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Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1976. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Winners Twelve (1978), edited by Gordon R. Dickson and the collection A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981).

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay
• A Crowd of Shadows - (1976) - shortstory
• Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose - (1978) - shortstory
• Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street - (1974) - shortstory
• Come Dance With Me On My Pony's Grave - (1973) - shortstory
• The Three of Tens - (1975) - shortstory
• The Dark of Legends, The Light of Lies - (1977) - novelette
• Caesar, Now Be Still - (1978) - shortstory
• White Wolf Calling - (1975) - shortstory
• The Rest is Silence - (1974) - shortstory
• When All the Children Call My Name - (1977) - shortstory
• Secrets of the Heart - (1980) - shortstory
• A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye - (1977) - novelette

Nebula Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Graven Images (1977) edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg. It can also be found in the anthology Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980), edited by Frederik Pohl. It is included in the collections A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981) and Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012).

Welcome to Starburst

...a quiet seaside resort where the people of the future escape into the past, and where only four things are certain...

1. Four people are dead.
2. You are next.
3. The murderer isn't human.
4. Night is falling.

World Fantasy Award winning novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Perpetual Light (1982), edited by Alan Ryan. The story is inlcuded in the collection Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012).

On the trail of the arsonist who destroyed a historic hotel, Cliff Abbott tails an aristocrat with a shady background, Unaware that he also is being followed, Cliff soon realizes the arsonist is not the only one who's playing with fire, and ropes his friends into helping him.

The amusement park on the pier burned ten days ago. The blackened skeleton of the House of Horrors is a grim reminder of summer's dreams turned to nightmares, of a young life cut short.

Julie Etler and her friends had been looking forward to one final summer of freedom before college and the responsibilities of adulthood. Now Julie is dead.

Or is she?

Her voice is on Devin Graham's answering machine. Her boyfriend, Tony, sees her walking on the moonlit beach.

And something is haunting the ruins of the House of Night...

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1978. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII (1979), edited by Gerald W. Page. It is included in the collection A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981).

In this powerful horror tale, nightmare becomes reality when a young girl's dreams are terrorized by monsters as a mad killer stalks her town.

We've all seen them--the broken-down car by the side of the road, mutely signaling for help from passing drivers... the stubborn tail-gater who follows too close, for too long... the wild driver who weaves through lanes on a crowded highway--the driver who causes accidents but is never a victim of one...

These are the jackals, hunters who follow the nation's highways and byways, preying on the weak and unsuspecting. The jackals are human enough - except for a strangeness about their eyes, and the way their laughter lingers in the night air--but they have no mercy.

Jim Scott's been hunting jackals for some time now. They took someone he loved, once, and he's never forgiven them. And he's never loved again. Love makes you vulnerable.

But love isn't predictable, and when beautiful, battered Rachel turns up on Jim Scott's doorstep with a tale that can only mean she barely escaped a hunting pack, Jim finds that the barricades he built around his heart are not impregnable.

The jackals have come in force for their final showdown with Jim Scott. But Jim no longer fights alone--he leads a group of jackal-killers, each determined to exterminate the hunters or die trying.

Somewhere in the night they are singing songs of death...

Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, once abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven's End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life.

But instead of peace, he is hurled into chaos. Some dark and ancient hatred, some evil force, is unleashed, wreaking vengeance on the islanders, mangling the living and mutilating the dead.

And, as the piercing songs rise to met the roaring wind, Colin Ross, against his will, is sucked into the raging storm.

A cozy motel and restaurant becomes a haven to nine people during a deep-winter blizzard, but when someone among them starts killing off the others, the remaining survivors must identify and eliminate a murderer.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1980. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1980), edited by Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr and the collection A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981).

IT BEGINS WITH A SCREAM

The Pack, a group of teenagers, gathers to mourn at the Starlite Diner. Eddie, their leader, is dead. The survivors are all outcasts from high school's usual cliques: Scott, who heard the scream the night Eddie died; Katie, who lives with her senile grandmother; Barnaby, whose placid strength masks a powerful anger; Laine, always protective of her slightly slow younger brother; and the others.

United first by Eddie's forceful personality and now by his death an the increasingly brutal murders that follow, the young people are the eye of a storm of death and destruction.

For some reason, only the members of the Pack hear the terrible screams that mark each death. Only they will be able to stop the killing.

A fantasy story by the author of "Shadows", "Greystone Bay", "The Nestling" and "The Long Night of the Grave". Charles L. Grant is a three-times winner of the World Fantasy Award. He has also received two Nebula Awards and the British Fantasy Society's Life Achievement Award.

As Brian Oakland and his friends prepare to perform their various "stunts" on Halloween, a man, twisted by years of isolation, sits in one of the houses in their neighborhood, contemplating revenge.

Table of Contents:

• "Foreword", by Stephen King

Tales from Oxrun Station

• "Coin of the Realm"
• "Old Friends"
• "Home"
• "If Damon Comes"
• "A Night of Dark Intent"

Tales from Hawthorne Street

• "The Gentle Passing of a Hand"
• "When All the Children Call My Name"
• "Needle Song"
• "Something There Is"

Tales from the Nightside

• "Come Dance With Me on My Pony's Grave"
• "The Three of Tens"
• "Digging"
• "From All the Fields of Hail and Fire"
• "The Key to English"
• "White Wolf Calling"

