 | by Ellen Datlow; Print book : Fiction |
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Selected story summaries (about a month ago)
"Frontier Death Song" by Laird Barron - In 1992 a man participating in an Alaskan dogsled run interrupts the Huntsman while he's conducting the Wild Hunt, skinning a colleague named Graham. The narrator fires off several rounds from his .357 killing some of the hounds and wounding the Huntsman. Satan demotes the Huntsman and promotes the murdered Graham as the new Huntsman. Twenty years later Graham appears to the narrator and tells him that he's got three days to get his affairs in order before he comes after him. An author friend named Jack invites him to head east to Lamprey Isle in New York figuring that the pack will be reluctant to cross wide open water. It doesn't work, but when the Wild Hunt does come for Jack and the narrator, they do such a good job of putting up a struggle that Satan demotes Graham. Jack and the narrator form a new pack and set off after their chosen prey.
"The Callers" by Ramsey Campbell - A thirteen year old boy attempting to avoid hooligans ducks into his grandma's creepy bingo game. The male caller on the stage is attempting to warn the boy to flee but the women have already marked him. His grandma leads him back home but that night the women show up at the house and rape him in a May Day fertility ritual.
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