Ellen Datlow announced the contents for Best Horror of the Year back in April of this year.
As is the custom this time of year, Ellen also announced a long-list of recommended stories from 2023.
I’m delighted to see a number of inclusions from books we published. All three titles are still available if you’d like to support these authors:
Now It’s Dark by Lynda E. Rucker
“Knots”
Treatises on Dust by Timothy J. Jarvis
“Day’s Horse Descend”
“To Have a Horse”
“We Recognise Our Own”
Uncertainties 6 edited by Brian J. Showers
“Unfinished Business” by Ruth Barber
“The Sands” by A. K. Benedict
“Consumed as in Obsessed” by Meabh De Brún
“The Switch” by James Everington
“Where Are They Now?” by Alison Moore
“The Bracken Box” by Naben Ruthnum
If you’d like to see the full list of recommendations, here’s both Part One and Part Two.
In her summation of 2023, Ellen also notes that Now It’s Dark is a “strong” third collection from Lynda R. Rucker; that Iain Sinclair’s Agents of Oblivion is “perfectly illustrated” by Dave McKean; while Timothy J. Jarvis’s Treatises on Dust is “an excellent collection of fourteen weird, often dark” stories and vignettes; of Uncertainties 6, Datlow writes, “a regular series of anthologies of new weird . . . with notable dark ones”; and The Green Book edited by Brian J. Showers is “an excellent resource for discovering underappreciated Irish writers”.
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