The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

Fantastically frightening tales await you in the fifth volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror!

This outstanding annual exploration of the year’s best dark fiction journeys into the shadows delivers nineteen tales of the haunted, weirdly surreal, evil incarnate, frightening futures, and much more. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 includes metaphysical masterpieces from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique. Much like the paranormal, some things need to be experienced to be believed, so delve into these pages and take a delightfully disturbing stroll into the fears that stir us all.

Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran was senior editor for Prime Books for seven years. Previously, she edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. In addition to the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series and The Year’s Best Fantasy series, she’s edited over fifty other anthologies as well as many novels and single-author collections. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume Two was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2022. It was her third nomination for that award. Additionally she has been honored with two Stokers, two IHG Awards, and other nominations. Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications.