Ellen Datlow has announced the table of contents for her forthcoming The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three (Night Shade Books will be publishing it later this year). She notes that this book will have about 140,000 words of fiction, as opposed to last year’s 125,000.
The stories making the cut include:
“At the Riding School” by Cody Goodfellow
“Mr. Pigsny” by Reggie Oliver
“City of the Dog” by John Langan
“Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls” by Brian Hodge
“Lesser Demons” by Norman Partridge
“When the Zombies Win” by Karina Sumner-Smith
“-30-” by Laird Barron
“Fallen Boys” by Mark Morris
“Was She Wicked? Was She Good?” by M. Rickert
“The Fear” by Richard Harland
“Till the Morning Comes” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Shomer” by Glen Hirshberg
“Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” by Christopher Fowler
“The Obscure Bird” by Nicholas Royle
“Transfiguration” by Richard Christian Matheson
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
“The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale
“Just Another Desert Night With Blood” by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“Black and White Sky” by Tanith Lee
“At Night When the Demons Come” by Ray Cluley
“The Revel” by John Langan