The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious hauntings, seductive nightmares, and frighteningly plausible futures. Featuring thirty-five tales from masterful authors and talented new writers sure to make you reconsider walking in the shadows alone...
Instructions for Use • Paula Guran
No Ghosts in London • Helen Marshall
Fake Plastic Trees • Caitlín R Kiernan
The Natural History of Autumn • Jeffrey Ford
Great-Grandmother in the Cellar • Peter S. Beagle
Renfrew’s Course • John Langan
End of White • Ekaterina Sedia
Who is Arvid Pekon? • Karin Tidbeck
Iphigenia in Aulis • Mike Carey
Slaughterhouse Blues • Tim Lebbon
England Under the White Witch • Theodora Goss
The Sea of Trees • Rachel Swirsky
The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury • Neil Gaiman
The Education of a Witch • Ellen Klages
Welcome to the Reptile House • Stephen Graham Jones
Glamour of Madness • Peter Bell
Bigfoot on Campus • Jim Butcher
Everything Must Go • Brooke Wonders
Nightside Eye • Terry Dowling
Escena de un Asesinato • Robert Hood
Good Hunting • Ken Liu
Go Home Again • Simon Strantzas
The Bird Country • K. M. Ferebee
Sinking Among Lilies • Cory Skerry
Down in the Valley • Joseph Bruchac
Armless Maidens of the American West • Genevieve Valentine
Blue Lace Agate • Sarah Monette
The Eyes of Water • Alison Littlewood
The Tall Grass • Joe R. Lansdale
Game • Maria Dahvana Headley
Pearls • Priya Sharma
Forget You • Marc Laidlaw
When Death Wakes Me to Myself • John Shirley
Dahlias • Melanie Tem
Bedtime Stories for Yasmin • Robert Shearman
Hand of Glory • Laird Barron
Language
English
Pages
527
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Prime Books
Release
August 20, 2013
ISBN
1607013975
ISBN 13
9781607013976
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious hauntings, seductive nightmares, and frighteningly plausible futures. Featuring thirty-five tales from masterful authors and talented new writers sure to make you reconsider walking in the shadows alone...
Instructions for Use • Paula Guran
No Ghosts in London • Helen Marshall
Fake Plastic Trees • Caitlín R Kiernan
The Natural History of Autumn • Jeffrey Ford
Great-Grandmother in the Cellar • Peter S. Beagle
Renfrew’s Course • John Langan
End of White • Ekaterina Sedia
Who is Arvid Pekon? • Karin Tidbeck
Iphigenia in Aulis • Mike Carey
Slaughterhouse Blues • Tim Lebbon
England Under the White Witch • Theodora Goss
The Sea of Trees • Rachel Swirsky
The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury • Neil Gaiman
The Education of a Witch • Ellen Klages
Welcome to the Reptile House • Stephen Graham Jones
Glamour of Madness • Peter Bell
Bigfoot on Campus • Jim Butcher
Everything Must Go • Brooke Wonders
Nightside Eye • Terry Dowling
Escena de un Asesinato • Robert Hood
Good Hunting • Ken Liu
Go Home Again • Simon Strantzas
The Bird Country • K. M. Ferebee
Sinking Among Lilies • Cory Skerry
Down in the Valley • Joseph Bruchac
Armless Maidens of the American West • Genevieve Valentine
Blue Lace Agate • Sarah Monette
The Eyes of Water • Alison Littlewood
The Tall Grass • Joe R. Lansdale
Game • Maria Dahvana Headley
Pearls • Priya Sharma
Forget You • Marc Laidlaw
When Death Wakes Me to Myself • John Shirley
Dahlias • Melanie Tem
Bedtime Stories for Yasmin • Robert Shearman
Hand of Glory • Laird Barron