This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

INDEX:

INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2007 The Editor
THE THINGS HE SAID Michael Marshall Smith
THE CHURCH ON THE ISLAND Simon Kurt Unsworth
THE TWILIGHT EXPRESS Christopher Fowler
PEEP Ramsey Campbell
FROM AROUND HERE Tim Pratt
PUMPKIN NIGHT Gary McMahon
THE OTHER VILLAGE Simon Strantzas
13 O'CLOCK Mike O'Driscoll
STILL WATER Joel Lane
THUMBPRINT Joe Hill
LANCASHIRE Nicholas Royle
THE ADMIRAL'S HOUSE Marc Lecard
MAN, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS! Tony Richards
THE FISHERMAN David A. Sutton
THE CHILDREN OF MONTE ROSA Reggie Oliver
THE WITCH'S HEADSTONE Neil Gaiman
CALICO BLACK, CALICO BLUE Joel Knight
THIS RICH EVIL SOUND Steven Erikson
MISS ILL-KEPT RUNT Glen Hirshberg
DEADMAN'S ROAD Joe R. Lansdale
A GENTLEMAN FROM MEXICO Mark Samuels
LOSS Tom Piccirilli
BEHIND THE CLOUDS: IN FRONT OF THE SUN Christopher Harman
THE APE'S WIFE Caitlín R. Kiernan
TIGHT WRAPPERS Conrad Williams
COLD SNAP Kim Newman
NECROLOGY: 2007 Stephen Jones & Kim Newman

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