The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume 13

The following story originally appeared on SciFi.Com, and has been selected for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection as well as this volume of The Mammoth Books of Best New Horror.

Glen Hirshberg’s novelette, ‘Mr Dark’s Carnival’, which received its first printing in the Ash-Tree Press anthology Shadows and Silence and later appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection, was nominated for both the International Horror Guild Award and the World Fantasy Award. He also has stories in Dark Terrors 6 and The Dark. His first novel, The Snowman’s Children, is published in the United States by Carroll & Graf. Currently, he is putting the final touches on a collection of ghost stories and working on a new novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

About ‘Struwwelpeter’ the author notes: ‘Ballard is an actual section of Seattle, but the neighborhood portrayed here bares little resemblance to it except for the rain and the duplexes and the lutefisk smell. This story is dedicated to Phil Bednarz, wherever he is, for taking me bell-ringing.’