The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 ed by Paula Guran
Trade paperback format.
The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2017's best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique - sure to delight as well as disturb . . .
Contents
- The Crow Palace • (2017) • novelette by Priya Sharma
- Red Bark and Ambergris • (2017) • short story by Kate Marshall
- Survival Strategies • (2017) • novelette by Helen Marshall
- The Swimming Pool Party • (2017) • novelette by Robert Shearman
- The Long Fade Into Evening • (2017) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment • (2017) • short story by Eden Royce
- Sunflower Junction • (2017) • short story by Simon Avery
- Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ • (2017) • short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Moon, and Memory, and Muchness • (2017) • novelette by Katherine Vaz
- On Highway 18 • (2017) • short story by Rebecca Campbell
- The Little Mermaid, in Passing • (2017) • short story by Angela Slatter
- Fallow • (2017) • short story by Ashley Blooms
- The Eyes Are White and Quiet • (2017) • short fiction by Carole Johnstone
- Secret Keeper • (2017) • short story by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- Mapping the Interior • (2017) • novella by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Dinosaur Tourist • (2018) • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan (variant of The Dinosaur Tourist (Murder Ballad No. 11) 2017)
- Exceeding Bitter • [The Grey Ladies] • (2017) • short story by Kaaron Warren
- Witch Hazel • (2017) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- Little Digs • (2017) • short story by Lisa L. Hannett
- The Bride in Sea-Green Velvet • (2017) • novelette by Robin Furth
- Succulents • (2017) • short fiction by Conrad Williams
- Moon Blood-Red, Tide Turning • (2017) • short story by Mark Samuels
- Skins Smooth As Plantain, Hearts Soft As Mango • (2017) • short story by Ian Muneshwar
- Children of Thorns, Children of Water • [Dominion of the Fallen] • (2017) • novelette by Aliette de Bodard
- The Thule Stowaway • (2017) • novelette by Maria Dahvana Headley
- Don't Turn on the Lights • (2017) • short story by Cassandra Khaw
- Everything Beautiful Is Terrifying • (2017) • short story by M. Rickert
- Swift to Chase • (2017) • novelette by Laird Barron
- The Lamentation of Their Women • (2017) • novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson