The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five

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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five
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EditorEllen Datlow
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best Horror of the Year
GenreHorror
PublisherNight Shade Books
Publication date
August 2013
Media typePrint (Paperback), eBook
Pages406
ISBN978-1-59780-475-2
OCLC857301626
Preceded byThe Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 
Followed byThe Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five (ISBN 978-1-59780-475-2) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on August 2013. It is the fifth volume in The Best Horror of the Year series.[1]

Contents[]

The book includes twenty-eight horror stories, all first published in 2012. The book also includes a summation by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

  • Lucy Taylor: "Nikishi"
  • Dan Chaon: "Little America"
  • Jeffrey Ford: "A Natural History of Autumn"
  • Kij Johnson: "Mantis Wives"
  • Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski: "Tender as Teeth"
  • Ramsey Campbell: "The Callers"
  • Kevin McCann: "Two Poems for Hill House" (poem)
  • Terry Dowling: "Mariners' Round"
  • Gemma Files: "Nanny Grey"
  • Tamsyn Muir: "The Magician's Apprentice"
  • Gary McMahon: "Kill All Monsters"
  • Ian Rogers: "The House on Ashley Avenue"
  • Jay Wilburn: "Dead Song"
  • Sandi Leibowitz: "Sleeping, I Was Beauty" (poem)
  • Margo Lanagan: "Bajazzle"
  • : "The Pike"
  • Bruce McAllister: "The Crying Child"
  • Amber Sparks: "This Circus the World"
  • Gary McMahon: "Some Pictures in an Album"
  • Nathan Ballingrud: "Wild Acre"
  • Megan Arkenberg: "Final Exam"
  • Stephen Bacon: "None So Blind"
  • Priya Sharma: "The Ballad of Boomtown"
  • Adam Nevill: "Pig Thing"
  • Richard Gavin: "The Word-Made Flesh"
  • Claire Massey: "Into the Penny Arcade"
  • Lucy A. Snyder: "Magdala Amygdala"
  • Laird Barron: "Frontier Death Song"

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