ToC Reveal for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015

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March 19, 2015 by Laird

Paula Guran has released the ToC for The Best Dark Fantasy & Horror of the Year 2015. Thank you to Paula for taking “(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness” and to Aaron French for originally publishing it in Dark Discoveries #29. It’s a sequel to “Slave Arm” and another in the Jessica Mace continuum.

Via Paula Guran:

Content (in alphabetical order by author)

Kelley Armstrong, “The Screams of Dragons” (Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2014)
Dale Bailey, “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey (Tor.com, 23 Apr 2014)
Laird Barron, “(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness” (Dark Discoveries #29)
Elizabeth Bear “Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle” (Dead Man’s Hand, ed. John Joseph Adams)
Richard Bowes, “Sleep Walking Now and Then” (Tor.com, 9 July 2014)
Nadia Bulkin, “Only Unity Saves the Damned” (Letters to Lovecraft, ed. Jesse Bullington)
Gemma Files, “A Wish From a Bone” (Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow)
S. L. Gilbow, “Mr Hill’s Death” (The Dark #4)
Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter, “The Female Factory” (The Female Factory)
Maria Dahvana Headley “Who Is Your Executioner?” (Nightmare Magazine, Nov 2014)
Stephen Graham Jones, “The Elvis Room” (The Elvis Room)
Caitlín R. Kiernan, “The Cats of River Street (1925)” (Sirenia Digest #102)
Alice Sola Kim, “Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying” (Monstrous Affections, eds. Kelly Link & Gavin Grant/Tin House #61)
John Langan, “Children of the Fang” (Lovecraft’s Monsters, ed. Ellen Datlow)
Yoon Ha Lee, “Combustion Hour” (Tor.com, 10 Apr 2014)
V. H. Leslie, “The Quiet Room” (Shadows & Tall Trees: 2014, ed. Michael Kelly)
Ken Liu, “Running Shoes” (SQ Mag, Issue 16, Sept 2014)
Usman T. Malik, “Resurrection Points” (Strange Horizons, 4 August 2014)
Helen Marshall, “Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta” (Lackington’s, Issue 1, Winter 2014)
Brandon Sanderson, “Dreamer” (Games Creatures Play, eds. Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner)
Simon Strantzas, “Emotional Dues” (Burnt Black Suns)
Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Still, Cold Air” (Here with the Shadows)
Lavie Tidhar, “Kur-A-Len” (Black Gods Kiss)
Jeff VanderMeer, “Fragments from the Notes of a Dead Mycologist” (Shimmer #18)
Kali Wallace, “Water in Springtime” (Clarkesworld, Issue 91, Apr 2014)
Damien Angelica Walters, “The Floating Girls: A Documentary” (Jamais Vu Issue Three, Sept 2014)
Kaaron Warren, “The Nursery Corner” (Fearsome Magics, ed. Jonathan Strahan)
A. C. Wise, “And the Carnival Leaves Town” (Nightmare Carnival, ed. Ellen Datlow)