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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017

The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and as supernatural. Join us in this outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious hauntings, seductive nightmares, and frighteningly plausible futures. Featuring tales from masterful authors and talented new writers sure to make you reconsider walking in the shadows alone... Contents 7 • Introduction: Not Afraid of the Dark • (2017) • by Paula Guran 11 • Seasons of Glass and Iron • (2016) • by Amal El-Mohtar 25 • The Future Is Blue • (2016) • by Catherynne M. Valente 43 • Grave Goods • (2016) • by Gemma Files 62 • The Ballad of Black Tom • (2016) • by Victor LaValle 120 • Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies • (2016) • by Brooke Bolander 123 • An Ocean the Color of Bruises • (2016) • by Isabel Yap 134 • The Iron Man • (2016) • by Max Gladstone 144 • The Blameless • (2016) • by Jeffrey Ford 156 • Birdfather • (2016) • by Stephen Graham Jones 180 • The Jaws That Bite, the Claws That Catch • (2016) • by Seanan McGuire 191 • The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner • (2016) • by John Shirley 204 • Fairy Tales Are for White People • (2016) • by Melissa Yuan-Innes 213 • Lullaby for a Lost World • (2016) • by Aliette de Bodard 219 • The Finest, Fullest Flowering • (2016) • by Marc Laidlaw 225 • Spinning Silver • (2016) • by Naomi Novik 248 • Grave Goods • (2016) • by Priya Sharma 258 • Braid of Days and Wake of Nights • (2016) • by E. Lily Yu 276 • Wish You Were Here • (2016) • by Nadia Bulkin 291 • Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left • (2016) • by Fran Wilde 302 • The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10) • (2016) • by Caitlín R. Kiernan 311 • Photograph • (2016) • by Steve Rasnic Tem 317 • Red Dirt Witch • (2016) • by N.K. Jemisin 333 • My Body, Herself • (2016) • by Carmen Maria Machado 338 • The Sound of Salt and Sea • (2016) • by Kat Howard 347 • A Dying of the Light • (2015) • by Rachel Caine 370 • Postcards from Natalie • (2016) • by Carrie Laben 381 • As Cymbals Clash • (2016) • by Cate Gardner 387 • The Games We Play • (2016) • by Cassandra Khaw 400 • Bright Crown of Joy • (2016) • by Livia Llewellyn 419 • Mommy's Little Man • (2016) • by Brian Hodge 427 • A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers • (2016) • by Alyssa Wong 436 • Surfacing • (2016) • by Lisa L. Hannett 446 • Meet Me at the Frost Fair • (2016) • by Alison Littlewood 457 • October Film Haunt: Under the House • (2016) • by Michael Wehunt 475 • Whose Drowned Face Sleeps • (2016) • by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky 492 • When the Stitches Come Undone • (2016) • by A.C. Wise 511 • The Red Forest • (2016) • by Angela Slatter