Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

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As stated in her introduction to Inferno, Ellen Datlow asked her favorite authors for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels compelled to turn on the bright lights and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear."

Mission accomplished. Datlow has produced a collection filled with some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories' characters toil within their own hell. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology, Inferno will scare the pants off readers and further secure Ellen Datlow's standing as a preeminent editor of modern horror.

Table of Contents

“The Monsters of Heaven” Nathan Ballingrud
“The Forest” Laird Barron
“Inelastic Collisions” Elizabeth Bear
“Hushabye” Simon Bestwick
“The Keeper” P. D. Cacek
“Stilled Lite” Pat Cadigan
“The Suits at Auderlene” Terry Dowling
“Bethany’s Wood” Paul Finch
“The Bedroom Light” Jeffrey Ford
“The Uninvited” Christopher Fowler
“Misadventure” Stephen Gallagher
“Lives” John Grant
“The Janui Tree” Glen Hirshberg
“Riding Bitch” K. W. Jeter
“Face” The Ontario Review, Inc.
“13 O’Clock” Mike O’Driscoll
“Ghorla” Mark Samuels
“The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast” Lucius Shepard
“An Apiary of White Bees” Lee Thomas
“Perhaps the Last” Conrad Williams