The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is an anthology series published annually by Constable & Robinson since 1990. In addition to the short stories, each edition includes a retrospective essay by the editors. The first six anthologies were originally published under the name Best New Horror before the title was changed beginning with the seventh book.
The first five books in the series were edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell; beginning with the sixth book in 1995 they have been edited solely by Stephen Jones.
Volumes
- Best New Horror - 1990
- Best New Horror 2 - 1991
- Best New Horror 3 - 1992
- Best New Horror 4 - 1993
- Best New Horror 5 - 1994
- Best New Horror 6 - 1995
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 - 1996
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 - 1997
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 - 1998
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 - 1999
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 - 2000
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 - 2001
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 - 2002
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 - 2003
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 - 2004
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 - 2005
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 - 2006
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 - 2007
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 - 2008
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 - 2009
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 - 2010
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 - 2011
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 - 2012
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24 - 2013
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 25 - 2014
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 26 - 2015
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 27 - 2017
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 28 - 2018
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 29 - 2019
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 30 - 2020
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 31 - 2021
Reception
Gideon Kibblewhite reviewed the 1994 volume of The Best New Horror for Arcane magazine, rating it a 9 out of 10 overall.[1] Kibblewhite comments that "Drawing on the great variety of horror writing, from psychological suspense to magical realism, this collection also provides an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with some of the great authors of the field."[1]
Books from the anthology series have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The first book in the series won the 1991 award,[2] and the twelfth volume was nominated for the 2002 award.[3]
References
- ^ a b Kibblewhite, Gideon (January 1996). "The Great Library". Arcane (2). Future Publishing: 91.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1991 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2002 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
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- The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989)
- The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990)
- Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992)
- MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993)
- Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994)
- Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996)
- Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997)
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
- Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999)
- Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001)
- The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002)
- The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003)
- Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004)
- Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005)
- The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006)
- Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007)
- Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008)
- Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009)
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010)
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011)
- The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
- Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013)
- Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014)
- Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015)
- She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016)
- Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017)
- The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018)
- Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019)
- New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021)
- The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)
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