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Several hill 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 to be able to research zombie behavior; an all-girl traveling school provides sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders.

For about THE VERY BEST of the greatest Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Brief Horror Fiction a lot more than three years, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger within the pulse from the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from your first a decade of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, contains fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed writers Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Data files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Intro―Ellen Datlow

Lowland Sea―Suzy McKee Charnas

Wingless Beasts―Lucy Taylor

The Nimble Guys―Glen Hirshberg

Little America―Dan Chaon

Black and White colored Sky―Tanith Lee

The Monster Manufacturers―Steve Rasnic Tem

Chapter Six―Stephen Graham Jones

Inside a Cavern, in a Canyon―Laird Barron

Allochthon―Livia Llewellyn

Shepherds’ Business―Stephen Gallagher

Down to a Sunless Ocean―Neil Gaiman

The Man in the Peak―Adam Golaski

In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos―John Langan

The Moraine―Simon Bestwick

On the Riding School―Cody Goodfellow

Cargo―E.Michael Lewis

Tender as Teeth―Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski

Crazy 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 Time―Mira Grant

WHICHEVER Method We Turned―Brian Evenson

Nesters―Siobhan Carroll

Better You Believe―Carole Johnstone