Best New Horror 18

by · 2007

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Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark, fantasy fiction, from a series that has won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre — including Neil Gaiman, Glen Hirshberg, Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, and Charles Coleman Finlay.

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Contents:

Summer / Al Sarrantonio —

Digging deep / Ramsey Campbell —

Night watch / John Gordon —

Luxury of harm / Christopher Fowler —

Sentinels / Mark Samuels —

Saffron gatherers / Elizabeth Hand —

What nature abhors / Mark Morris —

Last reel / Lynda E. Rucker —

American dead / Jay Lake —

Between the cold moon and the earth / Peter Atkins —

Sob in the silence / Gene Wolfe —

Continuity error / Nicholas Royle —

Dr. Prida's dream-plagued patient / Michael Bishop —

Ones we leave behind / Mark Chadbourn —

Mine / Joel Lane —

Obsequy / David J. Schow —

Thrown / Don Tumasonis —

Houses under the sea / Caitlin R. Kiernan —

They / David Morrell —

Clockwork horror / F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre —

Making cabinets / Richard Christian Matheson —

Pol Pot's beautiful daughter (Fantasy) / Geoff Ryman —

Devil's smile / Glen Hirshberg —

Man who got off the ghost train / Kim Newman —

Necrology: 2006 / Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.

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horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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