Ellen Datlow knows what scares us the twenty-one stories and poems included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. Every year the bar is raised the screw is tightened. 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. who died years earlier doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository, finding more than they anticipated residents of a rural Wisconsin town defend against a legendary monster a woman wracked by survivor's guilt is haunted by the ghosts of a tragic crash a detective strives to solve the mystery of a dismembered girl an orphan returns to a wicked witch's candy house a group of smugglers find themselves buried to the necks in sand an unanticipated guest brings doom to a high-class party a teacher attempts to lead his students to safety as the world comes to an end around them. An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo a man is asked to track down a childhood friend.
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