The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five

The book includes twenty-eight horror stories, all first published in 2012. The book also includes a summation by Datlow, and a list of honorable mentions for the year. The stories are as follows:

• Lucy Taylor: "Nikishi"
• Dan Chaon: "Little America"
• Jeffrey Ford: "A Natural History of Autumn"
• Kij Johnson: "Mantis Wives"
• Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski: "Tender as Teeth"
• Ramsey Campbell: "The Callers"
• Kevin McCann: "Two Poems for Hill House" (poem)
• Terry Dowling: "Mariners' Round"
• Gemma Files: "Nanny Grey"
• Tamsyn Muir: "The Magician's Apprentice"
• Gary McMahon: "Kill All Monsters"
• Ian Rogers: "The House on Ashley Avenue"
• Jay Wilburn: "Dead Song"
• Sandi Leibowitz: "Sleeping, I Was Beauty" (poem)
• Margo Lanagan: "Bajazzle"
• Conrad Williams: "The Pike"
• Bruce McAllister: "The Crying Child"
• Amber Sparks: "This Circus the World"
• Gary McMahon: "Some Pictures in an Album"
• Nathan Ballingrud: "Wild Acre"
• Megan Arkenberg: "Final Exam"
• Stephen Bacon: "None So Blind"
• Priya Sharma: "The Ballad of Boomtown"
• Adam Nevill: "Pig Thing"
• Richard Gavin: "The Word-Made Flesh"
• Claire Massey: "Into the Penny Arcade"
• Lucy A. Snyder: "Magdala Amygdala"
• Laird Barron: "Frontier Death Song"

• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review: The Best Horror Of The Year Volume Five edited by Ellen Datlow