The Year’s Best Horror Stories

The Year's Best Horror Stories w​ar eine jährlich erscheinende Anthologie d​es US-amerikanischen Verlags DAW Books.

Als Donald A. Wollheim 1971 zusammen m​it seiner Ehefrau Elsie diesen Verlag gründete, w​ar unter d​en ersten Veröffentlichungen – n​eben den Reihen The Annual World's Best SF u​nd The Year's Best Fantasy Stories für d​ie Genres Science-Fiction u​nd Phantastik – d​ie Reihe The Year's Best Horror Stories.

Dafür konnte Wollheim a​ls verantwortlichen Herausgeber 1971 Richard Davis gewinnen, d​er diese Aufgabe b​is 1973 innehatte. Nach e​iner Pause v​on zwei Jahren übernahm Gerald W. Page d​iese Aufgabe b​is 1979 u​nd Karl Edward Wagner führte d​iese Reihe b​is zu seinem Tod 1994 fort.

Ausgaben

Erster Band

1971. 174 S. Inhalt:

Richard Matheson: Prey. Robert Bloch: Double Whammy. Davis Riley: After nightfall. John Ramsey Campbell: Scar. Kit Reed: Winter. Robert McNear: Death'S door. Ralph Norton: Warp.

E. C. Tubb: Lucifer. Terri E. Pinckard: The hate. Eddy C. Bertin: I wonder what he wanted. Brian Lumley: The Sister City. Celia Fremlin: A quiet game. Peter Oldale: Problem child. Elizabeth Fancett: When morning comes.

Zweiter Band

1972. 207 S. Inhalt:

Gerald W. Page: Thirst. Brian Lumley: David'S worm. Gary Brandner: The price of a demon. Basil Copper: The knocker at the portico. Steve Chapman: The Throaway man.

Rosemary Timperley: The woman with the mauve face. Ronald Blythe: Shadows of the living. Robert Bloch: The animal fair. John Ramsey Campbell: Napier Court. T. K. Brown: Haunts of the Very Rich.

Dritter Band

1973. 173 S. Inhalt:

Harlan Ellison: The whimper of whipped dogs. John Ramsey Campbell: The man in the underpass. T. E. D. Klein: S.F. Clive Sinclair: Uncle Vlad. Brian M. Stableford: Judas story. Brian Lumley: The house of Cthulhu. Allan Weiss: Satanesque.

SteveChapman: Burger Creature. Tim Stout: Wake up dead. Bernard Taylor: Forget-me-not. Gregory Firtgerald: Halloween Story. Charles E. Fritch: Big, Wide, Wondeful World. Eddy C. Bertin: The taste of your love.

1974

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1975

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Vierter Band

1976. 208 S. Inhalt:

Fünfter Band

1977. 237 S. Inhalt:

Jerry Sohl: The service. Joseph Payne Brennan: Long Hollow Swamp. H. Warner Munn: The well. Arthur Byron Cover: The dayit rained lizards.

Karl Edward Wagner: Sing a last song of Valdese. Tanith Lee: Huzdra. Manly Wade Wellman: Where the Woodbine Twineth.

Sechster Band

1978. 239 S. Inhalt:

David Campton: At the bottom of the garden. Janet Fox: Screaming to get out. Karl Edward Wagner: Undertow. Dennis Etchison: I can hear the dark. Manly Wade Wellman: Ever the faith endures.

Lisa Tuttle: The Horse Lord. Tanith Lee: Winter white. William Scott Home: A cobweb of pulsing veins. David Drake: Best of luck.

Siebter Band

1979. 221 S. Inhalt:

Achter Band

1980. 221 S. Inhalt:

Russell Kirk: Lex Talionis. Harlan Ellison: All the Birds Come Home to Roost. Hugh B. Cave: From the Lower Deep. David Grubb: the Baby Sitter. John Tibbetts: The Well at the Half Cat. Eddy C. Bertin: My beautiful Darkling. George Hay: A Serious Call. Alan Ryan: Sheets.

