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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016

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, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real ... tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2015 s best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of today s finest writers of the fantastique sure to delight as well as disturb."

Contents

The Door • (2015) • by Kelley Armstrong

Snow • (2015) • by Dale Bailey

Seven Minutes in Heaven • (2015) • by Nadia Bulkin

The Glad Hosts • (2015) • by Rebecca Campbell

Hairwork • (2015) • by Gemma Files

Black Dog (American Gods series) • (2015) • by Neil Gaiman

A Shot of Salt Water • (2015) • by Lisa L. Hannett

Cassandra • (2015) • by Ken Liu

Street of the Dead House • (2015) • by Robert Lopresti

The Deepwater Bride • (2015) • by Tamsyn Muir

1UP • (2015) • by Holly Black

The Scavenger's Nursery • (2015) • by Maria Dahvana Headley

Daniel's Theory About Dolls • (2015) • by Stephen Graham Jones

The Cripple and Starfish • (2015) • by Caitlín R. Kiernan

The Absence of Words • (2015) • by Swapna Kishore

Corpsemouth • (2015) • by John Langan

Mary, Mary • (2015) • by Kirstyn McDermott

There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold • (2015) • by Seanan McGuire

Below the Falls • (2015) • by Daniel Mills

The Greyness • (2015) • by Kathryn Ptacek

The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • by Kelly Robson

Those • (2015) • by Sofia Samatar

Fabulous Beasts • (2015) • by Priya Sharma

Windows Underwater • (2015) • by John Shirley

Ripper • (2015) • by Angela Slatter

The Lily and the Horn • (2015) • by Catherynne M. Valente

Sing Me Your Scars • (2015) • by Damien Angelica Walters

The Body Finder • (2015) • by Kaaron Warren

The Devil Under the Maison Blue • (2015) • by Michael Wehunt

Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" • (2015) • by Kai Ashante Wilson

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 528
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781607014713
  • Genres
  • horror, fantasy, anthologies, fiction, halloween, magic, dark
  • Release date
  • 2016