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The Year's Best Horror Stories, No. 1

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 1

Richard Davis

Table of Contents:

  • Double Whammy - (1970) - short story by Robert Bloch
  • The Sister City - (1969) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • When Morning Comes - (1969) - short story by Elizabeth Fancett
  • Prey - (1969) - short story by Richard Matheson
  • Winter - (1969) - short story by Kit Reed
  • Lucifer - (1969) - short story by E. C. Tubb
  • I Wonder What He Wanted - (1971) - short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Ik Zou Wel Eens Willen Weten Wat Hij Wou 1972)
  • Problem Child - (1970) - short story by Peter Oldale
  • The Scar - (1969) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Warp - (1968) - short story by Ralph Norton
  • The Hate - (1971) - short story by Terri E. Pinckard
  • A Quiet Game - (1970) - short story by Celia Fremlin
  • After Nightfall - (1970) - short story by David A. Riley
  • Death's Door - (1969) - novelette by Robert McNear

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 2

Richard Davis

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword - (1974) - essay by Christopher Lee
  • David's Worm - (1971) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • The Price of a Demon - (1972) - short story by Gary Brandner
  • The Knocker at the Portico - (1971) - short story by Basil Copper
  • The Animal Fair - (1971) - short story by Robert Bloch
  • Napier Court - (1971) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Haunts of the Very Rich - (1971) - novelette by T. K. Brown, III
  • The Long-Term Residents - (1971) - short story by Kit Pedler
  • Like Two White Spiders - (1973) - short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Als Twee Grote Witte Spinnen 1971)
  • The Old Horns - (1973) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Haggopian - (1973) - novelette by Brian Lumley
  • The Events at Poroth Farm - (1972) - novella by T. E. D. Klein

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series III

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 3

Richard Davis

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1975) - essay by Richard Davis
  • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • The Man in the Underpass - (1975) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • S.F. - (1975) - short story by T. E. D. Klein
  • Uncle Vlad - (1973) - short story by Clive Sinclair
  • Judas Story - (1975) - novelette by Brian Stableford
  • The House of Cthulhu - (1973) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • Satanesque - (1974) - short story by Allan Weiss
  • Burger Creature - (1973) - short story by Stepan Chapman
  • Wake Up Dead - (1975) - short story by Tim Stout
  • Forget-Me-Not - (1975) - novelette by Bernard Taylor
  • Halloween Story - (1972) - short story by Gregory Fitz Gerald
  • Big, Wide, Wonderful World - (1958) - short story by Charles E. Fritch
  • The Taste of Your Love - short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of De Smaak van Jouw Liefde 1971)

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 4

Gerald W. Page

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Gerald W. Page
  • Forever Stand the Stones - (1975) - short story by Joseph F. Pumilia
  • And Don't Forget the One Red Rose - (1975) - short story by Avram Davidson
  • Christmas Present - (1975) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • A Question of Guilt - novelette by Hal Clement
  • The House on Stillcroft Street - (1975) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
  • The Recrudescence of Geoffrey Marvell - (1976) - short story by G. N. Gabbard
  • Something Had to Be Done - (1975) - short story by David Drake
  • Cottage Tenant - (1975) - novelette by Frank Belknap Long
  • The Man with the Aura - (1974) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
  • White Wolf Calling - (1975) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Lifeguard - (1975) - short story by Arthur Byron Cover
  • The Black Captain - (1975) - short story by H. Warner Munn
  • The Glove - (1975) - short story by Fritz Leiber
  • No Way Home - (1975) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • The Lovecraft Controversy--Why? - essay by E. Hoffmann Price

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 5

Gerald W. Page

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Gerald W. Page
  • The Service - (1976) - short story by Jerry Sohl
  • Long Hollow Swamp - (1976) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
  • Sing a Last Song of Valdese - (1976) - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Harold's Blues - (1976) - short story by Glen Singer
  • The Well - novelette by H. Warner Munn
  • A Most Unusual Murder - (1976) - short story by Robert Bloch
  • Huzdra - short story by Tanith Lee
  • Shatterday - (1975) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • Children of the Forest - (1976) - novelette by David Drake
  • The Day It Rained Lizards - short story by Arthur Byron Cover
  • Followers of the Dark Star - (1976) - short story by Robert Edmond Alter
  • When All the Children Call My Name - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Belsen Express - (1975) - short story by Fritz Leiber
  • Where the Woodbine Twineth - (1976) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 6

