The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror

by Jones, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780786710638
• ISBN10: 0786710632
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-10
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub

Summary

The award-winning Best New Horror anthology serieswinner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Awardhas now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Stephen Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by the horror genre's finest exponents and by new discoveries in the field. Contributors to this volume include Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, and Conrad Williams. Also, Stephen Jones once again provides the most comprehensive overview of the field for the year and a full necrology, plus a list of useful contacts among organizations, magazines, booksellers, and more. Whether a reader is a fan of supernatural chillers, macabre fantasy, or psychological terror, the thirteenth Mammoth Book of Best New Horror will appeal to their dark side. "The definitive series of Horror 'Bests' ... you'll get quantity as well as quality."Science Fiction Chronicle "A formidable line-up of must-read creepers whose merits are indisputable even to entrenched enthusiasts of the genre."Publishers Weekly "Essential reading every year."Hellnotes "The finest horror collection going."Kirkus Reviews

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Horror in 2001	1	(81)
Mark of the Beast	82	(28)
Chico Kidd
Crocodile Lady	110	(21)
Christopher Fowler
All for Sale	131	(14)
Ramsey Campbell
The Two Dicks	145	(19)
Paul McAuley
By Her Hand, She Draws You Down	164	(10)
Douglas Smith
O Death, Where Is Thy Spatula?	174	(14)
Poppy Z. Brite
Got to Kill Them All	188	(12)
Dennis Etchison
No More A-Roving	200	(15)
Lynda E. Rucker
First, Catch Your Demon	215	(13)
Graham Joyce
Pump Jack	228	(11)
Donald R. Burleson
Outfangthief	239	(19)
Gala Blau
The Lost District	258	(15)
Joel lane
Simeon Dimsby's Workshop	273	(15)
Richard A. Lupoff
Our Temporary Supervisor	288	(18)
Thomas Ligotti
Whose Ghosts These Are	306	(15)
Charles L. Grant
Shite Hawks	321	(13)
Muriel Gray
Off the Map	334	(18)
Michael Chislett
Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water	352	(13)
Kelly Link
City in Aspic	365	(22)
Conrad Williams
Where All Things Perish	387	(38)
Tanith Lee
Struwwelpeter	425	(34)
Glen Hirshberg
Cleopatra Brimstone	459	(53)
Elizabeth Hand
Cats and Architecture	512	(31)
Chico Kidd
Necrology: 2001	543	(40)
Stephen Jones
Kim Newman
Useful Addresses	583