“The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud (Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications)
“Wendigo Nights” by Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications)
“Headache” by Julio Cortázar. English-language translation by Michael Cisco (Tor.com, September 2014)
“Loving Armageddon” by Amanda C. Davis (Crossed Genres Magazine #19, July 2014)
“The Earth and Everything Under” by K.M. Ferebee (Shimmer Magazine #19, May 2014)
“Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story” by Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter 2014)
“The Girls Who Go Below” by Cat Hellisen (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2014)
“Nine” by Kima Jones (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, eds. Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, Crossed Genres Publications)
“Bus Fare” by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2014)
“The Air We Breathe Is Stormy, Stormy” by Rich Larson (Strange Horizons Magazine, August 2014)
“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado (Granta Magazine, October 2014)
“Observations About Eggs From the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa” by Carmen Maria Machado (Lightspeed Magazine #47, April 2014)
“Resurrection Points” by Usman T. Malik (Strange Horizons Magazine, August 2014)
“Exit Through the Gift Shop” by Nick Mamatas (Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, ed. S.T. Joshi, Fedogan & Bremer)
“So Sharp That Blood Must Flow” by Sunny Moraine (Lightspeed Magazine #45, February 2014)
“The Ghoul” by Jean Muno, English-language translation by Edward Gauvin (Weirdfictionreview.com, June2014)
“A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide” by Sarah Pinsker (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2014)
“Migration” by Karin Tidbeck (Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris)
“Hidden in the Alphabet” by Charles Wilkinson (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, ed. Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications)
“A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap (Tor.com, August 2014)
- Publication: Best British Horror 2015
- Editors: Johnny Mains
- Year: 2015-05-25
- ISBN: 978-1-78463-028-7 [1-78463-028-4]
- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Price: £9.99
- Pages: 384
“Shaddertown” by Conrad Williams (Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6)
“Quarry Hogs” by Jane Jakeman (Supernatural Tales 27, Autumn 2014)
“Random Flight” by Rosalie Parker (Terror Tales of Yorkshire, edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“A Spider Remember” by Sara Pascoe (Dead Funny, edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains, Salt Publishing)
“Eastmouth” by Alison Moore (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris, Spectral Press)
“Learning the Language” by John Llewellyn Probert (Terror Tales of Wales, edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“Reunion” by Rebecca Lloyd (Mercy and Other Stories, Tartarus Press)
“The Third Time” by Helen Grant (Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows, Volume 2, edited by Rosemary Pardoe, Sarob Press)
“Drowning in Air” by Andrew Hook (Strange Tales, Volume IV, edited by Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press)
“Alistair” by Mark Samuels (Written in Darkness, Egaeus Press)
“In the Year of Omens” by Helen Marshall (Gifts for the One Who Comes After, ChiZine Publications)
“Apple Pie and Sulphur” by Christopher Harman (Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6)
“On Ilkley Moore” by Alison Littlewood (Terror Tales of Yorkshire, edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“The Broken and the Unmade” by Stephen J Dines (Black Static, Issue 39)
“Only Bleeding” by Gary McMahon (Horror Uncut, edited by Joel Lane and Tom Johnstone, Gray Friar Press)
“The Night Porter” by Ray Russell (Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6)
“Something Sinister in Sunlight” by Lisa Tuttle (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris, Spectral Press)
“Summerside” by Alison Moore (Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6)
“Private Ambulance” by Simon Kurt Unsworth (Noir, edited by Ian Whates, NewCon Press)
“The Rising Tide” by Priya Sharma (Terror Tales of Wales, edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“The Slista” by Stephen Laws (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris, Spectral Press)
“Dog” by Reece Shearsmith (Dead Funny, edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains, Salt Publishing)
- Publication: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015
- Editors: Paula Guran
- Year: 2015-06-24
- ISBN: 978-1-60701-454-6 [1-60701-454-8]
- Publisher: Prime Books
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 576
Content (in alphabetical order by author)
- Kelley Armstrong, “The Screams of Dragons” (Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2014)
