STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a seventeen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three Hellraiser movies, Night Life, Nightbreed, Split Second, Mind Ripper, Last Gasp etc.), he is the co-editor of Horror: 100 Best Books, Horror: Another 100 Best Books, The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, Gaslight & Ghosts, Now We Are Sick, H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror, The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, Secret City: Strange Tales of London, Great Ghost Stories, Tales to Freeze the Blood: More Great Ghost Stories and the Dark Terrors, Dark Voices and Fantasy Tales series. He has written Stardust: The Visual Companion, Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, The Essential Monster Movie Guide, The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide, The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide and The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide, and compiled The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series, The Mammoth Book of Terror, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories By Women, The Mammoth Book of New Terror, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Shadows Over Innsmouth, Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, Dark Detectives, Dancing with the Dark, Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Keep Out the Night, By Moonlight Only, Don’t Turn Out the Light, H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural, Travellers in Darkness, Summer Chills, Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Phantoms and Fiends and Frights and Fancies by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard, The Emperor of Dreams: The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories by Leigh Brackett, The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Clive Barker’s A–Z of Horror, Clive Barker’s Shadows in Eden, Clive Barker’s The Nightbreed Chronicles and the Hellraiser Chronicles. He was a Guest of Honour at the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2004 World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. You can visit his web site at www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones
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First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2007
Collection and editorial material copyright © Stephen Jones 2007
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A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84529-481-6
eBook ISBN: 978-1-78033-277-2
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13579 10 8642
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Horror in 2006
Summer
AL SARRANTONIO
Digging Deep
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
The Night Watch
JOHN GORDON
The Luxury of Harm
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
Sentinels
MARK SAMUELS
The Saffron Gatherers
ELIZABETH HAND
What Nature Abhors
MARK MORRIS
The Last Reel
LYNDA E. RUCKER
The American Dead
JAY LAKE
Between the Cold Moon and the Earth
PETER ATKINS
Sob in the Silence
GENE WOLFE
Continuity Error
NICHOLAS ROYLE
Dr Prida’s Dream-Plagued Patient
MICHAEL BISHOP
The Ones We Leave Behind
MARK CHADBOURN
Mine
JOEL LANE
Obsequy
DAVID J. SCHOW
Thrown
DON TUMASONIS
Houses Under the Sea
CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN
They
DAVID MORRELL
The Clockwork Horror
F. GWYNPLAINE MacINTYRE
Making Cabinets
RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON
Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)