Featuring Stephen Graham Jones's
Lover's Lane
, reprinted in the
The Best Horror of the Year
.
Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some time, our seventy-first issue is one for the ages. Guest edited by
Brian Evenson
,
McSweeney’s 71:
The Monstrous and the Terribl
e is a hair-raising collection of fiction that will challenge the notion of what horror has been, and suggest what twenty-first-century horror is and can be. And it’s all packaged in a mind-bending, nesting-doll-like series of interlocking slipcases that must be seen to be believed.
There’s
Stephen Graham Jones
’s eerie take on the alien abduction story,
Mariana Enríquez
’s haunting tale of childhood hijinks gone awry, and Jeffrey Ford on a writer who loses control of his characters.
Nick Antosca
(cocreator of the award-winning TV series
The Act
) spins out a novelette about the hidden horrors of wine country. There’s
Kristine Ong
Muslim
exploring environmental horror in the Philippines; a sharp-edged folk tale by
Gabino Iglesias
, and Diné writer
Natanya Ann Pulley
reimagining sci-fi horror from an indigenous perspective. Hungarian writer
Attila Veres
proffers a dark take on the not-so-hidden sociopathy of multi-level marketing. And
Erika T. Wurth
explores the dark gaps leading to other worlds. If that weren’t enough: an excerpt from a new novel by
Brandon Hobson
; a chilling allegorical horror story by
Senaa Ahmad
; a Lovecraftian bildungsroman by
Lincoln Michel
; unsettling dream cities from
Nick Mamatas
;
M. T. Anderson
’s exceptionally weird take on babysitting; and, improbably, much more.