story by Jay Lake
• An Infestation of Angels - (1985) - short story by Jane Yolen
• Second Journey of the Magus - (2010) - short story by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Bowmen - (1914) - short story by Arthur Machen
• Okay, Mary - (1949) - short story by Hugh B. Cave
• Plague Angel - short story by Yvonne Navarro
• Scent of the Green Cathedral - short story by Jay Lake
• Snow Angels - (2009) - short story by Sarah Pinborough
• Nephilim - (2003) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Thy Spinning Wheel Compleat - short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Old Mr. Boudreaux - (2007) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• A Feast of Angels - short story by Jay Lake
• Transfiguration - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• Evidence of Angels - (1995) - novelette by Graham Masterton
• Featherweight - novelette by Robert Shearman
• Molly and the Angel - (1999) - short story by Brian Stableford
• S. D. Watkins, Painter of Portraits - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Being Right - (2003) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Novus Ordo Angelorum - short story by Jay Lake
• Sariela; or, Spiritual Dysfunction & Counterangelic Longings: A Case Study in One Act - (1995) - short story by Michael Bishop
• With the Angels - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew - (2001) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• The Fold - short story by Conrad Williams
• Basileus - (1983) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Beautiful Men - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Going Bad - short story by Jay Lake

A showcase anthology of the very best in horror and dark fantasy writing by modern masters of the macabre. Here is a hair-raising collection comprising some of the very finest in horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, each volume features the work of some of the genres' biggest-selling names as well as their rising stars. In Dark Terrors I, tales by Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman, Richard Christian Matheson, Graham Masterton, and Brian Lumley chill the blood.

Table of Contents:

• More Tomorrow by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Puppets by Ramsey Campbell
• Sampled by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Hungry Moon by Graham Masterton
• Love Eats by Lisa Morton
• Uzzi by Brian Lumley
• Splatter of Black by Charles Gramlich
• The Laundry Imp by Christopher Fowler
• Food for Thought by Mandy Slater
• Screens by Terry Lamsley
• All My Friends Are Here by Charles Wagner
• Eternity Ltd by Mark Morris
• The Lagoon by Nicholas Royle
• At the Crossroads, Burying the Dog by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Travelling Salesman's Christmas Special by C. Bruce Hunter
• A Feast at Grief's Table by Roberta Lannes
• Bleed by Richard Christian Matheson
• Where the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over by Kim Newman
• I've Come to Talk With You Again by Karl Edward Wagner
• Fee by Peter Straub

A showcase anthology of the very best in horror and dark fantasy writing by modern masters of the macabre. Here is a hair-raising collection comprising some of the very finest in horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, each volume features the work of some of the genres' biggest-selling names as well as their rising stars. Dark Terrors II features stories from, among others, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, Nicholas Royle, Dennis Etchison, and James Miller. These two anthologies will take you to the furthest reaches of your imagination... and beyond!

Table of Contents:

• About The Editors
• Introduction by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
• The Comfort of Strangers by Nicholas Royle
• A Really Game Boy by Brian Lumley
• Something for Free by Conrad Williams
• (Melodrama) by David J. Schow
• Absolute Zero by James Miller
• Negative Equity by Paul J. McAuley
• To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889) by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Out of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell
• The Rains by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Underbed by Graham Masterton
• Animal Life by Clive Barker
• Lily's Whisper by Jay Russell
• Hell Hath Enlarged Herself by Michael Marshall Smith
• Ghost Music: A Memoir by George Beaune by Thomas Tessier
• The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison
• Where the Bodies Are Buried 2020 by Kim Newman
• The Museum on Cyclops Avenue by Harlan Ellison
• Hunger, an Introduction by Peter Straub

The award-winning team of Jones and Sutton once again push the boundaries of fear in this new collection of horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, Dark Terrors 3 features stories by some of the genres' biggest names as well as their rising stars, including Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Julian Rathbone, Mark Timlin, and Michael Marshall Smith. An anthology that will take you to the furthest reaches of your imagination--and beyond.

Table of Contents:

• About The Editors
• Introduction by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
• Free Dirt by Ray Bradbury
• Self-Made Man by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Price by Neil Gaiman
• Such a Nice Girl by Storm Constantine
• Pieces by Ray Garton
• Aunt Libby's Grave by Melanie Tem
• The Horror Under Warrendown by Ramsey Campbell
• Skinned Angels by Kathryn Ptacek
• The Windmill by Conrad Williams
• Sharp Edges by Steve Rasnic Tem
• This Is Your Life (Repressed Memory Remix) by Pat Cadigan
• Little Holocausts by Brian Hodge
• Fat Mary by Julian Rathbone
• The Last Reel by Dennis Etchison
• Everybody Needs Somebody to Love by Mark Timlin
• Sous Rature by Jay Russell
• Spanky's Back in Town by Christopher Fowler
• Estate by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Walking Wounded by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Lost Boy Found by Terry Lamsley

The highlights of the world's most critically acclaimed original horror anthology include chilling tales of contemporary horror by some of the biggest and bestselling authors currently being published, both in the mainstream and dark fantasy fields: Poppy Z Brite, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Terry Lamsley, Richard Christian Matheson, Geoff Nicholson, Kathryn Ptacek, David Schow, Michael Marshall Smith and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Stephen Jones & David Sutton
• The Great Fall by Richard Christian Matheson
• Normal Life by Christopher Fowler
• The Wedding Present by Neil Gaiman
• Never to Be Heard by Ramsey Campbell
• Tumbleweeds by Donald R. Burleson
• Family History by Stephen Baxter
• The Incredible True Facts in the Case by David J. Schow
• Mr. Guidry's Head by Roberta Lannes
• Inside the Cackle Factory by Dennis Etchison
• Entertaining Mr. Orton by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Country of Glass by Joel Lane
• My Pathology by Lisa Tuttle
• Curing Hitler by Thomas Tessier
• Weak End by James Miller
• Sullivan's Travails by Jay Russell
• The Suicide Pit by Conrad Williams
• Making Monsters by Geoff Nicholson
• A Place to Stay by Michael Marshall Smith
• Suburban Blight by Terry Lamsley

Once again, multi-award-winning editors Stephen Jones and David Sutton take you on a terrifying journey into the dark heart of modern horror fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Stephen Jones & David Sutton
• At Home in the Pubs of Old London by Christopher Fowler
• Valentia by Caitlín Kiernan
• Barking Sands by Richard Christian Matheson
• Everything, in All the Wrong Order by Chaz Brenchley
• Savannah is Six by James Van Pelt
• Now Day Was Fled as the Worm Had Wished by Brian Hodge
• Why Rudy Can't Read by David J. Schow
• No Story in It by Ramsey Campbell
• Witch-Compass by Graham Masterton
• The Proposal by Nicholas Royle
• Changes by C. Bruce Hunter
• The Abortionist's Horse (A Nightmare) by Tanith Lee
• The Handover by Michael Marshall Smith
• Pearl by Roberta Lannes
• Beauregard by Eric Brown
• Necromimicos by Nancy Kilpatrick
• The Bootleg Heart by Joel Lane
• Saturday by Cherry Wilder
• The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray by Gregory Frost
• Bottle Babies by Mary A. Turzillo
• Going to Series by Kim Newman
• Haunts by Lisa Tuttle
• My Present Wife by Dennis Etchison
• Alicia by Melanie Tem
• The Haunted Bookshop by Brian Stableford
• Starfucker by Mick Garris
• Destroyer of Worlds by Gwyneth Jones
• The Geezers by Peter Straub
• Honeysuckle by William B. Trotter
• Final Departure by Gahan Wilson
• Pelican Cay by David Case

