Best Horror of the Year

Ellen Datlow

Jun 2018 · Start Publishing LLC

About this ebook

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; An American band finds more than they bargained for in Mexico while scouting remote locations for a photo shoot; A young student’s exploration into the origins of a mysterious song leads him on a winding, dangerous path through the US’s deep south; A group of kids scaring each other with ghost stories discovers alarming consequences.



The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in horror short fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Mark Morris, Kaaron Warren, John Langan, Carole Johnstone, Brian Hodge, and others.



For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the tenth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night.







TABLE OF CONTENTS:



Introduction: Summation 2017—Ellen Datlow

Better You Believe—Carole Johnstone

Liquid Air—Inna Effress

Holiday Romance—Mark Morris

Furtherest—Kaaron Warren

Where’s the Harm?—Rebecca Lloyd

Whatever Comes After Calcutta—David Erik Nelson

A Human Stain—Kelly Robson

The Stories We Tell about Ghosts—A. C. Wise

Endoskeletal—Sarah Read

West of Matamoros, North of Hell—Brian Hodge

Alligator Point—S. P. Miskowski

Dark Warm Heart—Rich Larson

There and Back Again—Carmen Maria Machado

Shepherd’s Business—Stephen Gallagher

You Can Stay All Day—Mira Grant

Harvest Song, Gathering Song—A. C. Wise

The Granfalloon—Orrin Grey

Fail-Safe—Philip Fracassi

The Starry Crown—Marc E. Fitch

Eqalussuaq—Tim Major

Lost in the Dark—John Langan

Honorable Mentions

About the Authors

Acknowledgment of Copyright

About the Editor

About the author

Ellen Datlow is the editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies. She was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981-1998. Then she was the editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from September 1998-December 1999. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, the Bram Stoker Award twice with her co-editors and the Hugo Award for Best Editor in 2002 and 2005. She currently lives in New York City and edits fiction for Scifi.com. In 2011 she was given the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.She is a long time trustee of the Horror Writers Association. She has been the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000, a series which features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction.