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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, August 2015, 978-1-59780-829-3, $15.99, 369pp, tp, cover by Noia Hokama)     Year’s best anthology of 22 horror stories from 2014, with a summation of the year by Datlow. Authors include Genevieve Valentine, Garth Nix, and Cody Goodfellow. E-book also available. · The Atlas of Hell · Nathan Ballingrud · nv Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 · Winter Children · Angela Slatter · ss Far Voyager ed. Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2014 · A Dweller in Amenty · Genevieve Valentine · ss Nightmare #18, March 2014 · Outside Heavenly · Rio Youers · nv The Spectral Book of Horror Stories ed. Mark Morris, Spectral Press, 2014 · Shay Corsham Worsted · Garth Nix · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 · Allochthon · Livia Llewellyn · ss Letters to Lovecraft ed. Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2014 · Chapter Six · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Tor.com June 11 2014 · This Is Not for You · Gemma Files · ss Nightmare #25, October 2014 · Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Sirenia Digest May 2014 · The Culvert · Dale Bailey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2014 · Past Reno · Brian Evenson · ss Letters to Lovecraft ed. Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2014 · The Coat Off His Back · Keris McDonald · ss Terror Tales of Yorkshire ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2014 · The Worms Crawl In · Laird Barron · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 · The Dog’s Home · Alison Littlewood · ss The Spectral Book of Horror Stories ed. Mark Morris, Spectral Press, 2014 · Tread Upon the Brittle Shell · Rhoads Brazos · nv SQ Mag #14, May 2014 · Persistence of Vision · Orrin Grey · ss Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions, 2014 · It Flows from the Mouth · Robert Shearman · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #6, Spring 2014 · Wingless Beasts · Lucy Taylor · ss Fatal Journeys (Limited Edition) by Lucy Taylor, Overlook Connection Press, 2014 · Departures · Carole Johnstone · ss The Bright Day Is Done by Carole Johnstone, Gray Friar Press, 2014 · Ymir · John Langan · nv The Children of Old Leech ed. Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, Word Horde, 2014 · Plink · Kurt Dinan · ss Far Voyager ed. Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2014 · Nigredo · Cody Goodfellow · ss In the Court of the Yellow King ed. Glynn Owen Barrass, Celaeno Press, 2014

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, June 7, 2016, 978-1-59780-853-8, $15.99, xli+317pp, tp, cover by Blake Malcerta)     Year’s best anthology of 20 stories, with a summation of the year 2015 in horror by Datlow. Authors include Kelley Armstrong, Laird Barron, and Neil Gaiman. Details taken from online listing. viii · Summation 2015 · Ellen Datlow · ar 2016 1 · We Are All Monsters Here · Kelley Armstrong · ss Seize the Night ed. Christopher Golden, Gallery Books, 2015 17 · Universal Horror · Stephen Graham Jones · ss October Dreams II ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2015 35 · Slaughtered Lamb · Tom Johnstone · ss The Eleventh Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2015 45 · In a Cavern, In a Canyon · Laird Barron · nv Seize the Night ed. Christopher Golden, Gallery Books, 2015 65 · Between the Pilings · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Innsmouth Nightmares ed. Lois H. Gresh, PS Publishing, 2015 79 · Snow · Dale Bailey · ss Nightmare #33, June 2015 93 · Indian Giver · Ray Cluley · ss Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley, ChiZine Publications, 2015 107 · My Boy Builds Coffins · Gary McMahon · ss Black Static #46, May/June 2015 123 · The Woman in the Hill · Tamsyn Muir · ss Dreams from the Witch House ed. Lynne Jamneck, Dark Regions Press, 2016 133 · Underground Economy · John Langan · ss Aickman’s Heirs ed. Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications, 2015 143 · The Rooms Are High · Reggie Oliver · ss The Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015 159 · All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck · Kate Jonez · ss Black Static #47, July/August 2015 177 · Lord of the Sand · Stephen Bacon · ss The Eleventh Black Book of Horror ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press, 2015 185 · Wilderness · Letitia Trent · ss Exigencies ed. Richard Thomas, Dark House Press, 2015 201 · Fabulous Beasts · Priya Sharma · nv Tor.com July 27 2015 229 · Descent · Carmen Maria Machado · ss Nightmare #29, February 2015 239 · Hippocampus · Adam Nevill · ss Terror Tales of the Ocean ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2015 247 · Black Dog [American Gods] · Neil Gaiman · nv Trigger Warning—Short Fictions & Disturbances by Neil Gaiman, Headline, 2015 283 · The 21st Century Shadow · Stephanie M. Wytovich · pm Shadows over Main Street ed. Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, Hazardous Press, 2015 285 · This Stagnant Breath of Change · Brian Hodge · ss Shadows over Main Street ed. Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, Hazardous Press, 2015

