Nightmares; A New Decade of Modern Horror

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Editor Datlow has compiled a stunning array of horror in her newest anthology, drawing on new and terrifying leaps in the genre. Some stories are plausible and others are otherworldly and fantastical, but all maintain a feeling of dread. A young woman relives the experience of sexual assault in Lisa Tuttle's "Closet Dreams." Margo Lanagan's "The Goosle" is a grisly reimagining of "Hansel and Gretel." A husband struggles and fails to love his doll-obsessed wife in Robert Shearman's eerie "That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love." Each tale is inventive and startling. Perhaps the most arresting in the collection, Anna Taborska's "Little Pig," proves that horror grounded in reality—in this case, a family being required to make an unbearable sacrifice—can be the most horrific. This is the perfect introduction to the horror genre, especially for readers who don't crave easy scares but appreciate slow burn that lingers long after the book is closed. CONTENTS Introduction Ellen Datlow Shallaballah Mark Samuels Sob in the Silence Gene Wolfe Our Turn Too Will One Day Come Brian Hodge Dead Sea Fruit Kaaron Warren Closet Dreams Lisa Tuttle Spectral Evidence Gemma Files Hushabye Simon Bestwick Very Low-Flying Aircraft Nicholas Royle The Goosle Margo Lanagan The Clay Party Steve Duffy Strappado Laird Barron Lonegan's Luck Stephen Graham Jones Mr Pigsny Reggie Oliver At Night, When the Demons Come Ray Cluley Was She Wicked? Was She Good? M. Rickert The Shallows John Langan Little Pig Anna Taborska Omphalos Livia Llewellyn How We Escaped Our Certain Fate Dan Chaon That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love Robert Shearman Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) CaitlĂ­n R. Kiernan Shay Corsham Worsted Garth Nix The Atlas of Hell Nathan Ballingrud Ambitious Boys Like You Richard Kadrey