JOHN LANGAN is the author of two novels and three collections of stories. His novel The Fisherman was recognized with several awards, including the Bram Stoker Award. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and occasionally reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. He lives in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and the sound of electric guitars.
JOSH MALERMAN is the author of Inspection, Unbury Carol, and Bird Box, which was turned into the hit Netflix movie starring Sandra Bullock. He’s also one of two lead singers for the Detroit rock band the High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime series Shameless. He lives in Michigan with his wife, the artist and musician Allison Laakko.
USMAN T. MALIK is a Pakistani writer who divides his life between Florida and Lahore. He has won the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Awards and been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and storySouth Million Writers Awards. His stories have been reprinted in several Best of the Year anthologies. In his spare time, Usman likes to run distance. You can find him on Twitter @usmantm.
LISA MORTON is a novelist, screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, and six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” Her most recent release, Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense (coedited with Leslie S. Klinger), was called “a work of art” by Publishers Weekly (starred review). Lisa lives in the San Fernando Valley and online at www.lisamorton.com.
New York Times bestselling author GARTH NIX has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked in various roles in publishing and marketing, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include the Old Kingdom series beginning with Sabriel; the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series beginning with Mister Monday; and many more. His work has been translated into forty-two languages.
A. C. WISE’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Tor.com, Shimmer, and The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 10, among other places. She has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and winner of the Sunburst Award. Both of her collections are published with Lethe Press, and her novella, Catfish Lullaby, is published with Broken Eye Books. In addition to her fiction, she contributes a regular review column to Apex Magazine and the Women To Read and Non-Binary Authors To Read series to The Book Smugglers. Find her online at www.acwise.net.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of Omni magazine and editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Children of Lovecraft, Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, Black Feathers, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, and The Best of the Best Horror of the Year.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and cohosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter at @EllenDatlow. She’s owned by two cats.
PERMISSIONS
“Das Gesicht” by Dale Bailey, copyright © 2020 by Dale Bailey. Used by permission of the author.
“Drunk Physics” by Kelley Armstrong, copyright © 2020 by Kelley Armstrong. Used by permission of the author.
“Exhalation #10” by A. C. Wise, copyright © 2020 by A. C. Wise. Used by permission of the author.
“Scream Queen” by Nathan Ballingrud, copyright © 2020 by Nathan Ballingrud. Used by permission of the author.
“Family” by Lisa Morton, copyright © 2020 by Lisa Morton. Used by permission of the author.
“Night of the Living” by Paul Cornell, copyright © 2020 by Paul Cornell. Used by permission of the author.
“The One We Tell Bad Children” by Laird Barron, copyright © 2020 by Laird Barron. Used by permission of the author.
“Snuff in Six Scenes” by Richard Kadrey, copyright © 2020 by Richard Kadrey. Used by permission of the author.
“Insanity among Penguins” by Brian Hodge, copyright © 2020 by Brian Hodge. Used by permission of the author.
“From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms” by Jeffrey Ford, copyright © 2020 by Jeffrey Ford. Used by permission of the author.
“Lords of the Matinee” by Stephen Graham Jones, copyright © 2020 by Stephen Graham Jones. Used by permission of the author.
“A Ben Evans Film” by Josh Malerman, copyright © 2020 by Josh Malerman. Used by permission of the author.
“The Face Is a Mask” by Christopher Golden, copyright © 2020 by Christopher Golden. Used by permission of the author.
“Folie à deux, or The Ticking Hourglass” by Usman T. Malik, copyright © 2020 by Usman T. Malik. Used by permission of the author.
“Hungry Girls” by Cassandra Khaw, copyright © 2020 by Cassandra Khaw. Used by permission of the author.
“Cut Frame” by Gemma Files, copyright © 2020 by Gemma Files. Used by permission of the author.
“Many Mouths to Make a Meal” by Garth Nix, copyright © 2020 by Garth Nix. Used by permission of the author.
“Altered Beast, Altered Me” by John Langan, copyright © 2020 by John Langan. Used by permission of the author.
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HAUNTED NIGHTS
Edited by Lisa Morton and Ellen Datlow
Haunted Nights features sixteen never-before-published, chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick-or-treating in the future, Haunted Nights also offers terrifying and mind-bending explorations of related holidays like All Souls’ Day, Día de los Muertos, and Devil’s Night.
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by S. L. Grey
Mark and Steph have a relatively happy family in sunny Cape Town until armed men in balaclavas break in to their home one day. Left traumatized but physically unharmed, Mark and Steph are unable to return to normal and live in constant fear. When a friend suggests a restorative vacation abroad via a popular house-swapping website, it sounds like the perfect plan. They find a genial, artistic couple with a charming apartment in Paris who would love to come to Cape Town. Mark and Steph can’t resist the idyllic, light-strewn pictures and the promise of a romantic getaway. But once they arrive in Paris, they soon realize that nothing is as advertised, and their perfect holiday takes a violent turn.
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by Aaron Hartzler
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ith a knife. She’s dead. Then she wakes up in a stranger’s bed, it’s September 18, and she has to live it all over again. It’s a Groundhog Day situation, only with murder, guns, and mean girls. Tree’s only shot at living to see the next day is to relive the day of her murder, over and over, until she discovers her killer’s identity. Happy Death Day 2U picks up the story without missing a beat. Tree Gelbman thought she’d finally lived to see a brand-new day. But when she wakes up on her same birthday and a new psychopath in a mask is out to kill her and her friends, she’s going to find out that all the rules have changed. Death makes a killer comeback.
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The Haunted City
Edited by Jason Blum
Jason Blum invited sixteen cutting-edge writers, collaborators, and filmmakers to envision a city of their choosing and let their demons run wild. The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City brings together all-new, boundary-breaking stories from such artists as Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Eli Roth (Hostel), Scott Derrickson (Sinister), C. Robert Cargill (Sinister), James DeMonaco (The Purge), and many others.
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