The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011

Angela Slatter is an Australian author of speculative fiction. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Ditmar Award, the Australian Shadows Award, and numerous Aurealis Awards.

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. Source: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.

Ekaterina Sedia is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. She's a great choice for finding your next chilling read.

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George Raymond Richard Martin (born 20 September 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. His early work includes the novels Dying of the Light (1977), Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag, and the story collections Sandkings and Tuf Voyaging. From the mid-1980s he also wrote for television, on the revived The Twilight Zone and on Beauty and the Beast, where he became a co-supervising producer. He is best known for the epic fantasy sequence A Song...

Holly Black is an American writer of fantasy for children, teenagers and adults. She was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1971, took a degree in English at The College of New Jersey, and published her first novel, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, in 2002. She is best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, the middle-grade series she created with the illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and for the Elfhame books that began with The Cruel Prince. Valiant won the inaugural Andre Norton Award in 2006, and...

Jay Lake is a science fiction writer whose work includes the collection The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK®. He's a solid choice for anyone looking for imaginative stories in the sci-fi genre.

Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of horror, crime, western and science fiction, born in Gladewater, Texas, and long based in Nacogdoches. He has written more than forty novels and many short stories, comics and screenplays, all steeped in the East Texas setting. He is best known for the Hap and Leonard crime series, the novella Bubba Ho-Tep and the novel The Bottoms, which won the Edgar Award. He has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards.

John (Patrick) Shirley is an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and...

Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York. Source: [Laird Barron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird_Barron) on Wikipedia.

Lynda E. Rucker writes dark fantasy and horror. Her stories have appeared in notable anthologies, including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011.

Margo Lanagan is a writer whose work often explores the darker corners of fantasy and horror. She's the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, a collection that showcases some of the most compelling stories in those genres.

Maureen McHugh is an author recognized for her contributions to dark fantasy and horror. Her work has appeared in "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror" anthologies for both 2011 and 2012. She is also the author of "La vida secreta de los bots y otros relatos.

Michael Skeet is an author and editor with a focus on dark fantasy and horror. He is known for editing The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011. His work also includes Bibliotheca Fantastica, exploring the wider fantasy genre.

Mike Aronovitz is an author known for his work in dark fantasy and horror. He is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011.

M. K. Hobson writes in the dark fantasy and horror genres. Her work was notably featured in "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011.

M. L. N. Hanover is the author behind Songs of Love & Death, a collection that explores themes of romance and mortality. This work showcases Hanover's skill in crafting stories that resonate with deep emotion.

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire) is an English writer of novels, short fiction, comics, screenplays and audio drama. He worked as a journalist before moving into comics, where his DC series The Sandman, begun in 1989, recast the title character as Morpheus, lord of dreams, and became one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. His novels include Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett, as well as Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline and The Oc...

Norman Partridge is a writer and editor known for his work in dark fantasy and horror. He has edited several Year's Best collections and contributed to anthologies like The Mammoth Book of Angels

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Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist.

Sarah Langan (born 1974) is an American horror author and three-time Bram Stoker Award winner. Langan was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on the Board of Directors. Source: [Sarah Langan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Langan) on Wikipedia.

Sarah Totton is an author recognized for her contributions to dark fantasy and horror. Her work was notably included in "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011.

S. D. Tullis is an author in the dark fantasy and horror genres. Their work is featured in collections like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011. Tullis creates stories that explore unsettling aspects of the imagination.

Simon R. Green (born 25 August 1955) is an English science fiction and fantasy author from Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, where he still lives. A New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty novels, he is best known for the Nightside, Secret Histories (Drood family), Deathstalker, Forest Kingdom, Hawk & Fisher, and Ghost Finders series. He sold his first novel in 1988 and gained wider recognition the following year when commissioned to novelize the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of...

Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972, in Midland, Texas) is an American author of horror, crime and speculative fiction, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. He holds a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University, and is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 2008. His novels include The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and The Bu...

Steve Berman writes and edits dark fantasy and horror, including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011. His collections like Bad Seeds and Handsome Devil often explore queer themes within speculative fiction.

Steve Duffy is the editor behind The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He has a knack for finding the most compelling stories in the dark fantasy and horror genres.

Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). Source: Wikipedia

Tim Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.