The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
10 best books like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition (Paula Guran): October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, Invictus, Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Widdershins, Poe's Children: The New Horror, The Dark: New Ghost Stories, The Two Sams, The Apocalypse Reader, The Color of Evil
| Author | Richard Chizmar |
| ISBN | 0451458958 |
Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala * Steve Rasnic Tem * Elizabeth Engstrom * Thomas...
| Author | Ryan Graudin |
| ISBN | 0316503134 |
Time flies when you're plundering history.
Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after failing his...
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765307677 |
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Three decades into his career, Campbell paused...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 1557425574 |
The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close."
"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle...
| Author | Oliver Onions |
| ISBN | 1406836214 |
A collection of eight marvellous stories of the supernatural. The stories are: The Beckoning Fair One, Phantas, Rooum, Benlian, Io, The Accident, The Cigarette Case, & Hic Jacket.
Excerpt: ...off!" he ordered me. "I'll send for you again when I want you!" He thrust me out. "An asylum,...
Poe's Children: The New Horror
| Author | Peter Straub |
| ISBN | 0385522835 |
From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.
Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0765304457 |
Though there are a few small duds, the majority of the stories here were genuinely creepy.
Jeffrey Ford's "The Trentino Kid" starts things off on a slightly creepy note. It's about a guy who has frittered his youth away in what he thought was an easier route. He's regretting the choices he's made...
| Author | Glen Hirshberg |
| ISBN | 0786712554 |
In the title story of this unique collection a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory, when a boy visits his deranged...
| Author | Justin Taylor |
| ISBN | 1560259590 |
These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 0812518985 |
A collection of some of the best horror stories of all time. Hartwell set himself up for a fall, taking a scholarly approach to the genre and selecting what are, for him, the cream of the crop, but I think he does well. There are a lot of unusual stories here, quite a few of them unknown, and it's far from the...
| Author | John Joseph Adams |
| ISBN | 1597801909 |
The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for: more scares, more action, more... brains! Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature with a shambling, ravenous herd of original stories. The Living Dead 2 also features a slavering horde of reprint...
