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)

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