With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, this collection serves horror that gets under your skin—and stays there.What's on the menu tonight? Something unexpected. Something forbidden.Twelve deliciously disturbing tales await your consumption in this horror anthology where dinner becomes deadly and appetite turns sinister. From Victorian steam tunnels harboring unspeakable entities to futuristic alien feasts with humanity on the...

You can't kill the dead!Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for thi...

Travel to future worlds where teens live in the wake of catastrophic disasters in this anthology featuring nineteen stories from YA and adult authors."Engrossing. . . .Fans of the genre will naturally gravitate toward After and find much to enjoy. Others may simply be attracted to the names Jane Yolen, Garth Nix, Gregory Maguire, Beth Revis, Cecil Castellucci, and Carrie Ryan; even if they come for their favorite...

For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:Neil GaimanKim RobinsonStephen KingLinda...

Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies or maddened extremists patrolling the earth.In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the ...

Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark—in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along dank passageways, trapped underground, in the near future, or among the mysteries of old New Orleans. Dunes, lakes, isolated cabins, old books...

An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers?including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another’s yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds more than she bargains for . . .The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition...

A collection of some of the best original fantasy and science fiction stories published on Tor.com in 2014.Contents:As Good As New by Charlie Jane AndersThe End of the End of Everything by Dale BaileyMrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch by Kelly BarnhillSleep Walking Now and Then by Richard BowesDaughter of Necessity by Marie BrennanBrisk Money by Adam ChristopherA Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the ...

Paranormal investigators. Occult detectives. Ghost hunters. Monster fighters. Humans who unravel uncanny crimes and solve psychic puzzles. Sleuths with supernatural powers of their own who provide services far beyond those normal gumshoes, shamuses, and Sherlocks can. When vampires, werewolves, and things that go "bump" in the night are part of your world, criminals can be as inhuman as the crimes they commit, and magic can seep into the mundane. Those who solve the mysteries, bring justic...

Susan Hunter is terrified as she is alone at night in a house she considers full of evil. A raging storm adds to her terror. She kept hearing noises in the house. Could it be caused by the storm? Or were there monsters inside?This story is short but intense. The tension is constant and never eases.Will she survive the night?Are there really monsters in the house?You'll be at the edge of your seat reading this and you will never guess the ending.

Shelly can't wait for the work day to be over – it's Saturday, she's hung-over and wants to go home with her partner Melissa.Melissa, has other things on her mind, namely a mysterious elderly man who has been watching their shop from across the street – but what could he possibly want in a women's beauty salon?

This fiendish anthology, complied by the horror genre's most acclaimed editor, drags you into the twisted minds of modern literary masters at their fiendish best. Visionary storytellers fill this collection of tales lyrical and strange, monstrous and exhilarating, horrific and transformative.*A sweetly vengeful voice on the radio calls a young soldier out to join a phantom patrol.*A hotel maid who threw her newborn child from a fourth-story window lingers in an interminable...