Editor Paula Guran has announced her selections for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017.
- “Lullaby for a Lost World,” Aliette de Bodard (Tor.com 06/16)
- “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander (Uncanny #13)
- “Wish You Were Here,” Nadia Bulkin (Nightmare # 49)
- “A Dying of the Light,” Rachel Caine (The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft)
- “Season of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
- “Grave Goods,” Gemma Files (Autumn Cthulhu)
- “The Blameless,”Jeffrey Ford (The Natural History of Hell)
- “As Cymbals Clash,” Cate Gardner (The Dark #19)
- “The Iron Man,” Max Gladstone (Grimm Future)
- “Surfacing,” Lisa L. Hannett (Postscripts 36/37: The Dragons of the Night)
- “Mommy’s Little Man,” Brian Hodge (DarkFuse, October)
- “The Sound of Salt and Sea,” Kat Howard (Uncanny #10)
- “Red Dirt Witch,” N. K. Jemisin (Fantasy #60)
- “Birdfather,” Stephen Graham Jones (Black Static #51)
- “The Games We Play,” Cassandra Khaw (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
- “The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (Murder Ballad No. Ten),” Caitlin Kiernan (Sirenia Digest #130)
- “Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben (The Dark #14)
- “The Finest, Fullest Flowering,” Marc Laidlaw (Nightmare #45)
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com)
- “Meet Me at the Frost Fair,” Alison Littlewood (A Midwinter Entertainment)
- “Bright Crown of Joy,” Livia Llewellyn (Children of Lovecraft)
- “The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch,” Seanan McGuire (Lightspeed #72)
- “My Body, Herself,” Carmen Maria Machado (Uncanny #12)
- “Spinning Silver,” Naomi Novik (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales)
- “Whose Drowned Face Sleeps,” An Owomoyela & Rachael Swirsky (Nightmare # 46/What the #@&% Is That?)
- “Grave Goods,” Priya Sharma (Albedo One #6)
- “The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner,” John Shirley (Lovecraft Alive!)
- “The Red Forest,” Angela Slatter (Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales)
- “Photograph,” Steve Rasnic Tem (Out of the Dark)
- “The Future is Blue,” Catherynne M. Valente (Drowned Worlds)
- ‘‘October Film Haunt: Under the House’’, Michael Wehunt (Greener Pastures)
- “Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left,” Fran Wilde (Shimmer 13)
- “When the Stitches Come Undone,” A.C. Wise (Children of Lovecraft)
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers,” Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 03/16)
- “An Ocean the Color of Bruises,” Isabel Yap (Uncanny #11)
- “Fairy Tales are for White People,” Melissa Yuan-Innes (Fireside Magazine Issue 30)
- “Braid of Days and Nights,” E. Lily Yu (F&SF, Jan-Feb)