<div>In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subjectFailed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children&#8217;s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow&#8217;s remote Yorkshire mansion.In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods.In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow&#8217;s ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens&#8217; dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer.Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture into the night wood.Soon enough, they&#8217;ll learn that the darkness under the trees is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.</div>

In The Night Wood

<div>Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: &ldquo;Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre.&rdquo; &mdash;TheWashington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres&mdash;they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories from major award winners, bestsellers, and rising stars, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever- changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view&mdash;literary, meta, and adventurous&mdash;to the series&rsquo; third edition. &ldquo;Superb&hellip;This mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)</div>

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<div>A West Virginia mining town hides a monstrous secret in this modern masterwork of skin-crawling horror They say you can&rsquo;t go home again. Sometimes that advice should be heeded. Henry Sleep&rsquo;s childhood memories of Saul&rsquo;s Run are dark and jumbled images that terrify and confuse him in his all-too-frequent nightmares. When his mother&rsquo;s horrible death and a bitter falling-out with his preacher father drove Henry from his West Virginia hometown almost ten years earlier, he knew he could never look back. But now the reverend Quincy Sleep is also dead, shockingly by his own hand, and the prodigal son must return to the tiny mining town where all of his most terrible secrets dwell. And he will not be welcomed back with open arms. Not by Sheriff Harold Crawford, who hides a taste for dark things behind his lawman facade. Not by Emily, the girlfriend Henry left behind, now shackled to a dying mother. Not by his one-time best friend, Perry Holland, who feels nothing for him now but a raging, inexplicable hatred. But if Henry hopes ever to sleep again, he will stay in Saul&rsquo;s Run until he solves the mystery of his father&rsquo;s death . . . and forces himself to remember what he and Perry found stirring in the hills outside of town many years ago. </div>

The Fallen

<div>A late-night joyride takes a sharp turn into nightmare territory when a group of college students tries to cover up a crime of carelessness A moment of inattention on a winding <a>roadway in the </a>Smoky Mountains leaves a stranger dead and his accidental killers at the mercy of a possible witness. Finney Durant, Nick Laymon, and Reed Tucker are desperate not to be linked to the crime. Finney and <a>Tucker</a> insist on hiding the corpse, and Nick, <a>hard up </a>for money, takes the man&rsquo;s cash. But the hit-and-run is just the beginning of their problems once they use a key found in the victim&rsquo;s pocket to open a bus locker&mdash;and find a videotape that opens an ever-widening doorway into horror. </div>

Sleeping Policemen

<div>A breathtaking collection of wonders and horrors&mdash;including robotic surrogate parents and zombie voters&mdash;from a new acknowledged master of darkest fantasy Whether speculating on an all-too-possible future or plumbing the stygian depths of supernatural evil and human degradation, Dale Bailey&rsquo;s award-winning short fiction has been justifiably compared to the work of some of the true giants in the field&mdash;Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Theodore Sturgeon, to name but a few. In this first collection of astonishing stories, the acclaimed author of the modern horror masterworks The Fallen and House of Bones demonstrates his remarkable range with tales that exhilarate, terrify, and touch the soul. A young boy comes of age on a secluded farm that grows a particularly grisly crop. The dead rise up to cast their ballots in a close presidential election. An assassin plots his next kill from inside the body of someone frighteningly close to the victim. An African American census taker discovers a hidden bayou town where time has stopped at a nightmarish point in history. Bailey takes readers inside the tents of a circus of shadows and explores an expectant father&rsquo;s dark and terrible legacy for his unborn child. This extraordinary collection runs the gamut from fantasy to horror, from science fiction to heartbreaking reality, speaking in voices, old and young, that brilliantly capture the light and the darkness of their ingeniously imagined worlds. Includes the Nebula Award&ndash;nominated novelette, &ldquo;The Resurrection Man&rsquo;s Legacy.&rdquo;</div>

The Resurrection Man's Legacy

<div>A chilling twist on the haunted-house story as five strangers resolve to spend two weeks in an abandoned, high-rise urban housing project that even gang lords and crack dealers avoid . . . Chicago&rsquo;s Dreamland Housing Project was created to give people with nothing a second chance. Like so many ill-conceived dreams of its time, eventually the project fell into disrepair and disrepute, just another slum ruled by the gangs and the drug dealers. But there was one building in the complex that contained an evil far fouler than the kind running the streets. Here eerie sounds emanated nightly from the elevator shafts and the shadows at the far end of the hallways, and inexplicable, fatal &ldquo;accidents&rdquo; were the norm. Here human blood regularly soaked the walls and cheap carpeting as rapists and murderers ran rampant, though none could remember their dark deeds afterward. Now, decades later, Dreamland is empty of its residents and mostly demolished. But one building still stands, thanks to billionaire Ramsey Lomax, who won&rsquo;t let the city raze the last and most notorious tower until he is done with it. Along with four willing strangers&mdash;a writer, an ex-cop, a doctor, and a psychic, each with a reason for participating&mdash;Lomax intends to spend two weeks living in the abandoned tower to see if the legends are real. But nothing can prepare these five for the terror they encounter once the front door slams behind them, trapping them all inside. Because in Dreamland, every nightmare comes true. </div>

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<div>&ldquo;Readers who know Lovecraft&rsquo;s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories&mdash;both new and rediscovered&mdash;that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today&rsquo;s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft&rsquo;s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow. In &ldquo;Commencement&rdquo; by Joyce Carol Oates, a university begins its annual ceremony of renewal with three renowned scholars whose lifetime achievements are fodder for the student body. A couple desperate to have another child turn to the darkest rituals of folklore and mythology in &ldquo;Catch Hell&rdquo; by Laird Barron. And Holly Phillips&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cold Water Survival&rdquo; trails a group of Antarctic explorers who encounter vast, unexplainable shapes in the ice&mdash;a danger to humanity awakening from its frozen slumber. Rounding out the collection are more spinetingling tales from Brian Evenson, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Bowes, Anna Tambour, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane, William Browning Spencer, Michael Cisco, Lavie Tidhar, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Shea, Gemma Files, and Nick Mamatas.</div>

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