Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton (eds.) - Darker Terrors

[dem bones]

FANTASYCON will soon be upon us, and with it, the annual splurge of book launches. Have already posted details of Creeping Crawlers, and Best New Horror 26, and other imminent horror-supernatural anthologies include this handsome compilation.

Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton (eds.) - Darker Terrors: A Best of Dark Terrors (Spectral Press, October, 2015)

Les Edwards

Foreword – Stephen Jones

Michael Marshall Smith - More Tomorrow
Karl Edward Wagner - I’ve Come to Talk with You Again
Brian Lumley - A Really Game Boy
Caitlin R. Kiernan - To This Water
Harlan Ellison - The Museum on Cyclops Avenue
Ray Bradbury - Free Dirt
Poppy Z. Brite - Self Made Man
Neil Gaiman - The Wedding Present
Stephen Baxter - Family History
Dennis Etchison - Inside the Cackle Factory
Lisa Tuttle - My Pathology
Christopher Fowler - At Home in the Pubs of Old London
Richard Christian Matheson - Barking Sands
Gwyneth Jones - Destroyer of Worlds
Ramsey Campbell - The Retrospective
Glen Hirshberg - The Two Sams
Don Tumasonis - The Prospect Cards

Afterword – David A. Sutton
Appendix: Index to Dark Terrors

Selections from:

Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror Stories, 1995
Dark Terrors 2, 1996
Dark Terrors 3, 1997
Dark Terrors 4, 1998
Dark Terrors 5, 2000
Dark Terrors 6, 2002.

[ohthehorror]

I remember liking no.3 when I read it years ago and have been meaning to try another. This would obviously be ideal for me I think. 

[dem bones]

Oct 16, 2015 15:58:24 GMT ohthehorror said:

I remember liking no.3 when I read it years ago and have been meaning to try another. This would obviously be ideal for me I think. 

A 'Best of' Dark Voices minus David Case's Pelican Kay seems a bit odd, but I'm guessing it was a question of space. It looks a top selection regardless. Really like Les Edwards' wrap-around cover painting, too. The series strikes me as the direct forerunner of the Best New Horrors, though am hardly in a position to comment. Only one I've read cover-to-cover is the first. The books got bigger and the selections more eclectic as they went on.