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, July 11, 2017, 978-1-5107-1666-7, $15.99, xlii+388pp, tp, cover by Kevin Peterson)     Details taken from online listing. · Summation 2016 · Ellen Datlow · ar 2017 · On These Blackened Shores of Time · Brian Hodge · nv Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016 · The Ice Beneath Us · Steve Duffy · ss Uncertainties: Volume II ed. Brian J. Showers, The Swan River Press, 2016 · The Castellmarch Man · Ray Cluley · nv Green and Pleasant Land ed. Steve J. Shaw, Black Shuck Books, 2017 · No Matter Which Way We Turned · Brian Evenson · ss People Holding May 17 2016 · What’s Out There? · Gary McMahon · ss Uncertainties: Volume II ed. Brian J. Showers, The Swan River Press, 2016 · Ragman · Rebecca Lloyd · nv Ragman & Other Family Curses by Rebecca Lloyd, Egaeus Press, 2016 · Wish You Were Here · Nadia Bulkin · ss Nightmare #49, October 2016 · The Beautiful Thing We Will Become · Kristi DeMeester · ss Eternal Frankenstein ed. Ross E. Lockhart, Word Horde, 2016 · Bright Crown of Joy · Livia Llewellyn · ss Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016 · The Numbers · Christopher Burns · ss Nightjar Press, June 2016 · The House of Wonders · C. E. Ward · ss Malevolent Visitants by C. E. Ward, Sarob Press, 2016 · The Days of Our Lives · Adam L. G. Nevill · nv Dead Letters ed. Conrad Williams, Titan Books, 2016 · Between Dry Ribs · Gregory Norman Bossert · ss The Dark #11, February 2016 · Grave Goods · Gemma Files · nv Autumn Cthulhu ed. Mike Davis, Lovecraft eZine Press, 2016 · Fury · DB Waters · ss Nightjar Press, November 2016 · It’s All the Same Road in the End · Brian Hodge · nv The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction ed. Paula Guran, Robinson, 2016 · Red Rabbit · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Borderlands 6 ed. Olivia F. & Thomas F. Monteleone, Samhain Publishing, 2016 · The Bad Hour · Christopher Golden · ss What the #@&% Is That? ed. John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen, Saga Press, 2016 · The Process Is a Process All Its Own [Tillman Hayward] · Peter Straub · na Conjunctions #67, Fall 2016 · The Oestridae · Robert Levy · ss Black Static #52, May/June 2016 · Nesters · Siobhan Carroll · nv Children of Lovecraft ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books, 2016

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, June 12, 2018, 978-1-5107-1667-4, $15.99, xxxix+435pp, tp, cover by Chenthooran Nambiarooran)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Summation 2017 · Ellen Datlow · ar 2018 1 · Better You Believe · Carole Johnstone · nv Horror Library, Volume 6 ed. Eric J. Guignard, Cutting Block Press, 2017 21 · Liquid Air · Inna Effress · ss Nightscript III ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2017 31 · Holiday Romance · Mark Morris · nv Black Static #58, May/June 2017 55 · Furtherest · Kaaron Warren · nv Dark Screams: Volume Seven ed. Richard Chizmar & Brian James Freeman, Hydra, 2017 77 · Where’s the Harm? · Rebecca Lloyd · nv Seven Strange Stories by Rebecca Lloyd, Tartarus Press, 2017 107 · Whatever Comes After Calcutta · David Erik Nelson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2017 129 · A Human Stain · Kelly Robson · nv Tor.com January 4 2017 155 · The Stories We Tell About Ghosts · A. C. Wise · ss Looming Low: Volume I ed. Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017 173 · Endoskeletal · Sarah Read · ss Black Static #59, July/August 2017 189 · West of Matamoros, North of Hell · Brian Hodge · nv Dark Screams: Volume Seven ed. Richard Chizmar & Brian James Freeman, Hydra, 2017 231 · Alligator Point · S. P. Miskowski · ss Looming Low: Volume I ed. Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017 239 · Dark Warm Heart · Rich Larson · ss Tor.com April 12 2017 257 · There and Back Again · Carmen Maria Machado · ss Mixed Up ed. Nick Mamatas & Molly Tanzer, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017 261 · Shepherd’s Business · Stephen Gallagher · nv New Fears ed. Mark Morris, Titan Books, 2017 279 · You Can Stay All Day · Mira Grant · nv Nights of the Living Dead ed. Jonathan Maberry & George A. Romero, St. Martin's Griffin, 2017 295 · Harvest Song, Gathering Song · A. C. Wise · ss For Mortal Things Unsung ed. Alex Hofelich, Escape Artists, Inc., 2017 315 · The Granfalloon · Orrin Grey · ss Darker Companions ed. Scott David Aniolowski & Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., PS Publishing, 2017 327 · Fail-Safe · Philip Fracassi · ss Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi, JournalStone, 2017 345 · The Starry Crown · Marc E. Fitch · ss Horror Library, Volume 6 ed. Eric J. Guignard, Cutting Block Press, 2017 361 · Eqalussuaq · Tim Major · ss Not One of Us #58, October 2017 379 · Lost in the Dark · John Langan · nv Haunted Nights ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton, Blumhouse Books, 2017

