The World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning series. As usual, this latest volume of the world's premier Year's Best horror anthology series features a selection of the finest short stories and novellas by some of the most exciting and important writers working in the dark fantasy genre today. Also containing the most comprehensive overview of the year in horror around the world, an extraordinary necrology, and lists of useful contact addresses for dedicated readers and would-be writers alike, this is the only annual anthology that every fan of horror fiction needs to have.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2005 |
The Editor
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| THE DECORATIONS |
Ramsey Campbell |
| BLACK AND GREEN AND GOLD |
David Herter |
| I LIVE WITH YOU AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT |
Carol Emshwiller |
| THE CUBIST'S ATTORNEY |
Peter Atkins |
| ALL FISH AND DRACULA |
Liz Williams |
| THE BALL ROOM |
China Miéville, Emma Bircham and Max Schaefer |
| GULLS |
Tim Pratt |
| PINKIE |
Elizabeth Massie |
| GLYPHOTECH |
Mark Samuels |
| ONE OF THE HUNGRY ONES |
Holly Phillips |
| IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE |
Brian Hodge |
| THE OTHER FAMILY |
Roberta Lannes |
| THE OUTERMOST BOROUGH |
Gahan Wilson |
| AMERICAN MORONS |
Glen Hirshberg |
| WHERE ANGELS COME IN |
Adam L.G. Nevill |
| SICKHOUSE HOSPITALITY |
Terry Lamsley |
| BEST NEW HORROR |
Joe Hill |
| LA PEAU VERTE |
Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| TIME WAS |
David Morrell |
| HAECKEL'S TALE |
Clive Barker |
| THE TAINT |
Brian Lumley |
| THE WINNER |
Ramsey Campbell |
| NECROLOGY: 2005 |
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman |
| USEFUL ADDRESSES |
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Nominated for the 2007 British Fantasy Award
Reviews
"The volume offers once again an exhaustive, invaluable introduction reporting any possible information about the horror world (books and magazines, movies, small imprints, awards etc.), a real treat for any lover of the genre."
—Mario Guslandi
SF SITE 2006
"Every year Robinson publishes this collection of the previous year's best short horror fiction, and every year it sells. If you want to see who's up and coming in the genre, then this is your book. It also comes with a great state-of-the-genre address from editor Stephen Jones."
—PUBLISHING NEWS, September 22, 2006
