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I think this came in as a google alert while I was in San Jose so I forgot to post it. It's a very nice review of Best Horror of the Year, volume one from Innsmouth Free Press.
Thanks Adam, for reminding me).

Here's the list of those that made it into the book itself and then at the bottom there is a link to the Nightshade message board which shows all 531 other HMs:


Allan, Nina “Ryman’s Suitcase,” A Thread of Truth.
Allen, Mike “deathmask,” Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, winter.
Avery, Simon “101 Ways to Leave Paris,” Crimewave, Now you See Me 10.
Barron, Laird “The Occultation,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Bear, Elizabeth and Monette, Sarah “Boojum,” Fast Ships, Black Sails.
Bestwick, Simon “The School House,” (novella) Houses on the Borderland.
Bird, Allyson “The Bone Grinder,” Bull Running for Girls.
Block, Lawrence “Keller the Dogkiller,” EQMM May.
Bobet, Leah “Bell, Book, and Candle,” Clockwork Phoenix.
Bulkin, Nadia “Intertropical Convergence Zone,” ChiZine 37.
Campbell, Ramsey “Double Room,” The New Uncanny.
Campbell, Ramsey “The Long Way,” PS chapbook.
Cowdrey, Albert “The Overseer,” (novella) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science March.
Dowling, Terry “The Fooly,” Dreaming Again.
Duffy, Steve “The Oram County Whoosit,” Shades of Darkness.
Emshwiller, Carol “Wilmer or Wesley,” Asimov’s Science Fiction August.
Ferris, Joshua “The Dinner Party,” The New Yorker, August 11&18.
Finch, Paul “The Pumping Station,” We Fade to Grey.
Grant, Helen “Grauer Hans,” Shades of Darkness.
Grant, John “Will the Real Veronica LeBarr Please Stand Down,” Postscripts 16.
Haines, Paul “Taniwha, Swim with Me,” Midnight Echo 1.
Harland, Richard “A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead,” Dreaming Again.
Hirshberg, Glen “Like Lick em Sticks, Like Tina Fey,” KRDR.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Steam Dancer (1896),” Subterranean.
King, Stephen “N.” Just After Sunset.
King, Stephen “The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates,” F&SF, Oct/Nov.
Kirk, John “The Talion Moth,” Weird Tales 349, March/April.
Kosmatka, Ted “The Art of Alchemy,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science June.
Laidlaw, Marc “Childrun,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science, August.
Lake, Jay “America, Such as She Is,” (novella) Alembical.
Lane, Joel “A Mouth to Feed,” Shades of Darkness.
Lane, Joel “Even the Pawn,” Crimewave 10.
Langan, Sarah “The Agathas,” Unspeakable Horror.
Llewellyn, Livia “The Engine of Desire,” Unspeakable Horror.
Ludwigsen, Will “In Search Of,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine June.
Lynch, Mark Patrick “The Apartment of Bryony Hartwood,” Shades of Darkness.
MacLeod, Ian R. “The Hob Carpet,” (novella) Asimov’s Science Fiction June.
McDermott, Kirstyn “Painlessness,” GUD 2.
McHugh, Ian “Bitter Dreams,” Writers of the Future volume XXIV.
Meloy, Paul “All Mouth,” Black Static 6.
Monette, Sarah “The World Without Sleep,” Postscripts 14.
Pile, Rog “The Pit,” The Second Black Book of Horror.
Pinborough, Sarah “Our Man in the Sudan,” The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror.
Probert, John Llewellyn “Don’t Look Back” Coffin Nails.
Rickert. M “Traitor,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May.
Roden, Barbara “Endless Night,” Exotic Gothic.
Samphire, Patrick “At the Gates,” Black Static 8.
Schweitzer, Darrell Living with the Dead, (novella) PS chapbook.
Strantzas, Simon “Under the Overpass,” Shades of Darkness.
Thomas, Jonathan “Into Your Tenement I’ll Creep,” Studies in the Fantastic 1.
Travis, Tia V. “No Need of Wings,” Subterranean online winter 08.
Valentine, Genevieve “The Red Shoes (Continued),”Journal of Mythic Arts final issue.
VanderMeer, Jeff “The Situation, chapbook.
Weiss, Ernst “The Rat Ship,” (novella) A Public Space 5.
Williams, Conrad “68˚ 07’ 15”N, 31˚ 36’ 44”W,” Fast Ships, Black Sails.

and the rest:
http://tinyurl.com/yhbflvg

This is truly bizarre. My LJ post with this info just disappeared. Ok. So I'll post it again...

Table of Contents

Cargo E. Michael Lewis (Shades of Darkness)

If Angels Fight Richard Bowes (F&SF February )

The Clay Party Steve Duffy (The Werewolf Pack)

Penguins of the Apocalypse William Browning Spencer (Subterranean)

Esmeralda Glen Hirshberg (Shades of Darkness)

The Hodag Trent Hergenrader(Black Static 7)

Very Low-Flying Aircraft Nicholas Royle (Exotic Gothic 2)

When the Gentlemen Go By Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld #21 July)

The Lagerstätte Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of SF & Fantasy)

Harry and the Monkey Euan Harvey (Realms of Fantasy December)

Dress Circle Miranda Siemienowicz (Hecate volume 34, No. 1)

The Rising River Daniel Kaysen (Black Static 5)

Sweeney Among the Straight Razors JoSelle Vanderhooft (Star*Line Sept/Oct)

Loup-garou R.B. Russell (The Werewolf Pack)

Girl in Pieces Graham Edwards (Realms of Fantasy, April)

It Washed Up Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean)

The Thirteenth Hell Mike Allen (The Journey to Kailash)

The Goosle Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of SF & F)

Beach Head Daniel LeMoal (On Spec summer #73)

The Man From the Peak Adam Golaski (Worse Than Myself)

The Narrows Simon Bestwick (We Fade to Grey</div>Tags:

Although I'm still reading for Volume One, it's already time to start reading for Volume Two, so:

Call for Submissions

I am editing the new anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the second volume, which will include all material published in 2009.

I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark thrillers, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2009. Submission deadline for stories is December 15th 2009. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. If a magazine, anthology, or collection you’re in or you edit is coming out by December 31st, you can send me galleys or manuscripts so that I can judge the stories in time. No email submissions. I strongly suggest that authors check with their publishers that they are sending review copies to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.

There will be a summation of "the year in horror" in the front of the volume. This will include novels, nonfiction, art books, and "odds and ends"-- material that doesn't fit elsewhere but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for this section is January 15th, 2010.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Two
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I do not want to receive manuscripts from authors of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive (like Interzone, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Subterranean, Postscripts, Weird Tales, F&SF, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don't have or can’t get that anthology or collection. Please contact your publisher and ask him/her to send me the magazine or book.

Please do not send a SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. If you want to confirm that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived. For stories that appear on the web, please send me (or have the publisher send me) print-outs of your story.
thanks