- Dale Bailey, “The End of the End of Everything” (Tor.com, 23 Apr 2014)
- Laird Barron, “(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness” (Dark Discoveries #29)
- Elizabeth Bear “Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle” (Dead Man’s Hand, ed. John Joseph Adams)
- Richard Bowes, “Sleep Walking Now and Then” (Tor.com, 9 July 2014)
- Nadia Bulkin, “Only Unity Saves the Damned” (Letters to Lovecraft, ed. Jesse Bullington)
- Gemma Files, “A Wish From a Bone” (Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow)
- S. L. Gilbow, “Mr Hill’s Death” (The Dark #4)
- Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter, “The Female Factory” (The Female Factory)
- Maria Dahvana Headley “Who Is Your Executioner?” (Nightmare Magazine, Nov 2014)
- Stephen Graham Jones, “The Elvis Room” (The Elvis Room)
- Caitlín R. Kiernan, “The Cats of River Street (1925)” (Sirenia Digest #102)
- Alice Sola Kim, “Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying” (Monstrous Affections, eds. Kelly Link & Gavin Grant/Tin House #61)
- John Langan, “Children of the Fang” (Lovecraft’s Monsters, ed. Ellen Datlow)
- Yoon Ha Lee, “Combustion Hour” (Tor.com, 10 Apr 2014)
- V. H. Leslie, “The Quiet Room” (Shadows & Tall Trees: 2014, ed. Michael Kelly)
- Ken Liu, “Running Shoes” (SQ Mag, Issue 16, Sept 2014)
- Usman T. Malik, “Resurrection Points” (Strange Horizons, 4 August 2014)
- Helen Marshall, “Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta” (Lackington’s, Issue 1, Winter 2014)
- Brandon Sanderson, “Dreamer” (Games Creatures Play, eds. Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner)
- Simon Strantzas, “Emotional Dues” (Burnt Black Suns)
- Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Still, Cold Air” (Here with the Shadows)
- Lavie Tidhar, “Kur-A-Len” (Black Gods Kiss)
- Jeff VanderMeer, “Fragments from the Notes of a Dead Mycologist” (Shimmer #18)
- Kali Wallace, “Water in Springtime” (Clarkesworld, Issue 91, Apr 2014)
- Damien Angelica Walters, “The Floating Girls: A Documentary” (Jamais Vu Issue Three, Sept 2014)
- Kaaron Warren, “The Nursery Corner” (Fearsome Magics, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
- A. C. Wise, “And the Carnival Leaves Town” (Nightmare Carnival, ed. Ellen Datlow)
- Publication: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seven
- Editors: Ellen Datlow
- Year: 2015-08-11
- ISBN: 978-1-59780-829-3 [1-59780-829-6]
- Publisher: Night Shade Books
- Price: $15.99
- Pages: 416
“The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud (Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications)
“Winter Children” by Angela Slatter (Postscripts #32/33 Far Voyager, edited by Nick Gevers, PS Publishing)
“A Dweller in Amenty” by Genevieve Valentine (Nightmare Magazine, March 2014)
“Outside Heavenly” by Rio Youers (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris, Spectral Press)
“Shay Corsham Worsted” by Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications)
“Allocthon” by Livia Llewellyn (Letters to Lovecraft, edited by Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press)
“Chapter Six” by Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com, June 2014)
“This is Not for You” by Gemma Files (Nightmare Magazine, September 2014)
“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014)
“The Culvert” by Dale Bailey (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2014)
“Past Reno” by Brian Evenson (Letters to Lovecraft, edited by Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press)
“The Coat Off His Back” by Keris McDonald (Terror Tales of Yorkshire, edited by Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“the worms crawl in” by Laird Barron (Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications)
“The Dog’s Home” by Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris, Spectral Press)
“Tread Upon the Brittle Shell” by Rhoads Brazos (SQ Magazine, Edition 14, May 2014)
“Persistence of Vision” by Orrin Grey (Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions)
“It Flows From the Mouth” by Robert Shearman (Shadows & Tall Trees, Volume 6)
“Wingless Beasts” by Lucy Taylor (Fatal Journeys, Overlook Connection Press)
“Departures” by Carole Johnstone (The Bright Day is Done, Gray Friar Press)
“Ymir” by John Langan (The Children of the Old Leech, edited by Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, Word Horde)
“Plink” by Kurt Dinan (Postscripts #32/33 Far Voyager, edited by Nick Gevers, PS Publishing)
“Nigredo” by Cody Goodfellow (In the Court of the Yellow King, edited by Glynn Owen Barras, Celaeno Press)
Title: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2014
Editors: Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene
Year: 2015
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Series: Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror
Series Number: 5
We're really happy to be able to announce the final line-up and cover of the fifth volume of The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.
Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have compiled an impressive list of fantastic stories first published in 2014, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.
The 28 stories selected are
- Alan Baxter, “Shadows of the Lonely Dead” [Suspended in Dusk]
- James Bradley, “The Changeling” [Fearsome Magics]
- Imogen Cassidy, “Soul Partner” [Aurealis 74]
- David Conyers & David Kernot, “The Bullet & The Flesh” [World War Cthulhu]
- Terry Dowling, “The Corpse Rose” [Nightmare Carnival]
- Thoraiya Dyer, “The Oud” [Long Hidden Anthology]
- Jason Franks, “Metempsychosis” [SQ Mag]
- Michelle Goldsmith, “Of Gold and Dust” [Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 60]
- Michael Grey, “1884” [Cthulhu Lives: An Eldrich Tribute to H.P.Lovecraft]
- Stephanie Gunn, “Escapement” [Kisses by Clockwork]
- Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter, “Vox” [The Female Factory]
- Gerry Huntman, “Of The Colour Tumeric, Climbing on Fingertips” [Night Terrors III]
- Rick Kennett, “Dolls for Another Day” [The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows: Vol 2]
- Charlotte Kieft, “Chiaroscuro” [Disquiet]
- SG Larner, “Kneaded” [Phantazein]
- Claire McKenna, “Yard” [Use Only As Directed]
- Andrew J. McKiernan, “A Prayer for Lazarus” [Last Year, When We Were Young]
- Faith Mudge, “Signature” [Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fi]
- Jason Nahrung, “The Preservation Society” [Dimension6]
- Emma Osbourne, “The Box Wife” [Shock Totem: Curious Tales of the Macabre & Twisted #9]
- Angela Rega, “Shedding Skin” [Crossed Genres]
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, “The Love Letters of Swans” [Phantazein]
- Angela Slatter, “The Badger Bride” [Strange Tales IV]
- Cat Sparks, “New Chronicles of Andras Thorn” [Dimension6 Annual Collection 2014]
- Anna Tambour, “The Walking-stick Forest” [Tor.com]
- Kyla Ward, “Necromancy” [Spectral Realms #1]
- Kaaron Warren, “Bridge of Sighs” [Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror]
- Janeen Webb, “Lady of the Swamp” [Death at the Blue Elephant]
In addition to the above incredible tales, the volume will include a review of 2014 and a list of highly recommended stories.
The editors will shortly begin reading for the sixth volume of The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 is scheduled for publication in late-October 2015 and can be pre-ordered at
indiebooksonline.com. The anthology will be available in hardcover, ebook and trade editions.
BEST NEW HORROR #26 Edited by Stephen Jones:
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
| INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2014 | The Editor |
| SECONDHAND MAGIC | Helen Marshall |
| THE CULVERT | Dale Bailey |
| THE PATTER OF TINY FEET | Richard Gavin |
| THE FOUR STRENGTHS OF SHADOW | Ron Weighell |
| THE NIGHT RUN | Simon Kurt Unsworth |
| HOME AND HEARTH | Angela Slatter |
| DUST | Rebecca Lloyd |
| SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN | Robert Shearman |
| THE NIGHT DOCTOR | Steve Rasnic Tem |
| THE DESECRATOR | Derek John |
| THE WALK | Dennis Etchison |
| DIRT ON VICKY | Clint Smith |
| SKULLPOCKET | Nathan Ballingrud |
| TESTIMONY OF SAMUEL FROBISHER REGARDING EVENTS UPON HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP CONFIDENCE, 14-22 JUNE 1818, WITH DIAGRAMS | Ian Tregillis |
| AT LORN HALL | Ramsey Campbell |
| SELFIES | Lavie Tidhar |
| MATILDA OF THE NIGHT | Stephen Volk |
| THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF FREDDIE PROTHERO, INTRODUCTION BY TORLESS MAGNUSSEN, PH.D. | Peter Straub |
| BURNT BLACK SUNS | Simon Strantzas |
| NECROLOGY: 2014 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman |
| USEFUL ADDRESSES | |
...PS Publishing is also reprinting some past volumes of the series, including last year's, with EC Comics-esque covers:
