The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
	First cover
Editor	Ellen Datlow
Illustrator	Santiago Caruso
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Best Horror of the Year
Genre	Horror
Publisher	Night Shade Books
Publication date	January 1, 2009
Media type	Print (Paperback), eBook
Pages	321
ISBN	978-1-59780-161-4 (TP) & ; 978-1-59780-241-3 (ebook)
OCLC	377705179
Followed by	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (ISBN 978-1-59780-161-4) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on January 1, 2009. It is the first in The Best Horror of the Year series.

Contents[]

The book includes 21 stories, all first published in 2008. The book also includes a summation by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

: "Cargo"
Richard Bowes: "If Angels Fight"
Steve Duffy: "The Clay Party"
William Browning Spencer: "Penguins of the Apocalypse"
Glen Hirshberg: "Esmeralda"
Trent Hergenrader: "The Hodag"
Nicholas Royle: "Very Low-Flying Aircraft"
Margaret Ronald: "When the Gentlemen Go By"
Laird Barron: "The Lagerstätte"
Euan Harvey: "Harry and the Monkey"
Miranda Siemienowicz: "Dress Circle"
Daniel Kaysen: "The Rising River"
JoSelle Vanderhooft: "Sweeney Among the Straight Razors"
R.B. Russell: "Loup-garou"
Graham Edwards: "Girl in Pieces"
Joe R. Lansdale: "It Washed Up"
Mike Allen: "The Thirteenth Hell"
Margo Lanagan: "The Goosle"
Daniel LeMoal: "Beach Head"
Adam Golaski: "The Man from the Peak"
Simon Bestwick: "The Narrows"

External links[]

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Book review by Orrin Grey, Innsmouth Magazine

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