The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven
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“White Mare” was originally published in The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories edited by Stephen Jones.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a Dutch author whose short stories have won the Hugo Award and the Dutch Harland Award, and have been nominated for two additional Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award. His fifth horror novel, HEX, launched his worldwide breakthrough, spawning editions in over twenty-five countries and an upcoming TV series. Olde Heuvelt recently finished his new horror novel Echo, which will be published in the US in 2020.
“You Know How the Story Goes” was originally published on Tor.com, February 21.
Robert Shearman has written five short story collections, and among them they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize, and three British Fantasy Awards. He began his career in the theatre, and is a regular writer for BBC Radio. But he is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who, bringing back the Daleks for the BAFTA winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award. His latest book, We All Hear Stories in the Dark, is to be released by PS Publishing next year.
“Thumbsucker” was originally published in New Fears 2 edited by Mark Morris.
Eloise C. C. Shepherd is a writer with a surprisingly successful sideline in boxing. She is co-founder of liminalresidency.co.uk, an Arts Council England funded writers’ retreat taking place in neglected and unusual spaces. You can find her work in New Writing 13, The Fiction Desk, and Eborakon. To learn more you can go to her website (eloiseccshepherd.co.uk) or follow her on social media (@faithlehanne).
“A Tiny Mirror” was originally published in Supernatural Tales 39.
Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. He has won the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth awards—along with the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction four times, more than any other author. In 2017 he published the YA novel Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence.
Writing as Michael Marshall he has written internationally-bestselling thrillers including The Straw Men series and The Intruders. Now additionally writing as Michael Rutger, he recently published the adventure thriller The
Anomaly. A sequel, The Possession, is coming this year. He lives in California with his wife, son, and cats.
“Shit Happens” was originally published in The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow.
Peter Sutton lives in Bristol, UK, with his partner and two cats. His first book, A Tiding of Magpies, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story Collection. He is the author of two novels: Sick City Syndrome and Seven Deadly Swords. He has also edited several anthologies of short stories. You can follow him on Twitter at @suttope and his website, where you can find out more about him and his writing, is petewsutton.com
“Masks” was originally published in The Alchemy Press Book of Horror edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards.
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books—Disintegration, Breaker, Transubstantiate, Herniated Roots, Staring into the Abyss, Tribulations, and The Soul Standard. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. His over 140 stories in print include Cemetery Dance, Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Weird Fiction Review, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2–4), and Shivers VI. Visit whatdoesnotkillme.com for more information.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
Steve Toase was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Munich, Germany. His fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Lackington’s, Aurealis, Not One Of Us, and other magazines. He also writes for Fortean Times and Folklore Thursday.
From 2014 he worked with Becky Cherriman and Imove on Haunt, the Saboteur Award shortlisted project inspired by his own teenage experiences, about Harrogate’s haunting presence in the lives of people experiencing homelessness in the town.
You can find him at: tinyletter.com/stevetoase, facebook.com/stevetoase1, stevetoase.wordpress.com, and on Twitter @stevetoase.
“The Jaws of Ouroboros” was originally published in The Fiends in the Furrows, edited by David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott, and “Split Chain Stitch” was originally published in Mystery Weekly magazine, November.
Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, Sing Me Your Scars, and the forthcoming The Dead Girls Club. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including Cassilda’s Song, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
Michael Wehunt lives in the woods with his partner and his dog. Robert Aickman fidgets next to Flannery O’Connor on his favorite bookshelf. His work has appeared in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Cemetery Dance, and many other chilling places. His debut collection, Greener Pastures, was shortlisted for the Crawford Award and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COPYRIGHT
“The Donner Party” by Dale Bailey. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Girls Without Their Faces On” by Laird Barron. Copyright © 2018. First published in Ashes and Entropy edited by Robert S. Wilson, Nightscape Press. Reprinted by permission of the author. “I Remember Nothing” by Anne Billson. Copyright © 2018. First published in We Were Strangers: Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures edited by Richard V. Hirst, Confingo Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Haunt” by Siobhan Carroll. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Red Rain” by Adam-Troy Castro. Copyright © 2018. First published in Nightmare #68, June. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Painted Wolves” by Ray Cluley. Copyright © 2018. First published in In Dog We Trust edited by Anthony Cowin, Black Shuck Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Brief Moment of Rage” by Bill Davidson. Copyright © 2018. First published in Thrilling Endless Apocalypse Short Stories edited by Josie Mitchell, Flame Tree Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Milkteeth” by Kristi DeMeester. Copyright © 2018. First published in Shimmer #44, July, 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Golden Sun” by Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt. Copyright © 2018. First published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder, Written Backwards. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
“Thin Cold Hands” by Gemma Files. Copyright © 2018. First published in Lamplight volume 6 issue 4. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“No Exit” by Orrin Grey. Copyright © 2018. First published in Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road edited by D. Alexander Ward, Crystal Lake Publishing.
“Back Along the Old Track” by Sam Hicks. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott, Nosetouch Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“You Are Released” by Joe Hill. Copyright © 2018. First published in Flight or Fright, by Cemetery Dance Publications edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Sleep” by Carly Holmes. Copyright © 2018. First published in Figurehead, Tartarus Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Haak” by John Langan. Copyright © 2018. First published in New Fears 2 edited by Mark Morris, Titan Books. Reprinted by permissi
on of the author.
“I Love You Mary-Grace” by Amelia Mangan. Copyright © 2018. First published in In Dog We Trust edited Anthony Cowin, Black Shuck Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Monkeys on the Beach” by Ralph Robert Moore. Copyright © 2018. First published in Tales From the Shadow Booth: A Journal of Weird and Eerie Fiction Vol. 2 edited by Dan Coxon. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“White Mare” by Thana Niveau. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories edited by Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing. Reprinted by permission of the author. “You Know How the Story Goes” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Copyright © 2018. First published on Tor.com February 2l, 2018. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Thumbsucker” by Robert Shearman. Copyright © 2018. First published in New Fears 2 edited by Mark Morris, Titan Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Tiny Mirror” by Eloise C. C. Shepherd. Copyright © 2018. First published in Supernatural Tales 39. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Shit Happens” by Michael Marshall Smith. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Masks” by Peter Sutton. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Alchemy Press Book of Horror edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards, The Alchemy Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Jaws of Ouroboros” by Steve Toase. Copyright © 2018. First published in The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott, Nosetouch Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Split Chain Stitch” by Steve Toase. Copyright © 2018. First published in Mystery Weekly Magazine November. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Children of Lovecraft, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, Black Feathers, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, and The Best of the Best Horror of the Year. Forthcoming is Final Cuts—all new horror stories about movies and movie-making (Blumhouse/Anchor).
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on twitter as @EllenDatlow. She’s owned by two cats.