- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing (Oct 16 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1845298330
- ISBN-13: 978-1845298333
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
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Product Description
Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins and Tanith Lee. "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror" also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.Praise for the series: 'Well-crafted celebration of a continuously inventive genre' - "SFX Magazine". 'The must-have annual anthology for horror fans' - "Time Out". 'An essential volume for horror readers' - "Locus". 'In an age where genre fiction is often just reheated pastiche, the "Best New Horror" series continues to break from the herd, consistently raising the bar of quality and ingenuity' - Rue Morgue. 'Brilliantly edited and most instructively introduced by legendary anthologist Stephen Jones' - "Realms of Fantasy". 'One of horror's best' - "Publishers Weekly".
About the Author
Stephen Jones is one of Britain's most acclaimed horror anthologists. His other books include the entire nineteen previous annual Horror anthologies, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, The Mammoth Book of Terror and The Mammoth Book of Vampires.
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Far from scary, Dec 7 2008
By John E. Poulin - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: No. 19 (Paperback)
Stephen Jones unleashes his latest volume of Best New Horror, Number 19. I have read all of these and like most of them this one is a mixed bag, but still better than number 18 in my opinion. As one reviewer stated the stories themselves aren't terrible but not many are bone-chilling scary that will make you regret turning out the light at night after reading them. Out of the 26 novellas included here I would say I can count the chilling tales on one hand.Some are more qualified for the dark fantasy genre such as "Cold Snap" and "This Rich Evil Sound" and the wholly unscary and far too long "The Ape's Wife".
Those of note that actually are worthy of being included in a book with this title are "Man You Gotta See This!", "Calico Black, Calico Blue", "Loss", "What He Said" and "Deadman's Road" by Joe R. Landsdale. I highly recommend the "Shadows" anthology series edited by the late Charles L. Grant if you want some truly scary stories.
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Thrillers, but not horror, Mar 4 2009
By T. R. Volk - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: No. 19 (Paperback)
As the other reviewers say, few of these stories are scary and most barely qualify as thrillers. Joe R. Lansdale's "Deadman's Road" however makes the grade, and Neil Gaiman's "The Witch's Headstone" is his usual supernatural anti-horror story, much like "Coraline" and comparable to Ray Bradbury's style. Only a couple others are such jewels, but far too many read like their writers felt constrained from writing true horror for some social/PC reason. Did everyone just give up after Clive Barker's "Books of Blood"? I am not looking for splatterpunk necessarily, but placing the entirety of a story's horror in the very last paragraph just does not work, yet six stories among these 28 end just that way. This book was the kick in the pants I needed to start writing short horror fiction myself.
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