The year's best dark fantasy & horror /

The year's best dark fantasy & horror /

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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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Other Authors: El-Mothar, Amal, Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-, Files, Gemma, LaValle, Victor, 1972-, Bollander, Brooke, Yap, Isabel, Gladstone, Max, Ford, Jeffrey, Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-, McGuire, Seanan, Shirley, John, 1953-, Yi, Melissa, Bodard, Aliette de, Laidlaw, Marc, Novik, Naomi, Sharma, Priya, Yu, E. Lily, Bulkin, Nadia, Wilde, Fran, 1979-, Kiernan, Caitlín R., Tem, Steve Rasnic, 1950-, Jemisin, N. K., Machado, Carmen Maria, Howard, Kat, Caine, Rachel, Laben, Carrie, Wehunt, Michael, Gardner, Cate (Cate Janet), Llewellyn, Livia, Wong, Alyssa, Hannett, Lisa L., Littlewood, Alison, Wehunt, Michael, 1952-, Owomoyela, An, Swirsky, Rachel, Wise, A. C., Slatter, Angela, Guran, Paula (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Germantown, Maryland : Prime Books, [2017]
Edition:2017 edition.
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction.
Horror tales.
Horror fiction.
Short stories.
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.