Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror

Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies or maddened extremists patrolling the earth.

In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the genre. She has mined the breadth and depth of ten years of terror, collecting superlative works of established masters and scene-stealing newcomers alike.


Introduction / Ellen Datlow --
Shallaballah / Mark Samuels --
Sob in the silence / Gene Wolfe --
Our turn too will one day come / Brian Hodge --
Dead sea fruit / Kaaron Warren --
Closet dreams / Lisa Tuttle --
Spectral evidence / Gemma Files --
Hushabye / Simon Bestwick --
Very low-flying aircraft / Nicholas Royle --
The Goosle / Margo Lanagan --
The clay party / Steve Duffy --
Strappado / Laird Barron --
Lonegan's luck / Stephen Graham Jones --
Mr. Pigsny / Reggie Oliver --
At night, when the demons come / Ray Cluley --
Was she wicked? Was she good? / M. Rickert --
The shallows / John Langan --
Little pig / Anna Taborska --
Omphalos / Livia Llewellyn --
How we escaped our certain fate / Dan Chaon --
That tiny flutter of the heart I used to call love / Robert Shearman --
Interstate love song (Murder ballad no. 8) / Caitlín R. Kiernan --
Shay Corsham Worsted / Garth Nix --
The atlas of Hell / Nathan Ballingrud --
Ambitious boys like you / Richard Kadrey