![]() Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagata, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and many others. ![]() Straub's piece "The Process is a Process All Its Own" started out promising but ended up rather disappointing and I felt the last story, "On These Blackened Shores of Time" was good but perhaps not the strongest ending for the anthology. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. The weakest of the bunch was definitely "Numbers," in that it seemed to have.very little reason for existing. "Ragman" was also a deeply unsettling exploration of the relationship between parents and children as well as the stories piled up in physical things. "Grave Goods" was also really well written and an interesting exploration of archaeology, ethics, identity, and (of course) monsters. Ellen Datlow Anne Billson Ralph Robert Moore Ray Cluley Michael Marshall Smith Thomas Olde Heuvelt Sam Hicks Peter Sutton, (Fiction writer) Dale Bailey Kristi DeMeester John Langan - The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in horror short fiction. ![]() I loved "The Days of Our Lives" for it's absolutely nonsensical yet still terrifying narrative and it's ricocheting pace somewhere between a British domestic comedy and a terrifying cult-esque tale of murder and inexplicable horror. Overall a very strong collection! There was a bit of repetition in the Lovecraftian pieces unfortunately but otherwise I really enjoyed these stories. ![]()
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