***One of Publishers Weekly's ""Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018""***

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders.

For more than three decades, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger on the pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from the first ten years of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, includes fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction―Ellen Datlow

Lowland Sea―Suzy McKee Charnas

Wingless Beasts―Lucy Taylor

The Nimble Men―Glen Hirshberg

Little America―Dan Chaon

Black and White Sky―Tanith Lee

The Monster Makers―Steve Rasnic Tem

Chapter Six―Stephen Graham Jones

In a Cavern, in a Canyon―Laird Barron

Allochthon―Livia Llewellyn

Shepherds’ Business―Stephen Gallagher

Down to a Sunless Sea―Neil Gaiman

The Man from the Peak―Adam Golaski

In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos―John Langan

The Moraine―Simon Bestwick

At the Riding School―Cody Goodfellow

Cargo―E.Michael Lewis

Tender as Teeth―Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski

Wild Acre―Nathan Ballingrud

The Callers―Ramsey Campbell

This Stagnant Breath of Change―Brian Hodge

Grave Goods―Gemma Files

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine―Peter Straub

Majorlena―Jane Jakeman

The Days of Our Lives―Adam L. G. Nevill

You Can Stay All Day―Mira Grant

No Matter Which Way We Turned―Brian Evenson

Nesters―Siobhan Carroll

Better You Believe―Carole Johnstone

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