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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

Peter Straub--bestselling author and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner--has gathered here 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.

Dan Chaon The Bees
Elizabeth Hand Cleopatra Brimstone
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem The Man on the Ceiling
M. John Harrison The Great God Plan
Ramsey Campbell The Voice of the Beach
Brian Evenson Body
Kelly Link Louise's Ghost
Jonathan Carroll The Sadness of Detail
M. Rickert Leda
Thomas Tessier In Praise of Folly
David J. Schow Plot Twist
Glen Hirshberg The Two Sams
Thomas Ligotti Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story
Benjamin Percy Unearthed
Bradford Morrow Gardener of Heart
Peter Straub Little Red's Tango
Stephen King The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet
Joe Hill 20th Century Ghost
Ellen Klages The Green Glass Sea
Tia V. Travis The Kiss
Graham Joyce Black Dust
Neil Gaiman October in the Chair
John Crowley Missolonghi 1824
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson Insect Dreams