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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
Best New Horror Volume 28 (2010)
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

  • (b) PS Publishing, UK • hc (signed and slipcased edition, limited to 100 copies) • £60.00 ISBN 978-1-786362-12-4
    Best New Horror Volume 28 (2018)
    Cover by Lee Elias
  • Best New Horror Volume 28 (2018)
    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

  • “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