The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 Edition (2012 ed)

Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to findthe dark - in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white poolin an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods.

You wouldnot be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side oftown, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along dank passageways, trappedunderground, in the near future, or among the mysteries of old New Orleans. Dunes, lakes, isolated cabins, old books, and Old West saloons - well, thedarkness might easily be there.

But we've also found locales you thought weresafe from shadows - a rib joint with good blues playing, inside an oldwardrobe, on a baseball diamond, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel... Travel into the best dark fantasy and horror from 2011 with more thanfive-hundred pages of tales from some of today's best-known writers of thefantastique as well as new talents - stories that will take you to adiverse assortment of dark places.