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Honorable Mentions 2016-Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (1)

October 12, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 3 Comments

Abnett, Dan “The Beams of the Sun,” Out of Tune Book Two.

Addison, Linda “Shadow Rainbow and Other Fragile Types,” (poem) Dark Disc. #34

Alering, Alisa “We Will Hold,” Mythic Delirium April-June.

Allan, Nina “Maggots,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Allred, Rebecca J. “The Last Plague Doctor,” Borderlands 6.

Amundsen, Erik “The Red Round Eye of War,” Go Now January.

Anderson, Michael Paul “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief,” Chiral Mad 3.

Arkenberg, Megan “Palingenesis,” Shimmer 29 January.

Avery, Simon” A Very Lonely Revolution,” Black Static #55 November-December.

Bacon, Stephen “Happy Sands,” The Dragons of the Night.

Badger, Dora “Counting Mississippis,” Kaleidotrope winter 2016.

Barber, Richard Farren “Government Work,”  The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Bark, Jasper “Quiet Places,” (novella) Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Barker, David “The Crawling Dead,” The Audient Void No. 1.

Barron, Laird “A Clutch,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “An Atlatl,” (novella) Limbus Inc. Book III.

Barron, Laird “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “Mobility,” What the #@&% is That?

Barron, Laird “Oblivion Mode,” Children of Lovecraft.

Barron, Laird “Tomahawk Park Survivor’s Raffle,” (novella) Swift to Chase.

Bartlett, Matthew M. “No Abiding Place on Earth,” Nightscript II.

Bates, Jeremy “Box of Bones,” self-published.

Bell, Brandon H. “The Teratologist’s Brother,” Apex April.

Bell, Peter “Blackberry Time,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows 3.

Bell, Peter “Last of the Line,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “Southwold,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “The Swing,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Bell, Peter “Walking with the Cross,” Phantasms.

Benedict, A. K. “Misericord,” Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Berry, Jedediah “Houk, Emily “Hansel, Gretel, Grendel,” Conjunctions 66: Affinity.

Bestwick, Simon “Wrath of the Deep,” The Hyde Hotel.

Bissett, Carina “Swimming with the Shark Boys,”(poem)Mythic Delirium April-June 2.4.

Black, Archie “The Wall,” BFS Horizons #3.

Black, Carlington “The Urge,” At the Edge.

Boatman, Michael “Across the Black Plains,” 13.

Boatman, Michael “Christmastime in Zombietown,” 13.

Bolander, Brooke “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Uncanny

Bonfanti, Daniele “Game,” (novella) The Beauty of Death.

Boomer, Clinton J. “The Sky Isn’t Blue,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Booth, III, Max “Blood Dust,” Chiral Mad 3.

Boskovich, Desirina “The Great Dying of the Holocene,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Boston & Manzetti, “Sandoval’s Nightmare Sampler,”(poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce “Fade Away (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce & Manzetti, Alessandro “Slade, Mary And Pet,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce and Simon, Marge “Cold Finale,” The Beauty of Death.

Bourelle, Andrew “Little Healers,” Swords & Steam Short Stories.

Bowes, Richard “Lunching with the Sphinxes,” Grendelsong June.

Brantley, Avalon “Window Widows,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Braum, Daniel “How To Make Love and Not Turn to Stone,” The Beauty of Death.

Braum, Daniel “The Night Marchers,” The Night Marchers.

Brown, Simon “Moonshine,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Burgess, Tony “Bad Lieutenant,” Lost Signals.

Burke, Chesya “They Deal in Pain, But Pleasure is Better,” Into Painfreak.

Burnett, Jeff “Borean Soul,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Butler, Robert Olen “Soir Bleu,” In Sunlight and in Shadow.

Cade, Octavia “Carnival Microbial,” Grendelsong Issue 2.

Cadieux, Keith “Stuck,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Caine, Rachel “I Lay Stretched Out On Your Grave,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Campbell, Ramsey “Know Your Code,” Chiral Mad 3.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Wrong Game,” Dead Letters.

Capria, Alana I. “The Mother Chase,” Turn Into Ash Volume 1.

Carrol, Taye “Childhood’s Dread,” Weirdbook #32.

Carroll, Jonathan “Plane Light, Plane Bright,” Conjunctions May.

