The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19
Edited by Stephen Jones.
The World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning series. This new volume of the world's most acclaimed Year's Best Horror series includes a masterful selection of the finest supernatural short stories and terrifying novellas from many of the biggest names and most exciting newcomers currently working in the genre. Also containing the most comprehensive overview of the year in horror in all its many fascinating forms, a detailed necrology of famous names, and a list of useful contact addresses for the dedicated reader and working writer alike, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's longest-running annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.
Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Horror in 2007 by Stephen Jones
- The Things He Said by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Church on the Island by Simon Kurt Unsworth
- The Twilight Express by Christopher Fowler
- Peep by Ramsey Campbell
- From Around Here by Tim Pratt
- Pumpkin Night by Gary McMahon
- The Other Village by Simon Strantzas
- 13 O'Clock by Mike O'Driscoll
- Still Water by Joel Lane
- Thumbprint by Joe Hill
- Lancashire by Nicholas Royle
- The Admiral's House by Marc Lecard
- Man, You Gotta See This! by Tony Richards
- The Fisherman by David A. Sutton
- The Children of Monte Rosa by Reggie Oliver
- The Witch's Headstone by Neil Gaiman
- Calico Black, Calico Blue by Joel Knight
- The Rich Evil Sound by Steven Erickson
- Miss Ill-Kept Runt by Glen Hirshberg
- Deadman's Road by Joe R. Lansdale
- A Gentleman from Mexico by Mark Samuels
- Loss by Tom Piccirilli
- Behind the Clouds: In Front of the Sun by Christopher Harman
- The Ape's Wife by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Tight Wrappers by Conrad Williams
- Cold Snap by Kim Newman
- Necrology: 2007 (essay) by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
- Useful Addresses (essay)
Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones (born 1953) is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications. Jones has edited anthologies such as the Best New Horror series, Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes and The Conan Chronicles, 1 and The Conan Chronicles, 2 by Robert E. Howard. Jones has also been co-editor of several books with Kim Newman, such as Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books with 200 essays on seminal horror books by acclaimed writers of this genre. Jones also edited Dancing with the Dark, a collection of stories of allegedly real life encounters with the paranormal by established horror writers. Jones has been the recipient of a Hugo award and many Bram Stoker Awards.
Best New Horror
Best New Horror consists of twenty-six primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.