What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nineteen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Table of Contents:

“Summation 2010” Ellen Datlow
“At the Riding School” Cody Goodfellow
“Mr. Pigsny” Reggie Oliver
“City of the Dog” John Langan
“Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls” Brian Hodge
“Lesser Demons” Norman Partridge
“When the Zombies Win” Karina Sumner-Smith
“--30--” Laird Barron
“Fallen Boys” Mark Morris
“Was She Wicked? Was She Good?” M. Rickert
“The Fear” Richard Harland
“Till the Morning Comes” Stephen Graham Jones
“Shomer” Glen Hirshberg
“Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” Christopher Fowler
“The Obscure Bird” Nicholas Royle
“Transfiguration” Richard Christian Matheson
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” Catherynne M. Valente
“The Folding Man Joe R. Lansdale
“Just Another Desert Night With Blood” Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“Black and White Sky” Tanith Lee
“At Night When the Demons Come” Ray Cluley
“The Revel” John Langan