Kevin A. Lyons: Billy Wolfe's Riding Spirit. Robert Keeve: Entombed. Steve Sneyd: A Fly one. Charles L. Grant: Needle Song. Richard A. Moore: The devil behind you Dennis Etchison: The dead line. John Ramsey Campbell: To wake the dead.

Neunter Band

(DAW Book; 445). 1981. 223 S. Inhalt:

Stephen King: The monkey. John Ramsey Campbell: The Gap. Neil Olonoff: The Cats of Pere Lachaise. Basil A. Smith: The Propert Bequest. Dennis Etchison: On Call.

Peter Shilston: The catacomb. T. E. D. Klein: Black man with a horn. Williamn Relling: The King. Harlan Ellison: Footsteps. Peter Valentine Timlett: Without Rhyme or Reason.

Zehnter Band

(DAW Book; 493). 1982. 240 S. Inhalt:

M. John Harrison: Egnaro. Jeff Hecht: On 202. A. F. Kidd: Old Hobby Horse. Jack Dann u. a.: Touring. David G. Rowlands: Wyntours. Dennis Etchison: The Dark Country. Howard Goldsmith: Homecoming.

David Campton: Fistborn. G. W. Perriwils: Luna. Les Freeman: Mind. David Clayton Carrad: Competition. Harlan Ellison: Broken Glass. Charles L. Grant: Every Time You Say „I love you“. John Ramsey Campbell: The trick.

Elfter Band

(DAW Book; 553). 1983. 237 S. Inhalt:

Manly Wade Wellman: Rouse him not. Richard Laymon: The grab. Frances Garfield: The House at Evening. John Alfred Taylor: I had dream'd a dreary dream. Dennis Etchison: Deathtracks. Sheila Hodgson: Follow. Jeffrey Goddin: The smell of cherries. David Campton: Posthumous Bequest.

Michael Kube-McDowell: Slippage. David G. Rowlands: The Executor. Lawrence C. Connolly: Mrs. Halfbooger's Basement. Thomas F. Monteleone: Spare the child. M. John Harrison: The new rays. Donald Tyson: Cruising. Al Sarrantonio: Pumkine Head. John Ramsey Campbell: The depths.

Zwölfter Band

(DAW Book; 603). 1984. 239 S. Inhalt:

Jane Yolen: Names. Malcolm Edwards: After-Images. David Drake: Out of Africa. Scott Bradfield: The „Flash!“ Kid. Stephen King: Uncle Otto's Truck. John Ramsey Campbell: Just waiting. Juleen Brantingham: The Ventriloquist's Daughter. Roger Johnson: The Wall-Painting. Al Sarrantonio: The Man with legs. Billy Wolfenbarger: The Attic.

David J. Schow: One for the Horrors. Frances Garfield: Come to the Party. Vincent McHardy: Keep sake. David Langford: 3:47 AM. Tanith Lee: Elle est mort. Dennis Etchison: The Chair. Lawrence C. Connolly: Echoes. Jon Wynne-Tyson: Mistral. Susan Casper: Spring-Fired Jack.

Dreizehnter Band

(DAW Book; 648). 1985. 251 S. Inhalt:

Stephen King: Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. Charles L. Grant: Are You Afraid of the Dark. John Gordon: Catch your death. Gardner Dozois: Dinner Party. Daniel Wynn Barber: Tiger in the snow. David J. Schow: Coming soon to a Theatre near you. Leslie Halliwell: Hands with long Fingers. Fred Chappell: Weird Tales. Jovan Panich: The Wardrobe.

Vincent McHardy: Angst for the memories. David Langford: The thing in the bedroom. John Brizzolara: Borderland. Roger Johnson: The Scarecrow. James B. Hemesath: The End of the World. John Gordon: Never Grow up. Charles Wagner: Deadlights. Dennis Etchison: Talking in the dark. John Ramsey Campbell: Watch the Birdie.

