AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Stephen Jones
CATEGORY Horror
PUBLICATION DATE  November 2021
FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION Lee Elias
BACK COVER ILLUSTRATION Attributed to Al Avison
COVER DESIGN Smith & Jones
PAGES 565

EDITION
Signed Hardcover  — ISBN  978-1-78636-822-5
Housed in an illustrated slipcase and limited to 100 copies signed by the contributors
 
In this latest edition of THE WORLD’S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Jonathan Carroll, Michael Marshall Smith, Angela Slatter, Reggie Oliver and Richard Christian Matheson, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2019 and Necrology of those who have left us.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Horror in 2019 — THE EDITOR
• Zombie-ish — SCOTT BRADFIELD
• Wake the Dead — MAURA MCHUGH
• Mercy Brown —  CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN
• Mama Bruise — JONATHAN CARROLL
• The Same As the Air — ALISON LITTLEWOOD
• Getting Through — RAMSEY CAMPBELL
• The Children of Medea — STEPHEN BACON
• The Water of Dhu’l Nun — DON WEBB
• Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon — RON WEIGHELL
• The Promise of Saints —  ANGELA SLATTER
• Crawlspace Oracle — RICHARD GAVIN
• Downriver — MICHAEL CHISLETT
• Death in All Its Ripeness — MARK SAMUELS
• Shrapnel — RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON
• Precipice — DALE BAILEY
• Antripuu — SIMON STRANTZAS
• A Crown of Leaves — KRISTI DeMEESTER
• A Stay at the Shores — STEVE RASNIC TEM
• The Old Man of the Woods — REGGIE OLIVER
• Iron City — TANITH LEE
• Slough — GLEN HIRSHBERG
• A Species of the Dead —  D.P. WATT
• The Burning Woods — MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
• Necrology: 2019 — STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN
• Useful Addresses