After a traumatic head injury, a man’s house (and family) keeps changing overnight. The title track from Evenson’s latest collection is one of his most brutal explorations of the human condition. When a new family moves into the neighborhood, a young girl on the brink of womanhood is intrigued by a boy who wears a wolf mask. The title story from Elliott’s 2014 collection is a perfect introduction to her singular brand of speculative, neo-Southern Gothic fiction. “How to Get Back to the Forest” also appeared in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams. When a short story begins with this line of dialogue-”You have to puke it up.”-you know you’re in for something creepy and weird. Samatar is best-known for her fantasy novels A Stranger in Olondria and its follow-up The Winged Histories, but she can also flex her horror muscles when the mood strikes. “How to Get Back to the Forest” by Sofia Samatar It’s one of my all-time favorite vampire stories, about a young boy in a broken family on the gulf coast who makes a deal with an injured vampire. One of the best stories in Ballingrud’s debut collection from Small Beer Press, North American Lake Monsters, “Sunbleached” was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in 2011. Here are the 9 creepiest short stories I’ve read by contemporary writers that were published online in the past decade. I read a lot of horror fiction thanks to the work of editors like Ellen Datlow, John Joseph Adams, Ann VanderMeer, and Niall Harrison. Something about autumn primes us for stories of the macabre-the crunch of leaves underfoot, the rustling winds, and the smell of things dying. Halloween isn’t the only reason we crave horror fiction this time of year.
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