The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
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“Welcome to the Reptile House” by Stephen Graham Jones © 2012 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication: Strange Aeons #9.
“Fake Plastic Trees” by Caitlín R. Kiernan © 2012 Caitlín R. Kiernan. First publication: After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Hyperion).
“The Education of a Witch” by Ellen Klages. Copyright © 2012 by Ellen Klages. First published in Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (published in the U.S. by Random Childrens and in the UK & Commonwealth by Hot Key Books).
“Forget You” by Marc Laidlaw © 2012 Marc Laidlaw. First publication: Lightspeed, April 2012.
“Renfrew’s Course” by John Langan © 2012 John Langan. First publication: Lightspeed, June 2012.
“The Tall Grass” by Joe R. Lansdale © 2012 Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations, ed. Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books).
“Slaughterhouse Blues” by Tim Lebbon © 2012 Tim Lebbon. First publication: Nothing As It Seems (PS Publishing).
“The Eyes of Water” by Allison Littlewood © 2012 Allison Littlewood. First publication: The Eyes of Water (Spectral Press).
“Good Hunting” by Ken Liu © 2012 Ken Liu. First publication: Strange Horizons, October 2012.
“No Ghosts in London” by Helen Marshall © 2012 Helen Marshall. First publication: Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications).
“Blue Lace Agate” by Sarah Monette © 2012 Sarah Monette. First publication: Lightspeed, January 2012.
“End of White” by Ekaterina Sedia © 2012 Ekaterina Sedia. First publication: Shotguns vs. Cthulhu, ed. Robin D. Laws (Stone Skin Press).
“Pearls” by Priya Sharma © 2012 Priya Sharma. First publication: Bourbon Penn Issue 04.
“Bedtime Stories for Yasmin” by Robert Shearman © 2012 Robert Shearman. First publication: Shadows & Tall Trees 4, ed. Michael Kelly.
“When Death Wakes Me to Myself” by John Shirley © 2012 John Shirley. First publication: Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing).
“Sinking Among the Lilies” by Cory Skerry © 2012 Corry Skerry. First publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #92.
“Go Home Again” by Simon Strantzas © 2012 Simon Strantzas. First publication: Fungi, eds. Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Innsmouth Free Press).
“The Sea of Trees” by Rachel Swirsky © 2012 Rachel Swirsky. First publication: The Future is Japanese, eds. Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington (Haikasoru).
“Dahlias” by Melanie Tem © 2012 Melanie Tem. First publication: Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing).
“Who Is Arvid Pekon” by Karen Tidbeck © 2002, 2012 Karin Tidbeck. First publication in English: Jagganath: Stories (Cheeky Frawg Books); first publication in Swedish (as “Vem är Arvid Pekon?”): Jules Verne-Magasinet 513, 2002.
“Armless Maidens of the American West” by Genevieve Valentine © 2012 Genevieve Valentine. First publication: Apex, 7 August 7 2012.
“Everything Must Go” by Brooke Wonders © 2012 Brooke Wonders. First publication: Clarkesworld, Issue 74)