Beginning one year after Rich Horton's SF & Fantasy annuals for Prime Books, Paula Guran's Dark Fantasy & Horror annuals for the same publisher function as companions to Horton's. Most of Guran's book introductions wrestle with the definitions, or lack of definitions, of dark fantasy and horror. Format and placement of story introductions and author bio's vary from volume to volume.
Most often reprinted authors: Caitlin R. Kiernan and Angela slatter (9 each), Stephen Graham Jones (8), Priya Sharma, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Kaaron Warren (6 each). (updated Dec 2021)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition, (Prime Books, 2010)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition, (Prime Books, 2011)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition, (Prime Books, 2012)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition, (Prime Books, 2013)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition, (Prime Books, 2014)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition, (Prime Books, 2015)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition, (Prime Books, 2016)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition, (Prime Books, 2017)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition, (Prime Books, 2018)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition, (Prime Books, 2019)
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One, (Pyr, 2020)
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Combined Contents by Author and Title
Joan Aiken
Hair
(The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
G. V. Anderson
Down Where Sound Comes Blunt
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
A Strange Uncertain Light
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Kelley Armstrong
The Door
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
A Haunted House of Her Own
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Rakshasi
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
The Screams of Dragons
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Michael Aronovitz
How Bria Died
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Peter Atkins
Frumpy Little Beat Girl
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
The Mystery
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Postcards from Abroad
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Simon Avery
Sunflower Junction
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Dale Bailey
The Creature Recants
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
The Crevasse
(by DB & Nathan Ballingrud)
(Lovecraft Unbound)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The End of the End of Everything
(Tor.com 23 Apr 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Snow
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Nathan Ballingrud
The Crevasse
(by Dale Bailey & NB)
(Lovecraft Unbound)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Good Husband
(North American Lake Monsters, 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Laird Barron
The Broadsword
(Black Wings, 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Hand of Glory
(The Book of Cthulhu II, 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Swift to Chase
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Termination Dust
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Peter S. Beagle
Great-Grandmother in the Cellar
(Under My Hat, 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Elizabeth Bear
The Ghost Makers
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Madam Damnable's Sewing Circle
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
PETER BELL
Glamour of Madness
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Steve Berman
Thimbleriggery and Fledglings
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Deborah Biancotti
Diamond Shell
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Holly Black
1Up
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
(The Eternal Kiss, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Dog King
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Ashley Blooms
Fallow
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Hainted
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Brooke Bolander
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies
(Uncanny Nov/Dec 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Gregory Norman Bossert
The Empyrean Light
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Richard Bowes
Sleep Walking Now and Then
(Tor.com 9 Jul 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
J. S. Breukelaar
Raining Street
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Joseph Bruchac
Down in the Valley
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Nadia Bulkin
Everything Dies, Baby
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Only Unity Saves the Damned
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Seven Minutes in Heaven
(Aickman's Heirs, 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Wish You Were Here
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Jim Butcher
Bigfoot on Campus
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Pat Cadigan
About the O'Dells
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
RACHEL CAINE
A Dying of the Light
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Adam Callaway
Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Ramsey Campbell
Respects
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Rebecca Campbell
The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
The Glad Hosts
(Lackington's #7)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
On Highway 18
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Mike Carey
Iphigenia in Aulis
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Daniel Carpenter
Hunting by the River
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Suzy McKee Charnas
Lowland Sea
(Poe, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
P. Djčlí Clark
The Black God's Drums
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Robert Davies
Bruise for Bruise
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Aliette de Bodard
Children of Thorns, Children of Water
(Uncanny Jul/Aug 2017)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Lullaby for a Lost World
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Charles de Lint
A Tangle of Green Men
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Anya Johanna DeNiro
Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Kurt Dinan
Nub Hut
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Terry Dowling
Nightside Eye
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Tananarive Due
The Lake
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Steven Duffy
Certain Death for a Known Person
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Marginals
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Tragic Life Stories
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Amal El-Mohtar
Seasons of Glass and Iron
(The Starlit Wood, 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Dennis Etchison
Tell Me I'll See You Again
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Brian Evenson
A Collapse of Horses
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
K. M. Ferebee
The Bird Country
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Gemma Files
Grave Goods
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Hairwork
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Jacaranda Smile
(Apparitions, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
A Wish from a Bone
