This 26th edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 2014. So get ready to spread your wings and take a bite out of this latest anthology of agony. And don t forget to tell your fellow fiends about our new series of Best New Horror reprints. Just let them know who sent you . . . The Old Hag CONTENTS Introduction: Horror in 2014 Secondhand Magic - HELEN MARSHALL The Culvert - DALE BAILEY The Patter of Tiny Feet - RICHARD GAVIN The Four Strengths of Shadow - RON WEIGHELL The Night Run - SIMON KURT UNSWORTH Home and Hearth - ANGELA SLATTER Dust - REBECCA LLOYD Suffer Little Children - ROBERT SHEARMAN The Night Doctor - STEVE RASNIC TEM The Desecrator - DEREK JOHN The Walk - DENNIS ETCHISON Dirt on Vicky - CLINT SMITH Skullpocket - NATHAN BALLINGRUD Testimony of Samuel Frobisher Regarding Events Upon His Majesty s Ship Confidence, 14-22 June 1818, with Diagrams - IAN TREGILLIS At Lorn Hall - RAMSEY CAMPBELL Selfies - LAVIE TIDHAR Matilda of the Night - STEPHEN VOLK The Collected Short Stories of Freddie Prothero Introduction by Torless Magnussen, Ph.D. - PETER STRAUB Burnt Black Suns - SIMON STRANTZAS Necrology: 2014 - STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN Useful Addressess

Best New Horror #26 [Trade paperback]

Literature & Fiction

Stephen Jones

Genre Fiction

Drugstore Indian Press

cream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant brings together more than thirty atmospheric and often poignant stories and novellas by one of the most talented genre writers of his generation. Selected by his friend and colleague Stephen Jones, these tales of science fiction, fantasy and the author s unique style of quiet horror which he cultivated in his many novels, collections and anthologies showcase some of the finest work published by Grant during his nearly forty-year career as a writer. This career-spanning collection also includes personal commentaries by Stephen King, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Thomas F. Monteleone and Nancy Holder, plus an interview with the author by Nancy Kilpatrick. So be prepared to be terrified. But if you must scream, then just make sure that you scream . . . quietly!

Scream Quietly [The Best of Charles L. Grant]

Charles L. Grant

In this latest edition of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Helen Marshall, Conrad Williams, Ramsey Campbell, Angela Slatter, Reggie Oliver and Than Niveau, amongst many others, along with the usual Introduction: Horror in 2017 and Necrology of those who have left us. CONTENTS Introduction: Horror in 2017 THE EDITOR Survival Strategies HELEN MARSHALL Cwtch CONRAD WILLIAMS Lagan GEMMA FILES The Entertainment Arrives ALISON LITTLEWOOD His Heart Shall Speak No More JOHN LINWOOD GRANT Banishments RICHARD GAVIN The Flower Unfolds SIMON STRANTZAS The Voice of the People ALISON MOORE Carnivorous WILLIAM F. NOLAN A Song of Dust ANGELA SLATTER Border Country DANNY RHODES In Stone TIM LEBBON Speaking Still RAMSEY CAMPBELL Underwater Ferris Wheel MICHAEL BAILEY In the Complex MARK SAMUELS After Sunset, in the Second Drawing Room Garden FELICE PICANO Dispossession NICHOLAS ROYLE The Endless Corridor REGGIE OLIVER Whatever You Want STEVE RASNIC TEM The Seventeen-Year Itch GARTH NIX To Drown the World THANA NIVEAU Necrology: 2017 STEPHEN JONES &amp; KIM NEWMAN

Best New Horror #29 [Trade Paperback]

