Best New Horror by Joe Hill

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Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will show more tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . show less

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Best New Horror is filled with all sorts of inside-writer kinds of situations. Fan conventions. Zine editors who have inflated senses of their own importance and under used interpersonal skills. Disdain for the work of an anthologist. Etc. It was too inside the sausage factory for me to enjoy. Writers should write about writers for a general audience only in the most extraordinary of circumstances. That’s my general rule of thumb. Then again, perhaps other people really enjoy that.

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Jan 10, 2010

AlanPoulter 2,081 reviews

Eddie Carroll, the jaded editor of the 'Best New Horror' annual, tries to track down the sleazy author of a shocking new story, and gets far more than just a story.

Apr 16, 2009

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Joe Hill

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Joe Hill is the shortened name for Joseph Hillstrom King. He was born in Maine in 1972 and is the son of Tabitha and Stephen King. He used this shortened form of his name in order to succeed as a writer on his own merits, not because of his famous father. In 2007 he publicly confirmed his identity. His first book, 20th Century Ghost, received the show more the Bram Stoker award for Best Fiction Collection, and his Best New Horror book won him a second Bram Stoker award, this time for Best Short Story. He is also a past recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. Joe Hill's other books include Heart-Shaped Box, Road Rage (collaboration), Thumbprint, Throttle (collaboration), Horns, and NOS4A2. Joe Hill's novel The Fireman made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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