The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII

Теодор «Эйбон» Дональд Клайн, Саймон Кларк, Дэвид Лэнгфорд, Ким Ньюман, Скотт Томас, Чет Уильямсон, Карл Эдвард Вагнер, Лиза Таттл, Рэмси Кэмпбелл, Конрад Уильямс, Джоэл Лейн, Николас Ройл, Нэнси Килпатрик, Дэннис Этчисон, Нина Кирики Хоффман, Терри Лэмсли, Ким Антио, Д. Ф. Льюис, Джеффри Томас, Adam Meyer, Lillian Csernica, Уэйн Аллен Сэлли, Gregory Nicoll, Марк Маклафлин, Joey Froehlich, Sean Doolittle, F. A. McMahan, Paul Pinn, Del Stone Jr., Deidra Cox, Charles M. Saplak, Роберт Деверё

Серия: The Year's Best Horror Stories, книга 22

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So, then. What is a horror story?

You’re about to find out, inasmuch as you’re holding thirty-one of them in your hand right now.

The fact that you’ve picked up this book, The Year’s Best Horror Stones: XXII, would indicate that you are a fan of horror fiction or at least just curious. Could be that you have a complete set of signed Arkham House books (well…), or that you’ve just watched Halloween Nightmare on Friday the 13th for the sixth time and are torn between buying this book or another chainsaw. Regardless. Take this book home with you. Remember to pay for it; you don’t want thirty-one horror writers coming round for their missing commissions. That would be a horror story.

Which goes back to our question.

Not a new question, of course. Your dauntless editor has sat in on many panels and discussions where this question received the attention of lots of writers and editors. I’ve brought it up before in earlier volumes of The Year’s Best Horror Stories. Why bring it up again? Because the times they are a-changing. Perhaps.

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