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Excerpt from the advantages: Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the decision out to horror freelance writers and editors of extreme tales, the hardcore stuff that breaks restrictions and trashes taboos, the transgressive stories you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). We staked out our territory and nailed this to the wall structure to steer us: Year's Best Hardest Horror Not your mama's best-of horror total annual. This stuff originates from the border of the abyss, tales you read at the own risk because you feel the abyss looking back into you through the tainted zoom lens of each twisted story. Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, intimacy, and depravities, while others may contain only one shocking moment of brutality. In others, the hardcore aspect may be less visual and subtler than you may expect. Some of these quieter tales provide listener time to recover from the greater disturbing ones preceding. Most of the stories accumulated here are from small and specialty press anthologies, with a few from periodicals, like the esteemed Splatterpunk Zine in the UK and Thuglit here in the US. Bizarro is also displayed with several stories from the unlikely anthology Blood for you personally: A Literary Tribute to GG Allin from Weirdpunk Books. (If you're not familiar with the late GG Allin, you can find snippets from some of his outrageous and obscene punk shows online, which will increase your gratitude of those two stories.) So for now, just forget about that neighbor you suspect is a serial killer, don't worry about the drunk driver that may take you from your next trip to the store, force those troubling information stories to the back of your brain, and immerse yourself in the imaginary horrors accessible. But don't be amazed if you sense something dark staring back again at you from between the lines. That's to be expected when you go into these forbidding realms. With any good luck, you may find something useful to help you endure the getting close to Apocalypse. Full list of writers includes Adam Howe, Robert Essig, Adam Cesare, Clare de Lune, David James Keaton, and Monica J. O'Rourke.
