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The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2 ed. Paula Guran (Pyr, October 19, 2021, 978-1-64506-032-1, $21.95, 495pp, tp, an)
Details taken from ebook Table of Contents.

· Stranger Days · Paula Guran · in

· Recognition · Victor LaValle · ss The New York Times Magazine July 12 2020

· Odette · Zen Cho · ss Shoreline of Infinity #18, Summer 2020

· Das Gesicht · Dale Bailey · nv Final Cuts ed. Ellen Datlow, Anchor Books, 2020

· The Sycamore and the Sybil · Alix E. Harrow · ss Uncanny Magazine #33, March/April 2020

· The Stonemason · Danny Rhodes · ss Black Static #75, May/June 2020

· Desiccant · Craig Laurance Gidney · ss Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire ed. Nicole Givens Kurtz, Mocha Memoirs Press, 2020

· Open House on Haunted Hill · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #64, June 2020

· The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter · Elaine Cuyegkeng · ss Black Cranes ed. Geneve Flynn & Lee Murray, Omnium Gatherum, 2020

· Swanskin · Alison Littlewood · ss After Sundown ed. Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2020

· The Dead Outside My Door · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Black Static #77, November/December 2020

· Lusca · Soleil Knowles · ss Fiyah #13, Winter 2020

· To Sail the Black · A. C. Wise · ss Clarkesworld #170, November 2020

· Nobody Lives Here · H. Pueyo · ss The Dark #66, November 2020

· On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera [Cthulhu] · Elizabeth Bear · nv Tor.com November 18 2020

· The Thickening · Brian Evenson · ss Conjunctions #74, Spring 2020

· The Owl Count · Elizabeth Hand · nv Conjunctions #74, Spring 2020

· Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo · Catherynne M. Valente · nv Strange Horizons September 7 2020

· Ancestries · Sheree Renée Thomas · ss Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas, Third Man Books, 2020

· The Sound of the Sea, Too Close · James Everington · ss Shadows & Tall Trees v8, 2020

· Drunk Physics · Kelley Armstrong · nv Final Cuts ed. Ellen Datlow, Anchor Books, 2020

· Call Them Children · Wenmimareba Klobah Collins · ss The Dark #64, September 2020

· Tea with the Earl of Twilight · Sonya Taaffe · ss Nightmare #96, September 2020

· Wait for Night · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Tor.com September 2 2020

· Where the Old Neighbors Go · Thomas Ha · nv Metaphorosis September 2020

· Dead Bright Star · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest April 2020

· And This Is How to Stay Alive · Shingai Njeri Kagunda · ss Fantasy Magazine #61, November 2020

· Lacunae · V. H. Leslie · ss Shadows & Tall Trees v8, 2020

· The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods · Maria Dahvana Headley · ss Tor.com January 23 2020

· Monster · Naomi Kritzer · nv Clarkesworld #160, January 2020

· Last Night at the Fair · M. Rickert · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2020

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 3 ed. Paula Guran (Pyr, October 18, 2022, 978-1-64506-034-5, $21.95, 460pp, tp, an)
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· Monsters · Paula Guran · in

· The God Bag · Christopher Golden · ss Beyond the Veil ed. Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2021

· The Nag Bride · A. C. Wise · nv The Ghost Sequences by A. C. Wise, Undertow Publications, 2021

· Mr. Death · Alix E. Harrow · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Wolfsbane · Maria Dahvana Headley · ss Nightmare #100, January 2021

· For Sale by Owner · Elizabeth Hand · nv When Things Get Dark ed. Ellen Datlow, Titan, 2021

· Barefoot and Midnight · Sheree R. Thomas · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· Shuck · G. V. Anderson · nv The Deadlands #2, June 2021

· The Wishing Pool · Tananarive Due · ss Uncanny Magazine #41, July/August 2021

· Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather · Sarah Pinsker · ss Uncanny Magazine #39, March/April 2021

· Refinery Road · Stephen Graham Jones · ss When Things Get Dark ed. Ellen Datlow, Titan, 2021

· The Bletted Woman · Rebecca Campbell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2021

· Beneath the Forest’s Wilting Leaves · Steve Toase · ss To Drown in Dark Water by Steve Toase, Undertow Publications, 2021

· Blood Ties · Jade Wilburn · ss Fiyah #18, Spring 2021

· Jenny Greenteeth · Alison Littlewood · ss The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror ed. Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing, 2021

· Jetty Sara · Glen Hirshberg · ss December Tales ed. J. D. Horn, Curious Blue Press, 2021

· The Sequence · Brian Evenson · ss Conjunctions #77, Fall 2021

· Caving · David J. Schow · ss Weird Doom by David J. Schow, Cimarron Books, 2021

· Hand-Me-Down · Seán Padraic Birnie · ss I Would Haunt You if I Could by Seán Padraic Birnie, Undertow Publications, 2021

· In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi [Cthulhu] · Molly Tanzer · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2021

· Laughter Among the Trees · Suzan Palumbo · ss The Dark #69, February 2021

· And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared · Chimedum Ohaegbu · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2021

· Across the Dark Water · Richard Kadrey · ss Tor.com February 3 2021

· Where We Will Go on Together · J. S. Breukelaar · ss The Dark #70, March 2021

· About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 4 ed. Paula Guran (Pyr, October 24, 2023, 978-1-64506-067-3, 400pp, tp, an)
Details taken from ebook Table of Contents.