Vierzehnter Band

(DAW Book; 688). 1986. 291 S. Inhalt:

Charles L. Grant: Penny Daye. David B. Silva: Dwindling. Philip C. Heath: Dead Men's Fingers. Leonard Carpenter: Dead Week. David J. Schow: Bunny didn't tell us. Tanith Lee: Pinewood. Michael Reaves: The Night People. William F. Nolan: Ceremony. Dennis Etchison: The woman in black. Simon Clark: Beside the seaside, beside the sea.

Stephen F. Wilcox: Mother's Day. Vincent McHardy: Lava Tears. Wayne Allen Sallee: Rapid Transit. John Alfred Taylor: The Weight of Zero. Christopher Burns: John's Return to Liverpool. Paul M. Sammon: Before the Storm. David S. Garnett: Red Christmas. Steve Sneyd: Too Far Behind Gradina. John Ramsey Campbell: The Sneering.

Fünfzehnter Band

(DAW Anthologies; 15). 1987. 300 S. Inhalt:

Robert Bloch: The Yugoslaves. Joe R. Lansdale: Tight little stiches in a dead man'S back. John Ramsey Campell: Apples. William F. Wu: Dead White Women. Charles L. Grant: Crystal. Ron Leming: Retirement. Ron Wolfe: The man who did tricks with glass. John Alfred Taylor: The Olympic Runner.

Wayne Allen Sallee: Take the „A“ Train. Joel Lane: The Foggy, Foggy Dew Tina Rath: The Godmother. W. H. Pugmire u. a.: Pale, Trembling Youth. David J. Show: Red Light. Brad Strickland: In the Hour Before Dawn. Brian Lumley: Necros. Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes: Acquiring a Family.

Sechzehnter Band

(DAW Book; 760). 1988. 303 S. Inhalt:

Stephen King: Popsy. Greg Egan: Neighbourhood Watch. Jane Yolen: Wolf-Child. Charles L. Grant: Everything to live for. David Crampton: Repossession. John Ramsey Campbell: Merry May. Wayne Allen Sallee: The Touch. Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes: Moving Day.

Leslie Halliwell: La nuit de chiens. Sheila Hodgson: Echoes from the Abbey. Jack M. Dann: Visitors. A. F. Kidd: The Bellfounder's wife. Dennis Etchison: The scar. T. Winter-Damon: Martyr Without Canon. Brian Lumley: The Thin People. Michael Shea: Fat Face.

Siebzehnter Band

(DAW Book; 796). 1989. 351 S. Inhalt:

Brian Lumley: Fruiting Bodies. Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Works of Art. Harlan Ellison: She's a Young Thing and cannot Leave her Mother. Ian Watson: The Resurrection Man. Charles L. Grant: Now and Again in Summer. Dennis Etchison: Call 666. M. John Harrison: The Great God Pan. Brad Strickland: What Dreams May Come. Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes: Regression. Don Webb: Souvenirs.

Wayne Allen Sallee: Bleeding Between the Lines. John Ramsey Campbell: Playing the Game. Ian Watson: Lost Bodies. Nicholas Royle: Ours Now. Elizabeth Hand: Prince of Flowers. Robert Frazier: The Daily Chernobyl. Charles L. Grant: Snowman. Thomas F. Monteleone: Nobody's Perfect. Gregory Nicoll: Dead Air. Leonard P. Carpenter: Recrudescents.

Achtzehnter Band

(DAW Anthologies; 22). 1990. 285 S. Inhalt:

Neunzehnter Band

(DAW Book; 863). 1991. 366 S. Inhalt:

Andrew J. Wilson: Speed Dreams. Conrad Hill: The grief condition. J. L. Comeau: Firebird. Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Life sentences. Richared McMahan: Trophies. Sean Brdrick: Lord of the Creepies. Steve Vernon: Mongrel. Kim Newman: The man who collected Barker. D. F. Lewis: Hide and Seek. C. S. Fuqua: Walking after midnight. Joe Froelich: The hermit. Roger Johnson: The soldier.

