The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real .. . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modernauthors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventingimaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, thesestories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2017's best darkfantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some oftoday's finest writers of the fantastique-sure to delight as well as disturb . ..