The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume!
From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique!
No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books in this series. T he Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 contains more than three hundred pages of mystical fiction. Reader beware and indulge if you dare, because these chilling tales are sure to spook and surprise!
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume 4 is an exceptional anthology that makes me want to search out and read the previous volumes because apparently, I have been missing out on something special.
The first story, Shadow Plane by Fran Wilde set the bar pretty high. If surviving a plane crash and being trapped in the bitter-cold wilderness isn't scary enough just wait until you see what those shadows are up to. This was a super freaky story that will have you scared of your own shadow.
Red Wet Grin by Gemma Files is a creepy story that is set in a nursing home where a new patient with a wicked smile has evil plans for staff and residents.
The Lending Library of Final Lines by Octavia Cade is gruesome, sad, original, and twisted. Complete books don't exist in this world but loose pages have an incredible and heartbreaking use. Reading can be dangerous.
Stephen Graham Jones knocks it out of the park with his story Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Breakups can be messy, but this story of romance, revenge, and the bonds of parental love was a riveting page-turner.
The Feeding of Closed Mouths by Eden Royce was another of my favorites. I knew it would be from the opening line "When the news said three more young men had been found dead in their homes, Grace knew her mother had come to town." All I'm going to say about this story is WOW!
A Belly Full Of Spiders by Mario Coellho is a story of abuse and the supernatural. It is dark and disturbing and brilliant.
The Long Way Up by Alix E. Harrow is a tale of loss, and grief, and what one woman is willing to do for the love of her life.
The past catches up with a small group of teens in Sharp Things, Killing Things by A.C. Wise. This is a story that gave me goosebumps!
Swim the Darkness by Michael Kelly kind of broke my heart. Life is short even if you're not a girl with a strange affliction, so live as if you're on borrowed time. I'm not crying you're crying.
In The Smile Place by Tobi Ogundiran is about a boy who suffers a traumatic experience then later goes missing, and the big brother who lives with guilt over it. It's also scary as hell!
If you love dark fiction you need this anthology!
My thanks to Pyr Books
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