The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
- Editor: Ellen Datlow
- Year: 2014-06-03
- ISBN: 978-1-59780-503-2 [1-59780-503-3]
- Publisher: Night Shade Books
- Price: $15.99
- Pages: 396
- Apports • (2013) • shortstory by Stephen Bacon
- Mr. Splitfoot • (2013) • shortfiction by Dale Bailey
- The Good Husband • (2013) • novelette by Nathan Ballingrud
- The Tiger • (2013) • shortfiction by Nina Allan
- The House on Cobb Street • (2013) • shortstory by Lynda E. Rucker
- The Soul in the Bell Jar • (2013) • novelette by K. J. Kabza
- Call Out • (2013) • shortstory by Steve Toase
- That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love • (2013) • shortfiction by Robert Shearman
- Bones of Crow • (2013) • shortfiction by Ray Cluley
- Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales • (2013) • shortfiction by Jeannine Hall Gailey
- The Tin House • (2013) • shortfiction by Simon Clark
- The Fox • (2013) • shortfiction by Conrad Williams
- Stemming the Tide • (2013) • shortfiction by Simon Strantzas
- The Anatomist's Mnemonic • (2013) • shortfiction by Priya Sharma
- The Monster Makers • (2013) • shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Only Ending We Have • (2013) • shortfiction by Kim Newman
- The Dog's Paw • (2013) • shortfiction by Derek Künsken
- Fine in the Fire • (2013) • shortfiction by Lee Thomas
- Majorlena • (2013) • shortfiction by Jane Jakeman
- The Withering • (2013) • shortfiction by Tim Casson
- Down to a Sunless Sea • (2013) • shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
- Jaws of Saturn • (2013) • shortfiction by Laird Barron
- Halfway Home • (2013) • shortstory by Linda Nagata
- The Same Deep Waters as You • (2013) • novelette by Brian Hodge
- Summation 2013 • (2013) • essay by Ellen Datlow
- Editor: Paula Guran
- Year: 2014-06-17
- ISBN: 978-1-60701-431-7 [1-60701-431-9]
- Publisher: Prime Books
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 569
- Postcards from Abroad • (2013) • shortfiction by Peter Atkins
- The Creature Recants • (2013) • shortstory by Dale Bailey
- The Good Husband • (2013) • novelette by Nathan Ballingrud
- Termination Dust • (2013) • novelette by Laird Barron
- The Ghost Makers • [The Eternal Sky] • (2013) • shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear
- The Marginals • (2013) • shortfiction by Steve Duffy
- A Collapse of Horses • (2013) • shortfiction by Brian Evenson
- A Lunar Labyrinth • (2013) • shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Pride • (2013) • shortfiction by Glen Hirshberg
- Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella • (2013) • shortfiction by Brian Hodge
- The Soul in the Bell Jar • (2013) • novelette by K. J. Kabza
- The Prayer of Ninety Cats • (2013) • novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Dark Gardens • (2013) • shortfiction by Greg Kurzawa
- A Little of the Night • (2013) • shortfiction by Tanith Lee
- The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning • (2013) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
- Iseul's Lexicon • (2013) • shortfiction by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Plague • (2013) • shortstory by Ken Liu
- The Slipway Gray • (2013) • shortfiction by Helen Marshall (variant of The Slipway Grey)
- To Die for Moonlight • (2013) • novelette by Sarah Monette
- Event Horizon • (2013) • shortstory by Sunny Moraine
- The Legend of Troop 13 • (2013) • novelette by Kit Reed
- Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell • [Cosmere] • (2013) • shortfiction by Brandon Sanderson
- Phosphorous • (2013) • shortfiction by Veronica Schanoes
- Blue Amber • (2013) • shortfiction by David J. Schow
- Rag and Bone • (2013) • novelette by Priya Sharma
- Our Lady of Ruins • (2013) • shortfiction by Sarah Singleton
- Cuckoo • (2013) • shortfiction by Angela Slatter
- Wheatfield with Crows • (2013) • shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Moonstruck • (2013) • shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
- The Dream Detective • (2013) • shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
- Fishwife • (2013) • shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
- Air, Water and the Grove • (2013) • shortstory by Kaaron Warron
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1
- Editors: Laird Barron, Michael Kelly
- Year: 2014-10-00
- ISBN: 978-0-9813177-5-5 [0-9813177-5-8]
- Publisher: ChiZine Publications
- Price: $17.99
- Pages: 332
- 7 • Foreword (Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1) • essay by Michael Kelly
- 11 • We Are For the Weird • essay by Laird Barron
- 16 • The Nineteenth Step • (2013) • shortstory by Simon Strantzas
- 23 • Swim Wants to Know If It's as Bad as Swim Thinks • (2013) • shortstory by Paul G. Tremblay [as by Paul Tremblay ]
- 36 • Dr. Blood and the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron • (2013) • shortstory by A. C. Wise
- 43 • The Year of the Rat • (2013) • novelette by Chen Qiufan
- 67 • Olimpia's Ghost • (2013) • shortstory by Sofia Samatar
