Mammoth Books presents

Messing With Your Head

Five Stories by
Joel Lane, Kirstyn McDermott, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Valentine and Brian Hodge

Taken from The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 22, edited by Stephen Jones

Constable & Robinson Ltd

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London WC1B 4HP

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Stories taken from The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22, edited by Stephen Jones,
published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2011

Collection and editorial material copyright © Stephen Jones, 2011, 2012

BLACK COUNTRY copyright © Joel Lane 2010.
Originally published in Black Country.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

WE ALL FALL DOWN copyright © Kirstyn McDermott 2010.
Originally published in Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, No.44, September 2010.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

TELLING copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2010.
Originally published in The Seventh Book of Black Horror.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

A REVELATION OF CORMORANTS copyright © Mark Valentine 2010.
Originally published in A Revelation of Comorants.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

JUST OUTSIDE OUR WINDOWS, DEEP INSIDE OUR WALLS copyright © Brian Hodge 2010.
Originally published in Darkside Digital.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in
Publication Data is available from the British Library

EISBN: 978-1-47210-271-3