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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19
By Steve Jones

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This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #499556 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-09-29
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 512 pages

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About the Author
Stephen Jones is one of Britain's most acclaimed horror anthologists. His other books include the entire nineteen previous annual Horror anthologies, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, The Mammoth Book of Terror and The Mammoth Book of Vampires.

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Far from scary3
Stephen Jones unleashes his latest volume of Best New Horror, Number 19. I have read all of these and like most of them this one is a mixed bag, but still better than number 18 in my opinion. As one reviewer stated the stories themselves aren't terrible but not many are bone-chilling scary that will make you regret turning out the light at night after reading them. Out of the 26 novellas included here I would say I can count the chilling tales on one hand.
Some are more qualified for the dark fantasy genre such as "Cold Snap" and "This Rich Evil Sound" and the wholly unscary and far too long "The Ape's Wife".
Those of note that actually are worthy of being included in a book with this title are "Man You Gotta See This!", "Calico Black, Calico Blue", "Loss", "What He Said" and "Deadman's Road" by Joe R. Landsdale. I highly recommend the "Shadows" anthology series edited by the late Charles L. Grant if you want some truly scary stories.

Some very good stories, but not very scary4
Volume 19 of "Best New Horror" contains a collection of short stories (ranging in length from around 10 pages to around 60) loosely based around the horror genre. Each story was entertaining in its own right, though some carried more of a punch than others. I will say that while all of the stories were good, none were particularly frightening. This book (and all I've read in its series) are great to pick up used.

The biggest and best yet!5
Last year's volume recently won the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Anthology of the Year, and deservedly so -

- but what about this year's Volume 19, which is one of the longest in the series, a total - from cover to cover - of 640 pages?

Simply put, these are the best short stories you'll read this year, period. In ANY genre. 'Nuff said.

(This review comes from an advance copy bought at the FantasyCon, Nottingham England book launch on September 20th, 2008. Twelve of the contributors were on hand to sign the book. Only 50 advance copies were made available for the launch.)

If you haven't already done so, I urge you to seek out Volume 18, for not only is it itself an award-winning book, but so are three of the stories inside: Elizabeth Hand, Gene Wolfe and Geoff Ryman. Also included in last year's volume are brilliantly blazing stories by Glen Hirshberg, David Morrell, Al Sarrantonio (editor of the massive 999 anthology a few years back), Richard C. Matheson and an 88 page novella by the alwasy consistently dependable Kim Newman!