Research Catalog

Title

The best horror of the year. Volume five / edited by Ellen Datlow.

Publication

San Francisco : Night Shade Books, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Datlow, Ellen

Description

406 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of twenty-eight horror stories published in 2012, along with an essay that summarizes the achievements in the horror genre for novels, anthologies, magazines, poetry journals, and nonfiction works.

Alternative Title

Best horror of the year. Volume 5

Subject

• Horror tales, American
• Horror tales, English

Genre/Form

• Horror fiction
• Short stories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nikishi / Lucy Taylor -- Little America / Dan Chaon -- A natural history of autumn / Jeffrey Ford -- Mantis wives / Kij Johnson -- Tender as teeth / Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski -- The callers / Ramsey Campbell -- Two poems for hill house / Kevin McCann -- Mariners' round / Terry Dowling -- Nanny Grey / Gemma Files -- The magician's apprentice / Tamsyn Muir -- Kill all the monsters / Gary McMahon -- The house on Ashley Avenue / Ian Rogers -- Dead song / Jay Wilburn -- Sleeping, I was Beauty / Sandy Leibowitz -- Bajazzle / Margo Lanagan -- The pike / Conrad Williams -- The crying child / Bruce McAllister -- This circus the world / Amber Sparks -- Some pictures in an album / Nathan Ballingrud -- Final exam / Megan Arkenberg -- None so blind / Stephen Bacon -- The ballad of boomtown / Priya Sharma -- Pig thing / Adam L. G. Nevill -- The world-made flesh / Richard Gavin -- Into the penny arcade / Claire Massey -- Magdala Amygdala / Lucy A. Snyder -- Frontier death song / Laird Barron.

ISBN

• 9781597804745 (pbk.)
• 1597804746 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 857301626
• SCSB-12297436

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library