Continuing my quest to upload every American horror antho I've ever read that doesn't have a thread on here, in vain hopes of someday adding story notes. . .
This is where I started to get a little tired with the cult of Datlow, mainly on the grounds that most of these stories aren't that great and the promotion for the book somewhat self-aggrandizing (and that was before her "My favorite stories I've ever edited" collection
Edited By dropped a year or so ago). Between this and her annual horror round-ups, it's what made me largely give up on trying to follow new horror. Ah, well. . .
19 • Riding Bitch • novelette by K. W. Jeter
41 • Misadventure • short story by Stephen Gallagher
55 • The Forest • novelette by Laird Barron
85 • The Monsters of Heaven • short story by Nathan Ballingrud
101 • Inelastic Collisions • short story by Elizabeth Bear
111 • The Uninvited • short story by Christopher Fowler
125 • 13 O'Clock • short story by Mike O'Driscoll
145 • Lives • short story by John Grant
157 • Ghorla • short story by Mark Samuels
175 • Face • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
181 • An Apiary of White Bees • short story by Lee Thomas
201 • The Keeper • short story by P. D. Cacek
215 • Bethany's Wood • novelette by Paul Finch
245 • The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast • juvenile • short story by Lucius Shepard
261 • Hushabye • [Paul Hearn] • short story by Simon Bestwick
273 • Perhaps the Last • short story by Conrad Williams
287 • Stilled Life • novelette by Pat Cadigan
313 • The Janus Tree • novelette by Glen Hirshberg
345 • The Bedroom Light • short story by Jeffrey Ford
357 • The Suits at Auderlene • novelette by Terry Dowling
The stories by Lee Thomas, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Lucius Shepard and KW Jeter all worked for me. The Terry Dowling, Mike O'Driscoll, Elizabeth Bear and Glen Hirshberg stories worked up until they didn't, and left me scratching my head wondering how anyone could find them to have inspired terror. The rest are a complete blank to me.
