The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
| Author | Edited by Ellen Datlow |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best Horror of the Year |
| Genre | Horror fiction |
| Publisher | Night Shade Books |
Publication date | May 1, 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) & eBook |
| Pages | 308 |
| ISBN | 978-1-59780-399-1 (TP) & 978-1-59780-416-5 (ebook) |
| OCLC | 769472709 |
| Preceded by | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
| Followed by | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (ISBN 978-1-59780-399-1) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on May 1, 2012. It is the fourth in The Best Horror of the Year series.
Contents
The book includes 18 stories, all first published in 2011. The book also includes a summation by Datlow of 2011 publications in the horror fiction market, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:
- Stephen King: "The Little Green God of Agony"
- Leah Bobet: "Stay"
- Simon Bestwick: "The Moraine"
- Laird Barron: "Blackwood's Baby"
- David Nickle: "Looker"
- Priya Sharma: "The Show"
- Margo Lanagan: "Mulberry Boys"
- Brian Hodge: "Roots and All"
- A.C. Wise: "Final Girl Theory"
- Livia Llewellyn: "Omphalos"
- Simon Bestwick: "Dermot"
- Alison Littlewood: "Black Feathers"
- Chet Williamson: "Final Verse"
- Terry Lamsley: "In the Absence of Murdock"
- Glen Hirshberg: "You Become the Neighborhood"
- John Langan: "In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos"
- Anna Taborska: "Little Pig"
- Peter Straub: "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine"
Release details
- 2012, United States, Night Shade Books ISBN 978-1-59780-399-1, Pub date May 1, 2012, Trade paperback [1]
- 2012, United States, Night Shade Books ISBN 978-1-59780-416-5, Pub date May 1, 2012, eBook [2]
References
External links
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Book review by Mario Guslandi at The SF Site