The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (ISBN 978-1-59780-399-1) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on May 1, 2012. It is the fourth in The Best Horror of the Year series.
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| Editor | Ellen Datlow |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best Horror of the Year |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Night Shade Books |
Publication date | May 1, 2012 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) & eBook |
| Pages | 308 |
| ISBN | 978-1-59780-399-1 (TP) & 978-1-59780-416-5 (ebook) |
| OCLC | 769472709 |
| Preceded by | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
| Followed by | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five |
Contents edit
The book includes 18 stories, all first published in 2011. The book also includes a summation by Datlow of 2011 publications in the horror fiction market, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:
- Stephen King: "The Little Green God of Agony"
- Leah Bobet: "Stay"
- Simon Bestwick: "The Moraine"
- Laird Barron: "Blackwood's Baby"
- David Nickle: "Looker"
- Priya Sharma: "The Show"
- Margo Lanagan: "Mulberry Boys"
- Brian Hodge: "Roots and All"
- A. C. Wise: "Final Girl Theory"
- Livia Llewellyn: "Omphalos"
- Simon Bestwick: "Dermot"
- Alison Littlewood: "Black Feathers"
- Chet Williamson: "Final Verse"
- Terry Lamsley: "In the Absence of Murdock"
- Glen Hirshberg: "You Become the Neighborhood"
- John Langan: "In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos"
- Anna Taborska: "Little Pig"
- Peter Straub: "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine"
External links edit
- The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Book review by Mario Guslandi at The SF Site
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