The year's best dark fantasy & horror /
Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, th...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Germantown, Maryland :
Prime Books,
[2017]
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Edition: | 2017 edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Not afraid of the ark / Paula Guran
- Seasons of glass and iron / Amal El-Mothar
- The future is blue / Catherynne M. Valente
- Grave goods / Gemma Files
- The ballad of Black Tom / Victor LaValle
- Our talons can crush galaxies / Brooke Bollander
- An ocean the color of bruises / Isabel Yap
- The iron man / Max Gladstone
- The blameless / Jeffrey Ford
- Birdfather / Stephan Graham Jones
- The jaws that bite, the claws that catch / Seanan McGuire
- The rime of the cosmic mariner / John Shirley
- Fairy tales are for white people / Melissa Yuan-Innes
- Lullaby for a lost world / Aliette de Bodard
- The finest, fullest followering / Marc Laidlaw
- Spinning silver / Naomi Novik
- Grave goods / Priya Sharma
- Braid of days and wake of nights / E. Lily Yu
- Wish you were here / Nadia Bulkin
- Only their shining beauty was left / Fran Wilde
- The line between the devil's teeth (murder ballad no. 10) / Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Photograph / Steve Rasnic Tem
- Red dirt witch / N. K. Jemisin
- My body, herself / Carmen Maria Machado
- The sound of salt and sea / Kat Howard
- Dying of the light / Rachel Caine
- Postcards from Natalie / Carrie Laben
- As cymbals clash / Cate Gardner
- The games we play / Cassandra Khaw
- Bright crown of joy / Livia Llewellyn
- Mommy's little man / Brian Hodge
- A fist of permutations of lightning and wildflowers / Alyssa Wong
- Surfacing / Lisa L. Hannett
- Meet me at the frost fair / Alison Littlewood
- October film haunt: Under the house / Michael Wehunt
- Whose drowned faces sleep / An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky
- When the stiches come undone / A. C. Wise
- The red forest / Angela Slatter.