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Best New Horror Volume 28 (2018)
Edited by Stephen Jones
(a) Drugstore Indian Press, UK • tp • £12.99
ISBN 978-1-78636-213-1
(a) Drugstore Indian Press, UK • tp • £12.99
ISBN 978-1-78636-213-1
Cover by Lee Elias
“Heh, Heh, Kiddies! So what do you think of our eye-popping cover on this volume? Doesn’t it just blow your mind! It sure looks like that guy lost his head over it! In this latest edition of the World’s Longest-Running Annual Showcase of Horror and Dark Fantasy you will find explosive fiction from such authors as Dennis Etchison, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Reggie Oliver, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith and Lisa Tuttle, amongst many others, along with the usual overview of the year in horror and an informative Necrology. So pull yourself together and keep an eye out for the eruption of shocks in this latest compilation, bursting with the best in contemporary horror fiction! And don’t forget you heard it here first from . . .”
—The Old Hag
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(b) PS Publishing, UK • hc (signed and slipcased edition, limited to 100 copies) • £60.00 ISBN 978-1-786362-12-4Cover by Lee Elias
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Cover by Lee Elias
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2016 | The Editor |
PALE TREE HOUSE | Angela Slatter |
THE LIGHT AT THE CENTRE | Maura McHugh |
EN PLEIN AIR | J.T. Glover |
INDIA BLUE | Glen Hirshberg |
WALKING WITH THE CROSS | Peter Bell |
BEDTIME STORY | Richard Christian Matheson |
THE SYMPHONY OF THE NORMAL | Darren Speegle |
THE BALLET OF DR. CALIGARI | Reggie Oliver |
WHO IS THIS WHO IS COMING? | Lynda E. Rucker |
THE HOUSE THAT MOVED NEXT DOOR | Stephen Volk |
PRINCESS | Dennis Etchison |
A HOME IN THE SKY | Lisa Tuttle |
ON THESE BLACKENED SHORES OF TIME | Brian Hodge |
THE ENEMY WITHIN | Steve Rasnic Tem |
THE COURT OF MIDNIGHT | Mark Samuels |
FAR FROM ANY SHORE | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
THE FIG GARDEN | Mark Valentine |
WHITE FEATHERS | Alison Littlewood |
OVER TO YOU | Michael Marshall Smith |
IN THE DARK, QUIET PLACES | Kristi DeMeester |
MARE’S NEST | Richard Gavin |
THE RED FOREST | Angela Slatter |
NECROLOGY: 2016 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman |
USEFUL ADDRESSES |
Reviews
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“In volume #28 there are 22 stories and they are all so brilliant that I genuinely had trouble picking my favourite.”
— Helen Scott
PHANTASMAGORIA MAGAZINE, Issue #12, Halloween Special 2019