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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2 by Ellen Datlow

The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2

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Ellen Datlow

Night Shade Books · Ebook · March 1, 2010

Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"...

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Seventeen stories make room for plague, vampire dogs, uncanny film cameos, and other varieties of dread.
Themes
Plague and fever, The living dead, Supernatural threats
Genres
Short Story Anthologies, Horror, Supernatural Horror

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Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"...

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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 (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two.

Many Ways to Unnerve

Seventeen stories make room for plague, vampire dogs, uncanny film cameos, and other varieties of dread.

Come here for

  • Horror that ranges from Whitechapel chills to the wild hills of Fiji
  • A yearly anthology chosen by editor Ellen Datlow

Expect

  • Seventeen distinct stories, gathered from a range of publications
  • A shifting set of fears, from eerie unease to outright menace

Where it sits

Horror78%
Short Story Anthologies58%
Supernatural Horror57%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Short Story Anthologies
  • Fantasy Anthologies
  • Horror
Authors
Ellen Datlow
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Published
March 1, 2010
Format
Ebook
Theme
Plague and fever · The living dead · Supernatural threats
Reading lane
Short Story Anthologies