The darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and wescream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but ifthere are, they are just as often human and supernatural. Join us in thisoutstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction that includesstories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmosphericnoir, mysterious hauntings, seductive nightmares, and frighteningly plausiblefutures...