Mike Newland: The book of blurbs, vol. 1. Robert Hood: You're a sick man, Mr. Antwhistle. David Drake: Elfin pipes of Northworld. Kim Antineau: A Bar called „Charley's“. James B. Hemesath: Custer at the Wheel. Patrick McLeod: Identity Crisis. Nicholas Royle: Negatives. David Niall: A candle in the sun. John Ramsey Campbell: The worst frog of the year. Wayne Allen Sallee: I'll give you half-scairt. Ed Gorman: Different kinds of dead. Philip Nutman: Full throttle.

Zwanzigster Band

(DAW Book; 893). 1992. 349 S. Inhalt:

Nina Kiriki Hoffman: An Invasion of Angels. Alan Brennert: Ma Qui. John Ramsey Campbell: The Same in Any Language. Dennis Etchison: Call Home. Jeffrey Goddin: A Scent of Roses. Nancy Kilpatrick: Root Cellar. Michael A. Amzen: An Eye for An Eye. Brian Lumley: The Picknickers. Wayne Allen Sallee: With the Wound Still Wet. D. F. Lewis: My Giddy Aunt. Sheila Hodgson: The Lodestone.

Edo van Belkom: Baseball Memories. Elizabeth Hand: The Bacchae. Joel Lane: Common Land. C. S. Fuqua: The Sharps and and Flats Guarantee. Kim Antineau: Medusa's Child. T. Winter-Damon: Wall of Masks. Nicholas Royle: Moving Out. Barb Hendee: Better Ways in a Wet Alley. Gregory Nicoll: Close to the Earth. Philip Nutman: Churches of Desire. Ron Weighell: Carven of Onyx.

Einundzwanzigster Band

(DAW Books; 928). 1993. 352 S. Inhalt:

Kim Newman: Week Woman. W. M. Shockley: A Father'S Gift. Andrew C. Ferguson: The Devil's Advocate. Jeffrey Osier: Sanctuary. Yvonne Navorro: Feeding the masses. Wayne Allen Sallee: Defining the Commonplace Silver. Carrie Richerson: Apotheosis. Michael A. Amzen: Spring ahead, Fall back. H. Andreas Lynch: Haunting me softly. T. Winter-Damon: City in the Torrid Waste. Mark McLaughlin: Largesse. Nicholas Royle: Tracks. D. F. Lewis: Welsh Pepper.

Joel Lane: And Some Are Missing. Lillian Csernica: Fallen Idol. Simon Clark: Eyes like a Ghost's. Ed Gorman: The Ugly File. John Ramsey Campbell: The Limits of Fantasy. Ron Weighell: China Rose. Rick Kennett: The Outsider. Kim Antineau: Briar Rose. Rand Soellner: Mom School. Mary Ann mitchell: The Hyacinth Girl. Adam Meyer: Mind Games. C. S. Fuqua: Mama's Boy. Jeffrey Osier: The Shabbie Peeople.

Zweiundzwanzigster Band

(DAW Book; 933). 1994. Inhalt:

Gregory Nicoll: The Ripper's Tune. T. E. D. Klein: One Size Eats. Adam Meyer: Resurrection. Joey Froelich: I live to wash her. Dennis Etchison: A little known side of Elivis. Chet Williamson: Perfect Days. John Ramsey Campbell: See how they run. Wayne Allen Sallee: Shots Downed, Officer fired. Sean Doolittle: David. F. A. McMahan: Portrait of a Pulp-Writer. Paul Pinn: Fish Harbor. Mark McLaughlin: Adroitly Wrapped. Joel Lane: Thicker Than Water. Scott Thomas: Memento Mori. Kim Newman: The Blith Spirit.

Del Stone: companions. Lillian Csernica: Masquerade. Deidra Cox: Price of the Flames. Conrad Williams: The Bone Garden. Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Ice Cream and Tombstones. Simon Clark: Salt Snake. Charles M. Saplak: Lady's Portrait, executes in archaic colors. Jeffrey Thomas: Lost Alleys. D. F. Lewis: Salustrade. Nancy Kilpatrick: The Power of One. David Langford: The lions in the desert. Lisa Tuttle: Turning Thirty. Kim Antineau: Bloodletting. Nicholas Royle: Flying into Naples. Terry Lamsley: Under the Crust.