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About The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten

For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Mark Morris, Kaaron Warren, John Langan, Carole Johnstone, Brian Hodge, and others. A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; An American band finds more than they bargained for in Mexico while scouting remote locations for a photo shoot; A young student’s exploration into the origins of a mysterious song leads him on a winding, dangerous path through the US’s deep south; A group of kids scaring each other with ghost stories discovers alarming consequences. The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in horror short fiction. Night Shade Books is proud to present the tenth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night. It includes: Introduction: Summation 2017—Ellen DatlowBetter You Believe—Carole JohnstoneLiquid Air—Inna EffressHoliday Romance—Mark MorrisFurtherest—Kaaron WarrenWhere’s the Harm?—Rebecca LloydWhatever Comes After Calcutta—David Erik NelsonA Human Stain—Kelly RobsonThe Stories We Tell about Ghosts—A. C. WiseEndosketal—Sarah ReadWest of Matamoros, North of Hell—Brian HodgeAlligator Point—S. P. MiskowskiDark Warm Heart—Rich LarsonThere and Back Again—Carmen Maria MachadoShepherd’s Business—Stephen GallagherYou Can Stay All Day—Mira GrantHarvest Song, Gathering Song—A. C. WiseThe Granfalloon—Orrin GreyFail-Safe—Philip FracassiThe Starry Crown—Marc E. FitchEqalussuaq—Tim MajorLost in the Dark—John Langan

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