I am delighted to announce that the esteemed Ellen Datlow has chosen my story "Scold's Bridle: A Cruelty" (originally published in grotesquerie) for The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, to be published later this year by Skyhorse Publishing.
This marks my second appearance in Ellen's distinguished Best Horror series and I'm honoured to be included among so many fine writers.
Here is the complete Table of Contents:
Summation 2020—Ellen Datlow
Exhalation #10 — A. C. Wise
A Hotel in Germany — Catriona Ward
A Deed Without a Name — Jack Lothian
Lords of the Matinee — Stephen Graham Jones
Cleaver, Meat, and Block — Maria Haskins
The Eight-Thousanders — Jason Sanford
Scold’s Bridle: A Cruelty–Richard Gavin
Come Closer — Gemma Files
It Doesn’t Feel Right — Michael Marshall Smith
Mine Seven — Elana Gomel
Sicko — Stephen Volk
Mouselode Maze — Christopher Harman
Heath Crawler — Sam Hicks
The Devil Will Be at the Door — David Surface
Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking — Tom Johnstone
Scream Queen — Nathan Ballingrud
We Do Like to Be Beside — Peter W. Sutton
Contrition (1998) — J.A.W. McCarthy
Tethered Dogs — Gary McMahon
Bloody Rhapsody — Alessandro Manzetti
In the English Rain — Steve Duffy
A Treat For Your Last Day — Simon Bestwick
Trick of the Light — Andrew Humphrey
Two Truths and a Lie — Sarah Pinsker
The Whisper of Stars — Thana Niveau
Honorable Mentions
About the Authors
Acknowledgment of Copyright
About the Editor
Ordering details will be announced here in due course.
