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The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

This volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique?sure to delight as well as disturb!
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There’s not a story in the mix that doesn’t merit the appellation of “best,” and the diversity of the selections bodes well for future annuals. -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review

About the Author

Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran was senior editor for Prime Books for seven years. Previously, she edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. In addition to the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series and The Year’s Best Fantasy series, she’s edited over fifty other anthologies as well as many novels and single-author collections. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume Two was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2022. It was her third nomination for that award. Additionally she has been honored with two Stokers, two IHG Awards, and other nominations. Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pyr
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 491 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645060322
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645060321
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
  • Book 2 of 5 ‏ : ‎ Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
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    Sheree Renée Thomas is a NAACP Image Award Nominee and a New York Times-bestselling, award-winning editor, poet, and the author of three short fiction and multigenre collections, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, 2016, Publishers’ Weekly Starred Review), Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems (Aqueduct Press, 2011), and Marvel's Black Panther: Panther's Rage novel (Titan Books, October 11, 2022). Her work is inspired by music, mythology, natural science, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. She is the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000, Warner Aspect/Hachette) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004, Warner Aspect/Hachette), the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction, which earned the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Awards for Year's Best Anthology, making her also the first Black author to win the award since its inception in 1975.

    Sheree is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. She also edited for Random House and for magazines like Apex, Strange Horizons, and is the Associate Editor of the historic Black Arts Movement literary journal, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975 by Alvin Aubert. As a fiction writer and poet, her work has been supported with fellowships and residencies from Smith College as the Lucille Geier-Lakes Writer-in-Residence, the Cave Canem Foundation, Bread Loaf Environmental, the Millay Colony of Arts, VCCA, the Wallace Foundation, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, ArtsMemphis, and others. Widely anthologized, her work also appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Anne and Jeff VanderMeer, in several volumes of the Year’s Best anthologies, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, the Rhysling Awards, the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, volume 1, and in The New York Times. Sheree was honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist for her contributions to the genre and served as a Special Guest and a co-host of the 2021 Hugo Awards Ceremony in Washington, DC with Andrea Hairston. Thomas also co-curated Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival and served as a narrative writer and consultant on Sony PlayStation and Daimler AG/Mercedes Benz’s futurist video game, Dreams: Imagine Futures whose characters, Eshe, and the AI, Kody are based on her work.

    A 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, 2022 World Fantasy Award Finalist, 2022 Ember Award Finalist, 2022 Locus Award Finalist, Ignyte Award Finalist, she is the winner of the 2022 Darrell Award for Year’s Best Novelette (“Madame & the Map: A Journey in Five Movements’ in Nine Bar Blues) and the Dal Colger Memorial Hall of Fame Award. Sheree is a collaborator with Janelle Monáe on "Timebox Altar(ed)" in the New York Times bestselling collection, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Harper Voyager, April 18, 2022), and a co-editor of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom, November 15, 2022) and Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins (Third Man Books, January 18, 2022).

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    I must say anyone who reads this is going to love it. There is a wide assortment of stories for everyone to enjoy in this book, well written and the storyline, and characters are going to suck you into the stories,I think this one is as good as volume one, enjoy

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    The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Two is a collection of utterly fantastic short stories. I am thrilled I had the chance to read this anthology. Not only did these stories surprise and entertain, I have another a list of authors to keep an eye on.

    Over four hundred pages of dark fantasy and horror; my top two favorite genres to read. I know sometimes when a reviewer reviews an anthology, they pick their favorite story, but I can’t pick. Each story was different, but what they all had in common was incredible writing. I kept telling myself, “one more story,” until I’d managed to read the entire collection in one sitting.

    I need to check out volume one, now. It is clear editor Paula Guran knows how to select some amazing stories and I want more. I loved this so much. I highly recommend giving this a shot! Don’t miss out. Perfect for this time of year!!

    Thank you to Kaye Publicity for the ARC copy to review. All opinions are my own and unbiased.

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    I have been reading Paula’s Year’s best since their beginning with another publisher and I most often give them 4 stars, but not this one. This one didn’t have any all star stories, but every story was a solid read. Can’t go wrong with this one.

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    Paula Guran’s “Volume 2 of The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror” is an excellent and diverse collection filled with many styles of horror writing. Some of the stories surprised me with their unexpected events and almost jump scared me, while others focused on a gradual, deeper internal horror built within the characters that developed in me as I read them.

    “The Stonemason” by Danny Rhodes tells a brilliant story of a man who desires to sculpt a proud male figure, but the harder he hammers and chisels, the uglier the figure becomes, turning into a grotesque female figure. During this time, the stonemason’s wife divorces him, and as she becomes more distant, the sculpture becomes more displeasing and terrifying. “And This is How to Stay Alive” by Shingai Njeri Kagunda spotlights a saddened brother who we learn to grieve with from his brother’s suicide, travelling back in time to do everything he can to prevent it. The raw emotion felt in this story will have any reader fully invested and heart-wrenched for the determined brother.

    M. Rickert’s “Last Night at the Fair” totally changes scenery and introduces a magical fair in which a romantic couple face a lion, as the boy saves his girl and safely returns her to her house. All is peaceful until she realizes that the lion is at the house waiting for her. Just as you think a peaceful moment is approaching, the story takes a hard left turn and throws a wave of horror at the reader, making for an intriguing and exciting read that is sure to keep you on your toes.

    Guran’s taste for horror stories is unmatched; the stories selected for this year’s volume are undoubtedly the best. The ability to feature heart-breaking events, unsettling internal trauma, and exciting jump scares points to the collection’s caliber and expertise. I will certainly re-read these stories for the years to come, and I anticipate sequel volumes of Dark Fantasy and Horror.

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