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Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures.

Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you--from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.

Contents:

• xi - Introduction: Strange Days - essay by Paula Guran
• 1 - The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest - (2019) - short story by Rebecca Campbell
• 16 - Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart - (2019) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• 27 - The Surviving Child - (2019) - novella by Joyce Carol Oates
• 73 - The Promise of Saints - (2019) - short story by Angela Slatter
• 83 - Burrowing Machines - (2019) - short story by Sara Saab
• 94 - About the O'Dells - (2019) - short fiction by Pat Cadigan
• 121 - A Catalog of Storms - (2019) - short story by Fran Wilde
• 134 - Thoughts and Prayers - (2019) - short story by Ken Liu
• 152 - Logic Puzzles - (2019) - short story by Vaishnavi Patel
• 159 - A Strange Uncertain Light - (2019) - novelette by G. V. Anderson
• 199 - Conversations with the Sea Witch - (2019) - short story by Theodora Goss
• 208 - Haunt - (2019) - short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• 212 - Nice Things - (2019) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• 233 - Glass Eyes in Porcelain Faces - (2019) - short fiction by Jack Westlake
• 244 - Phantoms of the Midway - (2019) - short fiction by Seanan McGuire
• 265 - Hunting by the River - (2019) - short fiction by Daniel Carpenter
• 274 - Boiled Bones and Black Eggs - (2019) - short story by Nghi Vo
• 286 - His Heart Is the Haunted House - (2019) - short story by Aimee Ogden
• 300 - In That Place She Grows a Garden - (2019) - short story by Del Sandeen
• 317 - The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - (2019) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• 341 - The Coven of Dead Girls - (2019) - short story by L'Erin Ogle
• 348 - Blood Is Another Word for Hunger - (2019) - short story by Rivers Solomon
• 367 - The Thing, with Feathers - (2019) - novelette by Marissa Lingen
• 384 - Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future - (2019) - short story by Carlie St. George
• 395 - Read After Burning - (2019) - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real... tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

This volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique?sure to delight as well as disturb!

Contents:

• xi - Introduction: Stranger Days - essay by Paula Guran
• 1 - Recognition - (2020) - short story by Victor LaValle
• 7 - Odette - (2020) - short fiction by Zen Cho
• 21 - Das Gesicht - (2020) - short fiction by Dale Bailey
• 38 - The Sycamore and the Sybil - (2020) - short story by Alix E. Harrow
• 65 - Desiccant - (2020) - short story by Craig Laurance Gidney
• 76 - Open House on Haunted Hill - (2020) - short story by John Wiswell
• 85 - The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter - (2020) - short story by Elaine Cuyegkeng
• 102 - Swanskin - (2020) - short story by Alison Littlewood
• 125 - Lusca - (2020) - short story by Soleil Knowles
• 133 - To Sail the Black - (2020) - short story by A. C. Wise
• 155 - Nobody Lives Here - (2020) - short story by H. Pueyo
• 162 - On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera - (2020) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 202 - The Owl Count - (2020) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• 225 - Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo - (2020) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• 251 - Ancestries - (2020) - short story by Sheree Renée Thomas?
• 262 - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close - (2020) - short fiction by James Everington
• 274 - Drunk Physics - (2020) - short fiction by Kelley Armstrong
• 297 - Call Them Children - (2020) - short story by Wenmimareba Klobah Collins
• 313 - Tea with the Earl of Twilight - (2020) - short story by Sonya Taaffe
• 326 - Wait for Night - (2020) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• 342 - Where the Old Neighbors Go - (2020) - short story by Thomas Ha
• 373 - And This Is How to Stay Alive - (2020) - novella by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
• 390 - Lacunae - (2020) - short fiction by V. H. Leslie
• 410 - The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods - (2020) - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 417 - Monster - (2020) - novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• 446 - Last Night at the Fair - (2020) - short story by M. Rickert

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real... Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

The latest volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by fantasy aficionado Paula Guran offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique including Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Elizabeth Hand and many more! Indulge if you dare, because these 23 tales of terror are sure to delight as well as disturb!

From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique!

No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books in this series. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4 contains more than three hundred pages of mystical fiction. Reader beware and indulge if you dare, because these chilling tales are sure to spook and surprise!