Gerald W. Page

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1978) - essay by Gerald W. Page
  • At the Bottom of the Garden - (1975) - short story by David Campton
  • Screaming to Get Out - (1977) - short story by Janet Fox
  • Undertow - (1977) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
  • I Can Hear the Dark - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • Ever the Faith Endures - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
  • The Horse Lord - (1977) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
  • Winter White - short story by Tanith Lee
  • A Cobweb of Pulsing Veins - (1977) - short story by William Scott Home
  • Best of Luck - short story by David Drake
  • Children of the Corn - (1977) - novelette by Stephen King
  • If Damon Comes - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Drawing In - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - novelette by Michael Bishop
  • There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding - (1976) - novelette by Russell Kirk

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 7

Gerald W. Page

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Gerald W. Page
  • The Pitch - (1978) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • The Night of the Tiger - (1978) - short story by Stephen King
  • Amma - (1978) - short story by Charles R. Saunders
  • Chastel - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
  • Sleeping Tiger - (1978) - short story by Tanith Lee
  • Intimately, With Rain - (1978) - short story by Janet Fox
  • The Secret - (1966) - short story by Jack Vance
  • Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose - (1978) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Divers Hands - novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Heading Home - (1978) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • In the Arcade - (1978) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
  • Nemesis Place - (1978) - short story by David Drake
  • Collaborating - (1978) - short story by Michael Bishop
  • Marriage - (1977) - novelette by Robert Aickman

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VIII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 8

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Access to Horror - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Dead Line - (1979) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • To Wake the Dead - (1979) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • In the Fourth Year of the War - (1979) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • From the Lower Deep - (1979) - short story by Hugh B. Cave
  • The Baby-Sitter - (1978) - short story by Davis Grubb
  • The Well at the Half Cat - (1979) - short story by John C. Tibbetts
  • My Beautiful Darkling - short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Mijn Mooie Duisterlinge 1979)
  • A Serious Call - (1979) - short story by George Hay
  • Sheets - (1979) - short story by Alan Ryan
  • Billy Wolfe's Riding Spirit - (1979) - short story by Kevin A. Lyons
  • Lex Talionis - (1979) - novelette by Russell Kirk
  • Entombed - (1979) - short story by Robert Keefe
  • A Fly One - (1979) - short story by Steve Sneyd
  • Needle Song - (1979) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • All the Birds Come Home to Roost - (1979) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • The Devil Behind You - (1979) - short story by Richard A. Moore

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 9

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: The Year of the Anthology and Beyond - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Monkey - (1980) - novelette by Stephen King
  • The Gap - (1980) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Cats of Pere LaChaise - (1980) - short story by Neil Olonoff
  • The Propert Bequest - (1980) - short story by Basil A. Smith
  • On Call - (1980) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • The Catacomb - (1980) - short story by Peter Shilston
  • Black Man with a Horn - (1980) - novelette by T. E. D. Klein
  • The King - (1980) - short story by William Relling, Jr.
  • Footsteps - (1980) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • Without Rhyme or Reason - (1980) - short story by Peter Valentine Timlett

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 10

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: A Decade of Fear - (1982) - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Through the Walls - (1978) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
  • Touring - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick, Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
  • Every Time You Say I Love You - (1981) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Wyntours - (1980) - short story by David G. Rowlands
  • The Dark Country - (1981) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • Homecoming - (1981) - short story by Howard Goldsmith
  • Old Hobby Horse - (1981) - short story by Chico Kidd
  • Firstborn - (1981) - short story by David Campton
  • Luna - (1981) - short story by Georgette Perry and William J. Wilson
  • Mind - (1980) - short story by Les Freeman
  • Competition - (1981) - short story by David Clayton Carrad
  • Egnaro - (1981) - novelette by M. John Harrison
  • On 202 - (1981) - short story by Jeff Hecht
  • The Trick - (1980) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
  • Broken Glass - (1981) - short story by Harlan Ellison

