TOC: ‘The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #21’ and ‘The Mammoth Book of The Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction’ edited by Stephen Jones
Peter Tennant has posted the table of contents for two anthologies:
First The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #21 edited by Stephen Jones:
- “The Woods” by Michael Kelly
- “Throttle” by Joe Hill and Stephen King
- “Out and Back” by Barbara Roden
- “Respects” by Ramsey Campbell
- “Cold to the Touch” by Simon Strantzas
- “The Game of Bear” by M R James and Reggie Oliver
- “Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume” by Chris Bell
- “What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “The Reunion” by Nicholas Royle
- “Mami Wata” by Simon Kurt Unsworth
- “Venturi” by Richard Christian Matheson
- “Party Talk” by John Gaskin
- “Two Steps Along the Road” by Terry Dowling
- “The Axholme Toll” by Mark Valentine
- “Granny’s Grinning” by Robert Shearman
- “In the Garden” by Rosalie Parker
- “After the Ape” by Stephen Volk
- “The Nonesuch” by Brian Lumley
- “Princess of the Night” by Michael Kelly
Second is the retroscpective anthology The Mammoth Book of The Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction, which takes one story from each of the 20 preceding volumes in the series:
- “No Sharks in the Med” by Brian Lumley
- “The Man Who Drew Cats” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “The Same in Any Language” by Ramsey Campbell
- “Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death” by Christopher Fowler
- “Mefisto in Onyx” by Harlan Ellison
- “The Temptation of Dr Stein” by Paul J. McAuley
- “Queen of Knives” by Neil Gaiman
- “The Break” by Terry Lamsley
- “Emptiness Spoke Eloquent” by Caitlín R Kiernan
- “Mr Clubb and Mr Cuff” by Peter Straub
- “White” by Tim Lebbon
- “The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula, 1981” by Kim Newman
- “Cleopatra Brimstone” by Elizabeth Hand
- “20th Century Ghost” by Joe Hill
- “The White Hands” by Mark Samuels
- “My Death” by Lisa Tuttle
- “Haeckel’s Tale” by Clive Barker
- “Devil’s Smile” by Glen Hirshberg
- “The Church on the Island” by Simon Kurt Unsworth
- “The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates” by Stephen King