FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 29 March 2019

image courtesy Paul Fraser

This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...we've lost at least two blogs, though happily not their bloggers, since last week, including Margot Kinberg's impressive work of a decade's standing...as she turns to other work.

Patricia Abbott: Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Les Blatt: The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims

Elgin Bleecker: Grind Joint by Dana King

Joachim Boaz: Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe 

(translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter)

John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, September 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli

Ben Boulden: Riders of the Storm by Ed Gorman

Brian Busby: Canada Reads and its books

Martin Edwards: Murder Plan Six by John Bingham; "You Were Never Really Here" by Jonathan Ames

Peter Enfantino: Warren Comics, September 1965-February 1966

Will Errickson: Joyride by "Stephen Crye" (Ronald Patrick)

José Ignacio Escribano: Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh

Curtis Evans: The Counterfeit Murders by Victor MacClure

Olman Feelyus: Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 4 (1942) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

John Grant: The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman; Final Theory by Mark Alpert

Aubrey Hamilton: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan

Rich Horton: Elizabeth Hand's fiction; Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle; The Alternate Martians and Empress of Outer Space by A. Bertram Chandler; Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor; Crisis in 2140 and Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper; the novels of Kim Stanley Robinson

Jerry House: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950, edited by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas

Kate Jackson: The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin; Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft; Crime in Good Company: Essays on Criminals and Crime Writing edited by Michael Gilbert; From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendellby Susan Rowland

Tracy K: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny; A Killing in Quail Country by Jameson Cole

Colman Keane: The Second Girl by David Swinson

George Kelley: Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch

Joe Kenney: Radio Waves by Jim Ladd

B. V. Lawson: Shroud of Canvas by Isobel Mary Lambot

Evan Lewis: Baseball Comics #1 by Will Eisner, 1949; "The Culture Corner" by Basil Wolverton, Whiz Comics, 1945-46

Steve Lewis: Fast Fade by Arthur Lyons; "The Perfect Crime" by C. S. Montayne, Black Mask, July 1920, edited by F. M. Osborne

Mike Lind: A Man's Head by Georges Simenon (translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury)

Megan Mitchell: Beast in View by Margaret Millar

David Nemeth: re/acquaintance with some of the western fiction canon

John F. Norris: The Case of the Gold Coins by Anthony Wynne

Matt Paust: Paris in the Dark by Robert Olen Butler

James Reasoner: The Gladiator #1: Hill of the Dead by "Andrew Quiller" (Laurence James)

Richard Robinson: The Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara

Gerard Saylor: Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu

Jack Seabrook: "Father and Son" by Thomas Burke, Vanity Fair, August 1934, edited by Frank Crowninshield

Steven H. Silver: Omni magazine in 1979, edited by Kathi Keeton

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli

Kerrie Smith: The Girl in the Photograph by Kate Riordan

Dan Stumpf: Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox

Kevin Tipple: Warning Signs by Jan Christensen 

"TomCat": Murder isn't Cricket by E. and M. A. Radford 

David Vineyard: A Game of X by Robert Sheckley

Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 22 March 2019

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This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...a number of more obscure works this week by major CF writers, including a new edition of the first collection by FFB founder Patti Abbott...

Patricia Abbott: Poison by "Ed McBain" (Evan Hunter)

Walter Albert: The Dracula Caper by Simon Hawke

Nigel Bird: Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott

Ben Blatt: Maigret Enjoys Himself by Georges Simenon (translated by Donald Watson); More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham

Elgin Bleecker: Invitation to Violence by Lionel White

John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, October 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli

Ben Boulden: "In a Small Hotel" by John D. MacDonald, Justice, July 1953, edited by Harry Widmer

Joe Brosnan: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

Brian Busby: The Ravine by "Kendal Young" (Phyllis Brett Young)

Martin Edwards: The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, August 1974

Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) Horror Comics, February 1952