· In Brief · Paula Guran · in

· Shadow Plane · Fran Wilde · ss Weird Tales #365, 2022

· The Dyer and the Dressmakers · Bindia Persaud · ss Chromophobia ed. Sara Tantlinger, Rooster Republic Press, 2022

· Red Wet Grin · Gemma Files · ss Screams from the Dark ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Nightfire, 2022, as “Wet Red Grin”

· The Lending Library of Final Lines · Octavia Cade · ss The Dark #80, January 2022

· Men, Women, and Chainsaws · Stephen Graham Jones · nv Tor.com April 20 2022

· The Woman Who Married the Minotaur · Angela Slatter · ss The Sunday Morning Transport October 23 2022

· The Voice of a Thousand Years · Fawaz Al-Matrouk · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2022

· Bonesoup · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss Strange Horizons July 11 2022

· Challawa · Usman T. Malik · nv Dark Stars ed. John F. D. Taff, Titan, 2022

· How Selkies Are Made · Cassandra Khaw · ss Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw, Undertow Publications, 2022

· The Feeding of Closed Mouths · Eden Royce · ss (Re)Living Mythology ed. H. D. Hunter, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, L. P. Kindred & Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Android Press, 2022

· A Belly Full of Spiders · Mário Coelho · ss
previously available as an audio download from PseudoPod #813, June 2022.

· The Long Way Up · Alix E. Harrow · ss The Deadlands #9, January 2022

· Douen · Suzan Palumbo · ss The Dark #82, March 2022

· The Ercildoun Accord · Steve Toase · ss Lackington’s #25, Spring 2022

· Sharp Things, Killing Things · A. C. Wise · ss Nightmare #121, October 2022

· Swim the Darkness · Michael Kelly · ss The Dark #87, August 2022

· The Summer Castle · Ray Nayler · ss Nightmare #113, February 2022

· In the Smile Place · Tobi Ogundiran · ss Fiyah #24, Fall 2022

· A Monster in the Shape of a Boy · Hannah Yang · ss Apex Magazine #131, 2022

· Lemmings · Kirstyn McDermott · ss Weird Horror #5, Fall 2022

The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 1 ed. Paula Guran (Pyr, August 16, 2022, 978-1-64506-048-2, $21.95, 456pp, tp, an)
Details taken from ebook Table of Contents.

· Mirrors · Paula Guran · in

· Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. · Fran Wilde · ss Uncanny Magazine #40, May/June 2021

· Small Monsters · E. Lily Yu · nv Tor.com October 20 2021

· L’Esprit de L’Escalier · Catherynne M. Valente · nv Tor.com August 25 2021

· Frost’s Boy [Tales of the Great Sweet Sea] · P. H. Lee · ss Lightspeed #128, January 2021

· The Tale of Jaja and Canti · Tobi Ogundiran · ss Lightspeed #135, August 2021

· The Cloud Lake Unicorn · Karen Russell · ss Conjunctions #76, Spring 2021

· The White Road or How a Crow Carried Death Over a River · Marika Bailey · ss Fiyah #18, Spring 2021

· The Red Mother · Elizabeth Bear · nv Tor.com June 23 2021

· Her Garden, the Size of Her Palm · Yukimi Ogawa · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2021

· Gisla and the Three Favors · Kathleen Jennings · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43, June 2021

· Passing Fair and Young · Roshani Chokshi · ss Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices ed. Swapna Krishnan & Jenn Northington, Vintage Books, 2021

· Quintessence · Andrew James Dykstal · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #324, February 25 2021

· Brickomancer · Tobias Buckell · ss Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell, Fairwood Press, 2021

· The Demon Sage’s Daughter · Varsha Dinesh · ss Strange Horizons February 8 2021

· Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts · Merc Fenn Wolfmoor · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Drunkard’s Walk [Morlock Ambrosius] · James Enge · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2021

· If the Martians Have Magic · P. Djeli Clark · ss Uncanny Magazine #42, September/October 2021

· A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid · C. S. E. Cooney & Carlos Hernandez · ss Mermaids Monthly #4, April 2021

· The Fox’s Daughter · Richard Parks · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #344, December 2 2021

