The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten

Edited by Ellen Datlow.

“Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series is one of the best investments you can make in short fiction. The current volume is no exception.” Adventures Fantastic

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 tenth 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:

Introduction
Better You Believe — Carole Johnstone
Liquid Air — Inna Effress
Holiday Romance — Mark Morris
Furtherest — Kaaron Warren
Where’s the Harm? — Rebecca Lloyd
Whatever Comes After Calcutta — David Erik Nelson
A Human Stain — Kelly Robson
The Stories We Tell about Ghosts — A. C. Wise
Endosketal — Sarah Read
West of Matamoros, North of Hell — Brian Hodge
Alligator Point — S. P. Miskowski
Dark Warm Heart — Rich Larson
There and Back Again — Carmen Maria Machado
Shepherd’s Business — Stephen Gallagher
You Can Stay All Day — Mira Grant
Harvest Song, Gathering Song — A. C. Wise
The Granfalloon — Orrin Grey
Fail-Safe — Philip Fracassi
The Starry Crown — Marc E. Fitch
Eqalussuaq — Tim Major
Lost in the Dark — John Langan