- 78 • Furnace • (2013) • shortstory by Livia Llewellyn
- 91 • Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us? • (2013) • shortstory by Damien Walters Grintalis [as by Damien Angelica Walters ]
- 99 • Bor Urus • (2013) • shortstory by John Langan
- 123 • A Quest of Dream • (2013) • shortstory by W. H. Pugmire
- 136 • The Krakatoan • (2013) • shortstory by Maria Dahvana Headley
- 148 • The Girl in the Blue Coat • (2013) • shortstory by Anna Taborska
- 164 • (he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror • (2013) • shortstory by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
- 167 • In Limbo • (2013) • shortstory by Jeffrey Thomas
- 182 • A Cavern of Redbrick • (2013) • shortstory by Richard Gavin
- 194 • Eyes Exchange Bank • (2013) • novelette by Scott Nicolay
- 216 • Fox Into Lady • (2013) • shortstory by Anne-Sylvie Salzman
- 223 • Like Feather, Like Bone • (2013) • shortstory by Kristi DeMeester
- 226 • A Terror • (2013) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 249 • Success • (2013) • novella by Michael Blumlein
- 296 • Moonstruck • (2013) • shortstory by Karin Tidbeck
- 307 • The Key to Your Heart is Made of Brass • (2013) • shortstory by John R. Fultz
- 323 • No Breather in the World But Thee • (2013) • shortstory by Jeff VanderMeer
Best New Horror: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Editor: Stephen Jones
- Year: 2014-11-11
- ISBN: 978-1-62873-818-6 [1-62873-818-9]
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Price: $15.95
- Pages: 608
- INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2013 The Editor
- WHO DARES WINS: ANNO DRACULA 1980 Kim Newman
- CLICK-CLACK THE RATTLEBAG Neil Gaiman
- DEAD END Nicholas Royle
- ISAAC'S ROOM Daniel Mills
- THE BURNING CIRCUS Angela Slatter
- HOLES FOR FACES Ramsey Campbell
- BY NIGHT HE COULD NOT SEE Joel Lane
- COME INTO MY PARLOUR Reggie Oliver
- THE MIDDLE PARK Michael Chislett
- INTO THE WATER Simon Kurt Unsworth
- THE BURNED HOUSE Lynda E. Rucker
- WHAT DO WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT Z— Lavie Tidhar
- FISHFLY SEASON Halli Villegas
- DOLL RE MI Tanith Lee
- A NIGHT'S WORK Clive Barker
- THE SIXTEENTH STEP Robert Shearman
- STEMMING THE TIDE Simon Strantzas
- THE GIST Michael Marshall Smith
- GUINEA PIG GIRL Thana Niveau
- MISS BALTIMORE CRABS: ANNO DRACULA 1990 Kim Newman
- WHITSTABLE Stephen Volk
- NECROLOGY: 2013 Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
- USEFUL ADRESSES
...and two more became pretty obvious next choices (in rather battered first editions pictured below):
Further suggestions?
("Impure" horror collections that also came to mind:
All The Stories of Muriel Spark and
E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon)
(...and...and...)
6 comments:
Maybe the Little Professor will see this.
Or Stefan Dziemianowicz's review of the antho quartet in the September LOCUS...LOCUS should put those online after a period, I suggest...(I've been putting off reading the review till I tear into the books some...).
I do like the books you have suggested for your friend - I would add Finney's THE BODYSNATCHERS, Matheson's I AM LEGEND, Kersh's NIGHT AND THE CITY (more than borderline, but ...), James' TURN OF THE SCREW - how about the King collection, DIFFERENT SEASONS?
Todd, you write about sf, horror, and fantasy anthologies faster than I can scroll down! But your virtual catalogue of these books and short stories is always welcome. I read a couple of stories by Shirley Jackson—"Charles" and "The Witch"—earlier this year and I have been meaning to read "THE LOTTERY" and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE."
I, too, have been meaning to read THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE - just haven't worked up the courage. I know it is considered a masterwork of scariness. :)
Your friend came to the right source for expert recommendations.
Sergio--I might well've thought of the Finney and the Matheson, though the Kersh might not've occurred to me in this context (NIGHTMARE ALLEY or THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, either). I should give at least "The Body" another chance, I suppose, but I don't like most of the King I've read very much...and the only reason I'd not plump for the James is that I was hoping for fairly colloquial US English...while both those novels are more than a half-century old, now, they've not aged too much in the dialog. Thanks for the suggestions!
Prashant--you will be well-served by reading any of the six writers I push beyond the quartet of annuals, and the annuals are worth seeking out in any e-book you might be able to purchase reasonably, at least...
Yvette, thanks...I suspect you'll enjoy the Jackson, or the other novels, if you try them, if you haven't yet...all but the Butler have been well-filmed (and also poorly filmed!), and the Butler got a decent long-form audio drama adaptation you can hear online.
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