The award-winning Best New Horror anthology series—winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award—has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Stephen Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by the horror genre's finest exponents and by new discoveries in the field. Contributors to this volume include Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, and Conrad Williams. Also, Stephen Jones once again provides the most comprehensive overview of the field for the year and a full necrology, plus a list of useful contacts among organizations, magazines, booksellers, and more. Whether a reader is a fan of supernatural chillers, macabre fantasy, or psychological terror, the thirteenth Mammoth Book of Best New Horror will appeal to their dark side. "The definitive series of Horror ‘Bests' ... you'll get quantity as well as quality."—Science Fiction Chronicle "A formidable line-up of must-read creepers whose merits are indisputable even to entrenched enthusiasts of the genre."—Publishers Weekly "Essential reading every year."—Hellnotes "The finest horror collection going."—Kirkus Reviews

Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)

Literature & Fiction

Poppy Z. Brite

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Tanith, Lee

Thomas Ligotti

Glen Hirshberg

Many Others

Graham, Joyce

United States

Running Press

A collection of horror stories in exotic locale by the likes of Dennis Etchinson, Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley, and Christopher Fowler.

Summer Chills: Tales of Vacation Horror

Harlan Ellison

CLIVE BARKER

ROBERT SILVERBERG

Nancy Holder

kim-newman

Ramsey, Campbell

Brian Lumley)

Genre Fiction

Carroll&Graf

From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales... 
Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them. 
In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

American Morons

Earthling Publications

Paul Dent, penniless and recently orphaned, hops a train in deepest Dust Bowl Oklahoma in the Spring of 1936, and winds up attached to the Federal Writers Project, one of the least understood, shortest-lived, and most impossibly ambitious government undertakings in the history of the country. He is assigned to capture the essence of the mountain towns of eastern North Carolina for a series of travel books no one believes will ever be published. There, among writers and cheats, arsonists and Reconstructionists, blind and deaf children and disease-ridden Senators, Paul will meet the love of his life and her lover, witness the awakening of one great novelist and the possible resurrection of another, discover more than one America that could have been, and confront the truth about his relationship with his unpredictable, brilliant, and Machiavellian older brother. There are echoes here of Laurel and Hardy, Bonnie and Clyde, Powell and Loy, Cain and Abel. It s a book of bunk, in other words. A collection of lies. A creation myth about a vanished country that may or may not have existed, and the very real, conflicted nation that has sprung from it. THE BOOK OF BUNK is the latest unclassifiable explosion of storytelling from Glen Hirshberg, the Shirley Jackson and International Horror Guild Award winning author of AMERICAN MORONS, THE TWO SAMS, and THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN.

The Book of Bunk: A Fairy Tale of the Federal Writers' Project

Another vampire novel? Really? How about a vampire novel about single motherhood? And Otis Redding? And best friends? And how you choose whom you kill? And what that costs? And whether there's ever a way back? On a rare night out in Charlotte, North Carolina, Natalie and Sophie best friends, single moms, music lovers meet the Whistler at the Back Way Out. In the aftermath of that encounter, desperate to save their children and, just maybe, themselves, they flee together down the back roads of the Deep South, pursued by guilt, the Whistler and his Mother, and their own growing, terrible hunger. Bloody, sexy, rollicking, and sad, MOTHERLESS CHILD is a road novel about finding a way back to a home that no longer exists, a paean to music that drives us out of ourselves, a howling joyride toward heartbreak, and just maybe the vampire novel you really haven't yet read: the human one.

Motherless Child

* A young girl, lying in the way-back of a station wagon during an all-night family road trip, becomes convinced that the people up front are no longer her parents. * A dutiful Jewish nephew slowly comes to understand--and fear--his aging aunts' obsession with the exotic animals wandering loose on a nearby farm in suburban Baltimore. * A Japanese immigrant, isolated in a California mountain town while caring for her dying husband, begins seeing Tall Things in the corners of her house. Whisperers. They tell her they are coming to live in her mouth. * And in the Shirley Jackson Award-winning title novelette, a decaying mining town in Montana provides the backdrop for a desperate battle between a troubled, pugnacious pre-teen, the bully who has terrorized him, and the much more sinister force neither child realizes has come for them. Welcome back to Glen Hirshberg country, where griefs are at least as dangerous as ghosts. Where terror and wonder become not just inextricable but often indistinguishable. Where the worlds of imagination and everyday reality color and corrode and sometimes overwhelm each other. A country surprisingly like your own.

The Janus Tree and Other Stories

Subterranean

A collection of new (previously unpublished) and classic ghost stories with a foreword by Colin Dickey and featuring stories by Reggie Oliver, Nugent Barker, Sybil Ward, Erckmann-Chatrian, Glen Hirshberg, M.R. James, PJ Manney, Alexander Pushkin, Lisa Morton, F. Marion Crawford, J. Lincoln Fenn, Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Maruyama, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eddie Generous, Frances Power Cobbe, Tonya Hurley, H.G. Wells, Nicole Sconiers, Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Eric J. Guignard, Ramsey Campbell and Tod Goldberg. Epigraph by Jason Kirk.

December Tales

Lisa Morton

Reggie Oliver

Eric J. Guignard

Tod Goldberg

Tonya Hurley

Kate Maruyama

Jason Kirk

Colin Dickey

P.J. Manney

Sybil Ward

J. Lincoln Fenn

Eddie Generous

Nicole D. Sconiers

Curious Blue Press

SYNOPSIS Heh, Heh, Kiddies! They say that you can always tell a GOOD BOOK by its COVER! Well, after you BONE UP on the front of this first BEST OF volume of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY by legendary artist NORMAN SAUNDERS, you ll be left SPELLBOUND by some of the most SIZZLING fiction ever published in this AWARD-WINNING series Between these covers are TASTY TERROR TALES by CLIVE BARKER, ELIZABETH HAND, JOE HILL, GLEN HIRSHBERG, STEPHEN KING, TIM LEBBON, KIM NEWMAN, MARK SAMUELS, LISA TUTTLE and SIMON KURT UNSWORTH. So, what are you WAITING for? Open up this HELLISH TOME and START READING! Because a cover NEVER lies, and neither does . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor s Forword Introduction: Bettering the Best RAMSEY CAMPBELL White [1999] TIM LEBBON The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula, 1981 [2000] KIM NEWMAN Cleopatra Brimstone [2001] ELIZABETH HAND 20th Century Ghosts [2002] JOE HILL The White Hands [2003] MARK SAMUELS My Death [2004] LISA TUTTLE Haeckel s Tale [2005] CLIVE BARKER Devil s Smile [2006] GLEN HIRSHBERG The Church on the Island [2007] SIMON KURT UNSWORTH The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates [2008] STEPHEN KING Index to the First Twenty Years of Best New Horror I: Index by Contributor II: Index by Title III: Contents of Previous Omnibus Editions

Best of Best New Horror Volume 2

Joe Hill

Elizabeth Hand

Stephen Jones

Tim Lebbon

Mark Samuels

Lisa Tuttle

Simon Kurt Unsworth

Stephen, King

PS Publishing

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