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• ix • Summation 2016 (The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• 1 • Nesters • (2016) • short story by Siobhan Carroll
• 19 • The Oestridae • (2016) • short story by Robert Levy
• 33 • The Process Is a Process All Its Own • [Tillman Hayward / Lee Harwell] • (2016) • novella by Peter Straub
• 59 • The Bad Hour • (2016) • short story by Christopher Golden
• 73 • Red Rabbit • (2016) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 81 • It's All the Same Road in the End • (2016) • novelette by Brian Hodge
• 115 • Fury • (2016) • short story by DB Waters
• 125 • Grave Goods • (2016) • novelette by Gemma Files
• 147 • Between Dry Ribs • (2016) • short story by Gregory Norman Bossert
• 163 • The Days of Our Lives • (2016) • short story by Adam Nevill [as by Adam L. G. Nevill]
• 179 • The House of Wonders • (2016) • short fiction by C. E. Ward
• 199 • The Numbers • (2016) • short story by Christopher Burns
• 211 • Bright Crown of Joy • (2016) • short story by Livia Llewellyn
• 233 • The Beautiful Thing We Will Become • (2016) • short story by Kristi DeMeester
• 243 • Wish You Were Here • (2016) • short story by Nadia Bulkin
• 261 • Ragman • (2016) • novelette by Rebecca Lloyd
• 289 • What's Out There? • (2016) • short story by Gary McMahon
• 299 • No Matter Which Way We Turned • (2016) • short story by Brian Evenson
• 301 • The Castellmarch Man • (2017) • novelette by Ray Cluley
• 329 • The Ice Beneath Us • (2016) • short story by Steve Duffy
• 343 • On These Blackened Shores of Time • (2016) • novelette by Brian Hodge
• 379 • Honorable Mentions (The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine) • essay by uncredited
• 381 • About the Authors (The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine) • essay by uncredited
• 389 • Acknowledgment of Copyright (The Best Horror of the year: Volume Nine) • essay by uncredited