The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 Author:Stephen Jones (Editor) This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contr... more »ibutors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.
Contents:
Introduction: horror in 2007
-- The things he said / Michael Marshall Smith;
-- The church on the island / Simon Kurt Unsworth;
-- The twilight express / Christopher Fowler;
-- Peep / Ramsey Campbell;
-- From around here / Tim Pratt;
-- Pumpkin night / Gary McMahon;
-- The other village / Simon Strantzas;
-- 13 o'clock / Mike O'Driscoll;
-- Still water / Joel Lane;
-- Thumbprint / Joe Hill;
-- Lancashire / Nicholas Royle;
-- The admiral's house / Marc Lecard;
-- Man, you gotta see this! / Tony Richards;
-- The fisherman / David A. Sutton;
-- The children of Monte Rosa / Reggie Oliver;
-- The witch's headstone / Neil Gaiman;
-- Calico black, calico blue / Joel Knight;
-- The rich evil sound / Steven Erickson;
-- Miss ill-kept runt / Glen Hirschberg;
-- Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale;
-- A gentleman from Mexico / Mark Samuels;
-- Loss / Tom Piccirilli;
-- Behind the clouds: in front of the sun / Christopher Harman;
-- The ape's wife / Caitlin R. Kiernan;
-- Tight wrappers / Conrad Williams;
-- Cold snap / Kim Newman;
-- Necrology: 2007 / Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.« less