Poe's Children · the New Horror

Poe's Children · the New Horror

**A *Washington Post* Best Book of the Year

**Peter Straub—bestselling author and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner—has gathered here 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.

Dan Chaon **“The Bees”**

Elizabeth Hand **“Cleopatra Brimstone”**

Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem **“The Man on the Ceiling”**

M. John Harrison **“The Great God Plan”**

Ramsey Campbell **“The Voice of the Beach”**

Brian Evenson **“Body”**

Kelly Link **“Louise’s Ghost”**

Jonathan Carroll **“The Sadness of Detail”**

M. Rickert **“Leda”**

Thomas Tessier** “In Praise of Folly”

**David J. Schow **“Plot Twist”**

Glen Hirshberg **“The Two Sams”**

Thomas Ligotti **“Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”**

Benjamin Percy **“Unearthed”**

Bradford Morrow **"Gardener of Heart”**

Peter Straub **“Little Red’s Tango”**

Stephen King **“The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet”**

Joe Hill **“20th Century Ghost”**

Ellen Klages **“The Green Glass Sea”**

Tia V. Travis **“The Kiss”**

Graham Joyce **“Black Dust”**

Neil Gaiman **“October in the Chair”**

John Crowley **“Missolonghi 1824”**

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson **“Insect Dreams”**

*From the Trade Paperback edition.*