Best New Horror 16

This is the latest edition of the world’s foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today’s finest exponents of horror fiction—including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Paul McAuley, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Horror in 2004 by Stephen Jones
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman
Lilies by Iain Rowan
Breaking Up by Ramsey Campbell
“The King”, in: Yellow by Brian Keene
A Trick of the Dark by Tina Rath
The Mutable Borders of Love by Leslie What
Flour White and Spindle Thin by L. H. Maynard and M. P. N. Sims
Tighter by Christa Faust
Restraint by Stephen Gallagher
Israbel by Tanith Lee
The Growlimb by Michael Shea
This Is Now by Michael Marshall Smith
Remnants by Tim Lebbon
Safety Clowns by Glen Hirshberg
The Devil of Delery Street by Poppy Z. Brite
Apocalypse Now, Voyager by Jay Russell
Stone Animals by Kelly Link
Soho Golem by Kim Newman
Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic by Dale Bailey
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman
Necrology: 2004 (essay) by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Useful Addresses (essay) by Stephen Jones