About the Book
Edited by Stephen Jones.
The World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning series. This latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase devoted exclusively to excellence in horror and dark fantasy fiction contains some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of horror fiction. Also featuring the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology, this is the only book that should be required reading for every fan of dark fiction.
Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Horror in 2003 by Stephen Jones
- Fear the Dead by Ramsey Campbell
- The Hanged Man of Oz by Steve Nagy
- Mara by Michael Chislett
- Cell Call by Marc Laidlaw
- In the Tunnels by Pauline E. Dungate
- Hunger: A Confession by Dale Bailey
- Seven Feet by Christopher Fowler
- The Centipede by Susan Davis
- The Goat Cutter by Jay Lake
- Maybe Next Time by Michael Marshall Smith
- Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler by John Farris
- Hunter Lake by Gene Wolfe
- Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe by Scott Emerson Bull
- The Bereavement Photographer by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files
- The White Hands by Mark Samuels
- Waycross by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Lucy, In Her Splendor by Charles Coleman Finlay
- Dead Boy Found by Christopher Barzak
- The Haunting by Joyce Carol Oates
- Dancing Men by Glen Hirshberg
- Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman
- Child of the Stones by Paul J. McAuley (as by Paul McAuley)
- The Silence of the Falling Stars by Mike O'Driscoll
- Exorcizing Angels by Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon
- Necrology: 2003 (essay) by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
- Useful Addresses(essay) by Stephen Jones
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