2019. The year certainly made its mark on the world—and more than its share of scars. It also made for a bounty of good horror stories of the extreme kind, the best of which the tales herein serve to illustrate. 2019 was the year Year's Best Hardcore Horror went global. Not by design but because the stories inside just happened to have been written by authors hailing from various parts of the globe. From Australia by way of South Africa, to Italy, Scotland, Norway, Taiwan, North America and India--the common denominator being that their tales come from darkest regions of imagination. TABLE OF CONTENTS GOING GLOBAL: INTRODUCTION by Randy Chandler & Cheryl MullenaxFEAST FOR SMALL PIECES by Hailey PiperGODDESS OF GALLOWS by Kristopher TrianaLATE NIGHT INCIDENT AT THE WHITE TRASH MOTEL by Duane BradleyA NEW MOTHER’S GUIDE TO RAISING AN ABOMINATION by Gwendolyn KisteUPPER CRUST by Michael Paul GonzalezREDLESS by Annie NeugebauerA TOUCH OF MADNESS by Tim WaggonerPARADISUM VOLUPTATIS by Joanna KochRADIX MALORUM by Sean Patrick HazlettLACKERS by Leo X. RobersonWHY DO BIRDS SUDDENLY APPEAR? by Rajiv MotéDARJEELING by Syon DasMRSA ME by Alicia HiltonWHAT DID YOU DO TO THE CHILDREN? by David L TamarinHAVE A HEART by Matthew V. BrockmeyerSWINGS AND SUSPENSIONS by D.A. Xiaolin SpiresKIRTI by Alessandro ManzettiTHE TEA AND SUGAR TRAIN by DEBORAH SHELDONSCREAMS FOR STARGIRL by Ben PienaarQUEER WEATHER by Scáth Beorh