In this award-winning anthology, you'll encounter a strange museum where the past comes alive, a man who uses a time-traveling car to commit murder, an attempt to market Dr. Jekyll's famous formula, a series of cards that reveal a terrifying ritual, and many other original stories guaranteed to take you on a terrifying journey into the heart of modern horror fiction. Among the stellar contributors are Stephen Baxter, Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Christopher Fowler, Tanith Lee, and David J. Schow.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
• The Retrospective - (2002) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• We're Going Where the Sun Shines Brightly - short story by Christopher Fowler
• A Habit of Hating - short story by John Burke
• Dead Snow - short story by Trey R. Barker
• The Dinosaur Hunter - short story by Stephen Baxter
• There Lies the Danger ... - short story by Basil Copper
• Your Shadow Knows You Well - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Eglantine's Time - short story by Jay Lake
• The Burgers of Calais - novelette by Graham Masterton
• Hide and Seek - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Moving History - short story by Geoff Nicholson
• Aversion Therapy - short story by Samantha Lee
• The Cure - short story by Tony Richards
• Plot Twist - short story by David J. Schow
• Job 37 - short story by Gemma Files
• Mother, Personified - short story by Yvonne Navarro
• The Receivers - short story by Joel Lane
• The Death of Splatter - short story by Lisa Morton
• A Long Walk, for the Last Time - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Two Sams - short story by Glen Hirshberg
• In the Hours After Death - (2002) - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• Under My Skin - short story by Les Daniels
• Sweetness and Light - short story by Joe Murphy
• Haifisch - short story by Conrad Williams
• The Road of Pins - (2002) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Black - novelette by Tim Lebbon
• A Drug on the Market - (2001) - novelette by Kim Newman
• Slaves of Nowhere - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• The Prospect Cards - novelette by Don Tumasonis
• Handwriting of the God - novelette by Chico Kidd
• Midday People - novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Boy Behind the Gate - short story by James Van Pelt
• A Hollywood Ending - novelette by Mick Garris

Since his creation one hundred and twenty years ago, the name of Dracula has become synonymous with the legend of the vampire and the character is one of the world's most iconic to appear in fiction and film. Now, this history of the blood-drinking nobleman follows Dracula from his origins in Transylvania, through his travels down the decades, into a dystopian twenty-first century where vampires rule the world.

Is it possible that the Count's condition can be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? How can an immortal creature adapt to the social and technological changes that have already shaped our modern world? And what happens when Dracula turns up for his own birthday party?

These and many other questions are answered by acclaimed authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Paul McAuley, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, F. Paul Wilson and many others, including Dracula's original creator Bram Stoker with a long-lost version of the story first presented in 1897.

Table of Contents:

• The Giaour (excerpt) - (1813) - poem by Lord George Gordon Byron
• Introduction: I Bid You Welcome - (1997) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Dracula: or The Un-Dead: Prologue - (1897) - short fiction by Bram Stoker
• Dracula's Library - (1997) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God - (1985) - short fiction by Thomas Ligotti
• Daddy's Little Girl - (1997) - short story by Mandy Slater
• Conversion - (1977) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Devil Is Not Mocked - (1943) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Teaserama - (1997) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Blood Freak - (1997) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler - (1977) - short story by Brian Lumley
• When Greek Meets Greek - (1997) - novelette by Basil Copper
• Coppola's Dracula - (1997) - novella by Kim Newman
• The Second Time Around - (1997) - short story by Hugh B. Cave
• Endangered Species - (1997) - novelette by Brian Mooney
• Melancholia - (1997) - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Children of the Long Night - (1997) - novelette by Lisa Morton
• Mbo - (1997) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Worst Place in the World - (1997) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Larry's Guest - (1997) - short story by Guy N. Smith
• A Taste of Culture - (1997) - short story by Jan Edwards
• Rudolph - (1987) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Roadkill - (1997) - short story by Graham Masterton
• Volunteers - (1997) - short story by Terry Lamsley
• Black Beads - (1997) - short story by John Gordon
• Your European Son - (1997) - short story by Joel Lane
• Quality Control - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Dear Alison - (1997) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Bloodlines - (1997) - novelette by Conrad Williams
• Windows '99 of the Soul - (1997) - short story by Chris Morgan
• Blood of Eden - (1997) - short story by Mike Chinn
• Dracula Night - (2007) - short story by Charlaine Harris
• The Last Testament - (1997) - short story by Brian Hodge
• The Last Vampire - (1997) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• The Lord's Work - (1992) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• Lord of the Undead - (1997) - poem by Jo Fletcher

Frankenstein... his very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments and reviving the dead.

Within these pages, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the Secrets of Life, as science fiction meets horror when the world's most famous creature lives again!

The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein collects together for the first time twenty-fourelectrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest - with classics from the pulp magazines by Robert Bloch and Manly Wade Wellman, modern masterpieces from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, David J. Schow and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and contributions from Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner, Guy N. Smith, Kim Newman, Paul J. McAuley, Roberta Lannes, Michael Marshall Smith, Daniel Fox, Adrian Cole, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Mooney and Lisa Morton.

Plus you're sure to get a charge from three complete novels: The Hound of Frankenstein by Peter Tremayne, The Dead End by David Case, and Mary W. Shelley's original masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

As an electrical storm rages overhead, the generators are charged up, and beneath the sheet a cold form awaits its miraculous rebirth. Now it's time to throw that switch and discover all that Man Was Never Meant to Know.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: It's Alive! - (1994) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus - (1818) - novel by Mary Shelley
• A New Life - (1987) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Creator - (1978) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Better Dead - (1994) - short story by Basil Copper
• Creature Comforts - (1994) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Mannikins of Horror - (1939) - short story by Robert Bloch
• El Sueño de la Razón - (1994) - short story by Chaz Brenchley
• Pithecanthropus Rejectus - (1938) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Tantamount to Murder - (1994) - short story by John Brunner
• Last Train - (1994) - short story by Guy N. Smith
• The Hound of Frankenstein - (1977) - novelette by Peter Tremayne
• Mother of Invention - (1994) - short story by Graham Masterton
• The Frankenstein Legacy - (1994) - short story by Adrian Cole
• The Dead Line - (1979) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• Poppi's Monster - (1994) - short story by Lisa Morton
• Undertow - (1977) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• A Complete Woman - (1994) - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Last Call for the Sons of Shock - (1991) - short story by David J. Schow
• Chandira - (1994) - short story by Brian Mooney
• Celebrity Frankenstein - (2012) - short story by Stephen Volk
• Completist Heaven - (1994) - short story by Kim Newman
• The Temptation of Dr Stein - (1994) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• To Receive Is Better - (1994) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Dead End - (1969) - novella by David Case
• Frankenstein - (1994) - poem by Jo Fletcher

Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's classic, today's masters of horror take up their pens and turn once more to that decayed, forsaken New England fishing village with its sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. This anthology features seventeen chilling stories by authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, as well as the original masterpiece of horror.