Will Errickson: Spook by Steve Vance

José Ignacio Escribano: "The Capture of Cerberus" and "The Incident of the Dog's Ball" by Agatha Christie 

Curtis Evans: Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh

Paul Fraser: New Worlds, January 1967, edited by Michael Moorcock 

John Grant: Broadway Virgin by Lois Bull; The Shadow Collector's Apprentice by Amy Gordon; Blueprint for Murder by Roger Bax; The Blue Movie Murders by "Ellery Queen" (in this instance, Edward D. Hoch) 

Aubrey Hamilton: Henrietta Who? by "Catherine Aird" (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh)

Rich Horton: Closed Shutters by Frances and Edward LaRocque Tinker; Letters from the Flesh by Marcos Donnelly; Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively; novels of Laurence Janifer; stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman; Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis; "The Meeting" by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; "Eurema's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty

Jerry House: Snapdragon: A Collection of Queer Stories edited by Mervyn Savill 

Kate Jackson: Dead March for Penelope Blow by George Bellairs 

Tracy K: Smoke Detector by Eric Wright 

Colman Keane: The Bookseller by Mark Pryor 

George Kelley: Black Moon: The Complete Stories of Jules de Grandin, Volume 5 by Seabury Quinn; Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott

Joe Kenney: The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound by Ralph Gleason 

Margot Kinberg: The Long-Legged Fly by James Sallis 

Dana King: Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott

Rob Kitchin: Kaddish in Dublin by John Brady 

B. V. Lawson: The Habit of Fear by Dorothy Salisbury Davis 

Evan Lewis: "Fighting Mad" by Mickey Spillane, prose content in Blue Bolt Comics, December 1942

Steve Lewis: "The House of Kaa" by Richard Sale, Ten Detective Aces, February 1934, edited by A. A. Wyn; The Case of the Baited Hook by Erle Stanley Gardner; Deadly Resurrection by James T. Doyle; "Teratohippus" by Robert L. Davis, Worlds of If, November-December 1972, edited by Ejler Jakobsson; Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh 

Jess Nevins: "The King Waits" by "Clemence Dane" (Winifred Ashton) 

John F. Norris: Death at 7:10 by H. F. S. Moore

Scott Parker: "Underworld Olympics 1976", Batman, February-May 1976, edited by Julius Schwartz

Matt Paust: Not Quite Dead Enough [includes "Booby Trap"]: Two Novellas by Rex Stout; Nadja on Nadja by Tsipi Keller

Mildred Perkins: Cinder by Merissa Meyer

J. Kingston Pierce: Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott

James Reasoner: The Office by Fredric Brown

Richard Robinson: A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara

Gerard Saylor: Top Dog by Jens Lapidus (translated by Alice Menzies) 

Jack Seabrook: "Golden Opportunity" by "J. W. Aron" (John D. Bjorkman), Manhunt, March 1957, edited by Scott Meredith (interesting data on Bjorkman)

Steven H. Silver:  Fantasy Tales edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton 

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, May 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli

Barrie Summy: Monkey Justice by Patricia Abbott

"R. T.": Salt River by James Sallis

Kevin Tipple: Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott; Black Cat Mystery Magazine, January 2019, edited by John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe

"TomCat": The Capital Murder by James Z. Alner

Katherine Tomlinson: Monkey Justice and Other Stories by Patricia Abbott

David Vineyard: "Flowers for Violet" by Cleve F. Adams, Clues Detective Stories, May 1936, edited by F. Orlin Tremaine

Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews, 15 March 2019 (the Ides)

This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...as we face small trials (Facebook for a day was removing all the links to my blog) or much larger ones (and sparing a thought for former FFB contributor Richard Wheeler, who died in February, and the people killed and terrorized in the events in Christchurch, New Zealand, over the last day). 