· The Three Tales from the Blue Library · Sofia Samatar · ss Conjunctions #76, Spring 2021

· Breath of the Dragon King · Allison King · vi Fantasy Magazine #72, October 2021

· The Piper · Karen Joy Fowler · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2021

· A Spell for Foolish Hearts · Isabel Yap · ss Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap, Small Beer Press, 2021

· About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 2 ed. Paula Guran (Pyr, August 15, 2023, 978-1-64506-049-9, $21.95, 406pp, tp, an)
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xi · Radical (And Not So Radical) Literature · Paula Guran · in

1 · The Portal Keeper · Lavie Tidhar · ss Uncanny Magazine #48, September/October 2022

21 · Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology · Theodora Goss · ss Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms ed. John Joseph Adams, Grim Oak Press, 2022

41 · The Hunger [Morlock Ambrosius] · James Enge · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2022

51 · The Gentle Dragon Tells His Tale of Love [Faine] · J. A. Pak · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2022

73 · The Part You Throw Away · Elizabeth Bear · ss The Sunday Morning Transport September 4 2022

83 · Phoenix Tile · Guan Un · ss Khōréō v2 #1, 2022

97 · The Daily Commute · Sarah Gailey · ss The Sunday Morning Transport July 10 2022

105 · Earth Dragon, Turning · Anya Ow · ss Uncanny Magazine #49, November/December 2022

120 · March Magic · W. C. Dunlap · ss Africa Risen ed. Sheree Ren^e'e Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, Tor.com, 2022

126 · The Goldfish Man · Maureen F. McHugh · ss Uncanny Magazine #45, March/April 2022

143 · Love Heart Soup · Wen-yi Lee · ss Augur Magazine v5 #1, 2022

151 · A Record of Our Meeting with the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries, Revised · A. T. Greenblatt · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #350, February 24 2022

173 · The Book of Unwritten Poems · Curtis C. Chen · ss The Sunday Morning Transport June 19 2022

182 · 3 A.M. Eternal · Eden Royce · ss Worlds of Possibility October 2022

201 · Readings in the Slantwise Sciences · Sofia Samatar · ss Conjunctions #79, Fall 2022

210 · At the Foot of the Dragon Stair · Aliette de Bodard · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #350, February 24 2022

225 · Roadside Attraction · Alix E. Harrow · ss Someone in Time ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2022

239 · Kings and Popes and Saints · Jon Hansen · ss Apex Magazine #133, 2022

248 · The Long View · Susan Palwick · ss Tor.com April 27 2022

268 · The Short History of My Mother · Priya Sharma · ss Sufficiently Advanced Magic ed. Vassili Christodoulou, Writers Mosaic, 2022

274 · The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse · Isabel Kim · ss Clarkesworld #185, February 2022

288 · Potemora in the Triad · Sara S. Messenger · ss Fantasy Magazine #80, June 2022

299 · Le Sorcier de Lascaux · Douglas Schwarz · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2022

321 · Songs We Sing at Sea Are the Lies We Tell Ourselves · Kaaron Warren · ss Looming Low: Volume II ed. Sam Cowan & Justin Steele, Dim Shores, 2023

331 · The Miraculous Account of Khaja Bairaq, Pennant-Saint of Zabel · Tanvir Ahmed · ss Strange Horizons July 18 2022

346 · Sun in an Empty Room · Sam J. Miller · ss Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J. Miller, Tachyon, 2022

356 · The Deification of Igodo · Joshua Uchenna Omenga · ss Africa Risen ed. Sheree Ren^e'e Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight, Tor.com, 2022

370 · To Make Unending · Max Gladstone · ss The Sunday Morning Transport September 1 2022

381 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

392 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, August 6, 2015, 978-1-60701-455-3, $19.95, 573pp, tp, an, cover by Julie Dillon)
Year’s Best anthology with nine novellas from 2014. Authors include Nancy Kress, Patrick Rothfuss, Genevieve Valentine, and K.J. Parker.
Details taken from online listing.

7 · Introduction · Paula Guran · in

11 · Yesterday’s Kin [Yesterday’s Kin] · Nancy Kress · na Tachyon, 2014

101 · The Lightning Tree [Kingkiller Chronicle] · Patrick Rothfuss · nv Rogues ed. Gardner Dozois & George R. R. Martin, Bantam Spectra, 2014

149 · Dream Houses · Genevieve Valentine · na WSFA Press, 2014

217 · The Mothers of Voorhisville · Mary Rickert · na Tor.com April 30 2014

299 · Claudius Rex · John P. Murphy · na Alembical 3 ed. Lawrence M. Schoen & Arthur Dorrance, Paper Golem, 2014

385 · In Her Eyes · Seth Chambers · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2014

429 · The Churn [The Expanse] · James S. A. Corey · na Orbit, 2014

471 · The Things We Do for Love · K. J. Parker · na Subterranean (online) Summer 2014

523 · Where the Trains Turn · Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen; translated by Liisa Rantalaiho · na Tor.com November 19 2014
translated from the Finnish (“Missä junat kääntyvät”, 2000).