(Fearful Symmetries, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Paul Finch
King Death
(Spectral)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Jeffrey Ford
Big Dark Hole
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
The Blameless
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
The Last Triangle
(Supernatural Noir, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
A Natural History of Autumn
(F&SF Jul/Aug 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Witch Hazel
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Seth Fried
Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Robin Furth
The Bride in Sea-Green Velvet
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Neil Gaiman
Black Dog
(Trigger Warning, 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
A Lunar Labyrinth
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Thing About Cassandra
(Songs of Love and Death, 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Cate Gardner
As Cymbals Clash
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
S. L. Gilbow
Mr. Hill's Death
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Laura Anne Gilman
Crossroads
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Max Gladstone
The Iron Man
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Theodora Goss
Conversations with the Sea Witch
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
England Under the White Witch
(Clarkesworld Oct 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Simon R. Green
He Said, Laughing
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
A. T. Greenblatt
And Yet
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Elizabeth Hand
Near Zennor
(A Book of Horrors, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Lisa L. Hannett
The Female Factory
(by LLH & Angela Slatter)
(The Female Factory, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Little Digs
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
A Shot of Salt Water
(The Dark May 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Surfacing
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
M. L. N. Hanover
Hurt Me
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Maria Dahvana Headley
Game
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Read After Burning
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
The Scavenger's Nursery
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Thule Stowaway
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Who Is Your Executioner?
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Jim C. Hines
Second to the Left, and Straight On
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Glen Hirshberg
After-words
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Pride
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
M. K. Hobson
Oaks Park
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Brian Hodge
He Sings of Salt and Wormwood
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Mommy's Little Man
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Robert Hood
Escena de un Asesinato
(Exotic Gothic 4 PS Publishing, 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Gerard Daniel Houarner
The Other Box
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Kat Howard
Just Another Love Song
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
The Sound of Salt and Sea
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
N. K. Jemisin
Red Dirt Witch
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Carole Johnstone
The Eyes Are White and Quiet
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Stephen Graham Jones
Birdfather
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Crawlspace
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Daniel's Theory About Dolls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Elvis Room
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Mapping the Interior
(Tor.com)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
The Ones Who Got Away
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Rocket Man
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Welcome to the Reptile House
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
K. J. Kabza
The Soul in the Bell Jar
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Cassandra Khaw
Don't Turn on the Lights
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
The Games We Play
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Caitlín R. Kiernan
As Red as Red
(Haunted Legends, 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
The Bone's Prayer
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Cats of River Street (1925)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
The Cripple and Starfish
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Dinosaur Tourist
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Fake Plastic Trees
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
The Maltese Unicorn
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
The Prayer of Ninety Cats
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Alice Sola Kim
Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying
(Monstrous Affections, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Stephen King
The Dune
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Swapna Kishore
The Absence of Words
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Ellen Klages
The Education of a Witch
(Under My Hat)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Nice Things
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Mary Robinette Kowal
Rust and Bone
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Naomi Kritzer
The Thing About Ghost Stories
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Greg Kurzawa
Dark Gardens
(Interzone #248)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Carrie Laben
Postcards from Natalie
(The Dark Jul 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Marc Laidlaw
The Finest, Fullest Flowering
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Forget You
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Leng
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Jay Lake
Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Margo Lanagan
Catastrophic Disruption of the Head
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Sea-Hearts
(Xsup>6/sup>, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
A Thousand Flowers
(Zombies vs. Unicorns, 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
John Langan
Children of the Fang
(Lovecraft's Monsters, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Corpsemouth
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Renfrew's Course
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky
(By Blood We Live, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Sarah Langan
Are You Trying to Tell Me This Is Heaven?
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Joe R. Lansdale
The Bleeding Shadow
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
The Stars Are Falling
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
The Tall Grass
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Torn Away
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Victor LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom
(Tor.com)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Tim Lebbon
A Man Walking His Dog
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Slaughterhouse Blues
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Tanith Lee
A Little of the Night
(Clockwork Phoenix 4, 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Sea Warg
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Why Light?
