Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition (Horror the Best of the Year)

By Clive Barker

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best horror prosewritten in 2005, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by two ofhorror's most respected editors. In this volume you'll find stories by JoeLansdale, Jack Cady, Holly Phillips, Nicholas Royle, Joe Hill, Caitlin Kiernan, M. Rickert, Richard Bowes, Barbara Roden, Clive Barker, Laird Barron, JeffVanderMeer, Ramsey Campbell, Nick Mamatas, Michael Marshall Smith, Simon Owensand David Niall Wilson.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809556480
• ISBN13: 9780809556489
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

For The Horror Fan That Requires A Literary Challenge!

This is 'high- end' horror at it's best. Grab your dictionary and all other useful reading tools because your gonna need them. Complex, but effective. Never boring, but patience is recommended. This is horror without the quick endings and dumb- dumb plots. It's like a great glass of wine... savor every moment and second... then, ponder the experience.

a good start...

I loved the Clive Barker (Haekel's Tale) and Simon Owens (This Hand, Waving)stories. The Joe Hill story (The Cape) was really good too. I kept waiting for something MORE from the Barbara Rhoden story and several of the others were, shall we say 'understated'. No major complaints about this book, but what happened to the series? 2007 and 2008 never came out as far as I know. The "Mammoth" series contains far too much British horror for my taste, so this book is a good alternative that never quite hit its stride.