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 11

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: One from the Vault - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Grab - (1982) - short story by Richard Laymon
  • The Show Goes On - (1982) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • The House at Evening - (1982) - short story by Frances Garfield
  • I Hae Dream'd a Dreary Dream - (1981) - short story by John Alfred Taylor
  • Deathtracks - (1982) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • Come, Follow! - (1982) - short story by Sheila Hodgson
  • The Smell of Cherries - (1982) - short story by Jeffrey Goddin
  • A Posthumous Bequest - (1982) - short story by David Campton
  • Slippage - (1982) - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
  • The Executor - (1982) - short story by David G. Rowlands
  • Mrs. Halfbooger's Basement - (1982) - short story by Lawrence C. Connolly
  • Rouse Him Not - (1982) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
  • Spare the Child - (1982) - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • The New Rays - (1982) - short story by M. John Harrison
  • Cruising - (1982) - short story by Donald Tyson
  • The Depths - (1982) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
  • Pumpkin Head - (1982) - short story by Al Sarrantonio

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 12

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Of Fads and Frights - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Uncle Otto's Truck - (1983) - short story by Stephen King
  • 3.47 AM - (1983) - short story by David Langford
  • Mistral - (1983) - short story by Jon Wynne-Tyson
  • Out of Africa - (1983) - short story by David Drake
  • The Wall-Painting - (1983) - short story by Roger Johnson
  • Keepsake - (1983) - short story by Vincent McHardy
  • Echoes - (1983) - short story by Lawrence C. Connolly
  • After-Images - (1983) - short story by Malcolm Edwards
  • The Ventriloquist's Daughter - (1983) - short story by Juleen Brantingham
  • Come to the Party - (1983) - short story by Frances Garfield
  • The Chair - (1983) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
  • Names - (1983) - short story by Jane Yolen
  • The Attic - (1983) - short story by Billy Wolfenbarger
  • Just Waiting - (1983) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • One for the Horrors - (1983) - short story by David J. Schow
  • Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • Spring-Fingered Jack - (1983) - short story by Susan Casper
  • The Flash! Kid - (1983) - short story by Scott Bradfield
  • The Man with Legs - (1983) - short story by Al Sarrantonio

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 13

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: 13 Is a Lucky Number - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut - (1984) - novelette by Stephen King
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark? - (1984) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Catch Your Death - (1984) - short story by John Gordon
  • Dinner Party - (1984) - short story by Gardner Dozois
  • Tiger in the Snow - (1984) - short story by Daniel Wynn Barber
  • Watch the Birdie - (1984) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You - (1984) - novelette by David J. Schow
  • Hands with Long Fingers - (1984) - short story by Leslie Halliwell
  • Weird Tales - (1984) - short story by Fred Chappell
  • The Wardrobe - (1984) - short story by Jovan Panich
  • Angst for the Memories - (1984) - short story by Vincent McHardy
  • The Thing in the Bedroom - (1984) - short story by David Langford
  • Borderland - (1984) - short story by John Brizzolara
  • The Scarecrow - (1984) - short story by Roger Johnson
  • The End of the World - (1984) - short story by James B. Hemesath
  • Never Grow Up - (1984) - short story by John Gordon
  • Deadlights - (1984) - short story by Charles Wagner
  • Talking in the Dark - (1984) - short story by Dennis Etchison

