Editor Ellen Datlow has announced the table of contents of The Best Horror of the Year, volume 1, which Night Shade Books will be publishing in trade paperback this October.
Stories making the cut include:
“Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis (originally published in Shades of Darkness)
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
“The Clay Party” by Steve Duffy (The Werewolf Pack)
“Penguins of the Apocalypse” by William Browning Spencer (Subterranean)
“Esmeralda” by Glen Hirshberg (Shades of Darkness)
“The Hodag” by Trent Hergenrader (Black Static)
“Very Low-Flying Aircraft” by Nicholas Royle (Exotic Gothic 2)
“When the Gentlemen Go By” by Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld)
“The Lagerstätte” by Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy)
“Harry and the Monkey” by Euan Harvey (Realms of Fantasy)
“Dress Circle” by Miranda Siemienowicz (Hecate)
“The Rising River” by Daniel Kaysen (Black Static)
“Sweeney Among the Straight Razors” by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Star*Line)
“Loup-garou” by R.B. Russell (The Werewolf Pack)
“Girl in Pieces” by Graham Edwards (Realms of Fantasy)
“It Washed Up” by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean)
“The Thirteenth Hell” by Mike Allen (The Journey to Kailash)
“The Goosle” by Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of SF&F)
“Beach Head” by Daniel LeMoal (On Spec)
“The Man from the Peak” by Adam Golaski (Worse Than Myself)
“The Narrows” by Simon Bestwick (We Fade to Grey)