The year's best dark fantasy & horror. 2010

Summary: Collects short dark tales involving haunted houses, harpies, and alternate dimensions, by such famous genre authors as Peter Straub, Kelley Armstrong, and Holly Black.

Record details

ISBN: 9781607012580 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1607012588 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource.
Edition: 2010 ed.
Publisher: Rockville, Md. : Prime Books ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Paula Guran -- Horrid glory of its wings / Elizabeth Bear -- Lowland sea / Suzy McKee Charnas -- Copping squid / Michael Shea -- Monsters / Stewart O'Nan -- Brink of eternity / Barbara Roden -- Frost Mountain picnic massacre / Seth Fried -- Sea-hearts / Margo Lanagan -- Haunted house of her own / Kelley Armstrong -- Headstone in my pocket / Paul Tremblay -- Coldest girl in Coldtown / Holly Black -- Strange scenes from an unfinished film / Gary McMahon -- Delicate architecture / Catherynne M. Valente -- Mystery / Peter Atkins -- Variations of a theme from Seinfeld / Peter Straub -- Wide, carnivorous sky / John Langan -- Certain death for a known person / Steve Duffy -- Ones who got away / Stephen Graham Jones -- Leng / Marc Laidlaw -- Torn away / Joe R. Lansdale -- Nowhere man / Sarah Pinborough -- Bone's prayer / Caitlín R. Kiernan -- Water tower / John Mantooth -- In the porches of my ears / Norman Prentiss -- Cinderella game / Kelly Link -- Jacaranda smile / Gemma Files -- Other box / Gerard Houarner -- White Charles / Sarah Monette -- Everything dies, baby / Nadia Bulkin -- Bruise for bruise / Robert Davies -- Respects / Ramsey Campbell -- Diamond shell / Deborah Biancotti -- Nub hut / Kurt Dinan -- Cabinet child / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Cherrystone and shards of ice / Ekaterina Sedia -- Crevasse / Dale Bailey and Nathan Balingrud -- Vic / Maura McHugh -- Halloween town / Lucius Shepard -- Long, cold goodbye / Holly Phillips -- What happens when you wake up in the night / Michael Marshall Smith.

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