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Showcasing the finest weird fiction from 2015, volume 3 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is our biggest and most ambitious volume to date.

Acclaimed editors Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly bring their keen editorial sensibilities to the third volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. The best weird stories of 2015 features work from Robert Aickman, Matthew M. Bartlett, Sadie Bruce, Nadia Bulkin, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Conn, Brian Evenson, L.S. Johnson, Rebecca Kuder, Tim Lebbon, Reggie Oliver, Lynda E. Rucker, Robert Shearman, Christopher Slatsky, D.P. Watt, Michael Wehunt, Marian Womack, Genevieve Valentine

No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outre. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres.

Table of Contents:

• Forward - essay by Michael Kelly
• Introduction - essay by Simon Strantzas
• Rabbit, Cat, Girl - (2015) - short story by Rebecca Kuder
• Violet Is the Color of Your Energy - (2015) - short fiction by Nadia Bulkin
• Blood - (2015) - short fiction by Robert Shearman
• Loveliness Like a Shadow - (2015) - novelette by Christopher Slatsky
• Orange Dogs - (2015) - short story by Marian Womack
• Seaside Town - (2015) - short story by Brian Evenson
• Honey Moon - (2015) - short story by D. P. Watt
• The Marking - (2015) - short story by Kristi DeMeester
• The Strangers - (2015) - novella by Robert Aickman
• Guest - (2015) - short story by Brian Conn
• Julie - (2015) - novelette by L. S. Johnson
• The Devil Under the Maison Blue - (2015) - short story by Michael Wehunt
• Fetched - (2015) - short fiction by Ramsey Campbell
• The Seventh Wave - (2015) - short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
• Rangel - (2015) - novelette by Matthew M. Bartlett
• Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line - (2015) - short fiction by Genevieve Valentine
• The Rooms Are High - (2015) - short story by Reggie Oliver
• Strange Currents - (2015) - short fiction by Tim Lebbon
• Little Girls in Bone Museums - (2015) - short story by Sadie Bruce