Patricia Abbott: Sleep While I Sing by L. R. Wright; What It Might Feel Like to Hope by Dorene O'Brien 

Paul Bishop: the Gunships series by "Jack Hamilton Teed" (Christopher Lowder) 

Les Blatt: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout 

John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, April 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli 

Ben Boulden: Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler; Things to Come, January/February 1955, the catalog of the (Doubleday) Science Fiction Book Club 

Brian Busby: The Bright Path to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair 

Martin Edwards: Arrogant Alibi by C. Daly King

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics (Creepy and Blazing Combat), October to December 1965, edited by Archie Goodwin

Will Errickson: The Manitou by Graham Masterton 

José Ignacio Escribano: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran

Curtis Evans: Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh

Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Unknown Worlds, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. 

Barry Gardner: Kahawa by Donald Westlake

John Grant: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig; The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro

Aubrey Hamilton: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon

Rich Horton: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley; PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell; Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart;

Jerry House: The Select (aka The Foundation) by F. Paul Wilson 

Gabino Iglesias: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

Kate Jackson: three novels by Michael Gilbert; 
Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe 

Tracy K: Turncoat by Aaron Elkins

Colman Keane: Cast the First Stone and Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin

George Kelley: The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

Joe Kenney: Cold Iron by "Robert Stone Pryor"

Margot Kinberg: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson

Rob Kitchin: Winston's War by Michael Dobbs

B. V. Lawson: The Port of London Murders by "Josephine Bell" (Doris Collier Ball)

Evan Lewis: Half Past Mortem by John A. Saxon

Jonathan Lewis: Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler

Steve Lewis: The Goodbye Look by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar); "Eurema's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty; Lemons Never Lie by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); "Schroedinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger

Mike Lind: Dashiell Hammett, Man of Mystery by Sally Cline

Todd Mason: best of the year horror fiction annuals for 2016

Jess Nevins: some women writers of horror from around the world 
  
John F. Norris: The Flight of the Doves by Walter Macken

Patrick Ohl: In the Best Families by Rex Stout (hosted by Kevin Tipple)

Scott D. Parker: Weird Western Tales, December 1973, edited by Joe Orlando

Matt Paust: The Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour; Ways of Looking at a Woman by Caroline Hagood

James Reasoner: "Blitzkrieg in the Past" by "John York Cabot" (David Wright O'Brien), Amazing Stories, July 1942, edited by Ray Palmer; All-Western Magazine, August 1936, edited by West F. Peterson

Richard Robinson: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara

Gerard Saylor: Murdaland, #1 (2007), edited by Michael Lagnas

Jack Seabrook: "One More Mile to Go" by F. J. Smith, Manhunt, June 1956, edited by Scott Meredith 

Steven Silver: Convergent Series by Larry Niven

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, July 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli

"TomKat": Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch

David Vineyard: The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding

best horror fiction annuals for 2016 (mostly...collecting 2015 first publications, with one exception)

Almost a peak year, perhaps the peak year, for horror annuals, even with Best British Horror skipping 2016 and 2017, to arrive again (rise from the dead) last year...and with the Jones and Australian annuals arriving some months late for their target year.

• Publication: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
• Editor: Ellen Datlow
• Date: 2016-06-07
• ISBN: 978-1-59780-853-8 [1-59780-853-9]
• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Price: $15.99
• Pages: xli+317
• Format: tp
• Cover: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight by Blake Malcerta
• viii • Summation 2015 (The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• 1 • We Are All Monsters Here • (2015) • short fiction by Kelley Armstrong
• 17 • Universal Horror • (2015) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• 35 • Slaughtered Lamb • (2015) • short story by Tom Johnstone
• 45 • In a Cavern, in a Canyon • (2015) • short fiction by Laird Barron
• 65 • Between the Pilings • (2015) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 79 • Snow • (2015) • short story by Dale Bailey
• 93 • Indian Giver • (2015) • short story by Ray Cluley
• 107 • My Boy Builds Coffins • (2015) • short story by Gary McMahon
• 123 • The Woman in the Hill • (2016) • short story by Tamsyn Muir
• 133 • Underground Economy • (2015) • short story by John Langan
• 143 • The Rooms Are High • (2015) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• 159 • All the Day You'll Have Good Luck • (2015) • short story by Kate Jonez
• 177 • Lord of the Sand • (2015) • short story by Stephen Bacon
• 185 • Wilderness • (2015) • short story by Letitia Trent
• 201 • Fabulous Beasts • (2015) • novelette by Priya Sharma
• 229 • Descent • (2015) • short fiction by Carmen Maria Machado
• 239 • Hippocampus • (2015) • short story by Adam Nevill
• 247 • Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 283 • The 21st Century Shadow • (2015) • poem by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 285 • This Stagnant Breath of Change • (2015) • short story by Brian Hodge

