[The Best Horror of the Year 01] • The Best of the Best Horror of the Year

Here is the best of the best horror—from Laird Barron, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and many more!

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. In this anniversary edition, Datlow brings back her favorite stories of the series’ last decade in a special edition encompassing highlights from each edition of the work.

Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagat, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, And many others

With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers. And in this anniversary edition, we share the most important stories which have been covered in the last decade of horror writing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction — Ellen Datlow

Lowland Sea—Suzy McKee Charnas

Wingless Beasts—Lucy Taylor

The Nimble Men—Glen Hirshberg

Little America—Dan Chaon

Black and White Sky—Tanith Lee

The Monster Makers—Steve Rasnic Tem

Stephen Graham Jones

In a Cavern, in a Canyon—Laird Barron

Allochthon—Livia Llewellyn

Shepherds’ Business—Stephen Gallagher

Down to a Sunless Sea—Neil Gaiman

The Man from the Peak—Adam Golaski

In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos—John Langan

The Moraine—Simon Bestwick

At the Riding School—Cody Goodfellow

Cargo—E.Michael Lewis

Tender as Teeth—Stephanie Crawford Duane Swierczynski

Wild Acre—Nathan Ballingrud

The Callers—Ramsey Campbell

This Stagnant Breath of Change—Brian Hodge

Grave Goods—Gemma Files

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine—Peter Straub

Majorlena—Jane Jakeman

The Days of Our Lives—Adam L. G. Nevill

You Can Stay All Day—Mira Grant

No Matter Which Way We Turned—Brian Evenson

Nesters—Siobhan Carroll

Better You Believe—Carole Johnstone