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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine
Published by Tantor Media, Inc
Narrated by James Anderson Foster and Christina Delaine
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.
Included in The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:
- Neil Gaiman
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Stephen King
- Linda Nagata
- Laird Barron
- Margo Lanagan
- And many others
With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.
Included in The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:
- Neil Gaiman
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Stephen King
- Linda Nagata
- Laird Barron
- Margo Lanagan
- And many others
With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.
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Reviews for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine
Rating: 3.9807692403846153 out of 5 stars
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52 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It sucks, the pacing is slow. I don’t know what happens most of the time. It leaves you wondering what the hell is going on and you play it back and it leaves you more confused. Overall I did not like it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I really wanted to like this, being a huge fan of fantasy and horror. This left so much to be desired. meh.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Overall a very strong collection! There was a bit of repetition in the Lovecraftian pieces unfortunately but otherwise I really enjoyed these stories. I loved "The Days of Our Lives" for it's absolutely nonsensical yet still terrifying narrative and it's ricocheting pace somewhere between a British domestic comedy and a terrifying cult-esque tale of murder and inexplicable horror. "Grave Goods" was also really well written and an interesting exploration of archaeology, ethics, identity, and (of course) monsters. "Ragman" was also a deeply unsettling exploration of the relationship between parents and children as well as the stories piled up in physical things.
The weakest of the bunch was definitely "Numbers," in that it seemed to have...very little reason for existing. Straub's piece "The Process is a Process All Its Own" started out promising but ended up rather disappointing and I felt the last story, "On These Blackened Shores of Time" was good but perhaps not the strongest ending for the anthology.
But as a whole I definitely enjoyed this collection!