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Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"...

What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2009 - (2010) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Lowland Sea - (2009) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The End of Everything - (2009) - short story by Steve Eller
• Mrs Midnight - (2009) - novelette by Reggie Oliver
• each thing i show you is a piece of my death - (2009) - novelette by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
• The Nimble Men - (2009) - short story by Glen Hirshberg
• What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - (2009) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Wendigo - (2008) - novelette by Micaela Morrissette
• In the Porches of My Ears - (2009) - short story by Norman Prentiss
• Lonegan's Luck - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Crevasse - (2009) - short story by Nathan Ballingrud and Dale Bailey
• The Lion's Den - (2009) - novelette by Steve Duffy
• Lotophagi - (2009) - short story by Edward R. Morris
• The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall - (2009) - short story by Kaaron Warren
• Dead Loss - (2009) - short story by Carole Johnstone
• Strappado - (2009) - short story by Laird Barron
• The Lammas Worm - (2009) - novelette by Nina Allan
• Technicolor - (2009) - novelette by John Langan
• Honorable Mentions - (2010) - essay by Ellen Datlow

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