Steve Rasnic Tem

William F. Nolan

Tim Lebbon

Alison Littlewood

Angela Slatter

Helen Marshall

Simon Strantzas

Reggie Oliver

Garth, Nix

Ramsey, Campbell

The Darkest Part of the Woods

SYNOPSIS Spectral terrors abound, and monsters who might live next door or in our own heads. We learn why we should never play cards with strangers, and the perils of attending press shows of films. We glimpse a book that may render all others redundant, and encounter another that is too full of ghosts. A roadside mirror contains more than a reflection, and a bedroom mirror shows what may be in store for us all. Telephone advertising gives rise to a nightmare, and so does a Mediterranean holiday. A nostalgic train journey ends in dread, but leaving a train leads there too. Two street musicians may make the reader anxious to placate such entertainers with at least a coin. The author's wife exerts a calming influence in a collaboration, but his delirium is irrepressible, and readers with recherché preferences will be rewarded by a troupe of rampant midgets. All this, of course, is in the best possible taste. The contents range from immediately after the completion of DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT thirty-five years ago to the beginning of this century. Here is a book not just for aficionados of horror but for anyone who relishes wit, language and the imagination Stephen King describes as 'so uniquely Campbell that it might as well be trademarked.'

Told by the Dead

SYNOPSIS 
 The influence of H. P. Lovecraft spans the centuries. Several of his correspondents who were writers learned by imitating him. The early tales of Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner read very much like Lovecraft, while others of his friends Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and August Derleth among them incorporated his ideas and myths into their fiction. Bloch and Frank Belknap Long even wrote tributes to him that used him, barely disguised, as a character. After Lovecraft s death August Derleth took control of his mythos, adding to and organising it more systematically than its creator ever had. Derleth was a jealous guardian of Lovecraft s reputation, and insisted on vetting any stories by new writers that used the mythos. Few found his favour until 1961, when a Liverpudlian fifteen-year-old sent him the first drafts of several Lovecraftian tales. The outcome was a ten-year professional relationship and the appearance in 1964 of the first book of previously unpublished Lovecraftian fiction for five years. It was The Inhabitant of the Lake. This fiftieth anniversary edition reprints that book in full, including the original introduction. It also includes the first drafts of all the tales that were rewritten before publication and reproduces Derleth's editorial responses to the stories.

The Inhabitant of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants

Starship Seasons: A Collection of Novella Length Stories.

Eric Brown

Collected together for the first time in three paperback volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper. Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as the legendary Pan Book of Horror Stories series, rare and collectible compilations edited by Peter Haining and August Derleth, and the author s own highly-prized books from Arkham House, these three extensive volumes contain more than four decades worth of weird fiction from one of the genre s most renowned practitioners. In this initial volume you will find such classics of the macabre as the author s first professionally published short story, The Spider , along with memorable tales like Camera Obscura (adapted by Rod Serling for the TV series Night Gallery), The Janissaries of Emillion , The Academy of Pain , Amber Print and The Recompensing of Albano Pizar , which was dramatised by BBC Radio 4. With an historical Introduction by editor Stephen Jones, Volume One of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Les Edwards, Gary Gianni and Allen Koszowski, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.

Darkness, Mist & Shadows - Volume 1 [pb]

BASIL COPPER

Collected together for the first time in three paperback volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper. Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as New Tales of the Chthulhu Mythos, rare and collectible compilations edited by Peter Haining and Richard Dalby, and the author s own highly-prized books from Arkham House and Robert Hale, these three extensive collections contain more than four decades worth of weird fiction from one of the genre s most renowned practitioners. In this second volume you will find such classics of the macabre as The Flabby Men , the author s terrifying Cthulhu Mythos novella Shaft Number 247 , The Candle in the Skull (read over Hallowe en on BBC Radio 4), the acclaimed Lovecraftian novella Beyond the Reef and Bright Blades Gleaming . With a critical Introduction by broadcaster Kim Newman, Volume Two of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Dave Carson and Bob Eggleton, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.

Darkness, Mist & Shadows - Volume 2 [pb]

SYNOPSIS A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century. The old woman who discovers him, once a famous concert violinist, is close to death herself... or a new kind of life she can barely contemplate. Does death still exist at all, or has it finally been obliterated? And who is this strange man she's found? Is he a figure returned from her past, a new messiah, or an empty vessel? Is he God, or the Devil?

Song of Time [pb]

Ian R. MacLeod

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