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Yoon Ha Lee
Combustion Hour
(Tor.com 18 Jun 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Conservation of Shadows
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Iseul's Lexicon
(Conservation of Shadows, 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
V. H. Leslie
The Quiet Room
(Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Marissa Lingen
The Thing, with Feathers
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Kelly Link
The Cinderella Game
(Troll's Eye View, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Alison Littlewood
The Eyes of Water
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Meet Me at the Frost Fair
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Ken Liu
Cassandra
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Good Hunting
(Strange Horizons Oct 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Plague
(Nature 16 May 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Running Shoes
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Thoughts and Prayers
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Livia Llewellyn
Bright Crown of Joy
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Robert Lopresti
Street of the Dead House
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Honey
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Carmen Maria Machado
Haunt
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
My Body, Herself
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Usman T. Malik
Resurrection Points
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
John Mantooth
The Water Tower
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Helen Marshall
Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
No Ghosts in London
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Slipway Gray
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Survival Strategies
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Kate Marshall
Red Bark and Ambergris
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
George R. R. Martin
The Mystery Knight
(Warriors, 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Kirstyn McDermott
Mary, Mary
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Seanan McGuire
The Jaws That Bite, the Claws That Catch
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Phantoms of the Midway
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Maura McHugh
Vic
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Maureen F. McHugh
After the Apocalypse
(Small Beer Press)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
The Naturalist
(Subterranean Spr 2010)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Gary McMahon
Strange Scenes from an Unfinished Film
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Sam J. Miller
Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
DANIEL MILLS
Below the Falls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Sarah Monette
Blue Lace Agate
(Lightspeed Jan 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
To Die for Moonlight
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
White Charles
(Clarkesworld Magazine)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Why Do You Linger?
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Sunny Moraine
Event Horizon
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Tamsyn Muir
The Deepwater Bride
(F&SF Jul/Aug 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Ian Muneshwar
Skins Smooth As Plantain, Hearts Soft As Mango
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Naomi Novik
Lord Dunsany's Teapot
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Spinning Silver
(The Starlit Wood, 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Joyce Carol Oates
The Surviving Child
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Aimee Ogden
His Heart Is the Haunted House
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
L'Erin Ogle
The Coven of Dead Girls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Stewart O'Nan
Monsters
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Anya Ow
Big Mother
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
An Owomoyela
Whose Drowned Face Sleeps
(by AO & Rachel Swirsky)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Paul Park
Mysteries of the Old Quarter
(Ghosts by Gaslight, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Norman Partridge
Lesser Demons
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Vampire Lake
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Vaishnavi Patel
Logic Puzzles
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Holly Phillips
The Long, Cold Goodbye
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Sarah Pinborough
The Nowhere Man
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Sarah Pinsker
The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Kit Power
Fish Hooks
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Tim Powers
The Governor
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
A Journey of Only Two Paces
(The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Parallel Lines
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Norman Prentiss
Four Legs in the Morning
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
In the Porches of My Ears
(Postscripts Spr 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Kathryn Ptacek
The Greyness
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Kit Reed
The Legend of Troop 13
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
M. Rickert
Everything Beautiful Is Terrifying
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
True Crime
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Rebecca Roanhorse
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Erin Roberts
Sour Milk Girls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Kelly Robson
The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill
(Clarkesworld Feb 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Barbara Roden
The Brink of Eternity
(Poe, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Eden Royce
Every Good-bye Ain't Gone
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Lynda E. Rucker
The Moon Will Look Strange
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Alan Ryan
Time and Tide
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Sara Saab
Burrowing Machines
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Sofia Samatar
Those
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Mark Samuels
Moon Blood-Red, Tide Turning
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Del Sandeen
In That Place She Grows a Garden
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Brandon Sanderson
Dreamer
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Veronica Schanoes
Phosphorus
(Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
David J. Schow
Blue Amber
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Ekaterina Sedia
Cherrystone and Shards of Ice
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
End of White
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
You Dream
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Priya Sharma
The Crow Palace
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Fabulous Beasts
(Tor.com 27 Jul 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Fox Maiden
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Grave Goods
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Pearls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Rag and Bone
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Michael Shea
Copping Squid
