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Coming Soon

New Titles

The Best Short Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Ghosts And Ghouls

Peter Lorre/Sidney Greenstreet

Told Only at Midnight (2011)

Weird Tales Anthology (2010)

Reprint Titles

MBO The Best of Best New Horror: A Twenty Year Celebration (2010)

A Book of Horrors (2011)

MBO Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997)

MBO Frankenstein (1994)

Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994)

Zombie Apocalypse! (2010)

[103] The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror: A Twenty Year Celebration (2010)

Edited by Stephen Jones
Introduction by Ramsey Campbell

(e) Astrel Publishers, Russia

A Twenty Year Celebration of Best New Horror. For the past two decades the annual Best New Horror series has been the major showcase for superior short stories and novellas of horror and dark fantasy. The World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning series has published more than 450 stories by around 200 of the genre's most famous and acclaimed authors, as well as those newcomers who are just starting out on their careers. To celebrate the anthology's twentieth anniversary, the editor has selected from each volume one story that represents some of horror's biggest names. The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror is introduced by Ramsey Campbell and includes an indispensible index detailing the entire contents of the series over all twenty volumes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EDITOR'S FOREWORD Stephen Jones

INTRODUCTION: BETTERING THE BEST Ramsey Campbell

1989 NO SHARKS IN THE MED Brian Lumley

1990 THE MAN WHO DREW CATS Michael Marshall Smith

1991 THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE Ramsey Campbell

1992 NORMAN WISDOM AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH Christopher Fowler

1993 MEFISTO IN ONYX Harlan Ellison

1994 THE TEMPTATION OF DR STEIN Paul J. McAuley

1995 QUEEN OF KNIVES Neil Gaiman

1996 THE BREAK Terry Lamsley

1997 EMPTINESS SPOKE ELOQUENT Caitlín R Kiernan

1998 MR. CLUBB AND MR. CUFF Peter Straub

1999 WHITE Tim Lebbon

2000 THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT: ANNO DRACULA, 1981 Kim Newman

2001 CLEOPATRA BRIMSTONE Elizabeth Hand

2002 20TH CENTURY GHOST Joe Hill

2003 THE WHITE HANDS Mark Samuels

2004 MY DEATH Lisa Tuttle

2005 HAECKEL'S TALE Clive Barker

2006 DEVIL'S SMILE Glen Hirshberg

2007 THE CHURCH ON THE ISLAND Simon Kurt Unsworth

2008 THE NEW YORK TIMES AT SPECIAL BARGAIN RATES Stephen King

INDEX TO TWENTY YEARS OF BEST NEW HORROR

I: Index by Contributor

II: Index by Title

III: Contents of Previous Omnibus Editions

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[114] A Book of Horrors (2011)

Edited by Stephen Jones

(c) PS Publishing/Cemetery Dance Publications, UK/USA • hc (1,000-copy Limited "Bookshop" Edition signed by the editor and cover artist) • £35.00/$60.00

(d) PS Publishing/Cemetery Dance Publications, UK/USA • hc (100-copy Leatherbound Deluxe Hardcover Edition in a handmade custom traycase signed by all the contributors, of which 83 copies are available for sale) • £595.00/$995.00

Cover by Les Edwards

Illustration by Les Edwards

(e) St. Martin�s Press/Griffin, USA • tp

Don't turn out the lights . . . but open the cover, if you dare, and reveal the chilling delights that await you within the pages of A Book of Horrors. Stephen Jones, Britain's acclaimed horror editor, has gathered together masters of the macabre from across the world in this cornucopia of classic chills and modern menaces. Within these pages you will discover the most successful and exciting writers of horror and dark fantasy today, with a spine-chilling selection of stories displaying the full diversity of the genre, from classic pulp style to more contemporary psychological tales, to cutting-edge terror fiction that will leave you uneasily looking over your shoulder, or in the wardrobe, or under the bed . . . A Book of Horrors: an original anthology of all-new horror and dark fantasy fiction, in all its many and magnificent guises, by those devoted to the Dark Side.

INTRODUCTION: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HORROR? Stephen Jones

THE LITTLE GREEN GOD OF AGONY Stephen King

CHARCLOTH, FIRESTEEL AND FLINT Caitl�n R. Kiernan

GHOSTS WITH TEETH Peter Crowther

THE COFFIN-MAKER'S DAUGHTER Angela Slatter

ROOTS AND ALL Brian Hodge

TELL ME I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN Dennis Etchison

THE MUSIC OF BENGT KARLSSON, MURDERER John Ajvide Lindqvist

GETTING IT WRONG Ramsey Campbell

ALICE THROUGH THE PLASTIC SHEET Robert Shearman

THE MAN IN THE DITCH Lisa Tuttle

A CHILD'S PROBLEM Reggie Oliver

SAD, DARK THING Michael Marshall Smith

NEAR ZENNOR Elizabeth Hand

LAST WORDS Richard Christian Matheson

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[47] The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997)

Edited with an Introduction by Stephen Jones

(f) Azbooka-Atticus, Russia

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[36] The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)

Edited by Stephen Jones

Azbooka-Atticus, Russia

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[38] Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994)

Edited by Stephen Jones

(g) Jemma Press, Greece

(h) Eksmo, Russia

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[111] Zombie Apocalypse! (2010)

Created by Stephen Jones

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