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, September 3, 2019, 978-1-59780-972-6, $15.99, xii+437pp, tp, cover by Audrey Benjaminsen)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. xi · Summation 2018 · Ellen Datlow · ar 2019 1 · I Remember Nothing · Anne Billson · ss We Were Strangers ed. Richard Hirst, Confingo Publishing, 2018 19 · Monkeys on the Beach · Ralph Robert Moore · ss Tales from the Shadow Booth v2, 2018 29 · Painted Wolves · Ray Cluley · nv In Dog We Trust ed. Anthony Cowin, Black Shuck, 2018 59 · Shit Happens · Michael Marshall Smith · nv The Devil and the Deep ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books, 2018 81 · You Know How the Story Goes · Thomas Olde Heuvelt · ss Tor.com February 21 2018 translated from the Dutch (“Je weet hoe dit verhaal gaat”, 2017). 99 · Back Along the Old Track · Sam Hicks · ss The Fiends in the Furrows ed. David T. Neal & Christine M. Scott, Nosetouch Press, 2018 113 · Masks · Peter Sutton · ss The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors ed. Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards, Alchemy Press, 2018 119 · The Donner Party · Dale Bailey · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2018 147 · Milkteeth · Kristi DeMeester · ss Shimmer #44, July 2018 157 · Haak · John Langan · nv New Fears 2 ed. Mark Morris, Titan Books, 2018 181 · Thin Cold Hands · Gemma Files · ss LampLight June 2018 197 · A Tiny Mirror · Eloise C. C. Shepherd · ss Supernatural Tales #39, Winter 2018/2019 203 · I Love You Mary-Grace · Amelia Mangan · ss In Dog We Trust ed. Anthony Cowin, Black Shuck, 2018 219 · The Jaws of Ouroboros · Steve Toase · ss The Fiends in the Furrows ed. David T. Neal & Christine M. Scott, Nosetouch Press, 2018 233 · A Brief Moment of Rage · Bill Davidson · ss Endless Apocalypse ed. Josie Mitchell, Flame Tree Publishing, 2018 245 · Golden Sun · Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt · nv Chiral Mad 4 ed. Michael Bailey & Lucy A. Snyder, Written Backwards, 2018 269 · White Mare · Thana Niveau · nv The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories ed. Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018 291 · Girls Without Their Faces On · Laird Barron · ss Ashes and Entropy ed. Robert S. Wilson, Nightscape Press, 2018 307 · Thumbsucker · Robert Shearman · ss New Fears 2 ed. Mark Morris, Titan Books, 2018 319 · You Are Released · Joe Hill · nv Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales ed. Stephen King & Bev Vincent, Cemetery Dance, 2018 345 · Red Rain · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Nightmare #69, June 2018 353 · Split Chain Stitch · Steve Toase · ss Mystery Weekly November 2018 363 · No Exit · Orrin Grey · ss Lost Highways ed. D. Alexander Ward, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018 373 · Haunt · Siobhan Carroll · nv The Devil and the Deep ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books, 2018 401 · Sleep · Carly Holmes · nv Figurehead by Carly Holmes, Tartarus Press, 2018 423 · Honorable Mentions · [The Editor] · bi 2019 425 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 2019 437 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg 2019

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, October 20, 2020, 978-1-59780-973-3, $15.99, xliii+424pp, tp, cover by Reiko Murakami)     Horror anthology. Details taken from online listing. xiii · Summation 2019 · Ellen Datlow · in 1 · Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person · Paul Tremblay · ss Echoes ed. Ellen Datlow, Saga Press, 2019 21 · A Song for Wounded Mouths · Kristi DeMeester · ss previously available as an audio download from Pseudopod, March 29, 2019. 