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Best New Horror 11

by · 2000

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Now in its eleventh year, this winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award again showcases the finest talents writing contemporary horror fiction - established masters as well as new voices - and presents its lively review of the past year in the field of fear and terror.

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Contents:

Introduction: Horror in 1999 by Stephen Jones

Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem

Others (excerpt) by James Herbert

Growing Things by T. E. D. Klein

Unhasped by David J. Schow

The Emperor's Old Bones by Gemma Files

The Entertainment by Ramsey Campbell

Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman

The Stunted House by Terry Lamsley

Just Like Eddy by Kim Newman

The Long Hall on the Top Floor by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Lulu by Thomas Tessier

The Ballyhooly Boy by Graham Masterton

Welcome by Michael Marshall Smith

Burden by Michael Marano

Naming the Dead by Paul J. McAuley (as by Paul McAuley)

Aftershock by F. Paul Wilson

A Fish Story by Gene Wolfe

Jimmy by David Case

White by Tim Lebbon

Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub

Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem

Necrology: 1999 (essay) by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

Useful Addresses (essay) by Stephen Jones

Genre
horror
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 572 pages
Form
short stories

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