• Publication: Best New Horror #27
• Editor: Stephen Jones
• Date: 2017-01-01
• ISBN: 978-1-78636-066-3 [1-78636-066-7]
• Publisher: Drugstore Indian Press
• Price: £12.99
• Pages: 531
• Format: tp
• Cover: Best New Horror #27 by Lee Elias
• The Coffin House • (2015) • short story by Robert Aickman
• The Lake • (2015) • short story by Daniel Mills
• The Barnacle Daughter • (2015) • short fiction by Richard Gavin
• Exposure • (2015) • short story by Helen Marshall
• The Larder • (2015) • short fiction by Nicholas Royle
• The Seventh Wave • (2015) • short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
• Underground Economy • (2015) • short story by John Langan
• The Drowning City • (2015) • short fiction by Loren Rhoads
• The Chapel of Infernal Devotion • (2015) • short fiction by Ron Weighell
• Alma Mater • (2015) • short story by Kate Farrell
• Hibakusha • (2015) • short story by L. P. Lee
• The Offing • (2015) • short fiction by Conrad Williams
• Marrowvale • (2015) • short fiction by Kurt Fawver
• Hairwork • (2015) • short fiction by Gemma Files
• Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• In the Earth • (2015) • short story by Storm Constantine
• In the Lovecraft Museum • (2015) • novella by Steve Rasnic Tem

• Publication: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
• Editor: Paula Guran
• Date: 2016-07-19
• ISBN: 978-1-60701-471-3 [1-60701-471-8]
• Publisher: Prime Books
• Price: $19.95
• Pages: 527
• Format: 
  tp
• Cover: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 (2016) • by Fer Gregory [as by Fergregory]
• The Door • (2015) • short story by Kelley Armstrong
• Snow • (2015) • short story by Dale Bailey
• Seven Minutes in Heaven • (2015) • short story by Nadia Bulkin
• The Glad Hosts • (2015) • short story by Rebecca Campbell
• Hairwork • (2015) • short fiction by Gemma Files
• Black Dog • [American Gods] • (2015) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• A Shot of Salt Water • (2015) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett
• Cassandra • (2015) • short story by Ken Liu
• Street of the Dead House • (2015) • short fiction by Robert Lopresti
• The Deepwater Bride • (2015) • novelette by Tamsyn Muir
• 1UP • (2015) • novelette by Holly Black
• The Scavenger's Nursery • (2015) • short fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley
• Daniel's Theory About Dolls • (2015) • short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Cripple and Starfish • (2015) • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan (variant of The Cripple and the Starfish)
• The Absence of Words • (2015) • short story by Swapna Kishore
• Corpsemouth • (2015) • novelette by John Langan
• Mary, Mary • (2015) • short story by Kirstyn McDermott
• There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold • (2015) • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• Below the Falls • (2015) • short story by Daniel Mills
• The Greyness • (2015) • short fiction by Kathryn Ptacek
• The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill • (2015) • short story by Kelly Robson
• Those • (2015) • short story by Sofia Samatar
• Fabulous Beasts • (2015) • novelette by Priya Sharma
• Windows Underwater • (2015) • short fiction by John Shirley
• Ripper • (2015) • short fiction by Angela Slatter
• The Lily and the Horn • (2015) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Sing Me Your Scars • (2015) • short story by Damien Angelica Walters
• The Body Finder • (2015) • short story by Kaaron Warren
• The Devil Under the Maison Blue • (2015) • short story by Michael Wehunt
• Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" • (2015) • short story by Kai Ashante Wilson