Contents:

• ix - Introduction: Spawn of the Deep Ones (Shadows Over Innsmouth) - essay by Stephen Jones
• 1 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 51 - Beyond the Reef - novella by Basil Copper
• 101 - The Big Fish - [The Diogenes Club] - novelette by Kim Newman [as by Jack Yeovil ]
• 127 - Return to Innsmouth - (1992) - shortstory by Guy N. Smith
• 132 - The Crossing - shortstory by Adrian Cole
• 146 - Down to the Boots - (1989) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
• 149 - The Church in High Street - (1962) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• 161 - Innsmouth Gold - shortstory by David Sutton
• 173 - Daoine Domhain - (1992) - novelette by Peter Tremayne
• 191 - A Quarter to Three - (1988) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• 195 - The Tomb of Priscus - novelette by Brian Mooney
• 221 - The Innsmouth Heritage - (1992) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
• 237 - The Homecoming - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• 255 - Deepnet - shortstory by David Langford
• 260 - To See the Sea - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• 285 - Dagon's Bell - (1988) - novelette by Brian Lumley
• 316 - Only the End of the World Again - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• 330 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes (Shadows Over Innsmouth) - essay by uncredited

For decades, H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today's most prominent and well-respected horror authors - the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes.. Included is Lovecraft's own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: Weird Shadows... - essay by Stephen Jones
• 6 - Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - (1931) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 13 - The Quest for Y'ha-nthlei - novelette by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
• 34 - Brackish Waters - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• 62 - Voices in the Water - shortstory by Basil Copper
• 81 - Another Fish Story - [The Diogenes Club] - novelette by Kim Newman
• 115 - Take Me to the River - novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ]
• 142 - The Coming - (1997) - shortstory by Hugh B. Cave
• 156 - Eggs - (2000) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 169 - From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6 - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• 196 - Raised by the Moon - (2001) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 211 - Fair Exchange - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• 228 - The Taint - novella by Brian Lumley
• 281 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited

Respected horror anthologist Stephen Jones edits this collection of 17 stories inspired by the 20th century's master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Massachusetts, and finds that the entire village has interbred with strange creatures that live beneath the sea, and worship ancient gods.

Contents:

• xiii - Introduction: Weirder Shadows... - essay by Stephen Jones
• 1 - The Port - [Fungi from Yuggoth - 8] - (1930) - poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• 2 - Innsmouth Bane - (2005) - shortstory by John S. Glasby [as by John Glasby ]
• 17 - Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in "The Case of the French Spy" - [The Diogenes Club] - (2005) - novelette by Kim Newman
• 46 - Innsmouth Clay - (1971) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
• 58 - The Archbishop's Well - novelette by Reggie Oliver
• 83 - You Don't Want To Know - novelette by Adrian Cole
• 108 - Fish Bride - (2009) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• 119 - The Hag Stone - novelette by Conrad Williams
• 153 - On the Reef - (2011) - shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• 162 - The Song of Sighs - shortstory by Angela Slatter
• 179 - The Same Deep Waters as You - novelette by Brian Hodge
• 218 - The Winner - (2005) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• 232 - The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• 237 - The Chain - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• 258 - Into the Water - shortstory by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• 275 - Rising, Not Dreaming - (2011) - shortstory by Angela Slatter
• 279 - The Long Last Night - (2012) - novelette by Brian Lumley
• 314 - Afterwords: Contributors' Notes - essay by Stephen Jones

The first annual collection of the world's best horror stories and short novels showcases fiction from every part of the field--from terror to supernatural chills--and features the talents of Ian Watson, Stephen Gallagher, Ramsey Campbell, and others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1989 - essay by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
• Pin - (1989) - short story by Robert R. McCammon
• The House on Cemetery Street - (1988) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• The Horn - (1989) - novelette by Stephen Gallagher
• Breaking Up - (1989) - short story by Alex Quiroba
• It Helps If You Sing - (1989) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Closed Circuit - (1989) - novelette by Laurence Staig
• Carnal House - (1989) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Twitch Technicolor - (1989) - short story by Kim Newman
• Lizaveta - (1988) - novelette by Gregory Frost
• Snow Cancellations - (1989) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• Archway - (1989) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
• The Strange Design of Master Rignolo - (1989) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• ...To Feel Another's Woe - (1989) - short story by Chet Williamson
• The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux - (1989) - novelette by Robert Westall
• No Sharks in the Med - (1989) - novelette by Brian Lumley
• Mort au Monde - (1989) - short story by D. F. Lewis
• Blanca - (1989) - novelette by Thomas Tessier
• The Eye of the Ayatollah - (1990) - short story by Ian Watson
• At First Just Ghostly - (1989) - novella by Karl Edward Wagner
• Bad News - (1989) - short story by Richard Laymon
• Necrology: 1989 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

Twenty-eight spine-tinglers are showcased by the editors, both veteran horror writers,in this fine anthology, which runs the horror gamut from occult shocker to psychological thriller. Though it opens with a rather tasteless entry, K. W. Jeter's grisly "The First Time" (told with au courant splatterpunk brio), the collection redeems itself many times over with a score of tales that make the prerequisite suspension of disbelief a hair-raising pleasure. In Michael Marshall Smith's imaginative "The Man Who Drew Cats," a mysterious street-artist stretches his creativity to alarmingly grim lengths when an abused child wins his heart. Thomas Ligotti's fluently written novella, "The Last Feast of Harlequin," reveals the dark nature lurking just beneath the whiteface. The searing final image in "Cedar Lane," by Karl Edward Wagner, will invoke for many genre fans Ray Bradbury's classic "There Will Come Soft Rains." J. L. Comeau's riveting "Firebird" pits supernatural forces against a feisty ballerina who also happens to be a cop. In one of the collection's strongest entries, "Mister Ice Cold," cartoonist Gahan Wilson proves that a few thousand well-chosen words just might be worth more than a picture, after all.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1990 - essay by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
• The First Time - (1990) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
• A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - shortstory by Peter Straub
• Stephen - (1990) - novelette by Elizabeth Massie
• The Dead Love You - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Jane Doe #112 - (1990) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shock Radio - (1990) - shortstory by Ray Garton
• The Man Who Drew Cats - (1990) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Co-Op - (1990) - shortstory by Melanie Tem
• Negatives - (1990) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 1/72nd Scale - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Cedar Lane - (1990) - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
• At a Window Facing West - (1990) - shortstory by Kim Antieau
• Inside the Walled City - (1990) - novelette by Garry Kilworth
• On the Wing - (1990) - shortstory by Jean-Daniel Brèque
• Firebird - (1990) - novelette by J. L. Comeau
• Incident on a Rainy Night in Beverly Hills - (1990) - novelette by David J. Schow
• His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood - (1990) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Original Dr Shade - (1990) - novelette by Kim Newman
• Madge - (1990) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
• Alive in Venice - (1990) - shortstory by Cherry Wilder
• Divertimento - (1989) - shortstory by Gregory Frost
• Pelts - (1989) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• Those of Rhenea - (1990) - shortstory by David Sutton
• Lord of the Land - (1990) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Aquarium - (1990) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Mister Ice Cold - (1990) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• On the Town Route - (1989) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• Necrology: 1990 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

