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 as supernatural. Join us in thisoutstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction thatincludes stories of quiet fear, the utterly fantastic, the weirdly surreal, atmospheric noir, mysterious hauntings, seductive nightmares, and frighteninglyplausible...