The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine - Ellen Datlow

An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers-including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another's yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds more than she bargains for . . .

The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Adam L. G. Nevill, Livia Llewellyn, Peter Straub, Gemma Files, Brian Hodge, and more.

For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the ninth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night.

Table of Contents:Summation 2016 - Ellen DatlowNesters -- Siobhan Carroll The Oestridae -- Robert LevyThe Process is a Process All its Own -- Peter Straub The Bad Hour -- Christopher Golden Red Rabbit -- Steve Rasnic Tem It's All the Same Road in the End -- Brian HodgeFury -- DB WatersGrave Goods -- Gemma FilesBetween Dry Ribs -- Gregory Norman BossertThe Days of Our Lives -- Adam LG NevillHouse of Wonders -- C.E. WardThe Numbers -- Christopher Burns Bright Crown of Joy -- Livia LlewellynThe Beautiful Thing We Will Become -- Kristi DeMeesterWish You Were Here -- Nadia BulkinRagman -- Rebecca LloydWhat's Out There? -- Gary McMahonNo Matter Which Way We Turned -- Brian EvensonThe Castellmarch Man -- Ray CluleyThe Ice Beneath Us -- Steve DuffyOn These Blackened Shores of Time -- Brian HodgeHonorable Mentions