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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0873808
EAN num: 9780786710638
ISBN number: 0786710632
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: November 10, 2002
Publishing house: Running Press
Sale Popularity Level: 845891
Studio: Running Press
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Product Description:
The award-winning Best New Horror anthology series—winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award—has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Stephen Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by the horror genre's finest exponents and by new discoveries in the field. Contributors to this volume include Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, and Conrad Williams. Also, Stephen Jones once again provides the most comprehensive overview of the field for the year and a full necrology, plus a list of useful contacts among organizations, magazines, booksellers, and more. Whether a reader is a fan of supernatural chillers, macabre fantasy, or psychological terror, the thirteenth Mammoth Book of Best New Horror will appeal to their dark side. 'The definitive series of Horror ‘Bests' ... you'll get quantity as well as quality.'—Science Fiction Chronicle 'A formidable line-up of must-read creepers whose merits are indisputable even to entrenched enthusiasts of the genre.'—Publishing houses Weekly 'Essential reading every year.'—Hellnotes 'The finest horror collection going.'—Kirkus Reviews
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Not strong and fast paced enough for me. I like quick stories that flow and catch your attention! Definitely more slow, perhaps "spooky" but not quite horror stories. If you can get it cheap, grab it for a few of the stories, but the editor didnt seem to be interested in keeping the readers attention so I wouldnt pay much more than a few dollars for this one. I have over 300 anthologies and didnt bother keeping this one.
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The collection of stories in this anthology are pitiful not horrific. This book opens with 90 pages of an intro that provides a chronology of "events" for the genre for the year. An absolute waste of paper and ink. Neither interesting nor relevant to a good horror story. Finally the book opens with the very first of "The Best New Horror", a triffling werewolf story that left me wanting. Better stories are told by 6-year olds. But I had faith and kept reading and was further disappointed by the quality of the stories that followed. Don't waste your time, your money or your shelf space. This book is not worth any of them.
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Ligotti's "Our Temporary Supervisor" is undoubtedly, along with "First, Catch Your Demon" story in this anthology. It has perhaps the most pessimistic backdrop of any story that I've ever read. It is Kafkaesque, surreal and exceedingly creepy. "First, Catch Your Demon" is about a half woman/half scorpion who seduces a man in a drugged out/mystical fashion? The story is written in a style that I've never seen the like of, perhaps only Nabokov or Bernhard.
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Here is my personal favourites, notes and brief comentaries about them :
Harvest - Norman Partridge - 8,5 - A little gem
Sometimes in the Rain - Charles Grant - 10,0 - A moving and wonderful ghost story !!
Dead Orchards - Ian R. Macleod - 10,00 - Beautiful piece of decadent writing, one of the best.
The Temptation of Dr Stein - Paul J. Mackauley - 9,00 - Excellent historical mystery
Waywang Kulit - Gary Killworth - 10,0 - By far the most original tale in this collection
The Scent of Vinegar - Robert Bloch - 9,5 - Black humour in Bloch's manner, very funny.
The Homecoming - Nicholas Royle - 9,5 - Mixes social realism with Cthulu Mythos
The Singular Habits of Wasps - Geoffrey Landis - 9,0 - Excellent steampunk adventure featuring Sherlock Holmes and Watson.
To Receive is Better - Michael Marshall Smith - 9,0 - Intense and depressing story about a mutiltaed boy.
The Alchemy of Throat - Brian Hodge - 10,0 - Another wonderful piece of decadent writing
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The name Stephen Jones is enough to make me pick up any anthology, and this is is another excellent addition to the best New Horror series. Every story in this collection reveals a different aspect of the continually growing "horror genre," yet none of them leave behind the essential elements of horror; in all cases, the writing is what most stands out. Jones has the admirable quality of discerning talent in a wide variety of practitioners; frankly I was getting bored with the proliferation of really bad erotic-horror and splatterpunk anthologies.Jones knows that writing matters, and every story in this book affirms horror writing as ranking with the finest writing anywhere
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