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 14

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Nurturing Nightmares - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Penny Daye - (1985) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Dwindling - (1985) - short story by David B. Silva
  • Dead Men's Fingers - (1985) - novelette by Phillip C. Heath
  • Dead Week - (1985) - short story by Leonard Carpenter
  • The Sneering - (1985) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Bunny Didn't Tell Us - (1985) - short story by David J. Schow
  • Pinewood - (1984) - short story by Tanith Lee
  • The Night People - (1985) - short story by Michael Reaves
  • Ceremony - (1985) - novelette by William F. Nolan
  • The Woman in Black - (1984) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • ...Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea... - (1985) - short story by Simon Clark
  • Mother's Day - (1985) - short story by Stephen F. Wilcox
  • Lava Tears - (1985) - short story by Vincent McHardy
  • Rapid Transit - non-genre - (1985) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • The Weight of Zero - (1985) - short story by John Alfred Taylor
  • John's Return to Liverpool - (1984) - short story by Christopher Burns
  • In Late December, Before the Storm - (1985) - short story by Paul M. Sammon
  • Red Christmas - (1985) - short story by David Garnett
  • Too Far Behind Gradina - (1985) - novella by Steve Sneyd

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 15

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: What's in a Name? - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Yougoslaves - (1986) - novelette by Robert Bloch
  • Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back - (1986) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Apples - (1986) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Dead White Women - (1986) - short story by William F. Wu
  • Crystal - (1986) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Retirement - (1986) - short story by Ron Leming
  • The Man Who Did Tricks With Glass - (1986) - short story by Ron Wolfe
  • Bird in a Wrought Iron Cage - (1986) - short story by John Alfred Taylor
  • The Olympic Runner - (1986) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
  • Take the "A" Train - (1986) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • The Foggy, Foggy Dew - (1986) - short story by Joel Lane
  • The Godmother - (1986) - short story by Tina Rath
  • "Pale Trembling Youth" - (1986) - short story by W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Red Light - (1986) - novelette by David J. Schow
  • In the Hour Before Dawn - (1986) - short story by Brad Strickland
  • Necros - (1986) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • Tattoos - (1986) - novelette by Jack Dann
  • Acquiring a Family - (1986) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 16

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: They're Here--and They Won't Go Away - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Popsy - (1987) - short story by Stephen King
  • Neighbourhood Watch - (1987) - short story by Greg Egan
  • Wolf/Child - (1987) - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Everything to Live For - (1987) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Repossession - (1987) - short story by David Campton
  • Merry May - (1987) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Touch - (1987) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Moving Day - (1987) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
  • La Nuit des Chiens - (1987) - short story by Leslie Halliwell
  • Echoes from the Abbey - (1987) - novelette by Sheila Hodgson
  • Visitors - (1987) - short story by Jack Dann
  • The Bellfounder's Wife - (1987) - short story by Chico Kidd
  • The Scar - (1987) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • Martyr Without Canon - (1987) - short story by T. Winter-Damon
  • The Thin People - (1987) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • Fat Face - (1987) - novelette by Michael Shea

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XVII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 17

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Ten Years After - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Fruiting Bodies - (1988) - novelette by Brian Lumley
  • Works of Art - (1988) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother - (1988) - short story by Harlan Ellison
  • The Resurrection Man - (1988) - short story by Ian Watson
  • Now and Again in Summer - (1988) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Call 666 - (1988) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • The Great God Pan - (1988) - novelette by M. John Harrison
  • What Dreams May Come - (1988) - short story by Brad Strickland
  • Regression - (1988) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
  • Souvenirs from a Damnation - (1988) - short story by Don Webb
  • Bleeding Between the Lines - (1988) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Playing the Game - (1988) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Lost Bodies - (1988) - short story by Ian Watson
  • Ours Now - (1988) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • Prince of Flowers - (1988) - short story by Elizabeth Hand
  • The Daily Chernobyl - (1988) - poem by Robert Frazier
  • Snowman - (1988) - short story by Charles L. Grant
  • Nobody's Perfect - (1988) - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • Dead Air - (1988) - novelette by Gregory Nicoll
  • Recrudescence - (1988) - novelette by Leonard Carpenter

