- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Running Press; First THUS edition (Oct 21 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786710632
- ISBN-13: 978-0786710638
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.1 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #706,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Fans of horror fiction will no doubt read special auguries in this dependable anthology series tallying its "lucky" 13th volume. Like all previous incarnations, though, the book distinguishes itself simply by offering a cross-section of what Jones, one of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders, reckons the best short horror fiction of the previous year. More than before, the contents seem to fall into categories that are easily discerned if not explicitly advertised. Travel to alien lands full of mystery and menace is a theme shared by a several stories, notably Graham Joyce's "First, Catch Your Demon," a fever dream of erotic fantasy and creepy physical transformation for a visitor to the Greek isles, and Ramsey Campbell's "All for Sale," which extrapolates its stranger-in-a-strange-land premise into the ultimate traveler's nightmare. Horrors seem to grow just as easily from the everyday in Charles L. Grant's "Whose Ghosts Are These," in which the ennui of small-town life transmutes into sociopathy; Thomas Ligotti's "Our Temporary Supervisor," which finds a supernatural consciousness behind routines that ensnare the average office drone; and Donald Burleson's "Pump Jack," a dandy bit of dark folklore involving ubiquitous oil wells in the American southwest. A high number of selections-by Tanith Lee, Chico Kidd (two stories), Michael Chislett and Conrad Williams-reference well-known supernatural works and showcase the recent resurgence of interest in horror's classic tradition. Jones's comprehensive summary essay and eloquent reflections on horror fiction's importance in the wake of the international events in 2001 help to make this volume one of horror's best.Fantasy Award for best anthology.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Another year, another horror annual from tireless editor Jones. The thirteenth in this Mammoth series features stories by Chico Kidd, Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, and many others. It opens with a thorough review of horror in several different media, including graphic novels, movies, television, and even action figures. Highlights among the stories include Douglas Smith's delightfully creepy "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down," about a young woman who is driven by a mysterious hunger to sketch people and steal their life force as her horrified lover looks on. Brite's story, "O Death, Where Is Thy Spatula?" features her alter ego, New Orleans coroner Dr. Brite, who, unable to eat after the owner of her favorite restaurant is murdered, turns to voodoo to resurrect him. The book ends with a necrology of genre hands who died in 2001 and an annotated address list of publishers, magazines, book dealers, and other horror writers' markets. As always, a delight for horror aficionados. Kristine Huntley
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Our Temporary Supervisor,
By John Allen (ny) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of the Best New Horror Volume 13 (Paperback)
Ligotti's "Our Temporary Supervisor" is undoubtedly, along with "First, Catch Your Demon" story in this anthology. It has perhaps the most pessimistic backdrop of any story that I've ever read. It is Kafkaesque, surreal and exceedingly creepy. "First, Catch Your Demon" is about a half woman/half scorpion who seduces a man in a drugged out/mystical fashion? The story is written in a style that I've never seen the like of, perhaps only Nabokov or Bernhard.
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Boring and repulsive, except...,
By RIJU GANGULY "perceptive reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of the Best New Horror Volume 13 (Paperback)
Except for the two stories by Chico Kidd (They had been my introduction to her work, but thereafter I had to search for more and came across the top-notch Summoning Knells and Other Inventions) and one extraordinary erotic fever dream by Graham Joyce, the rest are trash, being a goulash of gore, sex, mysticism and attempted humour. It is evident from this fare that Stephen Jones has been losing his touch for quite some time now, and the throne rightfully belongs to Ellen Datlow.
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Not that good,
By Rachel Dean "Rachel Dean- nightbookworm" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of the Best New Horror Volume 13 (Paperback)
Not strong and fast paced enough for me. I like quick stories that flow and catch your attention! Definitely more slow, perhaps "spooky" but not quite horror stories. If you can get it cheap, grab it for a few of the stories, but the editor didnt seem to be interested in keeping the readers attention so I wouldnt pay much more than a few dollars for this one. I have over 300 anthologies and didnt bother keeping this one.
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A waste of time,
By C. Coppola - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of the Best New Horror Volume 13 (Paperback)
The collection of stories in this anthology are pitiful not horrific. This book opens with 90 pages of an intro that provides a chronology of "events" for the genre for the year. An absolute waste of paper and ink. Neither interesting nor relevant to a good horror story. Finally the book opens with the first of "The Best New Horror", a triffling werewolf story that left me wanting. Better stories are told by 6-year olds. But I had faith and kept reading and was further disappointed by the quality of the stories that followed. Don't waste your time, your money or your shelf space. This book is not worth any of them.
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