Beth Roberts's Reviews > The Best Horror of the Year

Overall, a strong anthology, if uneven in places. I've stated before, I don't care for Lovecraftian horror, which is represented in a lot of these stories, including the one I DNF'd with its pretentious overwriting, but interestingly in some of the strongest entries as well.

Not changing my mind about Lovecraft or cosmic tentacled horror, but still interesting how much I liked these.

Table of contents, with my rating after:

Lowland Sea/Suzy McKee Charnas 4.5
The End of Everything/Steve Eller 3
Mrs. Midnight/Reggie Oliver 3 (lost full star for animal cruelty)
Each Thing I Show You is a Piece of My Death/Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer 5
The Nimble Men/GLen Hirshberg 3
What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night/Michael Marshall Smith 3
Wendigo/Michaela Morrissette 1 DNF
In the Porches of My Ears/Norman Prentiss 3.5
Lonegan's Luck/Stephen Graham Jones 4.5
The Crevasse/Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud 2
The Lion's Den/Steve Duffy 5
Lotophagi/Edward Morris 4.5
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall/Kaaron Warren 5
Dead Loss/Carole Johnstone 4.5
Strappado/Laird Barron 4.5
The Lammas Worm/Nina Allen 5
Technicolor/John Langan 5.

The entry by Gemma Files reminds me of her novel, Experimental Film, which I loved.
The John Langan story is a fascinating mashup of Edgar Allen Poe and Lovecraft that was very well-executed and highly original.