
Best New Horror #28
Here’s the cover for Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones. My short story ‘The Light at the Centre’ is in it – the story was originally published in Uncertainties Vol. 1, edited by Brian J. Showers, and published by Swan River Press.
Here’s the table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Horror in 2016 – The Editor
- Pale Tree House – Angela Slatter
- The Light at the Centre – Maura McHugh
- En Plein Air – J.T. Glover
- India Blue – Glen Hirshberg
- Walking with the Cross – Peter Bell
- Bedtime Story – Richard Christian Matheson
- The Symphony of the Normal – Darren Speegle
- The Ballet of Dr. Caligari – Reggie Oliver
- Who is This Who is Coming? – Lynda E. Rucker
- The House That Moved Next Door – Stephen Volk
- Princess – Dennis Etchison
- A Home in the Sky – Lisa Tuttle
- On These Blackened Shores of Time – Brian Hodge
- The Enemy Within – Steve Rasnic Tem
- The Court of Midnight – Mark Samuels
- Far from Any Shore – Caitlín R. Kiernan
- The Fig Garden – Mark Valentine
- White Feathers – Alison Littlewood
- Over to You – Michael Marshall Smith
- In the Dark, Quiet Places – Kristi DeMeester
- Mare’s Nest – Richard Gavin
- The Red Forest – Angela Slatter
- Necrology: 2016 – Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
- Useful Addresses
The book will be published by PS Publishing. The cover artwork is by Lee Elias, and was originally used in Tomb of Terror #15 (1954).
It’s a fantastic privilege to be counted among so many talented writers. My heart is full.

