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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three

Ellen Datlow

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What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nineteen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Table of Contents:

“Summation 2010” Ellen Datlow
“At the Riding School” Cody Goodfellow
“Mr. Pigsny” Reggie Oliver
“City of the Dog” John Langan
“Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls” Brian Hodge
“Lesser Demons” Norman Partridge
“When the Zombies Win” Karina Sumner-Smith
“--30--” Laird Barron
“Fallen Boys” Mark Morris
“Was She Wicked? Was She Good?” M. Rickert
“The Fear” Richard Harland
“Till the Morning Comes” Stephen Graham Jones
“Shomer” Glen Hirshberg
“Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” Christopher Fowler
“The Obscure Bird” Nicholas Royle
“Transfiguration” Richard Christian Matheson
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” Catherynne M. Valente
“The Folding Man Joe R. Lansdale
“Just Another Desert Night With Blood” Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“Black and White Sky” Tanith Lee
“At Night When the Demons Come” Ray Cluley
“The Revel” John Langan

Publisher

Night Shade

Publication Date

6/1/2011

ISBN

9781597802178

Pages

361

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About the Author

Portrait of author Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

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