Nightshade Books reports that The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two, edited by Ellen Datlow, has arrived at the warehouse and is available. Description: Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"... Contents:

• Summation 2009 - Ellen Datlow
• "Lowland Sea" - Suzy McKee Charnas
• "The End of Everything" - Steve Eller
• "Mrs Midnight" - Reggie Oliver
• "each thing I show you is a piece of my death" - Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
• "The Nimble Men" - Glen Hirshberg
• "What Happens when you wake up in the night" - Michael Marshall Smith
• "Wendigo" - Micaela Morrissette
• "In the Porches of My Ears" - Norman Prentiss
• "Lonegan's Luck" - Stephen Graham Jones
• "The Crevasse" - Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
• "The Lion's Den" - Steve Duffy
• "Lotophagi" - Edward Morris
• "The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall" - Kaaron Warren
• "Dead Loss" - Carole Johnstone
• "Strappado" - Laird Barron
• "The Lammas Worm" - Nina Allan
• "Technicolor" - John Langan

To purchase: Best Horror of The Year, Volume Two, 350 pages, $15.95