Through intelligent selection and commentary, Jones (ed. Fantasy Tales) and Campbell (The Count of Eleven, p. 479, etc.) again prove that horror literature, widely considered an oxymoron not so very long ago, is a field of fiction worthy of serious cultivation. As in their first two annuals, the authors have combed through sources both high-profile (A Whisper of Blood, 1991, etc.) and desperately obscure (Tekeli-li! Journal of Terror) to dig out "a varied selection... that illustrates the themes and ideas currently being explored in the genre." The emphasis on ideas can be seen in the authors' roster, which includes big names (Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Thomas Tessier, et al.), fast-rising young stars (Nancy Collins, Thomas Ligotti, Kathe Koja, et al.), and several newcomers--but only a couple of splatterpunks and absolutely no hacks, with most of the 29 entries distinguished by deft style and ambitious subjects. The triangle of love, suffering, and death surfaces as the dominant theme--from K.W. Jeter's opening "True Love" (a vampire's daughter cares for her senile but immortal father) through Douglas Clegg's gothic "Where Flies are Born" (a woman reanimates her dead child through grotesque means), Alan Brennert's "Ma Qui" and S.P. Somtow's "Chui Chai" (two wrenching Vietnam-set tales), and the collection's strongest story, Grant Morrison's "The Braille Encyclopedia" (a sly shocker about the pursuit of sensual pleasure), and others. A few stories fail, mostly through straining (e.g., those by David J. Schow and Charles Grant) but the vast majority succeed, and equally of interest is the editors' opinionated rundown of the year's (1991) horror fiction, criticism, film and comics, and their invaluable necrology. For the third year running, horror's annual of record, as well as its premier showcase. Not to be missed by any serious fan.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1991 - (1992) - essay by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
• True Love - (1991) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
• The Same in Any Language - (1991) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Impermanent Mercies - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Ma Qui - (1991) - shortstory by Alan Brennert
• The Miracle Mile - (1991) - novelette by Robert R. McCammon
• Taking Down the Tree - (1991) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Where Flies Are Born - (1991) - shortstory by Douglas Clegg
• Love, Death and the Maiden - (1991) - shortstory by Roger Johnson
• Chui Chai - (1991) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• The Snow Sculptures of Xanadu - (1991) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• Colder Than Hell - (1991) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Raymond - (1991) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
• One Life, in an Hourglass - (1991) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• The Braille Encyclopedia - (1991) - shortstory by Grant Morrison
• The Bacchae - (1991) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• Busted in Buttown - (1991) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• Subway Story - (1990) - shortstory by Russell Flinn
• The Medusa - (1991) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• Power Cut - (1991) - shortstory by Joel Lane
• Moving Out - (1991) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Guignoir - (1991) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Blood Sky - (1991) - shortstory by William F. Nolan
• Ready - (1991) - shortstory by David Starkey
• The Slug - (1991) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Dark Land - (1991) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• When They Gave Us Memory - (1991) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• Taking Care of Michael - (1991) - shortstory by J. L. Comeau
• The Dreams of Dr. Ladybank - (1991) - novella by Thomas Tessier
• Zits - (1991) - shortfiction by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Necrology: 1991 - (1992) - essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

A collection of short horror stories features the work of Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1992 (Best New Horror 4) - essay by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
• The Suicide Artist - (1992) - short story by Scott Edelman
• Dancing on a Blade of Dreams - (1992) - novelette by Roberta Lannes
• The Departed - (1992) - short story by Clive Barker
• How to Get Ahead in New York - (1992) - short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• They Take - (1992) - novelette by John Brunner
• Replacements - (1992) - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• Under the Pylon - (1992) - short story by Graham Joyce
• The Glamour - (1991) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Under the Ice - (1992) - short story by John Gordon
• And Some Are Missing - (1992) - short story by Joel Lane
• The Little Green Ones - (1992) - short story by Les Daniels
• Mirror Man - (1992) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Mothmusic - (1992) - short story by Sarah Ash
• Did They Get You to Trade? - (1992) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• Night Shift Sister - (1992) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Dead - (1992) - short story by M. John Harrison and Simon Ings
• Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death - (1992) - novelette by Christopher Fowler
• Red Reign - (1992) - novella by Kim Newman
• Aviatrix - (1992) - short story by Peter Atkins
• Snodgrass - (1992) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Day of the Sharks - (1992) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Anima - (1992) - short story by M. John Harrison
• Bright Lights, Big Zombie - (1992) - novelette by Douglas E. Winter
• The Ghost Village - (1992) - novelette by Peter Straub
• Necrology: 1992 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

This new edition of the premiere collection of the year's finest horror stories continues its tradition of riveting tales of terror from some of the best-known contemporary writers. Contributors include Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Lisa Tuttle, Thomas Ligotti, Karl Edward Wagner, and Kim Newman.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ramsey Campbell and Stephen Jones
• Later - (1993) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• When the Red Storm Comes - (1993) - shortstory by Sarah Smith
• The Exhibit - (1993) - shortstory by Martin Plumbridge
• Leavings - (1993) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Human Remains - (1992) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Flying Into Naples - (1993) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• The Sixth Sentinel - (1993) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Brothers - (1993) - shortstory by Rick Cadger
• The Owen Street Monster - (1993) - shortstory by J. L. Comeau
• One Size Eats All - (1993) - shortstory by T. E. D. Klein
• Mulligan's Fence - shortstory by Donald R. Burleson
• How She Dances - (1993) - shortstory by Daniel Fox
• Passages - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
• Easing the Spring - (1993) - shortstory by Sally Roberts Jones
• Safe at Home - (1993) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Mother of the City - (1993) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• Justice - (1993) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Big Fish - (1993) - novelette by Kim Newman
• In the Desert of Deserts - (1993) - shortstory by Thomas Tessier
• Two Returns - (1993) - shortstory by Terry Lamsley
• The Moment the Face Falls - (1993) - shortstory by Chet Williamson
• Darker Angels - (1993) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• The Timbrel Sound of Darkness - (1993) - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• The Tsalal - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
• In the Still, Small Hours - (1993) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Ice House Pond - (1993) - novella by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Dog Park - (1993) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• The Marble Boy - (1993) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• Mefisto in Onyx - (1993) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Necrology: 1993 - essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

This premier collection of the year's finest horror stories contains fear-filled tales from some of the best contemporary writers, such as Brian Hodge, Joel Lane, Ian McLeod, Kim Newman, and others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1994 - (1995) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Dead Babies - (1994) - short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Sensible City - (1994) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Blade and Bone - (1994) - short story by Terry Lamsley
• Harvest - (1994) - short story by Norman Partridge
• Sometimes, in the Rain - (1994) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Menage a Trois - (1994) - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• Like Shattered Stone - (1994) - short story by Joel Lane
• Black Sun - (1991) - short story by Douglas E. Winter
• Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring - (1994) - novelette by M. John Harrison
• The Dead Orchards - (1994) - short story by Ian R. MacLeod
• What Happened When Mosby Paulson Had Her Painting Reproduced on the Cover of the Phone Book - (1994) - short story by Elizabeth Massie
• The Alternative - (1994) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• In the Middle of a Snow Dream - (1994) - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Temptation of Dr Stein - (1994) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Wayang Kulit - (1994) - short story by Garry Kilworth
• The Scent of Vinegar - (1994) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• The Homecoming - (1994) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Singular Habits of Wasps - (1994) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
• To Receive Is Better - (1994) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Alchemy of the Throat - (1994) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright... - (1994) - novella by Kim Newman
• Lovers - (1994) - poem by Esther M. Friesner
• Necrology: 1994 - (1995) - essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

A premier collection of contemporary horror fiction includes shocking and macabre tales from Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Marshall Smith, and many other masters of the horror genre.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1995 - (1996) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Tirkiluk - (1995) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Most Boring Woman in the World - (1995) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Extinctions in Paradise - (1995) - short story by Brian Hodge
• Food Man - (1994) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• More Tomorrow - (1995) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• Going Under - (1995) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Survivor - (1995) - novelette by Dave Smeds
• The Stones - (1995) - short story by Patrick Thompson
• Back of Beyond - (1975) - short story by Cherry Wilder
• A Hundred Wicked Little Witches - (1995) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Finger of Halugra - (1995) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Toddler - (1995) - short story by Terry Lamsley
• Not Here, Not Now - (1995) - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• The Bungalow House - (1995) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• Cradle - (1995) - short story by Alan Brennert
• The Sixth Dog - (1995) - novelette by Jane Rice
• Scaring the Train - (1994) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• La Serenissima - (1995) - novelette by David Sutton
• The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse - (1995) - novelette by Norman Partridge
• The Bone-Carver's Tale - (1995) - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• Queen of Knives - (1995) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• The True History of Doctor Pretorius - (1995) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• The Grey Madonna - (1995) - short story by Graham Masterton
• Loop - (1995) - novelette by Douglas E. Winter
• The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford
• Lacuna - (1995) - short fiction by Nicholas Royle
• Necrology: 1995 - (1996) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (1996) - essay by Stephen Jones

