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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, May 24, 2011, 978-1-59780-217-8, $15.99, 361pp, tp, an, cover by Allen Williams)     Year’s best anthology with 21 horror stories from 2010, with a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Norman Partridge, Christopher Fowler, Tanith Lee, and Joe R. Lansdale. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Summation 2010 · Ellen Datlow · ar 39 · At the Riding School · Cody Goodfellow · ss The Bleeding Edge ed. William F. Nolan & Jason V. Brock, Cycatrix Press, 2009 51 · Mr. Pigsny · Reggie Oliver · ss The Sixth Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2010 65 · City of the Dog · John Langan · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2010 93 · Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls · Brian Hodge · nv Darkside Digital, 2010 107 · Lesser Demons [Cthulhu] · Norman Partridge · nv Black Wings ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2010 127 · When the Zombies Win · Karina Sumner-Smith · ss The Living Dead 2 ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, 2010 131 · ——30—— · Laird Barron · na Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron, Night Shade Books, 2010 161 · Fallen Boys · Mark Morris · ss The End of the Line ed. Jonathan Oliver, Solaris, 2010 175 · Was She Wicked? Was She Good? · M. Rickert · ss Holiday by M. Rickert, Golden Gryphon Press, 2010 183 · The Fear · Richard Harland · nv Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears ed. Angela Challis & Marty Young, Brimstone Press, 2010 207 · Till the Morning Comes · Stephen Graham Jones · ss The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones, Prime Books, 2010 217 · Shomer · Glen Hirshberg · ss 2010 Rolling Darkness Revue Chapbook: Curtain Call, Earthling Publications, 2010 231 · Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside · Christopher Fowler · ss Brighton Shock! ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2010 243 · The Obscure Bird · Nicholas Royle · ss Black Static #18, August/September 2010 249 · Transfiguration · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Visitants ed. Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press, 2010 259 · The Days of Flaming Motorcycles · Catherynne M. Valente · ss Dark Faith ed. Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2010 267 · The Folding Man · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Haunted Legends ed. Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, Tor, 2010 281 · Just Another Desert Night with Blood · Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. · ss SIN & Ashes by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Hippocampus Press, 2010 287 · Black and White Sky · Tanith Lee · nv Brighton Shock! ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2010 309 · At Night, When the Demons Come · Ray Cluley · ss Black Static #20, December 2010/January 2011 327 · The Revel · John Langan · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2010

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, May 1, 2012, 978-1-59780-399-1, $15.99, lii+387pp, tp, an, cover by Allen Williams)     Year’s best anthology of 18 horror stories from 2011, plus a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Stephen King, Margo Lanagan, and Peter Straub. Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 1 · The Little Green God of Agony · Stephen King · nv A Book of Horrors ed. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2011 25 · Stay · Leah Bobet · nv Chilling Tales ed. Michael Kelly, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 49 · The Moraine · Simon Bestwick · ss Terror Tales of the Lake District ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2011 69 · Blackwood’s Baby · Laird Barron · nv Ghosts by Gaslight ed. Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, Harper Voyager US, 2011 103 · Looker · David Nickle · ss Chilling Tales ed. Michael Kelly, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 119 · The Show · Priya Sharma · ss Box of Delights ed. John Kenny, Aeon Press UK, 2011 131 · Mulberry Boys · Margo Lanagan · ss Blood and Other Cravings ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2011 149 · Roots and All · Brian Hodge · nv A Book of Horrors ed. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2011 175 · Final Girl Theory · A. C. Wise · ss ChiZine #47, April/June 2011 189 · Omphalos · Livia Llewellyn · nv Engines of Desire by Livia Llewellyn, Lethe Press, 2011 215 · Dermot · Simon Bestwick · ss Black Static #24, August/September 2011 227 · Black Feathers · Alison Littlewood · ss Black Static #22, April/May 2011 241 · The Final Verse · Chet Williamson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2011 259 · In the Absence of Murdock · Terry Lamsley · ss House of Fear ed. Jon Oliver, Solaris, 2011 275 · You Become the Neighborhood · Glen Hirshberg · nv The Janus Tree and Other Stories by Glen Hirshberg, Subterranean Press, 2012 297 · In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos · John Langan · nv Supernatural Noir ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2011 329 · Little Pig · Anna Taborska · ss The Eighth Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2011 335 · The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine · Peter Straub · na Subterranean Press, December 2011

