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Best Horror of the Year 1
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Presents a collection of seventeen horror stories published in 2008, together with an essay summarizing achievements in the horror genre for novels, anthologies, magazines, and webzines. |
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Pages 350
Dimensions: Length: 8.9" Width: 6" Height: 1.2"
Weight: 0.9 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 15, 2009
ISBN 1597801615
EAN 9781597801614
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 | A Horrible Success! Dec 7, 2009 |
BLACK ROAD 2012
All I can say is that I really liked this book. I'm a thriller author, but this charmer held my attention and I found it refreshingly different. The "end of the word" story reminded me of my own published work Black Road 2012, and I related to that one very well. Ellen Datlow is Scary! I can recommend this book---
BLACK ROAD 2012 | | |  | a box of horror chocolates Nov 30, 2009 |
Maybe, I was just burned out on the short story format. Maybe, having finished Datlow's collection of Lovecraft inspired tales, I was hoping for the same. Maybe horror just isn't as horrible as it has been in years past. Whatever the reason, this anthology of the year's "best" horror just didn't seem like the best out there. I haven't even finished it yet, and I'm feeling pretty lukewarm about it. Not being a reader of the small press/magazine, I don't know if there is better out there.
Some editors tastes differ widely from my own, and I can respect that, but I've always trusted Datlow as an editor in the past, and I'm sad that this didn't live up to my expectations. I'm not going to rate each story...I'm sure someone will or already has. I have always enjoyed Datlow's essays about the state of the market and her reccommendtaions, but for som reason this anthology falls flat with me. I'd suggest a trip to the library before buying this book. That way you can sample what is there and decide if the anthology is worth your hard earned dollars.
Overall, this anthology is a lot like the proverbial box of chocolates...unfortunately, there didn't seem to be many solid milk chocolate gems and too many fruit filled ickys that you try to avoid until there isn't anything else left. | | | | Not Free SF Reader Nov 27, 2009 |
A bit down for a Year's Best bunch, at 3.37. This new series does have an overview of various media and the horror contained therein - with a focus on prose. However, all written by Datlow by the looks, so rather more succinct than in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series version. Probably have sacrificed that for stories perhaps.
Best two are by leMoal and Edwards - one nasty, one rather whacky.
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Cargo - E. Michael Lewis
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : If Angels Fight - Richard Bowes
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Clay Party - Steve Duffy
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Penguins of the Apocalypse - William Browning Spencer
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Esmeralda - Glen Hirshberg
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Hodag - Trent Hergenrader
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Very Low-Flying Aircraft - Nicholas Royle
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : When the Gentlemen Go By - Margaret Ronald
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Lagerstätte - Laird Barron
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Harry and the Monkey - Euan Harvey
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Dress Circle - Miranda Siemienowicz
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Rising River - Daniel Kaysen
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Loup-garou - R.B. Russell
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Girl in Pieces - Graham Edwards
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : It Washed Up - Joe R. Lansdale
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Goosle - Margo Lanagan
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : Beach Head - Daniel LeMoal
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Man From the Peak - Adam Golaski
Best Horror Of the Year 1 : The Narrows - Simon Bestwick
Evac body blow.
3.5 out of 5
Jumper boy.
3.5 out of 5
Gets much smaller, furry.
3 out of 5
Pooka drink.
3 out of 5
Junk piles.
3 out of 5
Whitey beast.
3.5 out of 5
Headless swooping.
3.5 out of 5
Hollow, blokey existence.
3 out of 5
Plane crash ghosts.
3.5 out of 5
Missing kid doolally.
3.5 out of 5
Rocky skirting.
3.5 out of 5
Ghost bear mad.
3.5 out of 5
Movie me.
3 out of 5
Golem help Athena serial fate.
4 out of 5
Harmonica blasted.
3 out of 5
Arsebanditry better than cannibalry.
3.5 out of 5
Up to the neck clubbing.
4 out of 5
Prudence snack story.
3.5 out of 5
Everything gone. Pray for Death.
3 out of 5
| | |  | The Best Horror Goes Solo Oct 30, 2009 |
This is the third year I've picked up Ellen Datlow's Best of the Year--the first year in which the book is solely dedicated to dark fiction (and soley edited by Datlow--previous incarnations split 50/50 fantasy and horror). As with any anthology, some pieces didn't work for me. I didn't finish "If Angels Fight" by Richard Bowes. Not my style, a little slow. But there is variety in this collection, truly a "year's best" with no outright clunkers.
Some of my favorites include:
"Beach Head" by Daniel LeMoal--the first piece since god-knows-when that inspired a physical fear response from page one. The set up: three smugglers with hands tied are buried to their neck on a sandy beach. It only goes creepier from there. While the prose isn't always razor sharp, the effect is. I felt like I was suffocating while I read.
"The Hodag" by Trent Hergenrader affected me in a different, more nostalgic way. It is a tale that spans decades, and the narrator's chilling realization in the final paragraphs is more frightening than the Hodag itself. "The Hodag" is the kind of story I would write if I could write better. It's a goal.
"The Lagerstatte" by Laird Barron...man, I hope to write 1/10th as well as Mr. Barron some day. The premise of "The Lagerstatte" is a little familiar, but his skill with language paints said premise with a deftness rivaling any short fiction author today.
As a reader, this is the type of horror literature I like to see: high quality, thoughtful prose, solid character development, and dark without leaning on schlock and gore. As a fledgling author, the stories in this book provide a model, a goal for my own work. "Here's how you do it." Best Horror of the Year is smart writing, regardless of genre.
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