The Dark Country
by Dennis Etchison
from Babbage Press
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
from St. Martin's Griffin
The 10th volume of this excellent annual anthology series not only collects 39 stories and 4 poems in these overlapping genres, but reports on the year's best in books, movies, and other media. The horror and dark fantasy tales are by Jay Russell (family ghost), Angela Carter (fairy tale ghost), Edward Bryant (aliens), Robert Silverberg (dark goddess), Yxta Maya Murray (Southwestern folklore ghost), Thomas Ligotti (secret society), Graham Masterton (macabre recipe book), Douglas Clegg (anguished love), Stephen Dedman (child lamia who knew Lewis Carroll), Terry Lamsley (monster "pet"), Isobelle Carmody (phoenix), Delia Sherman (witches and wolves), Lisa Russ Spaar (Rapunzel), Neil Gaiman (queen bee), Philip Graham (oppressive angel), Terry Dowling (monomania), Dennis Etchison (L.A. paranoia), Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg (ravaging bears), A. R. Morlan (rock 'n' roll sleaze), Michael Marshall Smith (entrapping relationship), and Ron Hansen (magic realism). All the dark tales are high quality, and a few are among the best in the series so far.
Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories
by Dennis Etchison
from Cemetery Dance Pubns
A collection of the darkest and nastiest Etchison stories both brand new and reprint that have not been included in any of his recent collections. If you love horrific short stories, you will need this collection in your personal library!
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction by George Clayton Johnson
Sitting In The Corner, Whimpering Quietly
The Walking Man
The Pitch
You Can Go Now
Today's Special
Call Home
The Machine Demands A Sacrifice
On The Pike
White Moon Rising
The Scar
The Detailer
Home Call
Red Dog Down
One Of Us
In a Silent Way
My Present Wife
No One You Know
Got to Kill Them All
The Complete Masters of Darkness
Gathering the Bones
from Tor Books
Includes New Stories by:
Ray Bradbury
Graham Joyce
Peter Crowther
Kim Newman
Sara Douglass
Thomas Tessier
M. John Harrison
Gahan Wilson
The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters and hot new writers.
Masters of Darkness III (Masters of Darkness)
by Clive Barker
from Tor Books
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