The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2018 Edition

Acknowledgements

“Sunflower Junction” © 2017 Simon Avery. First Publication: Black Static #57.

“Swift to Chase” © 2017 Laird Barron. First Publication: Adam’s Ladder, eds. Michael Bailey & Darren Speegle.

“Fallow” © 2017 Ashley Blooms. First Publication: Shimmer #37.

“Children of Thorns, Children of Water” © 2017 Aliette de Bodard. Exclusive for The House of Binding Thorns preorders/Uncanny #17.

“On Highway 18” © 2017 Rebecca Campbell. First Publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2017.

“Witch Hazel” © 2017 Jeffrey Ford. First Publication: Haunted Nights, eds. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton.

“The Bride in Sea-Green Velvet” © 2017 Robin Furth. First Publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2017).

“Little Digs” © 2017 Lisa L. Hannett. First Publication: The Dark #20.

“The Thule Stowaway” © 2017 Maria Dahvana Headley. First Publication: Uncanny #14.

“The Eyes Are White and Quiet” © 2017 Carole Johnstone. First Publication: New Fears, ed. Mark Morris.

“Mapping the Interior” © 2017 Stephen Graham Jones. First Publication: Mapping the Interior (Tor.com Books/Tom Doherty Associates).

“Don’t Turn on The Lights” © 2017 Cassandra Khaw. First Publication: Nightmare #61.

“The Dinosaur Tourist” © 2017 Caitlín R. Kiernan. First Publication: Sirenia Digest #139.

“Survival Strategies” © 2017 Helen Marshall. First Publication: Black Static #60.

“Red Bark and Ambergris” © 2017 Kate Marshalk. First Publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #232.

“Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango” © Ian Muneshwar.First Publication: The Dark #27.

“Everything Beautiful is Terrifying” © 2017 M. Rickert. First Publication: Shadows and Tall Trees 7, ed. Michael Kelly.

“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” © 2017 Rebecca Roanhorse. First Publication: Apex #99.

“Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment” © Eden Royce. First Publication: The “Spilling Tea” issue (#2) of Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.

“Moon Blood-Red, Tide Turning” © 2017 Mark Samuels. First Publication: Terror Tales of Cornwall, ed. Paul Finch.

“The Crow Palace” © 2017 Priya Sharma. First Publication: Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow.

“The Swimming Pool Party” © 2017 Robert Shearman. First Publication: Shadows & Tall Trees 7, ed. Michael Kelly.

“The Little Mermaid, in Passing” © 2017 Angela Slatter. First Publication: Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 22 Issue 1.

“Secret Keeper” © 2017 Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. First Publication: Nightmare #57.

“The Long Fade into Evening” © 2017 Steve Rasnic Tem. First Publication: Darker Companions, eds. Scott David Aniolowski & Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

“Moon, and Memory, and Muchness” © 2017 Katherine Vaz. First Publication: Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, ed. Ellen Datlow.

“Exceeding Bitter” © 2017 Kaaron Warren. First Publication: Evil Is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists, eds. Adrian Collins & Mike Myers.

“Succulents” © 2017 Conrad Williams. First Publication: New Fears, ed. Mark Morris.

“The Lamentation of Their Women” © 2017 Kai Ashante Wilson. First Publication: Tor.com, 24 August 2017.