• Publication: Best British Horror 2018 (first since 2015)
• Editor: Johnny Mains
• Date: 2018-10-16
• ISBN: 978-1-910935-95-8 [1-910935-95-6]
• Publisher: NewCon Press
• Pages: 258
• Format: hc
• Cover: Best British Horror 2018 by Daniele Serra
• Best British Horror 2018 • interior artwork by Russell John Morgan
• Introduction (Best British Horror 2018) • essay by Johnny Mains
• Paymon's Trio • (2017) • short story by Colette de Curzon
• Love and Death • (2017) • short fiction by Reggie Oliver
• In the Light of St. Ives • short story by Ray Cluley (variant of In the Light of St Ives 2017)
• The Book of Dreems • (2017) • short story by Georgina Bruce
• The Affair • (2017) • short story by James Everington
• Fragments of a Broken Doll • non-genre • (2017) • short story by Cate Gardner
• The Lies We Tell • (2017) • short story by Charlotte Bond
• Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling • (2017) • novelette by Daniel McGachey
• Tools of the Trade • (2017) • novelette by Paul Finch
• Departures • (2017) • short fiction by A. K. Benedict
• The Taste of Her • (2017) • short story by Mark West
• Sun Dogs • (2017) • novelette by Laura Mauro
• Dispossession • (2017) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• Shell Baby • (2017) • short story by V. H. Leslie
• The Unwish • (2017) • short story by Claire Massey [as by Claire Dean (Massey pseudonym)]
• A Day with the Delusionists • (2017) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• We Who Sing Beneath the Ground • (2017) • short story by Mark Morris

• Publication: Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume Three
• Editors: Michael Kelly, Simon Strantzas
• Date: 2016-10-11
• ISBN: 978-0-9950949-1-8 [0-9950949-1-8]
• Publisher: Undertow Publications
• Price: $19.99
• Pages: xiv+365
• Format: 
  tp
• Cover: Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume Three by Beatriz Martin Vidal
• vii • Forward (Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3) • essay by Michael Kelly
• xi • Introduction (Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3) • essay by Simon Strantzas
• 3 • Rabbit, Cat, Girl • (2015) • short story by Rebecca Kuder
• 13 • Violet Is the Color of Your Energy • (2015) • short fiction by Nadia Bulkin
• 27 • Blood • (2015) • short fiction by Robert Shearman
• 55 • Loveliness Like a Shadow • (2015) • novelette by Christopher Slatsky
• 73 • Orange Dogs • (2015) • short story by Marian Womack
• 89 • Seaside Town • (2015) • short story by Brian Evenson
• 107 • Honey Moon • (2015) • short story by D. P. Watt
• 131 • The Marking • (2015) • short story by Kristi DeMeester
• 139 • The Strangers • (2015) • novella by Robert Aickman
• 189 • Guest • (2015) • short story by Brian Conn
• 197 • Julie • (2015) • novelette by L. S. Johnson
• 223 • The Devil Under the Maison Blue • (2015) • short story by Michael Wehunt
• 235 • Fetched • short fiction by Ramsey Campbell (variant of Nightmare 2015)
• 235 • The Seventh Wave • (2015) • short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
• 255 • Rangel • (2015) • novelette by Matthew M. Bartlett
• 277 • Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line • (2015) • short fiction by Genevieve Valentine
• 293 • The Rooms Are High • (2015) • short story by Reggie Oliver
• 313 • Strange Currents • (2015) • short fiction by Tim Lebbon
• 345 • Little Girls in Bone Museums • (2015) • short story by Sadie Bruce

