Eggp’s Reviews > The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction > Status Update

26. Brian Evenson - No Matter Which Way We Turned, 3 stars. Lights abduct the front half of a girl, leaving her with two backs.
27. Siobhan Carroll - Nesters, 3 stars. Family struggles to survive in a permanent drought hellscape, little girl looks for her missing father.
28. Carole Johnstone - Better You Believe, 3 stars. Extreme mountain climbers die off in a storm, the survivors plow on in panic and denial.

23. Jane Jakeman - Majorlena, 4 stars. American troops in Iraq get attacked, the survivors gather together looking for food and water.
24. Adam L.G. Nevill - The Days of Our Lives, 4 stars. Subservient husband sticks up for himself after his domineering wife flaunts her affair with another man.
25. Mira Grant - You Can Stay All Day, 4 stars. Zookeeper does the best she can for her big cats during a zombie outbreak.

21. Gemma Files - Grave Goods, 5 stars. Archaeologists argue about the classification of remains they find on long abandoned tribal land, dismissed local mythology becoming suddenly relevant.
22. Peter Straub - The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine, 2 stars. Dirty old man and his much younger lover engage in extreme BDSM on an Amazon pleasure cruise with a fluctuating timeline?

15. Cody Goodfellow - At the Riding School, 3 stars. Vet does dirty work for a sham school, is called to an emergency in the middle of the night.
16. E. Michael Lewis - Cargo, 3 stars. People on plane hear spooky noises coming from a load of coffins.
17. Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski - Tender as Teeth, 4 stars. Reporter lucks into a shot of the worst moment of a ex-zombie's life, comes back for seconds.

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12. Adam Golaski - The Man from the Peak, 3 stars. Adulterer attends a going away party, no one knows who the ugly guy wandering around is.
13. John Langan - In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos, 3 stars. Ex-army torturers take a suspiciously simple job with an old colleague who might be out for revenge.
14. Simon Bestwick - The Moraine, 4 stars. Married couple get lost in a fog while hiking, hear noises in the distance.

09. Livia Llewellyn - Allochthon, 3 stars. Unhappy housewife is stuck in a time loop, never quite able to get a look at the Lovecraftian cave system of her dreams.
10. Stephen Gallagher - Shepherds' Business, 5 stars. Island's replacement doctor settles into practice, does his best to help a grieving couple whose baby was stillborn.
11. Neil Gaiman - Down to a Sunless Sea, 3 stars. [2016]

06. Steve Rasnic Tem - The Monster Makers, 2 stars. Grandfather is blamed by son and daughter in law for their children's wild behavior.
07. Stephen Graham Jones - Chapter Six, 4 stars. Teacher and student become carrion scavengers to survive the zombie apocalypse.
08. Laird Barron - In a Cavern, in a Canyon, 4 stars. Tough lady searches for a beastie that may have been responsible for her father's disappearance.

03. Glen Hirshberg - The Nimble Men, 3 stars. Pilots land at a dark airport in the winter, can't seem to get the de-icer guy to notice them with the northern lights show going crazy.
04. Dan Chaon - Little America, 3 stars. Delusional man and unwilling passenger take a road trip, children have evolved into a hardier form more suitable for predators.
05. Tanith Lee - Black and White Sky, 4 stars. [2021]

01. Suzy McKee Charnas - Lowland Sea, 4 stars. Pandemic wipes out the world outside rich guy's well-stocked private villa, hangers on reap the rewards for as long as they can.
02. Lucy Taylor - Wingless Beasts, 5 stars. Friendly local tow truck driver urges foolhardy tourists to stay out of the Mojave desert, knowing he'll have to go hunting for the stubborn ones later.