Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound, Tails of Wonder and Imagination), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three.ĭescription: Jean-Michel La Grenouille has a lot going for him. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

Every year the bar is raised the screw is tightened. What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. by torturing faeries a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle's body a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which zombies have overrun the earth a murderous pack of nuns stalks a pair of Halloween revelers. and a strange little man a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site a sweet little girl entertains herself. 5/5 stars.Description: A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school a professor inherits a mysterious vase. He had distinct voices for all the characters, including a variety of accents. I was quite pleased to hear him give life to this story. The Narration: Michael Kramer has long been a favorite voice to listen to. I often enjoyed a dark chuckle.īetrayal and dangerous enemies make life hard for Alex. Marcus and Alex have great banter between them. They eventually team up with some unlikely allies to solve this murder mystery and bring down the criminal mastermind going by the name Abraham. So the two do most of their work at night. Marcus, Alex’s partner, is also a vampire, one who once was a Roman Imperator.

While this central plot point may not be original, the story still worked really well. When it became apparent that someone has been tampering with commercially available blood drinks (Hemo-Synth), I did flash to True Blood briefly.

A murder mystery needs to be solved fast before more civilians and Nocturnes (as vampires like to be called) die. The former Pharaoh, Alex Menkaure, now lives in Miami working as Detective Alex Romero. He’s got some supernatural secrets of his own.

Instantly, I was captivated by this main character. Now Alex, a former UMBRA agent, has to navigate a new world of bloody drinks at every corner store and a good chunk of the world that operates at night instead of the day. Vampires are out in the open now and UMBRA, a top secret group of government-funded vampire hunters, has been dismantled.

Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil