by Ian Watson
First published 2014
This collection opens the Best New Horror series with twenty stories that defined terror in 1989. Robert R. McCammon contributes "Pin" while Cherry Wilder delivers "The House on Cemetery Street." Stephen Gallagher offers "The Horn" and Ramsey Campbell presents "It Helps if You Sing." The anthology includes tales from Steve Rasnic Tem, Kim Newman, Gregory Frost, and Thomas Ligotti. Nicholas Royle contributes "Archway" while Robert Westall provides "The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux." Brian Lumley adds "No Sharks in the Med" and Thomas Tessier delivers "Blanca." Ian Watson contributes "The Eye of the Ayatollah" while Karl Edward Wagner offers "At First Just Ghostly." Richard Laymon closes with "Bad News." The editors provide an introduction examining horror's landscape in 1989, plus a necrology documenting the year's losses in the genre.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, horror
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: anthology
Period: 1989
403 pages · Paperback · Drugstore Indian Press