The Best of the Best Horror of the Year

Dark and gripping, these twenty ghost stories will make you shudder with terror! Written in a traditional style, each tale is also a unique retelling of terrifying urban legends from around the world. Multiple-award winner Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas brought together in one brilliant collection the works of Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín Kiernan, Catherynne Valente, Кит Рид, Екатерины Седиа, and thirteen other outstanding writers. Together they created a depth-unmatched book that will have readers leaving the light on all night...

Contents: Why We Love Ghost Stories - Nick Mamatas
Nickerbocker's Tavern - Richard Bowes
That Girl - Kaaron Warren
Akbar - Кит Рид
The Jack-Jumper - Stephen Peirce
Red as Surry - Caitlín Kiernan
Tins - Екатерина Седиа
A Train Wreck in a Shoe-Box - John Mantas
Fifteen Plaques for the Sadness of Baku and Yotai - Catherynne M. Valente
The Crying Woman - Carolyn Törjenson
A Monkey's Face - Carrie Laben
Along the Athsen Road - Jeffrey Ford
Return to Mariabronn - Gary A. Braunbeck
In the Wake of the Two-Faced Woman - Erzebet YellowBoy
Oaks Park - M. K. Hobson
For Those in Peril on the Sea - Stephen Dedman
Foxes - Lily Hoang
The 'Redfield Girls' - Laird Barron
Between Heaven and Hall - Pat Cadigan
Chucky Came to Liverpool - Ramsey Campbell
The Folded Man - Joe R. Lansdale