title: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
author: Paula Guran
description: Anthologist and editor Guran has collected 39 thrilling and frightening horror stories published in 2009. While some of the authors will be familiar to readers outside the genreJoe R. Lansdale, Kelley Armstrong, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbellmost of the contributors may be new to those who havent kept up to date on their urban-fantasy and horror writers. Although they are all technically in the same genre, the stories are quite diverse, from Straubs quirky Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld to Armstrongs eerie Haunted House to Lansdales creepy and sad Torn Away. Fans of horror and dark fantasythe latter, Guran explains, defies easy definition, but you know it when you feel itshould welcome this collection with open arms. This is the first edition of this anthology, but if the editor can maintain the same high quality in years to come, it is certain to join the several crime and SF years-best collections as a staple in the genre-fiction world. --David Pitt
zlib_text: THE	YEAR’S	BEST
  DARK	FANTASY	AND	HORROR
  2010
  Edited	by
  PAULA	GURAN
  To	Ellen	Datlow	who	has	always	been	and	always	will	be	the	best.
  Copyright	©	2010	by	Paula	Guran.
  Cover	art	by	Travis	Anthony	Soumis.
  Cover	design	by	Stephen	H.	Segal.
  Ebook	design	by	Neil	Clarke.
  ISBN:	978-1-60701-258-0	(ebook)
  ISBN:	978-1-60701-233-7	(trade	paperback)
  All	stories	are	copyrighted	to	their	respective	authors,and	used	here	with	their	permission.
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  TABLE	OF	CONTENTS
  Introduction,	Paula	Guran
  THE	HORRID	GLORY	OF	ITS	WINGS,	Elizabeth	Bear
  LOWLAND	SEA,	Suzy	McKee	Charnas
  COPPING	SQUID,	Michael	Shea
  MONSTERS,	Stewart	O’Nan
  THE	BRINK	OF	ETERNITY,	Barbara	Roden
  FROST	MOUNTAIN	PICNIC	MASSACRE,	Seth	Fried
  SEA-HEARTS,	Margo	Lanagan
  A	HAUNTED	HOUSE	OF	HER	OWN,	Kelley	Armstrong
  HEADSTONE	