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The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 4

By Ellen DatlowNarrated by various narrators, Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, Stephen R. Thorne, Charlie Thurston, Lindy Nettleton, Charles Carroll, Shaun Grindell, Angela Brazil, Fred Sullivan

Length16h 54m

About this audiobook

The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness. Editor Ellen Datlow has now explored the entirety of the diverse horror market, distilling it into the fourth anthology in the series and providing an overview of the year in terror. Fear is the oldest human emotion, the most primal. We like to think we're civilized. We tell ourselves we're not afraid. And every year, we skim our fingers across nightmares, desperately pitting our courage against shivering dread. In one story, a paraplegic millionaire hires a priest to exorcise his pain; in another, a failing marriage is put to the ultimate test. In other stories hunters become the hunted as a small group of men ventures deep into a forest; a psychic struggles for her life on national television; a soldier strikes a grisly bargain with his sister's killer; ravens answer a child's wish for magic; two mercenaries accept a strangely simplistic assignment; and a desperate woman in an occupied land makes a terrible choice. What scares you? Horror wears new faces in these carefully selected stories. The details may change, but the fear remains. With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Four provides the petrifying horror fans of the genre have come to expect—and enjoy.

Audiobook details

GenreHorror, General Fiction, Mystery and Thriller

Length16 hrs 54 mins

Narrated byvarious narrators, Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, Stephen R. Thorne, Charlie Thurston, Lindy Nettleton, Charles Carroll, Shaun Grindell, Angela Brazil, Fred Sullivan

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJan 15, 2014

LanguageEnglish

1Chapter 1

13Chapter 13

2Chapter 2

14Chapter 14

3Chapter 3

15Chapter 15

4Chapter 4

16Chapter 16

5Chapter 5

17Chapter 17

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6Chapter 6

18Chapter 18

7Chapter 7

19Chapter 19

8Chapter 8

20Chapter 20

9Chapter 9

21Chapter 21

10Chapter 10

22Chapter 22

11Chapter 11

23Chapter 23

12Chapter 12

About the author

Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was fiction editor of Omni magazine and Scifiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies. She won the Bram Stoker Award in 2020 and has won nine World Fantasy Awards, plus multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career.View all by Ellen Datlow