The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
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Editor | Ellen Datlow |
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Illustrator | Santiago Caruso |
Language | English |
Series | The Best Horror of the Year |
Genre | Horror |
Publisher | Night Shade Books |
Publication date | January 1, 2009 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback), eBook |
Pages | 321 |
ISBN | 978-1-59780-161-4 (TP) & 978-1-59780-241-3 (ebook) |
OCLC | 377705179 |
Followed by | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on January 1, 2009. It is the first in The Best Horror of the Year series.
Contents
[edit]The book includes 21 stories, all first published in 2008. The book also includes a summation by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:
- E. Michael Lewis: "Cargo"
- Richard Bowes: "If Angels Fight"
- Steve Duffy: "The Clay Party"
- William Browning Spencer: "Penguins of the Apocalypse"
- Glen Hirshberg: "Esmeralda"
- Trent Hergenrader: "The Hodag"
- Nicholas Royle: "Very Low-Flying Aircraft"
- Margaret Ronald: "When the Gentlemen Go By"
- Laird Barron: "The Lagerstätte"
- Euan Harvey: "Harry and the Monkey"
- Miranda Siemienowicz: "Dress Circle"
- Daniel Kaysen: "The Rising River"
- JoSelle Vanderhooft: "Sweeney Among the Straight Razors"
- R. B. Russell: "Loup-garou"
- Graham Edwards: "Girl in Pieces"
- Joe R. Lansdale: "It Washed Up"
- Mike Allen: "The Thirteenth Hell"
- Margo Lanagan: "The Goosle"
- Daniel LeMoal: "Beach Head"
- Adam Golaski: "The Man from the Peak"
- Simon Bestwick: "The Narrows"
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Book review by Orrin Grey, Innsmouth Magazine