The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson, March 25, 2010, 978-1-84901-304-8, £9.99, xxii+746pp, tp, an, cover by Joe Roberts)
Anthology selecting 20 of the best stories from the series, one from each year. There is a foreword by Jones, and an Introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Each story is presaged by a small repro of the original book cover, and a memoir of how each of the anthologies was prepared and received.
- xiii · Editor’s Foreword · Stephen Jones · fw
- xv · Bettering the Best · Ramsey Campbell · in
- 3 · No Sharks in the Med · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Winter 1989/1990
- 41 · The Man Who Drew Cats · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990
- 61 · The Same in Any Language · Ramsey Campbell · ss Weird Tales Summer 1991
- 77 · Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death · Christopher Fowler · nv Sharper Knives by Christopher Fowler, Warner UK, 1992
- 99 · Mefisto in Onyx · Harlan Ellison · na Mark V. Ziesing, December 1993
expanded from Omni October 1993.
- 147 · The Temptation of Dr. Stein · Paul J. McAuley · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994
- 169 · Queen of Knives · Neil Gaiman · pm Tombs ed. Edward E. Kramer & Peter Crowther, White Wolf, 1995
- 181 · The Break · Terry Lamsley · na Conference with the Dead by Terry Lamsley, Ash-Tree Press, 1996
- 229 · Emptiness Spoke Eloquent [Dracula] · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Secret City ed. Jo Fletcher & Stephen Jones, Titan, 1997
- 251 · Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff · Peter Straub · na Murder for Revenge ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1998
- 333 · White · Tim Lebbon · na MOT Press, 1999
- 393 · The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula, 1981 [Anno Dracula] · Kim Newman · na The Vampire Sextette ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2000
- 479 · Cleopatra Brimstone · Elizabeth Hand · na Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2001
- 531 · 20th Century Ghost · Joe Hill · nv High Plains Literary Review v17 #1, 2002 (+2)
- 551 · The White Hands · Mark Samuels · ss The White Hands and Other Weird Tales by Mark Samuels, Tartarus Press, 2003
originally in substantially different form as “Amelia” (Black Tears No. 1, 1993).
- 571 · My Death · Lisa Tuttle · na PS Publishing, 2004
- 641 · Haeckel’s Tale · Clive Barker · ss Dark Delicacies ed. Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, Carroll & Graf, 2005
- 661 · Devil’s Smile · Glen Hirshberg · nv Alone on the Darkside ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2006
- 689 · The Church on the Island · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007
- 709 · The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates · Stephen King · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2008
- 719 · Index to Twenty Years of Best New Horror · Stephen Jones · bi
- 744 · Contents of Previous Omnibus Editions · Stephen Jones · bi
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