The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume 23

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank David Barraclough, Kim Newman, Vincent Chong, Mandy Slater, Amanda Foubister, Rodger Turner and Wayne MacLaurin (sfsite.com), Peter Crowther and Nicky Crowther, Ray Russell and Rosalie Parker, Gordon Van Gelder, Andy Cox, Joe Morey, Ellen Datlow, Charles Black, Debra L. Hammond, Douglas A. Anderson, Gavin Grant, Nicholas Royle, Val and Les Edwards, Sandra Ferguson, Johnny Mains, Brian Mooney, Andrew I. Porter, Philip Harbottle, Conrad Williams and, especially, Duncan Proudfoot, Max Burnell and Dorothy Lumley for all their help and support. Special thanks are also due to Locus, Ansible, Entertainment Weekly and all the other sources that were used for reference in the Introduction and the Necrology.

INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2011 copyright © Stephen Jones 2012.

HOLDING THE LIGHT copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2011. Originally published in Holding the Light. Reprinted by permission of the author.

LANTERN JACK copyright © Christopher Fowler 2011. Originally published in Red Gloves: Deviltry: The London Horrors. Reprinted by permission of the author.

RAG AND BONE copyright © Paul Kane 2011. Originally published in The Butterfly Man and Other Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

SOME KIND OF LIGHT SHINES FROM YOUR FACE copyright © Gemma Files 2011. Originally published in Gutshot: Weird West Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MIDNIGHT FLIGHT copyright © Joel Lane 2011. Originally published in The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies. Reprinted by permission of the author.

TRICK OF THE LIGHT copyright © Tim Lebbon 2011. Originally published in House of Fear: Nineteen New Stories of Haunted Houses and Spectral Encounters. Reprinted by permission of the author.

BUT NONE SHALL SING FOR ME copyright © Gregory Nicoll 2011. Originally published in Zombiesque. Reprinted by permission of the author.

ABOUT THE DARK copyright © Alison Littlewood 2011. Originally published in Black Static, Issue 25, November 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S TALE copyright © Daniel Mills 2011. Originally published in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, Issue 36, Spring 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE TOWER copyright © Mark Samuels 2011. Originally published in The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales. Reprinted by permission of the author.

DANCING LIKE WE’RE DUMB copyright © Peter Atkins 2011. Originally published in Rumours of the Marvellous. Reprinted by permission of the author.

AN INDELIBLE STAIN UPON THE SKY copyright © Simon Strantzas 2011. Originally published in Nightingale Songs. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HAIR copyright © Joan Aiken Estate 2011. Originally published in The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction No. 696, July/August 2011. Reprinted by permission of Small Beer Press and the author’s estate.

MIRI copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2011. Originally published in Blood and Other Cravings. Reprinted by permission of the author.

CORBEAUX BAY copyright © Geeta Roopnarine 2011. Originally published in Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds. Reprinted by permission of the author.

SAD, DARK THING copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2011. Originally published in A Book of Horrors. Reprinted by permission of the author.

SMITHERS AND THE GHOSTS OF THE THAR copyright © Agberg Ltd. 2011. Originally published in Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense. Reprinted by permission of the author.

QUIETA NON MOVERE copyright © Reggie Oliver 2011. Originally published in The Eighth Black Book of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CRAWLING SKY copyright © Joe R. Lansdale 2011. Originally published on Subterranean, Spring 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

WAIT copyright © Conrad Williams 2011. Originally published in Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE OCEAN GRAND, NORTH WEST COAST copyright © Simon Kurt Unsworth 2011. Originally published in Quiet Houses. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THEY THAT HAVE WINGS copyright © Debra L. Hammond as literary heir of Evangeline Walton 2011. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction No. 698, November/December 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author’s agent and estate.

WHITE ROSES, BLOODY SILK copyright © Thana Niveau 2011. Originally published on Delicate Toxins: An Anthology Inspired by Hanns Heinz Ewers. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE MUSIC OF BENGT KARLSSON, MURDERER copyright © John Ajvide Lindqvist 2011. English translation copyright © Marlaine Delargy 2011. Originally published in A Book of Horrors. Reprinted by permission of the author.

PASSING THROUGH PEACEHAVEN copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2011. Originally published in Portents. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HOLIDAY HOME copyright © David Buchan 2011. Originally published in Daily Frights 2012: 366 Days of Dark Flash Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

NECROLOGY: 2011 copyright © Stephen Jones and Kim Newman 2012.

USEFUL ADDRESSES copyright © Stephen Jones 2012.