Каарон Уоррен - The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2018 Edition

“Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment” © Eden Royce. First Publication: The “Spilling Tea” issue (#2) of Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction .

“Moon Blood-Red, Tide Turning” © 2017 Mark Samuels. First Publication: Terror Tales of Cornwall , ed. Paul Finch.

“The Crow Palace” © 2017 Priya Sharma. First Publication: Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales , ed. Ellen Datlow.

“The Swimming Pool Party” © 2017 Robert Shearman. First Publication: Shadows & Tall Trees 7 , ed. Michael Kelly.

“The Little Mermaid, in Passing” © 2017 Angela Slatter. First Publication: Review of Australian Fiction , Volume 22 Issue 1.

“Secret Keeper” © 2017 Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. First Publication: Nightmare #57 .

“The Long Fade into Evening” © 2017 Steve Rasnic Tem. First Publication: Darker Companions , eds. Scott David Aniolowski & Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

“Moon, and Memory, and Muchness” © 2017 Katherine Vaz. First Publication: Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland , ed. Ellen Datlow.

“Exceeding Bitter” © 2017 Kaaron Warren. First Publication: Evil Is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists , eds. Adrian Collins & Mike Myers.

“Succulents” © 2017 Conrad Williams. First Publication: New Fears , ed. Mark Morris.

“The Lamentation of Their Women” © 2017 Kai Ashante Wilson. First Publication: Tor.com , 24 August 2017.

Paula Guranis an editor, reviewer, and typesetter. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited magazine Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications

This is, if she’s counted correctly, the forty-fifth anthology Guran has edited. Instead of what had become the usual multiple titles per calendar year, it is the only anthology that will appear from her in 2018. That’s probably a refreshing break for most people. She’s got mixed feelings about it herself. After more than a decade of full-time editing, she’s now freelancing. Guran enjoys the variety but regrets the lack of a monthly paycheck.

She has four fabulous grandchildren she would be happy to tell you about.

Guran still lives in Akron, Ohio, but has moved from the crumbling family manse into a condominium apartment. Even though she got rid of a great many books, she still has far too many.

Copyright © 2018 by Paula Guran.

Cover design by Stephen H. Segal.

Cover art by Fernando Cortés.

Ebook design by Neil Clarke.

All stories are copyrighted to their respective authors, and used here with their permission.

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ISBN: 978-1-60701-528-4 (trade paperback)

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