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S'està carregant… The Best Horror of the Year Volume 2 (edició 2010)de Ellen Datlow (Editor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. While I won't say that this book inspired many terror-producing moments, it is definitely an improvement over the first collection. The book opens once more with a summation of books, stories, etc. from 2009, some of which have already gone on my wishlist. It is followed by 17 stories (* indicates the ones I really enjoyed): 1. "Lowland Sea," by Suzy McKee Charnas 2. "The End of Everything," by Steve Eller *3. "Mrs. Midnight," by Reggie Oliver *4. "each thing I show you is a piece of my death," by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer 5. The Nimble Men, by Glen Hirshberg 6. What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night," by Michael Marshall Smith 7. "Wendigo", by Micaela Morrissette 8. "In the Porches of My Ears," by Norman Prentiss 9. "Lonegan's Luck," by Stephen Graham Jones *10. "The Crevasse," by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud 11. "The Lion's Den," by Steve Duffy 12. "Lotophagi," by Edward Morris 13. "The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall," by Kaaron Warren 14. "Dead Loss," by Carole Johnstone *15. "Strappado," by Laird Barron 16. "The Lammas Worm," by Nina Allan *17. "Technicolor," by John Langan Note the number of asterisks -- when I read Volume 1, I noted three standouts -- now we're up to five. So, not counting "Strappado," by Laird Barron (which I've already read and which is one of my favorite stories by him), that leaves four that are new to me. Hands down, the best story of this group is "each thing I show you is a piece of my death," which is related through a mishmash of different media forms. It is built around the idea of "the background man," who begins to show up embedded within a number of television shows, movies, etc., with no explanation for his presence. "Mrs. Midnight" spans two worlds -- London of the present, and the same city during the time of Jack the Ripper, with a theater connecting the two. "The Crevasse" would have been a perfect fit for Robert M. Price's The Antarktos Cycle, with its Lovecraftian style and Antarctic exploration theme. "Technicolor" took me totally by surprise, but I've come to expect good things from John Langan. A college professor takes his students through Poe's inspiration for "Masque of the Red Death," building the suspense until the very last moment. While this anthology was not great, it's much better than the first volume of this series. Between the two, the stories that were standouts for me in this book were of much higher quality and had a better creep factor going on. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs in the wild hills of Fiji; lovers get more than they bargained for in a decadent discotheque; a college professor holds a classroom mesmerized as he vivisects Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"... What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Three of the stories come from Datlow's own [b:Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe|3273427|Poe 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe|Ellen Datlow|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1267902241s/3273427.jpg|3309622], two of them based on "The Masque of the Red Death." In Suzy McKee Charnas' "Lowland Sea," a coterie of celebrities holes up in a mansion to escape the spread of the "red sweat." In John Langan's "Technicolor," a college professor examines Poe's story, tying it in with the journey of a Napoleonic soldier, to sinister ends.
The editor has also selected a story from her [b:Lovecraft Unbound|6505011|Lovecraft Unbound|Ellen Datlow|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255712365s/6505011.jpg|6696594]: In "The Crevasse," by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, antarctic explorers discover ancient structures beneath the ice.
In Steve Eller's "The End of Everything," a young man in a world overrun by undead finds himself curiously unthreatened.
In Steve Duffy's "The Lion's Den," an unexplainable incident at a zoo may have world-changing implications.
"The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall," by Kaaron Warren, chronicles two sisters-in-law's quest for an exotic and dangerous breed of canine. Between this and [b:Slights|6555133|Slights|Kaaron Warren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327966690s/6555133.jpg|6747729], this author is becoming a favorite.
In Carole Johnstone's "Dead Loss," a fishing boat picks up something very strange--something the sea wants back.
The arrival of a mysterious young girl causes upheaval in the ranks of a traveling circus in Nina Allan's "The Lammas Worm."
There are a few very good stories in here, more that are just fair. The less interesting stories have the unfortunate effect of bringing the whole experience down (the more of those one reads, the less patience one will tend to have with the next story, I find.) ( )