![]() For twenty-one years, she coedited The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and for the last six years, she’s edited this series. She’s been noticing for more than a quarter century. And when these writers tell really good stories that really scare us, Ellen Datlow notices. They tell good stories-stories that scare us. The best horror writers of today do the same thing that horror writers of a hundred years ago did. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness, as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers. The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, chronicles these shifting shadows. But this “light” creates its own shadows. 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. ![]() The only thing that has changed is what is unknown. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it remains true at the beginning of the twenty-first century. ![]()
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