Woohoo! The new Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016!
Made the cover on this one! And look at that ToC – another cracking volume from Paula Guran and Prime Books.
I love that “Ripper” is getting another outing – it’s one Kathleen Jennings and I have discussed doing as a limited edition illustrated novella at a later date.
- “The Door” by Kelley Armstrong (Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong, Tachyon)
- “Snow” by Dale Bailey (Nightmare, June 2015)
- “1Up” by Holly Black (Press Start to Play, ed. Adams, Vintage)
- “Seven Minutes in Heaven” by Nadia Bulkin (Aickman’s Heirs, ed. Strantzas, Undertow)
- “The Glad Hosts” by Rebecca Campbell (Lackington’s #7)
- “Hairwork” by Gemma Files (She Walks in Shadows, eds. Moreno-Garcia & Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press)
- “Black Dog” by Neil Gaiman (Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, William Morrow)
- “A Shot of Salt Water” by Lisa L. Hannett (The Dark #8)
- “The Scavenger’s Nursery” by Maria Dahvana Headley (Shimmer # 24)
- “Daniel’s Theory About Dolls” by Stephen Graham Jones (The Doll Collection, ed. Datlow, Tor)
- “The Cripple and Starfish” by Caítlin R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #108)
- “The Absence of Words” by Swapna Kishore (Mythic Delirium #1.3)
- “Corpsemouth” by John Langan (The Monstrous, ed. Datlow, Tachyon)
- “Cassandra” by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld # 102)
- “Street of the Dead House” by Robert Lopresti (nEvermore, ed. Kilpatrick, EDGE)
- “Mary, Mary” by Kirstyn McDermott (Cranky Ladies of History, eds. Roberts & Wessely, Fablecroft)
- “There is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold” by Seanan McGuire, The Doll Collection, ed. Datlow, Tor)
- “Below the Falls” by Daniel Mills (Nightscript 1, ed. Muller, Chthonic Matter)
- “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamsyn Muir (F&SF Jul-Aug)
- “The Greyness” by Kathryn Ptacek (Expiration Date, ed. Kilpatrick, EDGE)
- “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill” by Kelly Robson (Clarkesworld # 101)
- “Those” by Sofia Samatar (Uncanny #3)
- “Fabulous Beasts” by Priya Sharma (Tor.com)
- “Windows Underwater” by John Shirley (Innsmouth Nightmares, ed. Gresh, PS Publishing)
- “Ripper” by Angela Slatter (Horrorology, ed. Jones, Quercus)
- “The Lily and the Horn” by Catherynne M. Valente (Fantasy #59)
- “Sing Me Your Scars” by Damien Angelica Walters (Sing Me Your Scars, Apex)
- “The Body Finder” by Kaaron Warren (Blurring the Line, ed. Young, Cohesion)
- “The Devil Under the Maison Blue” by Michael Wehunt (The Dark #10)
- “Kaiju maximus®: “So various, So Beautiful, So New” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Fantasy #59)