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 18

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: From Horror Angst to Zombies - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Kaddish - (1989) - short story by Jack Dann
  • The Gravedigger's Tale - (1989) - short story by Simon Clark
  • Meeting the Author - (1989) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Buckets - (1989) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
  • The Pit-Yakker - non-genre - (1989) - short story by Brian Lumley
  • Mr. Sandman - (1989) - short story by Scott D. Yost
  • Renaissance - (1989) - short story by Chico Kidd
  • Lord of Infinite Diversions - (1989) - short story by T. Winter-Damon
  • Rail Rider - (1989) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Archway - (1989) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
  • The Confessional - (1989) - short story by Patrick McLeod
  • The Deliverer - (1989) - short story by Simon MacCulloch
  • Reflections - (1989) - short story by Jeffrey Goddin
  • Zombies for Jesus - (1989) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Earth Wire - (1989) - short story by Joel Lane
  • Sponge and China Tea - (1989) - short story by D. F. Lewis
  • The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth - (1989) - short story by W. H. Pugmire
  • On the Dark Road - (1989) - short story by Ian McDowell
  • Narcopolis - (1989) - poem by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Nights in the City - (1989) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Return to the Mutant Rain Forest - (1989) - poem by Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
  • The End of the Hunt - (1989) - short story by David Drake
  • The Motivation - (1989) - short story by David Langford
  • The Guide - (1989) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Horse of Iron & How We Can Know It & Be Changed By It Forever - (1989) - short story by M. John Harrison
  • Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy - (1989) - novelette by David J. Schow

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XIX

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 19

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: How'd We Get Here? - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Speed Demons - (1990) - short story by Andrew J. Wilson
  • The Grief Condition - (1990) - short story by Conrad Hill
  • Firebird - (1990) - novelette by J. L. Comeau
  • Life Sentences - (1990) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Trophies - (1990) - short story by Richard McMahan
  • Lord of the Creepies - (1990) - short story by Sean Brodrick
  • Mongrel - (1990) - short story by Steve Vernon
  • The Man Who Collected Barker - (1990) - short story by Kim Newman
  • Hide and Seek - (1990) - short story by D. F. Lewis
  • Walking After Midnight - (1990) - short story by C. S. Fuqua
  • The Hermit - (1990) - short story by Joey Froehlich
  • The Soldier - (1990) - short story by Roger Johnson
  • Books of Blurbs, Vol. 1 - (1990) - short story by Mike Newland
  • You're a Sick Man, Mr. Antwhistle - (1990) - short story by Robert Hood
  • Elfin Pipes of Northworld - (1990) - short story by David Drake
  • A Bar Called Charley's - (1990) - short story by Charles Ardai
  • Great Expectations - (1990) - short story by Kim Antieau
  • Custer at the Wheel - (1990) - short story by James B. Hemesath
  • Identity Crisis - (1990) - novelette by Patrick McLeod
  • Negatives - (1990) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • A Candle in the Sun - (1990) - novelette by David Niall Wilson
  • The Worst Fog of the Year - (1990) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • I'll Give You Half-Scairt - (1990) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Different Kinds of Dead - (1990) - short story by Ed Gorman
  • Full Throttle - (1990) - novelette by Philip Nutman

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XX

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 20

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Garage Band Fiction - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Ma Qui - (1991) - short story by Alan Brennert
  • The Same in Any Language - (1991) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • Call Home - (1991) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • A Scent of Roses - (1991) - short story by Jeffrey Goddin
  • Root Cellar - (1991) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • An Eye for an Eye - (1991) - short story by Michael A. Arnzen
  • The Picnickers - (1991) - novelette by Brian Lumley
  • With the Wound Still Wet - (1991) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • My Giddy Aunt - (1991) - short story by D. F. Lewis
  • The Lodestone - (1991) - novelette by Sheila Hodgson
  • Baseball Memories - (1991) - short story by Edo van Belkom
  • The Bacchae - (1991) - short story by Elizabeth Hand
  • Common Land - (1991) - short story by Joel Lane
  • An Invasion of Angels - (1987) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Sharps and Flats Guarantee - (1991) - short story by C. S. Fuqua
  • Medusa's Child - (1991) - short story by Kim Antieau
  • Wall of Masks - (1991) - short story by T. Winter-Damon
  • Moving Out - (1991) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • Better Ways in a Wet Alley - (1991) - short story by Barb Hendee
  • Close to the Earth - (1991) - short story by Gregory Nicoll
  • Churches of Desire - (1991) - novelette by Philip Nutman
  • Carven of Onyx - (1991) - novelette by Ron Weighell

