Christopher Fowler -- Best Literature Picks 0f 2007

Stephen Jones edited two great anthologies this year; 'Summer Chills' took the theme of creepy vacations, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror rounded up the best of the rest. I love his Necrology and Year's Horror Round-up sections.

Strange Attractor is a journal like no other, awesomely beautiful, intelligently written - and here's the best part, you never know what you're going to find inside, be it the true story of HG Wells' adventures in the 4th dimension to the house of creepy dolls. Worth tracking down.

Ellen Datlow's Inferno was a great non-themed anthology (I loved Pat Cadigan's 'Stilled Life') as was The Black Book Of Horror from editor Charles Black, and the all-star 999 by Al Sarrantonio.

Mister Kim Newman (as he's billed n the cover' gave us The Secret Files Of The Diogenes Club, a spoofy, creepy hoot, and Mark Morris edited Cinema Macabre, a trawl through the haunted cinema screen.

I've never seen or read anything quite like Alice In Sunderland by BryanTalbot, which can only be described as a labour of love. This immense, breathtakingly beautiful graphic novel is both thrilling and perverse, in that it related many fantastic true tales, but only in relation to the town of Sunderland, somewhere in the North of England. Bonkers!