A review by andimontgomery
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9 by

3.0

This was a decent anthology, with a few standouts, like The Oestridae, House of Wonders, Ragman, and On These Blackened Shores of Time.

1. Nesters | Siobhan Carroll - B
2. The Oestridae | Robert Levy - A
3. The Process is a Process All its Own | Peter Straub - didn’t finish!
4. The Bad Hour | Christopher Golden - B
5. Red Rabbit | Steve Rasnic Tem - C-
6. It’s All the Same Road in the End | Brian Hodge - C
7. Fury | DB Waters - C
8. Grave Goods | Gemma Files - C
9. Between Dry Ribs | Gregory Norman Bossert - C-
10. The Days of Our Lives | Adam LG Nevill - C
11. House of Wonders | C.E Ward - B+
12. The Numbers | Christopher Burns - B-
13. Bright Crown of Joy | Livia Llewellyn - D
14. The Beautiful Thing We Will Become | Kristi DeMeester - C
15. Wish You Were Here | Nadia Bulkin - C-
16. Ragman | Rebecca Lloyd - B+
17. What’s Out There? | Gary McMahon - C
18. No Matter Which Way We Turned | Brian Evenson - C
19. The Castellmarch Man | Ray Cluley - B-
20. The Ice Beneath Us | Steve Duffy - C
21. On These Blackened Shores of Time | Brian Hodge - B+