The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight

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A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on Halloween brings back memories better left forgotten; one misstep changes the balance of survival during the apocalypse; a group of seemingly typical travelers are stranded in an airport; a widower holiday in a seaside town becomes a nightmare . . .The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Stephen Graham Jones, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the eighth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night.Table of Contents:Summation 2015 – Ellen DatlowWe Are All Monsters Here – Kelley Armstrong Universal Horror – Stephen Graham JonesSlaughtered Lamb – Tom JohnstoneIn a Cavern, In a Canyon – Laird Barron Between the Pilings – Steve Rasnic Tem Snow – Dale BaileyIndian Giver – Ray Cluley My Boy Builds Coffins – Gary McMahon The Woman in the Hill – Tamsyn Muir Underground Economy – John Langan The Rooms Are High – Reggie OliverAll the Day Youll Have Good Luck – Kate JonezLord of the Sand – Stephen BaconWilderness – Letitia Trent Fabulous Beasts – Priya Sharma Descent – Carmen Maria MachadoHippocampus – Adam Nevill Black Dog – Neil Gaiman The 21st Century Shadow – Stephanie M. WytovichThis Stagnant Breath of Change – Brian Hodge Honorable Mentions

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