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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume Two by Paula Guran

vdarcangelo's review against another edition

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5.0

This may be the best edition of the series (going back to its start in 2010) that I've read so far. And that's saying something.

Faves:
Victor Lavalle, "Recognition"
Zen Cho, "Odette"
Dale Bailey, "Das Gesicht"
Craig Laurance Gidney, "Desiccant"
John Wiswell, "Open House on Haunted Hill"
Elaine Cuyegkeng, "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter"
H. Pueyo, "Nobody Lives Here"
Elizabeth Bear, "On Safari in R'yleh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"
Brian Evenson, "The Thickening"
James Everington, "The Sound of the Sea, Too Close"
Kelley Armstrong, "Drunk Physics"
Stephen Graham Jones, "Wait for Night"
Thomas Ha, "Where the Old Neighbors Go"
Caitlin R. Kiernan, "Dead Bright Star (July 1987)"
Shingai Njeri Kagunda, "And This is How to Stay Alive"
Maria Dahvana Headley, "The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods"
Naomi Kritzer, "Monster"
M. Rickert, "Last Night at the Fair"

annarella's review against another edition

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4.0

A second volume of horror and dark fantasy written by well known and less known authors.
It's a bit of a mixed bag as the level of the stories differs even if it's always high.
I discovered some interesting author that will follow.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine
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