Editor Paula Guran’s new “year’s best” series debuts this October from Prime Books. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010, a 544-page trade paperback (list price $19.95) will be published this October. Guran says “this inaugural volume of the year’s best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today’s best-known writers of the fantastique as well newfound talents. Chosen from a variety of sources by Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-winning editor Paula Guran, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the darkness itself.”
Guran has announced her chosen stories for this book. They include:
“A Haunted House of Her Own” by Kelley Armstrong (originally published in Twilight Zone)
“The Mystery” by Peter Atkins (Spook City)
“The Crevasse” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Balingrud (Lovecraft Unbound)
“The Horrid Glory of Its Wings” by Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com)
“Diamond Shell” by Deborah Biancotti (A Book of Endings)
“The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” by Holly Black (The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire)
“Everything Dies, Baby” by Nadia Bulkin (Strange Horizons)
“Respect” by Ramsey Campbell (British Invasion)
“Lowland Sea” by Suzy McKee Charnas (Poe)
“Bruise for Bruise” by Robert Davies (Weird Tales)
“Nub Hut” by Kurt Dinan (ChiZine)
“Certain Death for a Known Person” by Steve Duffy (Apparitions)
“The Jacaranda Smile” by Gemma Files (Apparitions)
“Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” by Seth Fried (One Story)
“The Other Box” by Gerard Houarner (Strange Tales)
“The Ones Who Got Away” by Stephen Graham Jones (Phantoms)
“The Bone’s Prayer” by Caitlin Kiernan (Sirenia Digest)
“Far and Wee” by Kathe Koja (Weird Tales)
“Leng” by Marc Laidlaw (Lovecraft Unbound)
“Sea-Hearts” by Margo Lanagan (X6)
“The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” by John Langan (By Blood We Live)
“Torn Away” by Joe R. Lansdale (Twilight Zone)
“The Cinderella Game” by Kelly Link (Troll’s Eye View)
“Vic” by Maura McHugh (Black Static)
“Strange Scenes From An Unfinished Film” by Gary McMahon (Cern Zoo)
“White Charles” by Sarah Monette (Clarkesworld)
“Monsters” by Stewart O’Nan (Cemetery Dance)
“Long Cold Goodbye” by Holly Philips (Asimov’s)
“The Nowhere Man” by Sarah Pinborough (British Invasion)
“In the Porches of My Ears” by Norman Prentiss (Postscripts)
“The Brink of Eternity” by Barbara Roden (Poe)
“Cherrystone and Shards of Ice” by Ekaterina Sedia (H.P. Lovecraft Magazine)
“Copping Squid” by Michael Shea (Copping Squid)
“Halloween Town” by Lucius Shepard (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
“What Happens When You Wake Up In the Night” by Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar Press)
“Variations of a Theme from Seinfeld” by Peter Straub (Cemetery Dance)
“The Cabinet Child” by Steve Rasnic Tem (Phantoms)
“A Delicate Architecture” by Catherynne M. Valente (Troll’s Eye View)