The latest annual of the world's premier collection of horror, terror, and dark fantasy again showcases the talents of the finest writers working the field. Along with his annual review of the year in horror, award-winning editor Stephen Jones has chosen the year's best stories by old masters and new voices alike.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1996 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Walking the Dog - (1996) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz - (1995) - novelette by Poppy Z. Brite
• An Eye for an Eye - (1996) - short story by Norman Partridge
• Unforgotten - (1996) - novelette by Christopher Fowler
• The Curse of Kali - (1996) - short story by Cherry Wilder
• The Film - (1997) - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• Of a Cat, but Her Skin - (1996) - short story by Storm Constantine
• Hopscotch - (1996) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• Ghost in the Machine - (1996) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Moon Never Changes - (1996) - short story by Joel Lane
• Butcher's Logic - (1996) - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Kites and Kisses - (1996) - short story by D. F. Lewis
• Last Train to Arnos Grove - (1996) - short story by Marni Scofidio Griffin
• The King of Rain - (1996) - novelette by Mark Chadbourn
• Hardball - (1996) - short story by Iain Sinclair
• Gas Station Carnivals - (1996) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Ghost Music: A Memoir by George Beaune - (1996) - novelette by Thomas Tessier
• That Blissful Height - (1996) - novelette by Gregory Frost
• Skin Deep - (1996) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Hell Hath Enlarged Herself - (1996) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• Underworld - (1996) - short story by Douglas Clegg
• A Plague on Both Your Houses - (1996) - short fiction by Scott Edelman
• Final Cut - (1996) - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Break - (1996) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Necrology: 1996 essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
• Useful Addresses - essay by uncredited

The internationally acclaimed annual collection of the bloodcurdling best in horror and dark fantasy, showcasing the very best writers working in the genre today.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1997 - (1998) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Dying Words - (1997) - novelette by David J. Schow
• The Windmill - (1997) - short story by Conrad Williams
• The Right Ending - (1997) - short story by John Burke
• Swallowing a Dirty Seed - (1997) - short story by Simon Clark
• This Is Your Life (Repressed Memory Remix) - (1997) - short story by Pat Cadigan
• Christmas Forever - (1997) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Four Famines Ago - (1997) - short story by Yvonne Navarro
• The Crawl - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Laws
• Serpent Eggs - (1994) - short story by David Langford
• No One You Know - (1997) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins - (1997) - novella by Brian Hodge
• The Bells Will Sound Forever - (1997) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Word - (1997) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• The Map to the Homes of the Stars - (1997) - short story by Andy Duncan
• Emptiness Spoke Eloquent - (1997) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Save As ... - (1997) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Coppola's Dracula - (1997) - novella by Kim Newman
• Grazing the Long Acre - (1998) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• The Zombies of Madison County - (1997) - novella by Douglas E. Winter
• Necrology: 1997 - (1998) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (1998) - essay by Stephen Jones

Going ten years strong, the acclaimed collection of contemporary horror fiction again showcases the talents of the finest writers working the field of fear. Along with his annual review of the year in horror, award-winning editor Stephen Jones has chosen the year's best stories by the old masters and new voices alike.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 includes bloodcurdlers and flesh-crawlers from Ramsey Campbell, Nell Gaiman, Dennis Etchison, Thomas Ligotti, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, Kim Newman, Harlan Ellison, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1998 - (1999) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Learning to Let Go - (1998) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• The Wedding Present - (1998) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Adventures in Further Education - (1998) - shortstory by Peter Atkins
• Bondage - (1998) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Keys to D'Espérance - (1998) - novelette by Chaz Brenchley
• The Song My Sister Sang - (1998) - shortstory by Stephen Laws
• A Victorian Ghost Story - (1999) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• The Dead Boy At Your Window - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Ra*e - (1998) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• Upstairs - (1998) - shortfiction by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Postcards from the King of Tides - (1998) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Everybody Goes - (1992) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• Yellow & Red - (1998) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• What Slips Away - (1998) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Inside the Cackle Factory - (1998) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
• The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil - (1998) - novella by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
• Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear - (1999) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff - (1997) - novella by Peter Straub
• Necrology: 1998 - (1999) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (1999) - essay by Stephen Jones

Now in its eleventh year, this winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award again showcases the finest talents writing contemporary horror fiction -- established masters as well as new voices -- and presents its lively review of the past year in the field of fear and terror.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1999 - (2000) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Halloween Street - (1999) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Others (excerpt) - (1999) - short fiction by James Herbert
• Growing Things - (1999) - short story by T. E. D. Klein
• Unhasped - (1999) - short story by David J. Schow
• The Emperor's Old Bones - (1999) - short story by Gemma Files
• The Entertainment - (1999) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• Harlequin Valentine - (1999) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• The Stunted House - (1999) - short story by Terry Lamsley
• Just Like Eddy - (1999) - short story by Kim Newman
• The Long Hall on the Top Floor - (1999) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Lulu - (1999) - novelette by Thomas Tessier
• The Ballyhooly Boy - (1999) - novelette by Graham Masterton
• Welcome - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• Burden - (1999) - short story by Michael Marano
• Naming the Dead - (1999) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Aftershock - (1999) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• A Fish Story - (1999) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Jimmy - (1999) - novella by David Case
• White - (1999) - novella by Tim Lebbon
• Pork Pie Hat - (1994) - novella by Peter Straub
• Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street - (1999) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Necrology: 1999 - (2000) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (2000) - essay by Stephen Jones

The acclaimed collection of contemporary horror fiction, this year's Best New Horror again showcases the talents of the finest writers working the field of terror. Sifting through the year in horror, award-winning editor Stephen Jones has chosen the year's best stories by the old masters and new voices alike. The latest volume of the Best New Horror series features stories by Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Tim Lebbon, Kim Newman, and horror movie director Mick Garrick (adapter of the upcoming film of Stephen King's Desperation), among many writers. As a bonus, there is Jones's always-informative overview of the year in horror, making this a truly state-of-the-dark-art annual.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2000 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Castle in the Desert - (2000) - short story by Kim Newman
• The Keeper of the Rothenstein Tomb - (2000) - short story by Iain Sinclair
• Forever Gramma - (2000) - short story by Mick Garris
• At Home in the Pubs of Old London - (2000) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888) - (2000) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Bone Orchards - (2000) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• No Strings - (2000) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Grotto - (2000) - short story by Kathryn Ptacek
• Merry Roderick - (2000) - short story by Geoffrey Warburton
• Climbing Down from Heaven - (2000) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Empty Stations - (2000) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Flesh of Leaves, Bones of Desire - (2000) - short story by Charlee Jacob
• The Repulsion - (2000) - short story by Tim Lebbon
• The Detailer - (2000) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• Coming Home - (2000) - short story by Mark Morris
• The Hunger of the Leaves - (2000) - short story by Joel Lane
• Xenos Beach - (2000) - short story by Graham Joyce
• At Eventide - (2000) - short story by Kathe Koja
• Pareidolia - (2000) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• I Have a Special Plan for This World - (2000) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• The Handover - (2000) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Other Side of Midnight - (2000) - novella by Kim Newman
• Necrology: 2000 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

