Showcasing the finest weird fiction published in 2017, volume 5 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is the final, triumphant volume in the acclaimed series. Editors Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly bring their knowledge and skill to this fifth and final volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction.



Michael Kelly - Foreword

Robert Shearman - Introduction

Kurt Fawver - The Convexity of Our Youth

Ben Loory - The Rock Eater

Brenna Gomez - Corzo

Kathleen Kayembe - You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych

Daniel Carpenter - Flotsam

Michael Mirolla - The Possession

Ian Muneshwar - Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango

Claire Dean - The Unwish

Kristi DeMeester - Worship Only What She Bleeds

David Peak - House of Abjection

Helen Marshall - The Way She is With Strangers

Joshua King - The Anteater

Jenni Fagan - When Words Change the Molecular Composition of Water

Alison Littlewood - The Entertainment Arrives

Chavisa Woods - Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street

Carmen Maria Machado - Eight Bites

Eric Schaller - Red Hood

Rebecca Kuder - Curb Day

Adam-Troy Castro - The Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl

K.L. Pereira - Disappearer

Camilla Grudova - The Mouse Queen

Brian Evenson - The Second Door

Nadia Bulkin - Live Through This

Paul Tremblay - Something About Birds