The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion." - Clive Barker

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. Now, with the eighth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.

Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:

Neil Gaiman
Kim Stanley Robinson
Stephen King
Linda Nagata
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.

Contents:

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