The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One

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.

About the Author

Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran was senior editor for Prime Books for seven years. Previously, she edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. In addition to the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series and The Year’s Best Fantasy series, she’s edited over fifty other anthologies as well as many novels and single-author collections. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume Two was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2022. It was her third nomination for that award. Additionally she has been honored with two Stokers, two IHG Awards, and other nominations. Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications.

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