Number 13 - lucky for horror fans! This award-winning anthology series has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Steve Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of the horror genre. Contributors to this volume include: Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, Conrad Williams. Also featuring the most comprehensive overview of the year, a fascinating necrology and a list of useful contacts, this is the one book that all lovers of the supernatural and psychological terror will want on their shelves.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2001 - (2002) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Mark of the Beast - (2001) - novelette by Chico Kidd
• Crocodile Lady - (2001) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• All for Sale - (2001) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Two Dicks - (2001) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• By Her Hand, She Draws You Down - (2001) - short story by Douglas Smith
• O' Death, Where Is Thy Spatula? - (2001) - short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• Got to Kill Them All - (2001) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• No More A-Roving - (2001) - short story by Lynda E. Rucker
• First, Catch Your Demon - (2001) - short story by Graham Joyce
• Pump Jack - (2001) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• Outfangthief - (2001) - short story by Conrad Williams
• The Lost District - (2001) - short story by Joel Lane
• Simeon Dimsby's Workshop - (2001) - short story by Richard A. Lupoff
• Our Temporary Supervisor - (2001) - short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Whose Ghosts These Are - (2001) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Shite-Hawks - (2001) - short story by Muriel Gray
• Off the Map - (2001) - short story by Michael Chislett
• Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water - (2001) - short story by Kelly Link
• City in Aspic - (2001) - short story by Conrad Williams
• Where All Things Perish - (2001) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Struwwelpeter - (2001) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• Cleopatra Brimstone - (2001) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• Cats and Architecture - (2001) - short story by Chico Kidd
• Necrology: 2001 - (2002) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (2002) - essay by uncredited

The finest exponents of horror fiction writing today, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Basil Cooper, Glen Hirshberg, Jay Russell, feature in the world's premier annual horror anthology series, another bumper showcase devoted exclusively to excellence in macabre fiction. To accompany the very best in short stories and novellas is the year's most comprehensive horror overview and contacts listing as well as a fascinating necrology.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2002 - (2003) - essay by Stephen Jones
• October in the Chair - (2002) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Details - (2002) - short story by China Miéville
• The Wretched Thicket of Thorn - (2002) - novelette by Don Tumasonis
• The Absolute Last of the Ultra-Spooky, Super-Scary Hallowe'en Horror Nights - (2002) - short story by David J. Schow
• Standard Gauge - (2002) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Little Dead Girl Singing - (2002) - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• Nesting Instincts - (2002) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• The Two Sams - (2002) - short story by Glen Hirshberg
• Hides - (2002) - novelette by Jay Russell
• The Unbeheld - (2002) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Ill Met By Daylight - (2002) - short story by Basil Copper
• Catskin - (2003) - short story by Kelly Link
• 20th Century Ghost - (2002) - short story by Joe Hill
• Egyptian Avenue - (2002) - short story by Kim Newman
• The Boy Behind the Gate - (2002) - short story by James Van Pelt
• Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea - [Dandridge Cycle] - (2002) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Coventry Boy - (2002) - novelette by Graham Joyce
• The Prospect Cards - (2002) - novelette by Don Tumasonis
• The Cage - (2002) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Dr. Pretorius and the Lost Temple - (2002) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
• Useful Addresses - (2003) - essay by Stephen Jones

This edition of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror comes with another generous sampling of the past year's best horror fiction, earning acclamations from the likes of Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. With contributions from such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented likes of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jay Russell, Glen Hirshberg and many more, the hair-raising tales in this edition hold nightmares for travelers in alien lands, unveil the mystery and menace lurking in our everyday reality, explore the terrors of the supernatural, and honor horror's classic tradition. Like all of the other volumes in this series, award-winning editor Stephen Jones once again brings us the best new horror, revisiting momentous events and chilling achievements on the dark side of fantasy in 2004.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2003 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Fear the Dead - (2002) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• The Hanged Man of Oz - (2003) - short story by Steve Nagy
• Mara - (2003) - short story by Michael Chislett
• Cell Call - (2003) - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• In the Tunnels - (2003) - short story by Pauline E. Dungate
• Hunger: A Confession - (2003) - short story by Dale Bailey
• Seven Feet - (2004) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• The Centipede - (2003) - short story by Susan Davis
• The Goat Cutter - (2003) - short story by Jay Lake
• Maybe Next Time - (2003) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler - (2002) - short story by John Farris
• Hunter Lake - (2003) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe - (2003) - short story by Scott Emerson Bull
• The Bereavement Photographer - (2003) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Kissing Carrion - (2003) - short story by Gemma Files
• The White Hands - (2003) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Waycross - (2003) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Lucy, In Her Splendor - (2003) - short story by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Dead Boy Found - (2003) - short story by Christopher Barzak
• The Haunting - (2003) - short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• Dancing Men - (2003) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• Bitter Grounds - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Child of the Stones - (2003) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• The Silence of the Falling Stars - (2003) - novelette by Mike O'Driscoll
• Exorcizing Angels - (2003) - novella by Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon
• Necrology: 2003 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - essay by Stephen Jones

This is the latest edition of the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of horror fiction-including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Paul McAuley, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2004 - (2005) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire - (2004) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Lilies - (2004) - short story by Iain Rowan
• Breaking Up - (2004) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• "The King", in: Yellow - (2004) - short story by Brian Keene
• A Trick of the Dark - (2004) - short story by Tina Rath
• The Mutable Borders of Love - (2004) - short story by Leslie What
• Flour White and Spindle Thin - (2004) - short story by L. H. Maynard and M. P. N. Sims
• Tighter - (2004) - short story by Christa Faust
• Restraint - (2004) - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• Israbel - (2004) - short story by Tanith Lee
• The Growlimb - (2004) - novelette by Michael Shea
• This Is Now - (2004) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Remnants - (2004) - novella by Tim Lebbon
• Safety Clowns - (2004) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• The Devil of Delery Street - (2004) - short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• Apocalypse Now, Voyager - (2004) - novella by Jay Russell
• Stone Animals - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Soho Golem - (2004) - novella by Kim Newman
• Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic - (2004) - short story by Dale Bailey
• My Death - (2004) - novella by Lisa Tuttle
• The Problem of Susan - (2004) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Necrology - (2005) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (2005) - essay by Stephen Jones

Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. This collection features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including such writers as Neil Gaiman, Glen Hirshberg, tanith Lee, ramsey Campbell and Charles Coleman Finlay. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses, and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2005 - essay by Stephen Jones
• The Decorations - (2005) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Black and Green and Gold - (2005) - novelette by David Herter
• I Live with You and You Don't Know It - (2005) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• The Cubist's Attorney - (2005) - shortstory by Peter Atkins
• All Fish and Dracula - (2005) - shortstory by Liz Williams
• The Ball Room - (2005) - shortstory by China Miéville and Emma Bircham and Max Schaefer
• Gulls - (2005) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
• Pinkie - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Massie
• Glyphotech - (2005) - novelette by Mark Samuels
• One of the Hungry Ones - (2005) - novelette by Holly Phillips
• If I Should Wake Before I Die - (2005) - shortstory by Brian Hodge
• The Other Family - (2005) - shortstory by Roberta Lannes
• The Outermost Borough - (2005) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• American Morons - (2005) - shortstory by Glen Hirshberg
• Where Angels Come In - (2005) - shortstory by Adam Nevill
• Sickhouse Hospitality - (2005) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Best New Horror - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Hill
• La Peau Verte - (2005) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Time Was - (2005) - novelette by David Morrell
• Haeckel's Tale - (2005) - shortstory by Clive Barker
• The Taint - (2005) - novella by Brian Lumley
• The Winner - (2005) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Necrology: 2005 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

The year's darkest tales of terror.

Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins and Tanith Lee. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2006 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Summer - (2006) - shortstory by Al Sarrantonio
• Digging Deep - (2006) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• The Night Watch - (2006) - shortstory by John Gordon
• The Luxury of Harm - (2006) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• Sentinels - (2006) - shortstory by Mark Samuels
• The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• What Nature Abhors - (2006) - novella by Mark Morris
• The Last Reel - (2006) - shortstory by Lynda E. Rucker
• The American Dead - (2006) - shortstory by Jay Lake
• Between the Cold Moon and the Earth - (2006) - shortstory by Peter Atkins
• Sob in the Silence - (2006) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Continuity Error - (2006) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
• Dr. Prida's Dream-Plagued Patient - (2006) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• The Ones We Leave Behind - (2006) - shortstory by Mark Chadbourn
• Mine - (2006) - shortstory by Joel Lane
• Obsequy - (2006) - novelette by David J. Schow
• Thrown - (2006) - shortstory by Don Tumasonis
• Houses Under the Sea - (2006) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• They - (2006) - shortstory by David Morrell
• The Clockwork Horror - (2006) - shortstory by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• Making Cabinets - (2006) - shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• Devil's Smile - (2006) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train - (2006) - novella by Kim Newman
• Necrology: 2006 - (2007) - essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
• Useful Addresses - essay by Stephen Jones

This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

Table of Contents:

• The Things He Said - (2007) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Church on the Island - (2007) - short story by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• The Twilight Express - (2007) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Peep - (2007) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• From Around Here - (2007) - novelette by Tim Pratt
• Pumpkin Night - short fiction by Gary McMahon
• The Other Village - (2007) - short story by Simon Strantzas
• 13 O'Clock - (2007) - short story by Mike O'Driscoll
• Still Water - (2007) - short story by Joel Lane
• Thumbprint - (2007) - novelette by Joe Hill
• Lancashire - (2007) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Admiral's House - (2007) - short story by Marc Lecard
• Man, You Gotta See This! - (2007) - short story by Tony Richards
• The Fisherman - (2007) - novella by David Sutton
• The Children of Monte Rosa - (2007) - short story by Reggie Oliver
• The Witch's Headstone - (2007) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Calico Black, Calico Blue - (2007) - short story by Joel Knight
• This Rich Evil Sound - (2007) - short story by Steven Erikson
• Miss Ill-Kept Runt - (2007) - short story by Glen Hirshberg
• Deadman's Road - (2007) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• A Gentleman from Mexico - (2007) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Loss - (2007) - novelette by Tom Piccirilli
• Behind the Clouds: In Front of the Sun - (2007) - short fiction by Christopher Harman
• The Ape's Wife - (2007) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Tight Wrappers - (2007) - short story by Conrad Williams
• Cold Snap - (2007) - short story by Kim Newman
• Necrology: 2007 - essay by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

2009's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by contemporary masters of the macabre, including the likes of Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Massie, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, and Gene Wolfe. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror also includes a comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; an impressively researched necrology; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and aspiring writer alike. It is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2008 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told - (1998) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• It Runs Beneath the Surface - (2008) - short story by Simon Strantzas
• These Things We Have Always Known - (2008) - short story by Lynda E. Rucker
• Feminine Endings - (2008) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Through the Cracks - (2008) - short story by Gary McMahon
• Falling Off the World - (2008) - short story by Tim Lebbon
• The Old Traditions Are Best - (2008) - short story by Paul Finch
• The Long Way - (2008) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• The Pile - (2008) - short story by Michael Bishop
• Under Fog - (2008) - short story by Tanith Lee
• Arkangel - (2008) - novelette by Christopher Fowler
• The Camping Wainwrights - (2008) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Donkey at the Mysteries - (2008) - novelette by Reggie Oliver
• The Oram County Whoosit - (2008) - novelette by Steve Duffy
• The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - (2008) - short story by Stephen King
• One Man in the Sudan - (2008) - novelette by Sarah Pinborough
• "Destination Nihil" by Edmund Bertrand - (2008) - short story by Mark Samuels
• The Overseer - (2008) - novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
• The Beginnings of Sorrow - (2008) - novelette by Pinckney Benedict
• The Place of Waiting - (2008) - novella by Brian Lumley
• 2:00 pm: The Real Estate Agent Arrives - (2008) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Necrology: 2008 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - essay by Stephen Jones

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.

As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2009 - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones
• The Woods - (2009) - shortstory by Michael Kelly
• Throttle - (2009) - novelette by Joe Hill and Stephen King
• Out and Back - (2009) - novelette by Barbara Roden
• Respects - (2009) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Cold to the Touch - (2009) - shortstory by Simon Strantzas
• The Game of Bear - (2009) - shortstory by M. R. James and Reggie Oliver
• Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - (2009) - shortstory by Chris Bell
• What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - (2009) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Reunion - (2009) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Mami Wata - (2009) - shortstory by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• Venturi - (2009) - shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
• Party Talk - (2009) - shortstory by John Gaskin
• Two Steps Along the Road - (2009) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• The Axholme Toll - (2009) - shortstory by Mark Valentine
• Granny's Grinning - (2009) - shortstory by Robert Shearman
• In the Garden - (2009) - shortstory by Rosalie Parker
• After the Ape - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Volk
• The Nonesuch - (2009) - novella by Brian Lumley
• Princess of the Night - (2009) - shortstory by Michael Kelly
• Necrology: 2009 - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.

As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Introduction: Horror in 2010 - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones
• What Will Come After - (2010) - short fiction by Scott Edelman
• Substitutions - (2010) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• A Revelation of Cormorants - (2010) - short story by Mark Valentine
• Out Back - (2011) - short fiction by Garry Kilworth
• Fort Clay, Louisiana: A Tragical History - (2010) - short story by Albert E. Cowdrey
• Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls - (2010) - short story by Brian Hodge
• Fallen Boys - (2010) - short story by Mark Morris
• The Lemon in the Pool - (2010) - short fiction by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• The Pier - (2010) - short fiction by Thana Niveau
• Featherweight - (2010) - novelette by Robert Shearman
• Black Country - (2010) - short story by Joel Lane
• Lavender and Lychgates - (2010) - novelette by Angela Slatter
• Christmas with the Dead - (2010) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• We All Fall Down - (2010) - short story by Kirstyn McDermott
• Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside - (2010) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Losenef Express - (2010) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Lesser Demons - (2010) - novelette by Norman Partridge
• Telling - (2010) - short fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• As Red as Red - (2010) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• With the Angels - (2010) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Autumn Chill - (2010) - poem by Richard L. Tierney
• City of the Dog - (2010) - novelette by John Langan
• When the Zombies Win - (2010) - short story by Karina Sumner-Smith
• Necrology: 2010 - (2010) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

This new anthology represents the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. The award-winning series offers a chilling overview of this year in horror.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2011 - (2012) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Holding the Light - (2011) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Lantern Jack - (2011) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Rag and Bone - (2011) - short story by Paul Kane
• Some Kind of Light Shines from Your Face - (2011) - short story by Gemma Files
• Midnight Flight - (2011) - short story by Joel Lane
• Trick of the Light - (2011) - short story by Tim Lebbon
• But None Shall Sing for Me - (2011) - short story by Gregory Nicoll
• About the Dark - (2011) - short story by Alison Littlewood
• The Photographer's Tale - (2011) - short story by Daniel Mills
• The Tower - (2011) - short story by Mark Samuels
• Dancing Like We're Dumb - (2011) - short story by Peter Atkins
• An Indelible Stain Upon the Sky - (2012) - short story by Simon Strantzas
• Hair - (2011) - short story by Joan Aiken
• Miri - (2011) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Corbeaux Bay - (2011) - short story by Geeta Roopnarine
• Sad, Dark Thing - (2011) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar - (2011) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Quieta Non Movere - (2011) - short story by Reggie Oliver
• The Crawling Sky - (2009) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• Wait - (2011) - novelette by Conrad Williams
• The Ocean Grand, North West Coast - (2011) - novelette by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• They That Have Wings - (2011) - novelette by Evangeline Walton
• White Roses, Bloody Silk - (2011) - short story by Thana Niveau
• The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer - (2011) - novelette by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Passing Through Peacehaven - (2011) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Holiday Home - (2011) - short story by David Buchan
• Necrology: 2011 - (2012) - essay by Stephen Jones

