ABOUT THIS BOOK In this latest edition of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Graham Masterton, Michael Marshall Smith, Damien Angelica Walters, Reggie Oliver and Than Niveau, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2018 and Necrology of those who have left us. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction of Horror in 2018 STEPHEN JONES The House PETER BELL Smiling Man SIMON KURT UNSWORTH Holiday Reading ROSALIE PARKER Resonant Evil GRAHAM MASTERTON Redriff MICHAEL CHISLETT The Blink NICHOLAS ROYLE The Deep Sea Swell JOHN LANGAN Sisters Rise CHRISTOPHER HARMAN The Run of the Town RAMSEY CAMPBELL The Marvellous Talking Machine ALISON LITTLEWOOD Who s Got the Button? JAMES WADE The Typewriter RIO YOUERS The Keepers of the Lighthouse KEN MACKENZIE The Hungry Grass TRACY FAHEY Ghostly Studies, Dr. Grace, and The Diodati Society DANIEL McGACHEY It Never Looks Like Drowning DAMIEN ANGELICA WALTERS The Window of Erich Zann MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH Posterity MARK SAMUELS Octoberland THANA NIVEAU Porson s Piece REGGIE OLIVER He Sings of Salt and Wormwood BRIAN HODGE Virginia Story CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN The Virgin Mary Well PETER BELL Necrology STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN