Darkness : two decades of modern horror

Darkness Two decades of modern horror

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Subjects
Horror tales, American.
Horror tales, English.
Published
San Francisco, CA : Tachyon 2010.
Language
English
Other Authors
Ellen Datlow (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
470 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781892391957
  • Jacqueline Ess: her will and testament / Clive Barker
  • Dancing chickens / Edward Bryant
  • The greater festival of masks / Thomas Ligotti
  • The pear-shaped man / George R. R. Martin
  • The juniper tree / Peter Straub
  • Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons
  • The power and the passion / Pat Cadigan
  • The phone woman / Joe R. Lansdale
  • Teratisms / Kathe Koja
  • Chattery teeth / Stephen King
  • A little night music / Lucius Shepard
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves / Poppy Z. Brite
  • The Erl-king / Elizabeth Hand
  • The dog park / Dennis Etchison
  • Rain falls / Michael Marshall Smith
  • Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow
  • ---- / Joyce Carol Oates
  • Eaten (scenes from a moving picture) / Neil Gaiman
  • The specialist's hat / Kelly Link
  • The tree is my hat / Gene Wolfe
  • Heat / Steve Rasnic Tem
  • No strings / Ramsey Campbell
  • Stitch / Terry Dowling
  • Dancing men / Glen Hirshberg
  • My father's mask / Joe Hill.
Review by Booklist Review

With several acclaimed horror anthologies to her credit already, including the first volume of the recently inaugurated Best Horror of the Year series, Datlow eschews best of labels for her new gathering, instead selecting favorites from her last 20 years of editing. With her only criterion being lasting thrills, the selection favors such familiar genre masters as Peter Straub, Stephen King, and Clive Barker. It also includes a few surprise contributions from such non-horror-genre writers as Joyce Carol Oates and sf master Gene Wolfe. Twenty-five stories in all embrace a wide spectrum of styles, from gore-laced splatterpunk to subtler, psychological horror. A suicidal woman exults in her newfound ability to bump off male tormentors by the power of thought alone. Invading aliens wait for the perfect amusing opportunity to take control of humanity. An engineer tired of his fear of heights devises his own death on a business flight. Datlow's keen eye for narrative zest makes this one of her most entertaining compilations to date.--Hays, Carl Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This diverse 25-story anthology is a superb sampling of some of the most significant short horror works published between 1985 and 2005. Editor extraordinaire Datlow (Poe) includes classic stories from horror icons Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Stephen King as well as SF and fantasy luminaries Gene Wolfe, Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, and Lucius Shepard. The full diversity of horror is on display: George R.R. Martin's "The Pear-Shaped Man," about a creepy downstairs neighbor, and Straub's "The Juniper Tree," which chronicles a drifter's sexual molestation of a young boy, exemplify horror's sublime psychological power, while Barker's "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament" and Poppy Z. Brite's "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" are audaciously gory masterworks. This is an anthology to be cherished and an invaluable reference for horror aficionados. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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