Ghosteria Volume One: The Stories from Immanion Press was a collection of Tanith Lee’s ghost stories (four original). It was published simultaneously with Ghosteria Volume Two: The Noveclass="underline" Zircons May Be Mistaken.
Edited by Steve Berman for Prime Books, Handsome Devil contained twenty-five stories (fifteen original) about infernal seduction by Tanith Lee, Pat Cadigan and others, while editor Paula Guran’s Zombies: More Recent Dead collected thirty-three stories and three poems from the last decade by Neil Gaiman, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Mike Carey and others.
The annual Halloween treat from Paul Miller’s Earthling Publishers was The Halloween Children, a collaboration between Brian James Freeman and Norman Prentiss, with art by Glenn Chadbourne. It was available in a hardcover printing of 500 numbered copies and fifteen lettered copies.
From The Alchemy Press, Merry-Go-Round and Other Words collected twenty-two stories (eight original) by veteran Pan and Fontana horror author Bryn Fortey, with an Introduction by Johnny Mains and an Afterword by the author. A sixty-copy signed hardcover edition also included an extra story.
Dean M. Drinkel edited the anthology Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories from the Great War, which commemorated the centenary of the First World War with twenty-one original stories, plus two reprint poems by Rupert Brooke. Contributors included Bryn Fortey, Christopher Fowler, Mike Chinn, Christine Morgan and Allen Ashley.
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2, edited by Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber, contained twelve stories (one reprint) by Tanith Lee, Sarah Ash, Chico Kidd, Lou Morgan and others, while The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 3, edited by Mike Chinn, featured the same number of tales (two reprints) from Gary Budgen, Kim Newman, Rod Rees and Tony Richards, amongst others.
Nick Nightmare Investigates collected ten stories (five original) featuring Adrian Cole’s titular supernatural private eye, including a new collaboration with Mike Chinn. Illustrated by Jim Pitts, it was published by The Alchemy Press/Airgedlámh Publications in a hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
Intended as a homage to the pulp magazine Unknown/Unknown Worlds and the digest titles Fantastic and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, the first softcover volume of Worlds of the Unknown, edited by Jon Harvey for his own Spectre Press, included fiction and poetry by Adrian Cole, Mike Chinn, Andrew Darlington and Don Webb, amongst others, along with the first part of a serialisation of Jerome Dreifuss’ 1946 novel Furlough from Heaven. Mike Ashley and Steve Sneyd contributed articles, and there was some nice artwork by Alan Hunter, Jim Pitts, Russ Nicholson, David Fletcher and Edd Cartier (whose name was consistently misspelled throughout the publication).
Borderlands Press continued its series of “Little Books” with The Little Aqua Book of Creature Tales by David J. Schow, featuring six monster stories (one original) and an Afterword by the author. It was limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
Little by Little from Bad Moon Books was a hefty retrospective collection containing ten stories by John R. Little, along with an Introduction by Lisa Morton and story notes by the author.
Chaosium Inc.’s Kickstarter-funded anthology Madness on the Orient Express edited by James Lowder featured sixteen Lovecraftian murder mysteries by Lisa Morton, Cody Goodfellow, Christopher Golden, Darrell Schweitzer and others.
Edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas and Dennis Widmyer, Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Stories from Medallion Press contained twenty workshop stories that the editors thought were pushing the boundaries. They obviously don’t read as much horror fiction as perhaps they should.
A Dark Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things was a hefty 700-plus page anthology edited by Jason V. Brock and published by Cycatrix Press in a trade hardcover edition and twenty-six deluxe signed and lettered copies. Contributors included Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Dennis Etchison, Cody Goodfellow, Lois H. Gresh, S.T. Joshi, Paul Kane, Nancy Kilpatrick, Joe R. Lansdale, William F. Nolan, Weston Ochse, Lucy A. Snyder, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem and Don Webb.
Fifteen stories (three original) by Steve Rasnic Tem were published in Here with the Shadows from Swan River Press, while Widow’s Dozen was a paperback collection of eleven(!) unusual stories by Marek Waldorf, published by New York’s Turtle Point Press.
From Canada’s ChiZine Publications, Helen Marshall’s second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes After, featured an Introduction by Ann Vander-Meer and seventeen superior love stories with a decidedly dark twist (nine originals), illustrated by Chris Roberts.
From the same imprint, Knife Fight and Other Struggles brought together twelve stories (two original) and a forthcoming novel excerpt by David Nickle with an Introduction by Peter Watts, while They Do The Same Things Different There collected twenty-four reprint stories by Robert Shearman.
Dead Americans and Other Stories collected ten tales (two original) by Australian author Ben Peek with an Introduction by Rjurik Davidson.
The Hexslinger Omnibus contained all three “weird Western” novels by Gemma Files, along with three previously unpublished stories in the same series.
Editor Ellen Datlow’s Kickstarter-funded anthology Fearful Symmetries was a mixture of horror and fantasy stories by, amongst others, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix, Helen Marshall, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Graham Jones, Nathan Bellingrud, John Langan and Laird Barron.
ChiZine teamed up with Undertow Publications to produce Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, the sixth issue edited by Michael Kelly. The original paperback anthology contained seventeen stories by Robert Shearman, F. Brett Cox, R.B. Russell, Conrad Williams, Christopher Harman, Alison Moore and others.
Laird Barron guest-edited The Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One from the same pair of imprints. It included twenty-two stories, an essay by the editor and a Foreword by series editor Michael Kelly.
Adrian Cole’s novel The Shadow Academy from Canada’s Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing was set in a post-apocalyptic future Britain after the Plague Wars.
Number nine in “The Exile Book of Anthology Series”, Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse was edited with an Introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and contained twenty-three original stories by Michael Matheson, Claude Lalumière and others.
Angela Slatter’s psychological horror story Home and Hearth was published as a 125-copy signed and numbered chapbook by Spectral Press.
The converse narrative of a woman who was surrounded by murder and madness was revealed in the novella By Insanity of Reason, a chapbook collaboration between Lisa Morton and John R. Little from Bad Moon Books.