For nearly twenty-five years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. Comprising the most outstanding new short fiction by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers, this multiple award-winning series also offers an overview of the year in horror, a comprehensive necrology of recent obituaries, and an indispensable directory of contact details for dedicated horror fans and writers.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Horror In 2012 - (2013) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Witch Work - (2012) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• The Discord of Being - (2012) - shortfiction by Alison Littlewood
• Necrosis - (2012) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath - (2012) - shortfiction by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Cotswold Olimpicks - (2012) - shortfiction by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• Where the Summer Dwells - (2012) - shortstory by Lynda E. Rucker
• The Callers - (2012) - shortfiction by Ramsey Campbell
• The Curtain - (2012) - shortfiction by Thana Niveau
• The Fall of the King of Babylon - (2012) - shortfiction by Mark Valentine
• Nightside Eye - (2012) - shortfiction by Terry Dowling
• The Old and the New - (2012) - shortfiction by Helen Marshall
• Waiting at the Crossroads Motel - (2012) - shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• His Only Audience - (2012) - shortfiction by Glen Hirshberg
• Marionettes - (2012) - shortfiction by Claire Massey
• Between Four Yews - (2012) - novelette by Reggie Oliver
• Slick Black Bones and Soft Black Stars - (2012) - shortstory by Gemma Files
• The Other One - (2012) - shortstory by Evangeline Walton
• Slow Burn - (2012) - shortstory by Joel Lane
• Celebrity Frankenstein - (2012) - shortfiction by Stephen Volk
• Blue Crayon, Yellow Crayon - (2012) - shortfiction by Robert Shearman
• October Dreams - (2012) - shortfiction by Michael Kelly
• The Eyes of Water - (2012) - shortfiction by Alison Littlewood
• Necrology: 2012 - (2013) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• Useful Addresses (Best New Horror 24) - essay by Stephen Jones

For a quarter of a century, this multiple award-winning annual selection has showcased some of the very best, and most disturbing, short stories and novellas of horror and the supernatural. As always, this landmark volume features superior fiction from such masters of the genre and newcomers in contemporary horror as Michael Chislett; Thana Niveau; Reggie Oliver; Tanith Lee; Niel Gaiman; Robert Shearman; Simon Strantzas; Lavie Tidhar; Simon Kurt Unsworth and Halli Villegas. With an in-depth introduction covering the year in horror, a fascinating necrology and a unique contact directory, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading anthology dedicated solely to presenting the very best in modern horror.

Table of Contents

• Horror in 2013 - essay by Stephen Jones
• Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980 - short story by Kim Newman
• Click-Clack the Rattlebag - (2012) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Dead End - (2013) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Isaac's Room - (2013) - short story by Daniel Mills
• The Burning Circus - (2013) - short story by Angela Slatter
• Holes for Faces - (2013) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• By Night He Could Not See - short story by Joel Lane
• Come Into My Parlour - (2013) - short story by Reggie Oliver
• The Middle Park - (2013) - short story by Michael Chislett
• Into the Water - (2013) - short story by Simon Kurt Unsworth
• The Burned House - (2013) - short story by Lynda E. Rucker
• What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Z---- - (2013) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Fishfly Season - (2013) - short story by Halli Villegas
• Doll Re Mi - (2013) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• A Night's Work - short story by Clive Barker
• The Sixteenth Step - (2013) - short story by Robert Shearman
• Stemming the Tide - (2013) - short story by Simon Strantzas
• The Gist - (2013) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Guinea Pig Girl - (2013) - novelette by Thana Niveau
• Miss Baltimore Crabs: Anno Dracula 1990 - novelette by Kim Newman
• Whitstable (excerpt) - novella by Stephen Volk
• Necrology (obituary) - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2014
• Secondhand Magic - Helen Marshall
• The Culvert - Dale Bailey
• The Patter of Tiny Feet - Richard Gavin
• The Four Strengths of Shadow - Ron Weighill
• The Night Run - Simon Kurt Unsworth
• Home and Hearth - Angela Slatter
• Dust - Rebecca Lloyd
• Suffer Little Children - Robert Shearman
• The Night Doctor - Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Desecrator - Derek John
• The Walk - Dennis Etchison
• Dirt on Vicky - Clint Smith
• Skullpocket - Nathan Ballingrud
• Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events Upon His Majesty's Ship Confidence, 14-22 June 1818, with Diagrams - Ian Tregillis
• At Lorn Hall - Ramsey Campbell
• Selfies - Lavie Tidhar
• Matilda of the Night - Stephen Volk
• The Collected Short Stories of Freddie Prothero Introduction by Torless Magnussen, Ph.D. - Peter Straub
• Burnt Black Suns - Simon Strantzas
• Necrology: 2014 - Stephen Jones & Kim Newman

In this latest edition of THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find CUTTING-EDGE stories by such authors as Robert Aickman, Storm Constantine, Gemma Files, Neil Gaiman, John Langan, Helen Marshall And Steve Rasnic Tem, amongst many others, along with the usual OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR IN HORROR and NECROLOGY of those who have left us.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2015 - The Editor
• The Coffin House - Robert Aickman
• The Lake - Daniel Mills
• The Barnacle Daughter - Richard Gavin
• Exposure - Helen Marshall
• The Larder - Nicholas Royle
• The Seventh Wave - Lynda E. Rucker
• Underground Economy - John Langan
• The Drowning City - Loren Rhoads
• The Chapel of Infernal Devotion - Ron Weighell
• Alma Mater - Kate Farrell
• Hibakusha - L. P. Lee
• The Offing - Conrad Williams
• Marrowvale - Kurt Fawver
• Hairwork - Gemma Files
• Black Dog - Neil Gaiman
• In the Earth - Storm Constantine
• In the Lovecraft Museum - Steve Rasnic Tem
• Necrology: 2015 - Stephen Jones & Kim Newman

In this latest edition of THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Angela Slatter, Stephen Volk, Richard Christian Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Lisa Tuttle and Steve Rasnic Tem, amongst many others, along with the usual OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR IN HORROR and NECROLOGY of those who have left us.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 2016 - The Editor
• Pale Tree House - Angela Slatter
• The Light at the Centre - Maura McHugh
• En Plein Air - J.T. Glover
• India Blue - Glen Hirshberg
• Walking with the Cross - Peter Bell
• Bedtime Story - Richard Christian Matheson
• The Symphony of the Normal - Darren Speegle
• The Ballet of Dr. Caligari - Reggie Oliver
• Who is This Who is Coming? - Lynda E. Rucker
• The House That Moved Next Door - Stephen Volk
• Princess - Dennis Etchison
• A Home in the Sky - Lisa Tuttle
• On These Blackened Shores of Time - Brian Hodge
• The Enemy Within - Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Court of Midnight - Mark Samuels
• Far from Any Shore - Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Fig Garden - Mark Valentine
• White Feathers - Alison Littlewood
• Over to You - Michael Marshall Smith
• In the Dark, Quiet Places - Kristi DeMeester
• Mare's Nest - Richard Gavin
• The Red Forest - Angela Slatter
• Necrology: 2016 - Stephen Jones & Kim Newman