Carroll, Siobhan “Thermidor,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Cashmore, S. M. “Waiting for Breakfast,” Supernatural Tales 32.

Castle, Mort “Prayer,” Chiral Mad 3.

Castro, Adam-Troy “Four Haunted Houses,” Nightmare #48, September.

Castro, Adam-Troy “The Old Horror Writer,” Nightmare #44, May.

Chabin, Matthew “Father of Dread,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Chan, Eliza “Datsue-Ba,” Asian Monsters.

Child, Michelle “Narco,” At the Edge.

Chizmar, Richard “A Long December,” (novella) A Long December.

Chizmar, Richard “Ditch Treasures,” A Long December.

Chokshi, Roshani “A Trade at the Fox Wedding,” Mythic Delirium April –June 2.4

Chronister, Kay “The Fifth Gable,” Shimmer 29 January.

Cisco, Michael “The Righteousness of Conical Men,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Clark, G.O. “Postcard from the Night Desert,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Clay, K. S “Bad Luck,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Cluley, Ray “Housekeeping,” The Hyde Hotel.

Cluley, Ray “Sideways,” Interzone 266, Sept/October.

Cole, Cait “Dollhouse,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Collings, Michael R. “Catacomb,” (poem) Corona Obscura.

Collings, Michael R. “Evil,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Moon,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Obsession (2),” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Prophecy,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Witch,” (poem) Ibid.

Colman, Keith “A Thing Like Rage,” Supernatural Tales 33.

Cormick, Craig “The Lost Boys,” In Your Face.

Cotronis, George “Darkhorse Actual,” Lost Signals.

Coupland, Krishan “When You Lived Inside the Walls,” The Masters Review online.

Cratty, Micah “Goon,” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXXVII, #1.

Crich, Kelda “Jorōgumo,” Weirdbook #32.

Crow, Richard “Waiting Room,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Daegmorgan, Raven “Winter Things,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Davis, Amanda C. “Voices without Voices,Words Without Words,”Cemetery Dance #73.

Dawes, Sue “Artifice,” Bloody Hull.

Dawson, Delilah S. “The First Blood of Poppy Dupree,” Upside Down.

Dejasu, Barry Lee “The Place of Bones,” Wicked Witches.

DeMeester, Kristi “All the World, When it is Thin,” The Dark #11 February.

DeMeester, Kristi “In the Dark, Quiet Places,” Nightscript II.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Dream Eaters,” Split Tongues chapbook.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Rim of the World,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Denfeld, Rene “The Sturgeon Queen,” City of Weird.

Dent, Karen and Dent, Roxanne E. “The Demon of Spitalfields,” Cemetery Riots.

Dermatis, Dayle A. “Queen and Fool,” Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix.

Devlin, Malcolm “Breadcrumbs,” Interzone #264, May-June.

Devlin, Malcolm “White Elephants,” Nightscript II.

Di Orazio, Paulo “Carousel Riser,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Dikeman, Kris “Miskatonic Nightmare,” Miskatonic Nightmares.

Dikeman, Kris “Thimble Hearts and Tamarind Eyes,” Kill Those Damn Cats.

Dorei, Megan “Glass,” Dystopia Utopia.

Dowling, Terry “Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Downum, Amanda “The Sea Inside,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Dries, Aaron “Love Amongst the Redback Spiders,” Tales from the Lake vol. 2.

Edelman, Scott “Man Without the Blue Balloon, Woman…,”The Dragons of the Night.

Edelman, Scott “The Perilous Stuff,” Chiral Mad 3.

Eikamp, Rhonda “Some Pictures of Monsters,” The Dark 15.

Enriquez, Mariana “Spiderweb,” The New Yorker Dec 19 &26.

Erdelac, Edward M. “Beyond the Black Arcade,” Heroes of Red Hook.

Etchison, Dennis “Princess,” Nightmare #41, February.

Etchison, Dennis “The Man Who Knew What Time It Was,” Cemetery Riots.

Evenson, Brian “Click,” Granta #133/A Collapse of Horses.

Evenson, Brian “Smear,” Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Everington, James “A Glimpse of Red,”Great British Horror 1,Green andPleasant Land.

Faherty, JG “The Lazarus Effect,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Fawver, Kurt “Special Collections,” F&SF November/December.

