The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eight
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01G7LRCJ2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 401 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight jonathan briggs Where's Nathan Ballingrud?His regular Table of Contents companions, Laird Barron and John Langan, made it, but beyond a nod on the acknowledgments page and an Honorable Mention, there's no Nathan. Surely he wrote something in 2015 that was worthy of inclusion here. Surely this rather truncated volume could have added a few pages to accommodate an extra story (Night Shade Books' science fiction annual got about 600 pages, no fair!).Leading the author. Excellent Collection Janet In spite of my Alice Munro obsession I rarely read short stories. But I have always been a fan of horror and many horror stories are better told in a shorter format. More importantly, I am starting to read newer authors and anthologies such as this are a great way to read a lot of different authors to get a taste for the type of horror they write. Of the 20 stories, I read all but two -- I simply do not read anything that includes the mistreatment (. "Some good, some not." according to bbgunn. I have enjoyed many of the stories but in the last few years it seems like everyone who writes fiction feels they need to make the characters all have ugly issues with family and everybody else. I would just like to go back a few years to when the development of characters was done through personality and the plot. I hear about domestic violence and crap all the time in the news. It seems to me that we've just lost some real beauty in literature and
Encompassed in the audio of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman; Kelley Armstrong; Stephen King; Linda Nagata; Laird Barron; Margo Lanagan; and many others. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.. But this light creates its own shadows. For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror listeners crave. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. Now, with the eighth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night