Il libro di oltre 500 pagine, edito dall'americana Prime Books, presenta sia gli autori di punta che i nuovi nomi maggiormente in luce nel panorama horror più recente. In attesa di una pagina ufficiale presso il sito web dell'editore, ve ne anticipiano i contenuti al completo, inclusa fra parentesi la pubblicazione originaria dell'opera in volume o rivista:
Kelley Armstrong - A Haunted House of Her Own (Twilight Zone)
Peter Atkins - The Mystery (Spook City)
Dale Bailey e Nathan Balingrud - The Crevasse (Lovecraft Unbound)
Elizabeth Bear - The Horrid Glory of Its Wings (Tor.com, 12/08/09)
Deborah Biancotti - Diamond Shell (A Book of Endings)
Holly Black - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (The Eternal Kiss)
Nadia Bulkin - Everything Dies, Baby (Strange Horizons 9/31/09)
Ramsey Campbell - Respect (British Invasion)
Suzy McKee Charnas - Lowland Sea (Poe)
Robert Davies - Bruise for Bruise (Weird Tales 353)
Kurt Dinan - Nub Hut (ChiZine 1/09)
Steve Duffy - Certain Death for a Known Person (Apparitions)
Gemma Files - The Jacaranda Smile (Apparitions)
Seth Fried - Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre (One Story124)
Gerard Houarner - The Other Box (Strange Tales 3)
Stephen Graham Jones - The Ones Who Got Away (Phantoms)
Caitlin R. Kiernan - The Bone's Prayer (Sirenia Digest)
Kathe Koja - Far and Wee (Weird Tales 352)
Marc Laidlaw - Leng (Lovecraft Unbound)
Margo Lanagan - Sea-Hearts (X6)
John Langan - The Wide, Carnivorous Sky (By Blood We Live)
Joe R. Lansdale - Torn Away (Twilight Zone)
Kelly Link - The Cinderella Game (Troll's Eye View)
Maura McHugh - Vic (Black Static 10)
Gary McMahon - Strange Scenes From An Unfinished Film (Cern Zoo)
Sarah Monette - White Charles (Clarkesworld 6)
Stewart O'Nan - Monsters (Cemetery Dance 61)
Holly Phillips - Long Cold Goodbye (Asimov's, 3/09)
Sarah Pinborough - The Nowhere Man (British Invasion)
Norman Prentiss - In the Porches of My Ears (Postscripts 18)
Barbara Roden - The Brink of Eternity (Poe)
Ekaterina Sedia - Cherrystone and Shards of Ice (H.P. Lovecraft Magazine 5)
Michael Shea - Copping Squid (Copping Squid)
Lucius Shepard - Halloween Town (F&SF, Oct/Nov 09)
Michael Marshall Smith - What Happens When You Wake Up In the Night (Nightjar Press)
Peter Straub - Variations of a Theme from Seinfeld (Cemetery Dance 61)
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Cabinet Child (Phantoms)
Catherynne M. Valente - A Delicate Architecture (Troll's Eye View)
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010
a cura di Paula Guran
Prime Books, 2010
brossura, 544 pagine, $19.95
ISBN 9781607012337