Description:

A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body; a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which zombies have overrun the earth; a murderous pack of nuns stalks a pair of Halloween revelers...What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound, Tails of Wonder and Imagination), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three.

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nineteen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Table of Contents:

“Summation 2010” Ellen Datlow
“At the Riding School” Cody Goodfellow
“Mr. Pigsny” Reggie Oliver
“City of the Dog” John Langan
“Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls” Brian Hodge
“Lesser Demons” Norman Partridge
“When the Zombies Win” Karina Sumner-Smith
“--30--” Laird Barron
“Fallen Boys” Mark Morris
“Was She Wicked? Was She Good?” M. Rickert
“The Fear” Richard Harland
“Till the Morning Comes” Stephen Graham Jones
“Shomer” Glen Hirshberg
“Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” Christopher Fowler
“The Obscure Bird” Nicholas Royle
“Transfiguration” Richard Christian Matheson
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” Catherynne M. Valente
“The Folding Man Joe R. Lansdale
“Just Another Desert Night With Blood” Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“Black and White Sky” Tanith Lee
“At Night When the Demons Come” Ray Cluley
“The Revel” John Langan