33 · Birds of Passage · Gordon B. White · ss Twice-Told ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2019 46 · The Puppet Motel · Gemma Files · nv Echoes ed. Ellen Datlow, Saga Press, 2019 76 · The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team · Joe R. Lansdale · ss At Home in the Dark ed. Lawrence Block, Subterranean Press, 2019 91 · The Night Nurse · Sarah Langan · nv Hex Life ed. Rachel Autumn Deering & Christopher Golden, Titan Books, 2019 116 · They Are Us (1964): An Oral History · Jack Lothian · ss Twice-Told ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2019 127 · As Dark as Hunger · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss Black Static #72, November/December 2019 146 · I Say (I Say, I Say) · Robert Shearman · ss Tales from the Shadow Booth v3, 2019 158 · The Pain-Eater’s Daughter · Laura Mauro · nv Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro, Undertow Publications, 2019 182 · The Hope Chest · Sarah Read · ss Black Static #72, November/December 2019 197 · Nor Cease You Never Now · Ren Warom · ss Dark and Stormy Nights ed. Steve J. Shaw, Black Shuck Books, 2020 212 · Playscape · Diana Peterfreund · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2019 222 · Adrenaline Junkies · Ray Cluley · nv The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities ed. Christopher M. Jones, Macabreink.com, 2019 249 · Watching · Tim Lees · ss Black Static #72, November/December 2019 255 · Mr. and Mrs. Kett · Sam Hicks · ss Nightscript Vol. V ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2019 268 · Below · Simon Bestwick · ss Terror Tales of Northwest England ed. Paul Finch, Telos Publishing, 2019 288 · My Name Is Ellie · Sam Rebelein · ss Bourbon Penn #18, July 2019 300 · Slipper · Catriona Ward · ss Dark and Stormy Nights ed. Steve J. Shaw, Black Shuck Books, 2020 312 · How to Stay Afloat When Drowning · Daniel Braum · nv Pareidolia ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth, Black Shuck Books, 2019 336 · This Was Always Going to Happen · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Terror at 5280′, Denver Horror Collective, 2019 340 · The Butcher’s Table · Nathan Ballingrud · na Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud, Saga Press, 2019 413 · Honorable Mentions · [uncredited] · ms 415 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 424 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen ed. Ellen Datlow (Night Shade Books, November 16, 2021, 978-1-949102-60-4, $15.99, xlvi+383pp, tp, cover by Reiko Murakami)     Horror anthology. Details taken from ebook Table of Contents. · Summation 2020 · Ellen Datlow · in 2021 · Exhalation #10 · A. C. Wise · nv Final Cuts ed. Ellen Datlow, Anchor Books, 2020 · A Hotel in Germany · Catriona Ward · ss After Sundown ed. Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2020 · A Deed Without a Name · Jack Lothian · ss The Fiends in the Furrows II ed. David T. Neal & Christine M. Scott, Nosetouch Press, 2020 · Lords of the Matinee · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Final Cuts ed. Ellen Datlow, Anchor Books, 2020 · Cleaver, Meat, and Block · Maria Haskins · ss Black Static #73, January/February 2020 · The Eight-Thousanders · Jason Sanford · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2020 · Scold’s Bridle: A Cruelty · Richard Gavin · ss Grotesquerie by Richard Gavin, Undertow Publications, 2020 · Come Closer · Gemma Files · ss Apostles of the Weird ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2020 · It Doesn’t Feel Right · Michael Marshall Smith · ss After Sundown ed. Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2020 · Mine Seven · Elana Gomel · ss After Sundown ed. Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2020 · Sicko · Stephen Volk · ss Black Static #73, January/February 2020 · Mouselode Maze · Christopher Harman · ss The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes ed. Rosemary Pardoe, Sarob Press, 2020 · Heath Crawler · Sam Hicks · ss Vastarien Fall 2020 · The Devil Will Be at the Door · David Surface · ss Crooked Houses ed. Mark Beech, Egaeus Press, 2020 · Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking · Tom Johnstone · ss Nightscript VI ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2020 · Scream Queen · Nathan Ballingrud · nv Final Cuts ed. Ellen Datlow, Anchor Books, 2020 · We Do Like to Be Beside · Pete Sutton · ss The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 ed. Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards, Alchemy Press, 2020 · Contrition (1998) · J. A. W. McCarthy · ss Oculus Sinister ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2020 · Tethered Dogs · Gary McMahon · ss Some Bruising May Occur by Gary McMahon, JournalStone Publishing, 2020 · Bloody Rhapsody · Alessandro Manzetti · pm Whitechapel Rhapsody by Alessandro Manzetti, Independent Legions Publishing, 2020 · In the English Rain · Steve Duffy · ss Terror Tales of the Home Counties ed. Paul Finch, Telos Publishing, 2020 · A Treat for Your Last Day · Simon Bestwick · ss Patreon.com/SimonBestwick March 23 2020 · Trick of the Light · Andrew Humphrey · ss Nightjar Press, 2020 · Two Truths and a Lie · Sarah Pinsker · nv Tor.com June 17 2020 · The Whisper of Stars · Thana Niveau · ss Lovecraft Mythos New and Classic Collection ed. Gillian Whittaker, Flame Tree Publishing, 2020 · Honorable Mentions · [uncredited] · ms 2020 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 2021 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg 2021