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The year's best dark fantasy & horror / edited by Paula Guran.

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Germantown, Maryland : Prime Books, [2017]

Fantasy fiction, English.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Horror tales, English.

Horror tales, American.

9781607014935 (paperback) :

1607014939 (paperback)

527 pages ; 23 cm

Introduction: Not afraid of the ark / Paula Guran -- Seasons of glass and iron / Amal El-Mothar -- The future is blue / Catherynne M. Valente -- Grave goods / Gemma Files -- The ballad of Black Tom / Victor LaValle -- Our talons can crush galaxies / Brooke Bollander -- An ocean the color of bruises / Isabel Yap -- The iron man / Max Gladstone -- The blameless / Jeffrey Ford -- Birdfather / Stephan Graham Jones -- The jaws that bite, the claws that catch / Seanan McGuire -- The rime of the cosmic mariner / John Shirley -- Fairy tales are for white people / Melissa Yuan-Innes -- Lullaby for a lost world / Aliette de Bodard -- The finest, fullest followering / Marc Laidlaw -- Spinning silver / Naomi Novik -- Grave goods / Priya Sharma -- Braid of days and wake of nights / E. Lily Yu -- Wish you were here / Nadia Bulkin -- Only their shining beauty was left / Fran Wilde -- The line between the devil's teeth (murder ballad no. 10) / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Photograph / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Red dirt witch / N. K. Jemisin -- My body, herself / Carmen Maria Machado -- The sound of salt and sea / Kat Howard -- Dying of the light / Rachel Caine -- Postcards from Natalie / Carrie Laben -- As cymbals clash / Cate Gardner -- The games we play / Cassandra Khaw -- Bright crown of joy / Livia Llewellyn -- Mommy's little man / Brian Hodge -- A fist of permutations of lightning and wildflowers / Alyssa Wong -- Surfacing / Lisa L. Hannett -- Meet me at the frost fair / Alison Littlewood -- October film haunt: Under the house / Michael Wehunt -- Whose drowned faces sleep / An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky -- When the stiches come undone / A. C. Wise -- The red forest / Angela Slatter.

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, 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.

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