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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One

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Author
  
Edited by Ellen Datlow

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
January 1, 2009

Page count
  
321

OCLC
  
377705179

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Illustrator
  
Santiago Caruso

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1 January 2009

Publisher
  
Night Shade Books

Genres
  
Anthology, Horror fiction

Media type
  
Print (Paperback), eBook

Series
  
The Best Horror of the Year

Similar
  
The Best Horror of the Year, Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft Unbound 2nd Edition, Engines of Desire: Tales of L, The Imago Sequence

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on January 1, 2009. It is the first in The Best Horror of the Year series.

Contents

Contents

The book includes 21 stories, all first published in 2008. The book also includes a summation by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

  • E. Michael Lewis: "Cargo"
  • Richard Bowes: "If Angels Fight"
  • Steve Duffy: "The Clay Party"
  • William Browning Spencer: "Penguins of the Apocalypse"
  • Glen Hirshberg: "Esmeralda"
  • Trent Hergenrader: "The Hodag"
  • Nicholas Royle: "Very Low-Flying Aircraft"
  • Margaret Ronald: "When the Gentlemen Go By"
  • Laird Barron: "The Lagerstätte"
  • Euan Harvey: "Harry and the Monkey"
  • Miranda Siemienowicz: "Dress Circle"
  • Daniel Kaysen: "The Rising River"
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft: "Sweeney Among the Straight Razors"
  • R.B. Russell: "Loup-garou"
  • Graham Edwards: "Girl in Pieces"
  • Joe R. Lansdale: "It Washed Up"
  • Mike Allen: "The Thirteenth Hell"
  • Margo Lanagan: "The Goosle"
  • Daniel LeMoal: "Beach Head"
  • Adam Golaski: "The Man from the Peak"
  • Simon Bestwick: "The Narrows"
  • Release details

  • 2009, United States, Night Shade Books ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4, Pub date January 1, 2009, Trade paperback
  • 2009, United States, Night Shade Books ISBN 978-1-59780-241-3, Pub date January 1, 2009, e-book
  • References

    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One Wikipedia