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, September 3, 2013, 978-1-59780-474-5, $15.99, liv+406pp, tp, an, cover by Allen Williams)     Year’s best anthology with 28 horror stories from 2012, with a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Lucy Taylor, Jeffrey Ford, and Ramsey Campbell. Details supplied by Denny Lien. ix · Summation 2012 · Ellen Datlow · ar 1 · Nikishi · Lucy Taylor · ss Exotic Gothic 4 ed. Danel Olson, PS Publishing, 2012 15 · Little America · Dan Chaon · nv Shadow Show ed. Sam Weller & Mort Castle, Morrow, 2012 31 · A Natural History of Autumn · Jeffrey Ford · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2012 45 · Mantis Wives · Kij Johnson · ss Clarkesworld #71, August 2012 49 · Tender as Teeth · Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski · ss 21st Century Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012 69 · The Callers · Ramsey Campbell · ss Four for Fear ed. Peter Crowther, PS Publishing, 2012 81 · Two Poems for Hill House · Kevin McCann · gp (r) _81 · Answered an Ad · Kevin McCann · pm herenow.7beats.com July 2012 _83 · I Am the One · Kevin McCann · pm herenow.7beats.com July 2012 85 · Mariners’ Round · Terry Dowling · ss Exotic Gothic 4 ed. Danel Olson, PS Publishing, 2012 105 · Nanny Grey · Gemma Files · ss Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane ed. Jonathan Oliver, Solaris, 2012 117 · The Magician’s Apprentice · Tamsyn Muir · ss Weird Tales Winter 2012 131 · Kill All Monsters · Gary McMahon · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #3, Spring 2012 141 · The House on Ashley Avenue · Ian Rogers · nv Every House Is Haunted by Ian Rogers, ChiZine Publications, 2012 163 · Dead Song · Jay Wilburn · ss Zombies for a Cure ed. Angela Charmaine Craig, Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012 175 · Sleeping, I Was Beauty · Sandi Leibowitz · pm Goblin Fruit Winter 2012 177 · Bajazzle · Margo Lanagan · nv Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan, Twelfth Planet Press, 2012 193 · The Pike · Conrad Williams · ss Born with Teeth by Conrad Williams, PS Publishing, 2012 209 · The Crying Child [Lerici] · Bruce McAllister · nv Cemetery Dance #68, 2012, as “The Bleeding Child” 239 · This Circus the World · Amber Sparks · ss Corium Magazine (online) Summer 2012 241 · Some Pictures in an Album · Gary McMahon · ss Chiral Mad ed. Michael Bailey, Written Backwards, 2012 250 · Wild Acre · Nathan Ballingrud · nv Visions Fading Fast ed. Gary McMahon, Pendragon Press UK, 2012 275 · Final Exam · Megan Arkenberg · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2012 287 · None So Blind · Stephen Bacon · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #3, Spring 2012 295 · The Ballad of Boomtown · Priya Sharma · ss Black Static #28, April/May 2012 313 · Pig Thing · Adam Nevill · ss Exotic Gothic 4 ed. Danel Olson, PS Publishing, 2012 327 · The Word-Made Flesh · Richard Gavin · ss At Fear’s Altar by Richard Gavin, Hippocampus Press, 2012 345 · Into the Penny Arcade · Claire Massey · ss Nightjar Press, 2012 353 · Magdala Amygdala · Lucy Snyder · ss Dark Faith: Invocations ed. Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2012 365 · Frontier Death Song · Laird Barron · nv Nightmare #1, October 2012 391 · Honourable Mentions · Ellen Datlow · bi 393 · About the Authors · Various · bg

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, June 3, 2014, 978-1-59780-503-2, $15.99, 396pp, tp, an, cover by Pierre Droal)     Year’s best anthology with 24 horror stories from 2013, with a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Steve Rasnic Tem, Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, and Linda Nagata. E-book also available. Details taken from online listing. viii · Summation 2013 · Ellen Datlow · ar 1 · Apports · Stephen Bacon · ss Black Static #36, September/October 2013 13 · Mr. Splitfoot · Dale Bailey · ss Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Tor, 2013 27 · The Good Husband · Nathan Ballingrud · nv North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud, Small Beer Press, 2013 53 · The Tiger · Nina Allan · ss Terror Tales of London ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2013 73 · The House on Cobb Street · Lynda E. Rucker · ss Nightmare #9, June 2013 89 · The Soul in the Bell Jar · K. J. Kabza · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2013 119 · Call Out · Steve Toase · ss Innsmouth Magazine January 2013 127 · That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love · Robert Shearman · ss Psycho-Mania! ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2013 145 · Bones of Crow · Ray Cluley · ss Black Static #37, November/December 2013 159 · Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales · Jeannine Hall Gailey · pm Phantom Drift #3, October 2013 161 · The Tin House · Simon Clark · ss Shadow Masters ed. Jeani Rector, Imajin Books, 2013 175 · The Fox · Conrad Williams · ss This Is Horror 2013 185 · The Withering · Tim Casson · ss Black Static #32, January/February 2013 195 · Stemming the Tide · Simon Strantzas · ss Dead North ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions, 2013 203 · The Anatomist’s Mnemonic · Priya Sharma · ss Black Static #32, January/February 2013 213 · The Monster Makers · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Black Static #35, July/August 2013 223 · The Only Ending We Have · Kim Newman · nv Psycho-Mania! ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2013 247 · The Dog’s Paw · Derek Künsken · ss Chilling Tales Two ed. Michael Kelly, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 259 · Fine in the Fire · Lee Thomas · nv Like Light for Flies by Lee Thomas, Lethe Press, 2013 279 · Majorlena · Jane Jakeman · nv Supernatural Tales #24, Autumn 2013 307 · Down to a Sunless Sea · Neil Gaiman · ss The Guardian March 22 2013 311 · Jaws of Saturn · Laird Barron · nv The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron, Night Shade Books, 2013 333 · Halfway Home · Linda Nagata · ss Nightmare #12, September 2013 345 · The Same Deep Waters as You · Brian Hodge · nv Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 2013 384 · Honorable Mentions: 2013 · [uncredited] · bi 386 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 397 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, August 2015, 978-1-59780-829-3, $15.99, xliii+369pp, tp, an, cover by Noia Hokama)     Year’s best anthology of 22 horror stories from 2014, with a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Genevieve Valentine, Garth Nix, and Cody Goodfellow. viii · Summation 2014 · Ellen Datlow · ar 1 · The Atlas of Hell · Nathan Ballingrud · nv Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 23 · Winter Children · Angela Slatter · ss Far Voyager ed. Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2014 37 · A Dweller in Amenty · Genevieve Valentine · ss Nightmare #18, March 2014 49 · Outside Heavenly · Rio Youers · nv The Spectral Book of Horror Stories ed. Mark Morris, Spectral Press, 2014 73 · Shay Corsham Worsted · Garth Nix · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 85 · Allochthon · Livia Llewellyn · ss Letters to Lovecraft ed. Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2014 95 · Chapter Six · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Tor.com June 11 2014 109 · This Is Not for You · Gemma Files · ss Nightmare #25, October 2014 123 · Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Sirenia Digest May 2014 145 · The Culvert · Dale Bailey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2014 153 · Past Reno · Brian Evenson · ss Letters to Lovecraft ed. Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2014 167 · The Coat Off His Back · Keris McDonald · ss Terror Tales of Yorkshire ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2014 189 · The Worms Crawl In · Laird Barron · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 209 · The Dog’s Home · Alison Littlewood · ss The Spectral Book of Horror Stories ed. Mark Morris, Spectral Press, 2014 219 · Tread Upon the Brittle Shell · Rhoads Brazos · nv SQ Mag #14, May 2014 239 · Persistence of Vision · Orrin Grey · ss Fractured ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions, 2014 247 · It Flows from the Mouth · Robert Shearman · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #6, Spring 2014 263 · Wingless Beasts · Lucy Taylor · ss Fatal Journeys (limited edition) by Lucy Taylor, Overlook Connection Press, 2014 277 · Departures · Carole Johnstone · ss The Bright Day Is Done by Carole Johnstone, Gray Friar Press, 2014 297 · Ymir · John Langan · nv The Children of Old Leech ed. Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, Word Horde, 2014 321 · Plink · Kurt Dinan · ss Far Voyager ed. Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2014 332 · Nigredo · Cody Goodfellow · ss In the Court of the Yellow King ed. Glynn Owen Barrass, Celaeno Press, 2014

