Best Horror of the Year Volume 4
January 21, 2012
I was thrilled to hear that Black Feathers, a short story that was first published in issue 22 of Black Static magazine, has been selected for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume 4.
Really pleased too for Simon Bestwick, who has not one but two stories in the anthology! I first read The Moraine in Terror Tales of the Lake District last year and absolutely loved it. And of course, it’s an honour to be sharing a line-up with Stephen King!
Black Feathers is a dark, twisted fairy tale, and owes a lot to what I was like as a young child – obsessed with stories by Hans Christian Andersen, and the possibilities of magic they held within them.
The full table of contents is as follows:
The Little Green God of Agony Stephen King
Stay Leah Bobet
The Moraine Simon Bestwick
Blackwood’s Baby Laird Barron
Looker David Nickle
The Show Priya Sharma
Mulberry Boys Margo Lanagan
Roots and All Brian Hodge
Final Girl Theory A. C. Wise
Omphalos Livia Llewellyn
Dermot Simon Bestwick
Black Feathers Alison Littlewood
Final Verse Chet Williamson
In the Absence of Murdock Terry Lamsley
You Become the Neighborhood Glen Hirshberg
In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos John Langan
Little Pig Anna Taborska
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine Peter Straub