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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
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An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository, finding more than they anticipated; residents of a rural Wisconsin town defend against a legendary monster; a woman wracked by survivor's guilt is haunted by the ghosts of a tragic crash; a detective strives to solve the mystery of a dismembered girl; an orphan returns to a wicked witch's candy house; a group of smugglers find themselves buried to the necks in sand; an unanticipated guest brings doom to a high-class party; a teacher attempts to lead his students to safety as the world comes to an end around them...
What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the twenty-one stories and poems included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.
Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume One.
Table of Contents:
- Summation 2008 - essay by Ellen Datlow
- Cargo - (2008) - short story by E. Michael Lewis
- If Angels Fight - (2008) - novelette by Richard Bowes
- The Clay Party - (2008) - short story by Steve Duffy
- Penguins of the Apocalypse - (2008) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
- Esmeralda: The First Book Depository Story - (2008) - short story by Glen Hirshberg
- The Hodag - (2008) - short story by Trent Hergenrader
- Very Low-Flying Aircraft - (2008) - short story by Nicholas Royle
- When the Gentlemen Go By - (2008) - short story by Margaret Ronald
- The Lagerstätte - (2008) - novelette by Laird Barron
- Harry and the Monkey - (2008) - short story by Euan Harvey
- Dress Circle - (2008) - short story by Miranda Siemienowicz
- The Rising River - (2008) - short story by Daniel Kaysen
- Sweeney Among the Straight Razors - (2008) - poem by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Loup-garou - (2008) - short story by R. B. Russell
- Girl in Pieces - (2008) - short story by Graham Edwards
- It Washed Up - (2008) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Thirteenth Hell - (2008) - poem by Mike Allen
- The Goosle - (2008) - short story by Margo Lanagan
- Beach Head - (2008) - short story by Daniel LeMoal
- The Man from the Peak - (2008) - short story by Adam Golaski
- The Narrows - (2008) - novella by Simon Bestwick
- Honorable Mentions - essay by uncredited
- About the Authors - essay by uncredited
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