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Best New Horror Volume 26 (2015)

Edited with an Introduction by Stephen Jones

(a) PS Publishing, UK • hc • £25.00
ISBN 978-1-84863-942-3

(b) PS Publishing, UK (2016) • hc (signed and slipcased edition, limited to 100 copies) • £60.00
ISBN 978-1-84853-943-0
Best New Horror Volume 26 (2015)

“Heh, Heh! They say you need to get a head in this world, and that poor sap on the cover has five of ’em! Let’s just hope that he can hold on to his own . . . or else he’s going to find out pretty soon that life’s a scream!!! In this latest edition of the world’s longest-running annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy you will find some of the most fearful stories and novellas first published in 2014 by, amongst others, Nathan Ballingrud, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Helen Marshall, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Peter Straub, Simon Strantzas and Stephen Volk, along with an ‘orrible overview of the year in horror and a nightmare Necrology of those who have gone on ahead of us. So get a hold of yourself and prepare shriek with pleasure as you are once again plunged into a world of madness and the macabre. Within these pages you will find some of the best horror fiction you will ever read. And don’t forget who told you so . . .”
The Old Hag

  • Best New Horror Volume 26 (2015)
  • (c) Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing, UK (2016) • tp • £12.99 ISBN 978-1-786360-14-4
    Best New Horror Volume 26 (2015)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  
INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2014 The Editor
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 and Kim Newman
USEFUL ADDRESSES  

Reviews

  • “As always, Jones’s comprehensive introduction on the many forms horror took in literary and non-literary arts in 2014, and his necrology compiled with Kim Newman of departed personnel in all walks of horror media, make this book, along with its story selections, an indispensable time capsule for horror in the past year.”
    —Stefan Dziemianowicz
    LOCUS, May 2016
Lavie Tidhar, Kim Newman, Stephen Jones, Stephen Volk and Robert Shearman
Signing Best New Horror #26 at the RETURN OF THE GREAT HALLOWE’EN HORROR SIGNING
at Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore on October 31st, 2015.
Left to right: Lavie Tidhar, Kim Newman, Stephen Jones, Stephen Volk and Robert Shearman.
Stephen Jones at the PS Publishing table at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham on October 25th, 2015.
Photo © 2015
Stephen Jones at the PS Publishing table at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham on October 25th, 2015.
Stephen Jones at the PS Publishing table at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham on October 25th, 2015.