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, June 7, 2016, 978-1-59780-853-8, $15.99, xli+317pp, tp, an, cover by Blake Malcerta)     Year’s best anthology of 20 stories, with a summation of the year 2015 in horror by Datlow. Authors include Kelley Armstrong, Laird Barron, and Neil Gaiman. Details taken from online listing. viii · Summation 2015 · Ellen Datlow · ar 1 · We Are All Monsters Here · Kelley Armstrong · ss Seize the Night ed. Christopher Golden, Gallery Books, 2015 17 · Universal Horror · Stephen Graham Jones · ss October Dreams II ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2015 35 · Slaughtered Lamb · Tom Johnstone · ss The Eleventh Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2015 45 · In a Cavern, In a Canyon · Laird Barron · nv Seize the Night ed. Christopher Golden, Gallery Books, 2015 65 · Between the Pilings · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Innsmouth Nightmares ed. Lois H. Gresh, PS Publishing, 2015 79 · Snow · Dale Bailey · ss Nightmare #33, June 2015 93 · Indian Giver · Ray Cluley · ss Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley, ChiZine Publications, 2015 107 · My Boy Builds Coffins · Gary McMahon · ss Black Static #46, May/June 2015 123 · The Woman in the Hill · Tamsyn Muir · ss Dreams from the Witch House ed. Lynne Jamneck, Dark Regions Press, 2016 133 · Underground Economy · John Langan · ss Aickman’s Heirs ed. Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications, 2015 143 · The Rooms Are High · Reggie Oliver · ss The Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015 159 · All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck · Kate Jonez · ss Black Static #47, July/August 2015 177 · Lord of the Sand · Stephen Bacon · ss The Eleventh Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2015 185 · Wilderness · Letitia Trent · ss Exigencies ed. Richard Thomas, Dark House Press, 2015 201 · Fabulous Beasts · Priya Sharma · nv Tor.com July 27 2015 229 · Descent · Carmen Maria Machado · ss Nightmare #29, February 2015 239 · Hippocampus · Adam Nevill · ss Terror Tales of the Ocean ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2015 247 · Black Dog [American Gods] · Neil Gaiman · nv Trigger Warning—Short Fictions & Disturbances by Neil Gaiman, Headline, 2015 283 · The 21st Century Shadow · Stephanie M. Wytovich · pm Shadows Over Main Street ed. Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, Hazardous Press, 2015 285 · This Stagnant Breath of Change · Brian Hodge · ss Shadows Over Main Street ed. Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, Hazardous Press, 2015

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, July 11, 2017, 978-1-5107-1666-7, $15.99, xlii+388pp, tp, an, cover by Kevin Peterson)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Summation 2016 · Ellen Datlow · ar 1 · Nesters · Siobhan Carroll · nv Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016 19 · The Oestridae · Robert Levy · ss Black Static #52, May/June 2016 33 · The Process Is a Process All Its Own [Tillman Hayward] · Peter Straub · na Conjunctions #67, Fall 2016 59 · The Bad Hour · Christopher Golden · ss What the #@&% Is That? ed. John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen, Saga Press, 2016 73 · Red Rabbit · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Borderlands 6 ed. Olivia F. & Thomas F. Monteleone, Samhain Publishing, 2016 81 · It’s All the Same Road in the End [Cthulhu] · Brian Hodge · nv The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu ed. Paula Guran, Robinson, 2016 115 · Fury · DB Waters · ss Nightjar Press, November 2016 125 · Grave Goods · Gemma Files · nv Autumn Cthulhu ed. Mike Davis, Lovecraft eZine Press, 2016 147 · Between Dry Ribs · Gregory Norman Bossert · ss The Dark #11, February 2016 163 · The Days of Our Lives · Adam L. G. Nevill · nv Dead Letters ed. Conrad Williams, Titan, 2016 179 · The House of Wonders · C. E. Ward · ss Malevolent Visitants by C. E. Ward, Sarob Press, 2016 199 · The Numbers · Christopher Burns · ss Nightjar Press, June 2016 211 · Bright Crown of Joy · Livia Llewellyn · ss Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016 233 · The Beautiful Thing We Will Become · Kristi DeMeester · ss Eternal Frankenstein ed. Ross E. Lockhart, Word Horde, 2016 243 · Wish You Were Here · Nadia Bulkin · ss Nightmare #49, October 2016 261 · Ragman · Rebecca Lloyd · nv Ragman & Other Family Curses by Rebecca Lloyd, Egaeus Press, 2016 289 · What’s Out There? · Gary McMahon · ss Uncertainties: Volume II ed. Brian J. Showers, Swan River Press, 2016 299 · No Matter Which Way We Turned · Brian Evenson · ss People Holding May 17 2016 301 · The Castellmarch Man · Ray Cluley · nv Green and Pleasant Land ed. Steve J. Shaw, Black Shuck Books, 2017 329 · The Ice Beneath Us · Steve Duffy · ss Uncertainties: Volume II ed. Brian J. Showers, Swan River Press, 2016 343 · On These Blackened Shores of Time · Brian Hodge · nv Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016 379 · Honorable Mentions · [uncredited] · bi 381 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg