Nightmares : a new decade of modern horror / edited by Ellen Datlow.

Title:

Additional Author(s):

Datlow, Ellen

ISBN:

9781616962326

1616962321

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Info:

San Francisco, CA :

Description:

427 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Contents:

Shallaballah / Sob in the silence / Our turn too will one day come / Dead sea fruit / Closet dreams / Spectral evidence / Hushabye / Very low-flying aircraft / The Goosle / The clay party / Strappado / Lonegan's luck / Mr. Pigsny / At night, when the demons come / Was she wicked? Was she good? / The shallows / Little pig / Omphalos / How we escaped our certain fate / That tiny flutter of the heart I used to call love / Interstate love song (Murder ballad no. 8) / Shay Corsham Worsted / The atlas of Hell / Ambitious boys like you

Summary:

An acclaimed horror editor presents 24 terrifying tales from such authors as Garth Nix, Livia Llewellyn, Richard Kadrey, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan and Gene Wolfe that remind us that evil is all around us.

General Note:

Companion to: Darkness : two decades of modern horror.

Subject(s):

Short stories.

Horror tales, American.

Horror tales, English.

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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 genre. She has mined the breadth and depth of ten years of terror, collecting superlative works of established masters and scene-stealing newcomers alike.

Author Notes

Richard Kadrey is a freelance writer. He is the author of dozens of stories, plus numerous novels, including: the Sandman Slim Series, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird.

Kadrey created and wrote the Vertigo comics mini-series ACCELERATE.

Richard has written and spoken about art, culture and technology for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW and Wired For Sex on the G4 cable network. He is also a fetish photographer and digital artist.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Editor Datlow has compiled a stunning array of horror in her newest anthology, drawing on new and terrifying leaps in the genre. Some stories are plausible and others are otherworldly and fantastical, but all maintain a feeling of dread. A young woman relives the experience of sexual assault in Lisa Tuttle's "Closet Dreams." Margo Lanagan's "The Goosle" is a grisly reimagining of "Hansel and Gretel." A husband struggles and fails to love his doll-obsessed wife in Robert Shearman's eerie "That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love." Each tale is inventive and startling. Perhaps the most arresting in the collection, Anna Taborska's "Little Pig," proves that horror grounded in reality-in this case, a family being required to make an unbearable sacrifice-can be the most horrific. This is the perfect introduction to the horror genre, especially for readers who don't crave easy scares but appreciate slow burn that lingers long after the book is closed. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Building off her indispensable Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010), which covered the years 1985-2005, Datlow has here collected the 24 stories that she has most enjoyed from 2005-15. Her task is aided greatly by the fact that the last decade has been a fertile one for the genre, with the emergence of incredible new voices and the decision by nongenre writers to give horror a try. Arranged in chronological order by year of publication, these tales represent the breadth of horror from psychologically chilling to all out terrorizing and feature just about every type of monster or ghost imaginable. As a result of this range, however, not every reader will like every story, but that is not this book's goal. Rather, it should be taken as an exemplary and accurate representation of what readers can expect from horror today, in general, in one concise volume. Of particular note are the stories by rising stars Laird Barron and Stephen Graham Jones and Australian Kaaron Warren, and a refreshingly original entry into the crowded field of zombie stories by literary-fiction author Dan Chaon. This volume is not only the perfect discovery tool for readers looking for the very best of modern horror, it should also be used as a collection-development tool by library staff.--Spratford, Becky Copyright 2016 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Ten years of short horror fiction plucked from previous anthologies, plus some original works, come together in these 24 tales, in which "what goes bump in the night" ranges from ghosts to madmen to what lurks inside the human psyche. One actor's last hope for reconstructive surgery resides within television itself. A horror writer creates a story come to life, only to get caught in the middle of it. Renowned authors such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Robert Shearman, Garth Nix, and Kaaron Warren vividly capture the darkness, evil, and fear found in great horror fiction. -VERDICT Noted anthologist Datlow (The Best Horror of the Year) once again draws upon her curating skills to highlight the best the genre has to offer. The variety of stories shines a light on the depth and breadth of this sometimes marginalized literary form.-KC © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.