• Publication: Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1
• Editors: Randy Chandler, Cheryl Mullenax
• Date: 2016-05-29
• Publisher: Comet Press
• Price: $3.99
• Format: ebook/tp
• Cover: Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1 by Inkubus Design

• Introduction: The Year That Was • essay by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax
• Worth the Having • (2014) • short story by Michael Paul Gonzalez
• Awakening • (2015) • short story by Jeff Strand
• Readings Off The Charts • (2015) • short story by Adam Cesare
• Reborn • (2015) • short story by The Behrg
• What's Worst • (2015) • short story by David James Keaton
• Dead End • (2015) • short story by Kristopher Triana
• What You Wish For • (2015) • short story by Lilith Morgan
• King Shits • (2015) • novelette by Charles Austin Muir
• Clean-Up on Aisle 3 • (2015) • short story by Adam Howe
• Bath Salt Fetus • (2015) • short story by Jorge Palacios
• Bored with Brutality • (2015) • short story by M. P. Johnson
• Exposed • (2015) • short story by Monica J. O'Rourke
• Eleanor • (2015) • short story by Jason Parent
• The Scavengers • (2015) • short story by Tony Knighton
• The Most Important Miracle • (2015) • short story by Scott Emerson
• Hungry for Control • (2015) • short story by Clare de Lune
• Clarissa • (2015) • short story by Jack Bantry and Robert Essig
• Where the Sun Don't Shine • (2015) • short story by Pete Kahle
• Blackbird Lullaby • (2015) • short story by George Cotronis

This one not published till 2017, and the last so far. 

• Publication: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015
• Editors: Liz Grzyb, Talie Helene
• Date: 2017-04-04
• Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
• Price: A$35.00
• apparently uncredited cover artwork purchased from an image-bank.

• 2B • (2015) • short story by Joanne Anderton
• The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner • (2015) • short story by Alan Baxter
• Look How Cold My Hands Are • (2015) • short story by Deborah Biancotti
• Oh, Have You Seen the Devil • (2015) • short story by Stephen Dedman
• The Events at Callan Park • (2015) • short story by Erol Engin
• The Dog Pit • (2015) • short story by Jason Fischer
• In the Blood • (2015) • short story by Dirk Flinthart
• In Sheep's Clothing • (2015) • short story by Kimberley Gaal
• The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth • (2015) • novelette by Stephanie Gunn
• Consorting with Filth • (2015) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett [as by Lisa Hannett]
• Double Speak • (2015) • short story by Robert Hood
• A Hedge of Yellow Roses • (2015) • short story by Kathleen Jennings
• Ninehearts • (2015) • short story by Maree Kimberley
• Sleepless • (2015) • short story by Jay Kristoff
• El Caballo Muerte • (2015) • short story by Martin Livings
• Reminiscences of Herbert West • (2015) • poem by Charles Lovecraft [as by Danny Lovecraft]
• Self, Contained • (2015) • short story by Kirstyn McDermott
• Mr Schmidt's Dead Pet Emporium • (2015) • short fiction by Sally McLennan (variant of Mr. Schmidt's Dead Pet Emporium)
• Almost Days • (2015) • short story by D. K. Mok
• Blueblood • (2015) • short story by Faith Mudge
• Half Past • (2015) • short story by Samantha Murray
• Night Blooming • (2015) • short story by Jason Nahrung
• The Company of Women • (2015) • short story by Garth Nix
• Lady Killer • (2015) • novelette by Anthony Panegyres
• Beyond the Factory Wall • (2015) • short story by Rivqa Rafael
• Perfect Little Stitches • (2015) • short story by Deborah Sheldon
• Bluebeard's Daughter • (2015) • short story by Angela Slatter
• Dragon Girl • (2015) • short story by Cat Sparks
• Angelito • juvenile • (2015) • short story by Lucy Sussex
• Tap • (2015) • short story by Anna Tambour
• Mine Intercom • (2015) • short story by Kaaron Warren