[The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 01] • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition

This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fiction and novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietly weird, the merely eerie, high fantasy, modern Lovecraftian horror, nightmarish near-future scenarios, the darkly humorous, the supernatural, and the monstrously mundane from the brightest new talent, legendary authors like Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, and Gene Wolfe, and bestsellers such as Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, and Sarah Langan. Includes a 36,000 word novella by George R.R. Martin set in his A Song of Fire and Ice universe.

Contents

How Bria Died • (2009) • shortstory by Michael Aronovitz

Oaks Park • (2010) • shortfiction by M. K. Hobson

Hurt Me • (2010) • shortfiction by Daniel Abraham [as by M. L. N. Hanover ]

He Said, Laughing • (2010) • shortstory by Simon R. Green

The Thing About Cassandra • (2010) • shortfiction by Neil Gaiman

Tragic Life Stories • (2010) • shortfiction by Steve Duffy

The Dog King • (2010) • shortstory by Holly Black

Thimbleriggery and Fledglings • (2010) • shortfiction by Steve Berman

The Broadsword • (2010) • novella by Laird Barron

Frumpy Little Beat Girl • shortfiction by Peter Atkins

Crawlspace • (2010) • shortfiction by Stephen Graham Jones

As Red as Red • (2010) • shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes • (2010) • shortstory by Jay Lake

A Thousand Flowers • (2010) • novelette by Margo Lanagan

Are You Trying To Tell Me This Is Heaven? • (2010) • shortstory by Sarah Langan

The Stars Are Falling • (2010) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale

Sea Warg • (2010) • shortfiction by Tanith Lee

The Mystery Knight: A Tale of the Seven Kingdoms • [Dunk and Egg • 3] • (2010) • novella by George R. R. Martin

The Naturalist • (2010) • shortfiction by Maureen F. McHugh [as by Maureen McHugh ]

Raise Your Hand If You're Dead • (2010) • shortstory by John Shirley

Lesser Demons • (2010) • novelette by Norman Partridge

Parallel Lines • (2010) • shortstory by Tim Powers

The Moon Will Look Strange • (2010) • shortstory by Lynda E. Rucker

You Dream • (2010) • shortstory by Ekaterina Sedia

Red Blues • (2010) • shortfiction by Michael Skeet

Brisneyland by Night • (2010) • shortstory by Angela Slatter

Malleus, Incus, Stapes • (2010) • shortfiction by Sarah Totton

The Return • (2010) • shortfiction by S. D. Tullis

The Dire Wolf • (2010) • shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine

The Things • (2010) • shortstory by Peter Watts

Bloodsport • (2010) • shortfiction by Gene Wolfe