Files, Gemma “Caligarism,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Files, Gemma “Ghost Pressure,” What the #@&% is That?

Fitch, John Paul “Principal,” Burrow Month of Horror.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Blameless,” A Natural History of Hell.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Thousand Eyes,” The Starlit Wood.

Foster, Alan Foster “Castleweep,” What the #@&% is That?

Foster, John C. “Armageddon Baby,” Lost Signals.

Fowler, Christopher “Spine,” Interzone #263, March-April.

Fowler, Christopher “Wonders to Come,” Dead Letters.

Fracassi, Philip “Altar,” Dunhams Manor Press chapbook.

Friesner, Esther M. “Woman in the Reeds,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.

Fulz, John R. “The River Flows to Nowhere,” Weirdbook 33.

Gardner, Cate “Blood Moth Kiss,” Shadow Moths.

Gardner, Cate “In the Macabre Theatre of Nightshade Place,” The Dragons of the Night.

Gardner, Cate “We Make Our Own Monsters Here,” Shadow Moths.

Gavin, Richard “Breathing Black Angels,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Gavin, Richard “Mare’s Nest,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Tending the Mists,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Thistle Latch,” Sylvan Dread.

Gerrold, David “The Thing on the Shelf,” F&SF July/August.

Gilman, Laura Anne “First Dance,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Glasser, Lynnea “Service,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Golaski, Adam “Ruby,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Goldstein, Lisa “Sawing,” Nightmare #44, May.

Gonzalez, Michael Paul “How the Light Gets In,” Lost Signals.

Goodfellow, Cody “Snakeladder,” Black Wings V.

Goodfellow, Cody “The Free School,” Dim Shores chapbook.

Goodfellow, Coty “Archons,” Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales.

Goss, Theodora “Red As Blood and White As Bone,” Tor.com, May 4.

Gowin, Amanda “Cellar’s Dog,” Gutted.

Grant, John “Everything Finishes,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grant, John “The Second Runner,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grey, Orrin “Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Grey, Orrin “Mortensen’s Muse” Children of Lovecraft.

Grey, Orrin “The Well and the Wheel,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Griffin, Michael “Endure with a Dying Frame,” The Lovecraft ezine, #38.

Griffin, Michael “The Black Vein Runs Deep,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Griffin, Michael “The Human Alchemy,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Griffin, Michael “The Jewel in the Eye,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Grimm, Marcus “Catch Me If You Can,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Grimwood, Terry “The Dark Above the Fair,” Something Remains.

Guffey, Robert “The Wedding Photographer,” The Dragons of the Night.

Guignard, Eric “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co. Nightscript II.

Hall, Steven “The Green Letter,” Dead Letters.

Hamilton, Paul H. “The Henson Curse,” Shock Totem 10.

Hannett, Lisa L. “In Syllables of Elder Seas,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Hardy, Lynn “Beyond the Shore,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Hargadon, Stephen “McMara’s Rock,” (novella) Black Static #55 Nov-Dec.

Hargadon, Stephen “Mittens,” Black Static #53, July/August.

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Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9

July 11, 2017 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment

An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers?including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another’s yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds more than she bargains for . . .

The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Adam L. G. Nevill, Livia Llewellyn, Peter Straub, Gemma Files, Brian Hodge, and more.

For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the ninth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night.

Table of Contents

  • Nesters                                                Siobhan Carroll
  • The Oestridae                                    Robert Levy
  • The Process is a Process All its Own Peter Straub
  • The Bad Hour                                     Christopher Golden
  • Red Rabbit                                        Steve Rasnic Tem
  • It’s All the Same Road in the End      Brian Hodge
  • Fury                                                     DB Waters
  • Grave Goods                                       Gemma Files
  • Between Dry Ribs                             Gregory Norman Bossert
  • The Days of Our Lives                               Adam LG Nevill
  • House of Wonders                                 C.E Ward
  • The Numbers                                       Christopher Burns
  • Bright Crown of Joy                           Livia Llewellyn
  • The Beautiful Thing We Will Become Kristi DeMeester
  • Wish You Were Here                             Nadia Bulkin
  • Ragman                                                 Rebecca Lloyd
  • What’s Out There?                               Gary McMahon
  • No Matter Which Way We Turned    Brian Evenson
  • The Castellmarch Man                         Ray Cluley
  • The Ice Beneath Us                                   Steve Duffy
  • On These Blackened Shores of Time   Brian Hodge

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Mad Hatters and March Hares

April 21, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 1 Comment

Here is what you can expect from Mad Hatters and March Hares: “An all original anthology of stories inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. ‘Alice’ has been read, enjoyed, and savored by generations of children and adults since its publication. It’s hallucinogenic, weird, imaginative and full of wordplay, mathematical puzzles, and political and social satire.”

