The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven

Best Horror of the Year Series, Book 11

By: Ellen Datlow - editor

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel, Charlie Thurston

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.

The Best Horror of the Year has included such illustrious writers as:

• Neil Gaiman
• Kim Newman
• Stephen King
• and many others...

With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.

©2019 Ellen Datlow (P)2019 Tantor

Not a waste of time . Not scary though or chilling

I’ve listened to a bunch of these now and it might just be me. Maybe I’m getting desensitized which is possible but doesn’t seem like a lot of creativity is going into this like they used in the beginning. Maybe it’s just the new generations of Walters not a waste of time it passed the time for me, but they’re really, funny stories that stood out for me and told me this was good just if you need something in the background and don’t have a book dedicated to

Love all of the books

Ellen Datlow chooses a great variety in the stories and there are always wonderful narrative performances by the voice actors. I’ve never been disappointed.

Good Horror stories

interesting collection of Horror short stories. Good narration. I would recommend this anthology to others.

50/50 down the line.

Half the stories were good / half were bad. When I mean bad I mean just blah. Typical. No imagination, the mashing of the same stories. The other half were very imaginative and entertaining. Of those, only half would be considered “horror.” Non the less, still entertaining.
The voiceovers. The voiceover artists were 2. One man one woman. I’ve heard both of them before from other stories of horror and fiction. So I had my reservations about getting this lot of horror to begin with, but needed my horror fix and I knew my trepidation would be worked through once again. I would speed through or totally skip the stories read by the woman or female or whatever doesn’t offend. It just sounds off when she (female voice actor) does men’s voices or women’s. Yet the male voice over artist, was hired to do a story with 5 different female voices and they sounded so much more on than the female voice artist or actor or whatever doesn’t offend. Each of the women’s voices were different and even the tonality was different. Good job. She, the female voice actor is fine with background or exposition but her overall voices, not entertaining. It sounds unrealistic and unrehearsed.
So, if you want 50/50, then this compilation is for you.

Stellar new collection

Absolutely love it! A few misses didn't spoil it for me and the highlights were simply amazing! Strongly recommend!