The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition

No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption. Often disturbing, occasionally delightful, let The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror be your annual guide through the mysteries and wonders of dark fiction.

Introduction by Paula Guran
Wheatfield with Crows by Steve Rasnic Tem
Blue Amber by David J. Schow
The Legend of Troop 13 by Kit Reed
The Good Husband by Nathan Ballingrud
The Soul in the Bell Jar by KJ Kabza
The Creature Recants by Dale Bailey
Termination Dust by Laird Barron
Postcards from Abroad by Peter Atkins
Phosphorus by Veronica Schanoes
A Lunar Labyrinth by Neil Gaiman
The Prayer of Ninety Cats by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson
The Plague by Ken Liu
The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning by Joe R. Lansdale
Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella by Brian Hodge
Air, Water, and the Grove by Kaaron Warren
A Little of the Night by Tanith Lee
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
Pride: A Collector’s Tale by Glen Hirshberg
Our Lady of Ruins by Sarah Singleton
The Marginals by Steve Duffy
Dark Gardens by Greg Kurzawa
Rag and Bone by Priya Sharma
The Slipway Gray by Helen Marshall
To Die for Moonlight by Sarah Monette
Cuckoo by Angela Slatter
Fishwife by Carrie Vaughn
The Dream Detective by Lisa Tuttle
Event Horizon by Sunny Moraine
Moonstruck by Karin Tidbeck
The Ghost Makers by Elizabeth Bear
Iseul’s Lexicon by Yoon Ha Lee