Mad Hatters and March Hares will features stories that are inspired by the strange events and characters that appear in Wonderland.

Table of Contents

  • “A Comfort, One Way” by Genevieve Valentine
  • “Alis” by Stephen Graham Jones
  • “All the King’s Men” by Jeffrey Ford
  • “Conjoined” by Jane Yolen
  • “Eating the Alice Cake” by Kaaron Warren
  • “Gentle Alice” by Kris Dikeman
  • “In Memory of a Summer’s Day” by Matthew Kressel
  • “Lily-White & The Thief of Lesser Night” by C.S.E. Cooney
  • “Mercury” by Priya Sharma
  • “Moon, Memory, Muchness” by Katherine Vaz
  • “My Own Invention” by Delia Sherman
  • “Run, Rabbit” by Angela Slatter
  • “Run, Rabbit, Run” by Jane Yolen
  • “Sentence Like a Saturday”  by Seanan McGuire
  • “Some Kind of Wonderland” by Richard Bowes
  • “The Flame After the Candle” by Catherynne M. Valente
  • “The Queen of Hats” by Ysabeau Wilce
  • “Worrity, Worrity” by Andy Duncan

The anthology features a cover by the legendary Dave McKean, whose Folio Society edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods recently went on sale.

Mad Hatters and March Hares will be released on December 5, 2017.

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Final TOC for The Best Horror of the Year volume 9

March 8, 2017 by Ellen Datlow 9 Comments

Table of Contents

Nesters Siobhan Carroll
The Oestridae Robert Levy
The Process is a Process All its Own Peter Straub
The Bad Hour Christopher Golden
Red Rabbit Steve Rasnic Tem
It’s All the Same Road in the End Brian Hodge
Fury DB Waters
Grave Goods Gemma Files
Between Dry Ribs Gregory Norman Bossert
The Days of Our Lives Adam LG Nevill
House of Wonders C.E Ward
The Numbers Christopher Burns
Bright Crown of Joy Livia Llewellyn
The Beautiful Thing We Will Become Kristi DeMeester
Wish You Were Here Nadia Bulkin
Ragman Rebecca Lloyd
What’s Out There? Gary McMahon
No Matter Which Way We Turned Brian Evenson
The Castellmarch Man Ray Cluley
The Ice Beneath Us Steve Duffy
On These Blackened Shores of Time Brian Hodge

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Black Feathers

February 6, 2017 by Ellen Datlow Leave a Comment

A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre.

Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul.

There’s definitely a dark side to the avian. Birds of prey sometimes kill other birds (the shrike), destroy other birds’ eggs (blue jays), and even have been known to kill small animals (the kea sometimes eats live lambs). And who isn’t disgusted by birds that eat the dead—vultures awaiting their next meal as the life blood flows from the dying. One of our greatest fears is of being eaten by vultures before we’re quite dead.

Is it any wonder that with so many interpretations of the avian, that the contributors herein are eager to be transformed or influenced by them? Included in Black Feathers are those obsessed by birds of one type or another. Do they want to become birds or just take on some of the “power” of birds? The presence or absence of birds portends the future. A grieving widow takes comfort in her majestic winged neighbors, who enable her to cope with a predatory relative. An isolated society of women relies on a bird to tell their fortunes. A silent young girl and her pet bird might be the only hope a detective has of tracking down a serial killer in a tourist town. A chatty parrot makes illegal deals with the dying. A troubled man lives in isolation with only one friend for company—a jackdaw.

In each of these fictions, you will encounter the dark resonance between the human and avian. You see in yourself the savagery of a predator, the shrewd stalking of a hunter, and you are lured by birds that speak human language, that make beautiful music, that cypher numbers, and seem to have a moral center. You wade into this feathered nightmare, and brave the horror of death, trading your safety and sanity for that which we all seek—the promise of flight.

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