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, August 2, 2016, 978-1-60701-472-0, $19.95, 527pp, tp, an, cover by Julie Dillon)
Year’s Best anthology with nine novellas from 2015. Authors include Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor, and K.J. Parker.
Details taken from online listing.

7 · Introduction · Paula Guran · in

13 · Binti [Binti] · Nnedi Okorafor · na Tor.com, 2015

53 · The Citadel of Weeping Pearls [Xuya] · Aliette de Bodard · na Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2015

129 · Gypsy · Carter Scholz · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2015

186 · The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn · Usman T. Malik · na Tor.com April 22 2015

237 · What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear · Bao Shu; translated by Ken Liu · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2015
translated from the Chinese (“Dà shídài”).

291 · The Last Witness · K. J. Parker · na Tor.com, 2015

354 · Inhuman Garbage [Miles Flint (Retrieval Artist)] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · na Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2015

409 · The Bone Swans of Amandale · C. S. E. Cooney · na Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney, Mythic Delirium Books, 2015

471 · Johnny Rev [Jack Shade] · Rachel Pollack · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2015

523 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

527 · Appendix: Some Notable Speculative Fiction Novellas 1843-1980 · [uncredited] · ms

Zombies: More Recent Dead ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, September 2, 2014, 978-1-60701-433-1, $16.95, 475pp, tp, an, cover by Balazs Szabo)
Zombie anthology of 3 poems and 33 stories from the last decade. Authors include Mike Carey, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Neil Gaiman (poem), and Charles Stross.
Details taken from online listing.

· Trail of Dead · Joanne Anderton · ss Zombies ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Altair Australia Books, 2007

· Rigormarole · Michael Arnzen · pm (r)

· What Still Abides · Marie Brennan · ss Clockwork Phoenix 4 ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books, 2013

· Iphigenia in Aulis [The Hungry Plague] · Mike Carey · nv An Apple for the Creature ed. Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner, Ace, 2012

· Those Beneath the Bog · Jacques L. Condor · ss (r)

· The Day the Saucers Came · Neil Gaiman · pm SpiderWords.com v1 #2, 2006

· There Is No “E” in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You or We · Roxane Gay · ss Guernica October 1 2010

· I Waltzed with a Zombie · Ron Goulart · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2009

· The Harrowers · Eric Gregory · ss Lightspeed #12, May 2011

· The Death and Life of Bob · William Jablonsky · ss Shimmer #16, 2013

· Til Death Do Us Part · Shaun Jeffrey · ss (r)

· The Afflicted · Matthew Johnson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2012

· Rocket Man · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Stymie Spring/Summer 2011

· Aftermath · Joy Kennedy-O’Neill · ss Strange Horizons February 6 2012 (+1)

· In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest July 2007

· Present · Nicole Kornher-Stace · ss Mythic Delirium (online) January/March 2014

· The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Trapped in the Saturday Matinee by Joe R. Lansdale, PS Publishing, 2012

· Becca at the End of the World · Shira Lipkin · ss Apex Magazine #53, October 2013

· What Maisie Knew · David Liss · na The New Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

· Jack and Jill [Rot & Ruin] · Jonathan Maberry · nv 21st Century Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

· Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE) · Alex Dally MacFarlane · ss Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages ed. Steve Berman, Prime Books, 2013

· The Naturalist · Maureen McHugh · nv Subterranean (online) Spring 2010

· Resurgam · Lisa Mannetti · ss Dead Set ed. Michelle McCrary & Joe McKinney, 23 House Pub., 2010

· The Day the Music Died · Joe McKinney · ss (r)

· Chew · Tamsyn Muir · ss Nightmare #4, January 2013

· Delice · Holly Newstein · ss The New Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

· Love, Resurrected [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #65, March 24 2011

· What We Once Feared · Carrie Ryan · ss (r)

· The Children’s Hour · Marge Simon · pm (r)

· A Shepherd of the Valley · Maggie Slater · nv The Zombie Feed Volume 1 ed. Jason Sizemore, TZF Press, 2011

· Stemming the Tide · Simon Strantzas · ss Dead North ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions, 2013

· Bit Rot [Saturn’s Children] · Charles Stross · nv Engineering Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2011

· The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring · Genevieve Valentine · ss Lightspeed #21, February 2012

· Kitty’s Zombie New Year [Kitty the werewolf] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Weird Tales June/July 2007

· Pollution · Don Webb · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact April 2014

· Dead Song · Jay Wilburn · ss Zombies for a Cure ed. Angela Charmaine Craig, Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012

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