MetaHorror

MetaHorror is an anthology of original fantasy and horror short stories edited by Dennis Etchison. It was published by Dell Abyss in July 1992. The anthology contains, among several other stories, Peter Straub's "The Ghost Village", which won the 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. The anthology itself won the 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

MetaHorror
First edition
Editor	Dennis Etchison
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror short stories
Publisher	Dell Abyss
Publication date	July 1992
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	xvii, 377 pp
ISBN	0-440-20899-8
OCLC	26102190

MetaHorror is an anthology of original fantasy and horror short stories edited by Dennis Etchison. It was published by Dell Abyss in July 1992. The anthology contains, among several other stories, Peter Straub's "The Ghost Village", which won the 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.^[1] The anthology itself won the 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.^[1]

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Introduction (MetaHorror) by Dennis Etchison
"Blues and the Abstract Truth" by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
"Are You Now?" by Scott Edelman
"Stab" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"Mutilator" by Richard Christian Matheson
"Martyrdom" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Briar Rose" by Kim Antieau
"Replacements" by Lisa Tuttle
"Ziggles" by Donald R. Burleson
"End of the Line" by Ramsey Campbell
"Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
"GIFCO" by M. John Harrison
"The Properties of the Beast" by Whitley Strieber
"In Praise of Folly" by Thomas Tessier
"The Visit" by William F. Nolan
"The Ring of Truth" by George Clayton Johnson
"Nothing Will Hurt You" by David Morrell
"Underground" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Bucky Goes to Church" by Robert Devereaux
"Dumbarton Oaks" by Barry N. Malzberg
"Novena" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"The Ghost Village" by Peter Straub

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Donald M. Grant, January 1993.

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^ ^a ^b "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1993 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

World Fantasy Award—Anthology

1988–2000

The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990)
Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992)
MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993)
Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994)
Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996)
Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997)
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)

2001–present

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001)
The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003)
Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004)
Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005)
The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006)
Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007)
Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008)
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009)
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010)
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011)
The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013)
Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014)
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015)
She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016)
Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017)
The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018)
Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019)
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020)
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021)
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (2023)
The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan (2024)

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