The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition

No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption. Often disturbing, occasionally delightful, let The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror be your annual guide through the mysteries and wonders of dark fiction.Introduction by Paula GuranWheatfield with Crows by Steve Rasnic TemBlue Amber by David J. SchowThe Legend of Troop 13 by Kit ReedThe Good Husband by Nathan BallingrudThe Soul in the Bell Jar by KJ KabzaThe Creature Recants by Dale BaileyTermination Dust by Laird BarronPostcards from Abroad by Peter AtkinsPhosphorus by Veronica SchanoesA Lunar Labyrinth by Neil GaimanThe Prayer of Ninety Cats by Caitlín R. KiernanShadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon SandersonThe Plague by Ken LiuThe Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning by Joe R. LansdaleLet My Smile Be Your Umbrella by Brian HodgeAir, Water, and the Grove by Kaaron WarrenA Little of the Night by Tanith LeeA Collapse of Horses by Brian EvensonPride: A Collector’s Tale by Glen HirshbergOur Lady of Ruins by Sarah SingletonThe Marginals by Steve DuffyDark Gardens by Greg KurzawaRag and Bone by Priya SharmaThe Slipway Gray by Helen MarshallTo Die for Moonlight by Sarah MonetteCuckoo by Angela SlatterFishwife by Carrie VaughnThe Dream Detective by Lisa TuttleEvent Horizon by Sunny MoraineMoonstruck by Karin TidbeckThe Ghost Makers by Elizabeth BearIseul’s Lexicon by Yoon Ha Lee