Best New Horror: Volume 25 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)

Best New Horror combines dozens of the best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes to the US to delight and terrify thriller enthusiasts. This has been the world’s leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. This newest volume offers outstanding new writing by masters of the genre, such as Joan Aiken, Peter Atkins, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Joe R. Lansdale, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Robert Silverberg, Michael Marshall Smith, Evangeline Walton, and many others! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Who dares wins: Anno Dracula 1980 -- Kim Newman Click-clack the rattlebag -- Neil Gaiman Dead end -- Nicholas Royle Isaac's room -- Daniel Mills The Burning circus -- Angela Slatter Holes for faces -- Ramsey Campbell By night he could not see -- Joel Lane Come into my parlour -- Reggie Oliver The middle park -- Michael Chislett Into the water -- Simon Kurt Unsworth The burned house -- Lynda E. Rucker What do we talk about when we talk about Z-- -- Lavie Tidhar Fishfly season -- Halli Villegas Doll re mi -- Tanith Lee A night's work -- Clive Barker The sixteenth step -- Robert Shearman Stemming the tide -- Simon Strantzas The gist -- Michael Marshall Smith Guinea Pig Girl -- Thana Niveau Miss Baltimore Crabs: Anno Dracula 1990 -- Kim Newman Whitstable -- Stephen Volk Necrology: 2013 -- Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.