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Robert Shearman
Bedtime Stories for Yasmin
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Swimming Pool Party
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Tom Is in The Attic
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Lucius Shepard
Halloween Town
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
John Shirley
Raise Your Hand If You're Dead
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
When Death Wakes Me to Myself
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Windows Underwater
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Sarah Singleton
Our Lady of Ruins
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Michael Skeet
Red Blues
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Cory Skerry
Sinking Among Lilies
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Angela Slatter
Brisneyland by Night
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Cuckoo
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
The Female Factory
(by Lisa L. Hannett & AS)
(The Female Factory, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
The Little Mermaid, in Passing
(Review of Australian Fiction #147)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
The Promise of Saints
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
The Red Forest
(Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Ripper
(Horrorology, 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Sun Falls
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
When We Fall, We Forget
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Michael Marshall Smith
What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night
(Nightjar)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Rivers Solomon
Blood Is Another Word for Hunger
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Carlie St. George
Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Simon Strantzas
Emotional Dues
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Go Home Again
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
In This Twilight
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Peter Straub
Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
The Crow Knight
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Secret Keeper
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Rachel Swirsky
The Sea of Trees
(The Future Is Japanese, 2012)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Whose Drowned Face Sleeps
(by An Owomoyela & RS)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Melanie Tem
Dahlias
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Steve Rasnic Tem
The Cabinet Child
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Long Fade Into Evening
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Photograph
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
The Still, Cold Air
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Thanatrauma
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Wheatfield with Crows
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Karin Tidbeck
Moonstruck
(Shadows & Tall Trees #5)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Who Is Arvid Pekon?
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Lavie Tidhar
Kur-A-Len
(Black Gods Kiss, 2014)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Sarah Totton
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Tia V. Travis
Still
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Paul G. Tremblay
Headstone in Your Pocket
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
S. D. Tullis
The Return
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Lisa Tuttle
The Dream Detective
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Catherynne M. Valente
The Bread We Eat in Dreams
(Apex Nov 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
A Delicate Architecture
(Troll's Eye View, 2009)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition
The Future is Blue
(Drowned Worlds, 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
The Lily and the Horn
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Genevieve Valentine
Armless Maidens of the American West
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
The Dire Wolf
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Jeff VanderMeer
Fragments from the Notes of a Dead Mycologist
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Carrie Vaughn
Fishwife
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
Katherine Vaz
Moon, and Memory, and Muchness
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Nghi Vo
Boiled Bones and Black Eggs
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Kali Wallace
Water in Springtime
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Damien Angelica Walters
The Floating Girls: A Documentary
(Jamai Vu #3)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Sing Me Your Scars
(Sing Me Your Scars, 2015)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Kaaron Warren
Air, Water and the Grove
(The Lowest Heaven, 2013)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition
All You Can Do Is Breathe
(Blood and Other Cravings, 2011)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
The Body Finder
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
Exceeding Bitter
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
The Nursery Corner
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
Sick Cats in Small Places
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
D. P. Watt
Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Peter Watts
The Things
(Clarkesworld)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Michael Wehunt
The Devil Under the Maison Blue
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
October Film Haunt: Under the House
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
The Pine Arch Collection
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Jack Westlake
Glass Eyes in Porcelain Faces
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Fran Wilde
A Catalog of Storms
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One
Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left
(Shimmer Sep 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Conrad Williams
Succulents
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
Kai Ashante Wilson
Kaiju maximusŤ: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New"
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition
The Lamentation of Their Women
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition
A. C. Wise
And the Carnival Leaves Town
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition
In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
When the Stitches Come Undone
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Gene Wolfe
Bloodsport
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition
Josh
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition
Brooke Wonders
Everything Must Go
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition
Alyssa Wong
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
(Tor.com 2 Mar 2016)
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Isabel Yap
Asphalt, River, Mother, Child
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
An Ocean the Color of Bruises
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
E. Lily Yu
Braid of Days and Wake of Nights
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
Music for the Underworld
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition
Melissa J. Yuan-Innes
Fairy Tales Are for White People
-- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition
