The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #9

A collection of the year's horror stories by some well-known masters of dark fantasy such as Pat Cadigan, Stephen Laws, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall-Smith, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and Thomas Ligotti.Contents: Dying words / David J. Schow --The windmill / Conrad Williams --The right ending / John Burke --Swallowing a dirty seed / Simon Clark --This is your life (repressed memory remix) / Pat Cadigan --Christmas forever / Christopher Fowler --Four famines age / Yvonne Navarro --The crawl / Stephen Laws --Serpent eggs / David Langford --No one you know / Dennis Etchison --The dripping of sundered wineskins / Brian Hodge --The bells will sound forever / Thomas Ligotti --The Word / Ramsey Campbell --The map to the homes of the stars / Andy Duncan --Emptiness spoke eloquent / Caitlin R. Kiernan --Save as... / Michael Marshall Smith --Coppola's Dracula / Kim Newman --Grazing the long acre / Gwyneth Jones --The zombies of Madison County / Douglas E. Winter --Necrology : 1997 / Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.