Monthly Archives: March 2024

Content for THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR, VOL.5 Announced

Listed Alphabetically by Author’s Last Name:

  • “The Crease”, Simon Avery (Black Static 82/83)
  • “Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny #50)
  • “All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10”, Isabel Cañas (The Deadlands #30)
  • “Resurrection Highway”, A. R. Capetta (The Sunday Morning Transport 9/3/2023)
  • “Return to Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror, ed. E. Datlow)
  • “The Demon Lord of Broken Concrete”, Alex Irvine (Bourbon Penn #30)
  • “The Witch Is Not the Monster”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (The Book of Witches, ed. J. Strahan)
  • “Interstate Mohinis”, M.L. Krishnan (Diabolical Plots #100B)
  • “Those Hitchhiking Kids”, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
  • “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak”, Sam J. Miller (The Dark #98)
  • “Midnight in Moscow”, Tobi Ogundiran (Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic)
  • “Kudzu Boy Dreaming”, SJ Powell (FIYAH #26)
  • “A Geography of Innocence”, M. Rickert (Weird Horror #7)
  • “Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down”, Josh Rountree (The Deadlands #27)
  • “Jack O’Dander”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 10/4/23)
  • “The Tissot Family Circus”, Angela Slatter (Twice Cursed, eds. M. O’Regan & P. Kane)
  • “Significant Disruption”, R.L Summerling (Interzone 295)
  • “The Ghasts”, Lavie Tidhar (Uncanny #53)
  • The Dark House”, A. C. Wise (Tor.com 3/15/2023)

This is the fifteenth in the series. First ten were titled with the year. Most recent five by volume number.