Prime Books has announced the list of contributors to The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010, edited by Paula Guran.
To be published this October by Prime Books, this inaugural volume of the year’s best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today’s best-known writers of the fantastique as well as new talents. Chosen from a variety of sources by Bram Stoker and international Horror Guild award-winning editor Paula Guran, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the darkness itself.
- Kelley Armstrong. “A Haunted House of Her Own” (Twilight Zone)
- Peter Atkins. “The Mystery,” (Spook City)
- Dale Bailey and Nathan Balingrud. “The Crevasse” (Lovecraft Unbound)
- Elizabeth Bear. “The Horrid Glory of Its Wings” (Tor.com, 12/08/09)
- Deborah Biancotti. “Diamond Shell” (A Book of Endings)
- Holly Black. “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
- Nadia Bulkin. “Everything Dies, Baby” (Strange Horizons 9/31/09)
- Ramsey Campbell. “Respect” (British Invasion)
- Suzy McKee Charnas. “Lowland Sea” (Poe)
- Robert Davies. “Bruise for Bruise” (Weird Tales 353)
- Kurt Dinan. “Nub Hut” (ChiZine 1/09)
- Steve Duffy. “Certain Death for a Known Person” (Apparitions)
- Gemma Files.”The Jacaranda Smile” (Apparitions)
- Seth Fried. “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre: (One Story124)
- Gerard Houarner. “The Other Box” (Strange Tales 3)
- Stephen Graham Jones. “The Ones Who Got Away” (Phantoms)
- Caitlin Kiernan. “The Bone’s Prayer” (Sirenia Digest)
- Kathe Koja. “Far and Wee,” (Weird Tales 352)
- Marc Laidlaw. “Leng” (Lovecraft Unbound)
- Margo Lanagan. “Sea-Hearts” (X6)
- John Langan. “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” (By Blood We Live)
- Joe R. Lansdale. “Torn Away” (Twilight Zone)
- Kelly Link. “The Cinderella Game” (Troll’s Eye View)
- Maura McHugh. “Vic” (Black Static 10)
- Gary McMahon. “Strange Scenes From An Unfinished Film” (Cern Zoo)
- Sarah Monette. “White Charles” (Clarkesworld #6)
- Stewart O’Nan. “Monsters” (Cemetery Dance #61)
- Holly Phillips. “Long Cold Goodbye” (Asimov’s, 3/09)
- Sarah Pinborough. “The Nowhere Man” (British Invasion)
- Norman Prentiss. “In the Porches of My Ears” (Postscripts 18)
- Barbara Roden. “The Brink of Eternity” (Poe)
- Ekaterina Sedia. “Cherrystone and Shards of Ice” (H.P. Lovecraft Magazine 5)
- Michael Shea “Copping Squid” (Copping Squid)
- Lucius Shepard. “Halloween Town” (F&SF, Oct/Nov 09)
- Michael Marshall Smith. “What Happens When You Wake Up In the Night” (Nightjar Press)
- Peter Straub. “Variations of a Theme from Seinfeld” (Cemetery Dance #61)
- Steve Rasnic Tem.”The Cabinet Child” (Phantoms)
- Catherynne M.Valente. “A Delicate Architecture” (Troll’s Eye View)
