The Butcher's Table / Nathan Ballingrud. Ice Cold Lemonade 25 cents Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person / Paul Tremblay -- A Song For Wounded Mouths / Kristi DeMeester -- Birds of Passage / Gordon B. White -- The Puppet Motel / Gemma Files -- The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team / Joe R. Lansdale -- The Night Nurse / Sarah Langan -- They Are Us (1964): An Oral History / Jack Lothian -- As Dark As Hunger / S. Qiouyi Lu -- I Say (I Say, I Say) / Robert Shearman -- The Pain-Eater's Daughter / Laura Mauro -- The Hope Chest / Sarah Read -- Nor Cease You Never Now / Ren Warom -- Playscape / Diana Peterfreund -- Adrenaline Junkies / Ray Cluley -- Watching / Tim Lees -- Mr. And Mrs. Kett / Sam Hicks -- Below / Simon Bestwick -- My Name is Ellie / Sam Rebelein -- Slipper / Catriona Ward -- How To Stay Afloat When Drowning / Daniel Braum -- This Was Always Going to Happen / Stephen Graham Jones -- The Butcher's Table / Nathan Ballingrud.
Summary:
"The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in horror short fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Paul Tremblay, Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Langan, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and others. For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the twelfth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night."--Back cover.
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