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 21

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Coming of Age - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Limits of Fantasy - (1992) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
  • China Rose - (1992) - novella by Ron Weighell
  • The Outsider - (1992) - short story by Rick Kennett
  • Briar Rose - (1992) - short story by Kim Antieau
  • Mom SchooL - (1992) - short story by Rand Soellner
  • The Hyacinth Girl - (1992) - short story by Mary Ann Mitchell
  • Mind Games - (1992) - short story by Adam Meyer
  • Mama's Boy - (1992) - short story by C. S. Fuqua
  • The Shabbie People - (1992) - short story by Jeffrey Osier
  • The Ugly File - (1992) - short story by Ed Gorman
  • Eyes Like a Ghost's - (1992) - short story by Simon Clark
  • Fallen Idol - (1992) - short story by Lillian Csernica
  • And Some Are Missing - (1992) - short story by Joel Lane
  • Welsh Pepper - (1992) - short story by D. F. Lewis
  • Tracks - (1992) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • Largesse - (1992) - short story by Mark McLaughlin
  • City in the Torrid Waste - (1992) - short story by T. Winter-Damon
  • Haunting Me Softly - (1992) - short story by H. Andrew Lynch
  • Spring Ahead, Fall Back - (1992) - short story by Michael A. Arnzen
  • Apotheosis - (1992) - short story by Carrie Richerson
  • Defining the Commonplace Sliver - (1992) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • Feeding the Masses - (1992) - short story by Yvonne Navarro
  • Sanctuary - (1992) - short story by Jeffrey Osier
  • The Devil's Advocate - (1991) - short story by Andrew C. Ferguson
  • Week Woman - (1992) - short story by Kim Newman
  • A Father's Gift - (1992) - novelette by W. M. Shockley

The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Book 22

Karl Edward Wagner

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: But Is It Horrific? - essay by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Ripper's Tune - (1993) - short story by Gregory Nicoll
  • One Size Eats All - (1993) - short story by T. E. D. Klein
  • Resurrection - (1991) - short story by Adam Meyer
  • I Live to Wash Her - (1993) - short story by Joey Froehlich
  • A Little-Known Side of Elvis - (1993) - short story by Dennis Etchison
  • Perfect Days - (1993) - short story by Chet Williamson
  • See How They Run - (1993) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
  • Shots Downed, Officer Fired - (1993) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • David - (1993) - short story by Sean Doolittle
  • Portrait of a Pulp Writer - (1993) - short story by F. A. Pollard
  • Fish Harbor - (1993) - short story by Paul Pinn
  • Ridi Bobo - (1993) - short story by Robert Devereaux
  • Adroitly Wrapped - (1993) - short story by Mark McLaughlin
  • Thicker Than Water - (1993) - short story by Joel Lane
  • Memento Mori - (1993) - short story by Scott Thomas
  • The Blitz Spirit - (1993) - short story by Kim Newman
  • Companions - (1993) - short story by Del Stone, Jr.
  • Masquerade - (1993) - short story by Lillian Csernica
  • Price of the Flames - (1993) - short story by Deidra Cox
  • The Bone Garden - (1993) - short story by Conrad Williams
  • Ice Cream and Tombstones - (1993) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Salt Snake - (1993) - short story by Simon Clark
  • Lady's Portrait, Executed In Archaic Colors - (1993) - novelette by Charles M. Saplak
  • Lost Alleys - (1993) - short story by Jeffrey Thomas
  • Salustrade - (1993) - short story by D. F. Lewis
  • The Power of One - (1993) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • The Lions in the Desert - (1993) - short story by David Langford
  • Turning Thirty - (1993) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
  • Bloodletting - (1993) - short story by Kim Antieau
  • Flying Into Naples - (1993) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • Under the Crust - (1993) - novelette by Terry Lamsley