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THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY &
HORROR 2012 EDITION
• Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark — in a
house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the
trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a
cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along
dank passageways, trapped underground, in the near future, or among the mysteries of old
New Orleans. Dunes, lakes, isolated cabins, old books, and Old West saloons — well, the
darkness might easily be there. But we've also found locales you thought were safe from
shadows — a rib joint with good blues playing, inside an old wardrobe, on a baseball
diamond, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel...
• Travel into the best dark fantasy and horror from 2011 with more than five-hundred pages of
tales from some of today's best-known writers of the fantastique as well as new talents —
stories that will take you to a diverse assortment of dark places.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
• Features over a quarter-million words of fiction by some of the genre's greatest authors, as
selected by Paula Guran, a well-known and well-received editor.
• "Paula Guran is the grey eminence behind the world of horror. She is the secret mistress of
the genre. Listen to her." — Neil Gaiman
• "...certain to join the year's-best collections as a staple in the genre-fiction world." — Booklist
• "...an expansive definition of the genre." — Publishers Weekly
SELECTED PREVIOUS VOLUMES:
ISBN-13: 978-1-60701-345-7
Price: $19.95 ($24.99 CAN)
Publisher: Prime Books
Imprint: Prime Books
Writer: Kelley Armstrong, Glen
Hirshberg, Caitlin R. Kiernan,
Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale,
Naomi Novik, Tim Powers,
Gene Wolfe
Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 544
Format: Softcover,
Black & White
Recommended Age: All Ages
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Ship Date: 7/4/2012
Rights: World
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