Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror

About this book

This sophisticated scary anthology collects the best horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005 one of horrors most innovative eras. These exceptionally diverse stories hand-picked by horror-expert editor Ellen Datlow are tales of the subtly psychological the unpredictably mischievous and the disturbingly visceral. Here are classics such as horror master Stephen Kings Chattery Teeth the tautly drawn account of a traveling salesman who unwisely picks up yet another hitchhiker; Peter Straubs eerie The Juniper Tree describing a man whose nostalgia for the movies of his childhood leads to his stolen innocence; and George R. R. Martins sinister The Pear-Shaped Man in which a young woman encounters a neighbor who likes her a bit too much. Whether you grew up on Clive Barkers Books of Blood; Joyce Carol Oatess Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?; Neil Gaimans Sandman; or are newly discovering Stephen Kings son breakout author Joe Hill; there is something here for everyone who enjoys being more than just a little bit scared.