FFB consumer's advisory bonus: two quartets of horrors for the season...

The US reader (of English) is this year offered essentially four Best of the Year volumes collecting horror and related material...I have yet to crack my copies, but I have all four...

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

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 

• 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 
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• 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...recently, I was seeking a pair of short novels for a new friend, a native speaker of Spanish who loves horror and wanted preferably short novels in English she could practice her Anglophone reading with...since she's a lover of horror film, as well, my favorite duo from 1959 came to mind first, even if one is a suspense novel rather than horror (and the other is arguably so as well, with difficulty):

...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...)