Syd and Theresa Guiness got out of their crowded city apartment and moved to a quaint house on a quiet cul de sac in the suburbs. Their dreamhouse. Then little things began to happen. Theresa was certain it was just her imagination and didn't pay much attention... until it was too late - their dreamhouse had become a nightmare.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Something Nasty - short story by William F. Nolan
• Canavan's Back Yard - (1958) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• The Conqueror Worm - short story by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Death to the Easter Bunny! - (1983) - short story by Alan Ryan
• The Rubber Room - (1980) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Petey - (1979) - novella by T. E. D. Klein
• Out of Sorts - (1983) - short story by Bernard Taylor
• The Sunshine Club - (1983) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• The Crazy Chinaman - (1983) - short story by John Coyne
• Gravid Babies: A Novel of Horrific Menace in Considerable Synopsis - short story by Michael Bishop
• The Chair - (1983) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
• The Typewriter - (1983) - novelette by David Morrel
• Nunc Dimittis - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Derelicts - (1983) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• In Darkness, Angels - (1983) - novelette by Eric Van Lustbader
• The Arrows - (1983) - short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Talent - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• Aim for the Heart - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• Nona - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King

Newspaperman Jason Clarke returns to Windriver, Wyoming after twenty years to find the town under the influence of an evil and supernatural force whose coming was foretold in ancient Indian legend.

The village of Ashford, New Jersey, is about to discover terror. The Howler, a bloody killer who has already shredded six teens, is moving in.

Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege -- jock trouble, girl trouble, school trouble, family trouble.

The one frosty autumn night, Don is jumped by the Howler. Suddenly they're surrounded by fog, green fire, the sound of iron striking iron...

And Ashford's real horror begins.

In the dim future, the energy crisis has forced most of the world's populations into huge urban centers, and countries have banded together in protective political confederations. Noram (the confederation of North and South America) is currently involved in maneuvers to avoid being sucked into another world war. Premier Alton and his Consuls have decided to stage a mock revolution in order to convince their allies that Noram is in no shape or position to wage war on so many fronts.

To lend credence to their plot, they plan to accuse Shanlon Raille, a magician by trade and a minor lobbyist, of fomenting the revolution. And while that much of the plan works, little else does. And Shanlon Raille, while running for his life and trying to establish his own innocence, must battle all the harder because he knows that if he fails, if the jockeying for power at the top succeeds while people are dying in the streets, Noram will collapse, and with it the world...

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1974. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Ten (1975), edited by James Gunn. It is included in the collection A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981).

Deerfield. A sleepy village untouched by time, full of quaint antiques, charming sites and friendly neighbors.

But outside of Deerfield, nauture is still. No children play around the great stone house of Winterrest; no birds fly over its ancient trees... and tales of witches and demons fill the dreams of Deerfield's children.

Now the great house is stirring, stretching, hungry. Now the huge doors open, inviting unwary victims deep inside. The warm stone walls are heaving, the doors are pulsing... now the frenzied ritual must begin...

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V (1977), edited by Gerald W. Page, and was reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, March 2016. It is included in the collections Tales from the Nightside: Dark Fantasy (1981), A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981) and Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012).

Read the full story for free at Nightmare.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1975. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV (1976), edited by Gerald W. Page and is included in the collections A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981) and Tales from the Nightside (1981).

An innovative and exciting new showcase of terror--in which today's brightest talents present their darkest horrors. This landmark collection features authors David Morrell, Joseph Payne Brennan and Karl Edward Wagner.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Black and White and Red All Over - novelette by David Morrell
• Mumbo Jumbo - novelette by David Morrell
• Dead Image - novelette by David Morrell
• Wanderson's Waste - novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Pick-Up - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Canavan Calling - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Oasis of Abomination - novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Starlock Street - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• The Haunting at Juniper Hill - novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Shrapnel - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• Old Loves - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• Blue Lady, Come Back - novella by Karl Edward Wagner

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the collection Tales from the Nightside: Dark Fantasy (1981). The story can also be found in the anthology The Horror Hall of Fame (1992), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg. It is included in the collection Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012).

In this book, keyed to the seasons, Grant gives us...face to skull confrontation with Death, variously personified as a man/serpent, eliminating its romantic rivals, a little girl who gives her mother's admirers violence and lightning, a faceless motorcycle gang, and a shadow in a black raincoat... .some of Grant's best work yet.

WFA nominated novella. It originally appeared in the collection Nightmare Seasons (1982).

Pat Shavers was an artist and a teacher. She'd had a rough life: a divorce, and the loss of her child. But now things seemed to be in order. Except for the strange force riding in the daily movements of her life. A threat rising in the envy of her colleagues, the jealousies of her new lover, the hidden enmity of those who seemed to be her friends. It was a dangerous fury gathering itself against her. The wind rose and swirled, threatening to destroy her.

Josh Miller has a talent for finding things. So far, the things people have asked him to find - antique tables, old movie posters - have been innocuous enough. And Andrea Montague, the daughter of a local writer, may be his most interesting find so far.

But no one's asked Josh to find the missing fifth victim of an unexplained auto accident - the one who vanished from the scene of the crash without leaving a trail of blood, though he must have been badly hurt. No one's asked Josh to look for the other missing people - residents of Oxrun Station who mysteriously and inexplicably vanished on their birthdays.

Someone very definitely doesn't want him to find the clearing full of century-old gravestones, the clearing that feels so evil.

This time whatever Josh is hunting is hunting him, too... and it's hungry..

Somehow Natalie had managed to pull herself together and carry on, but certain people wouldn't leave her alone... Her brother-in-law, the chief of police, insisted on sending patrol cars to "protect" her, and her sister-in-law urged her repeatedly to see a psychiatrist. The only person whose interfering she didn't mind was newspaper reporter Marc Clayton's. But the guardian eyes about her seemed to hinder her social life as well.

And some strange things began to happen. A murder which the newspaper refused to report, missing books from the library which appeared to form a pattern...and the discovery of a certain object which unlikely people have in common with her dead husband. Are these fragments of some larger scheme? As she wonders, an awful black presence begins to haunt her shadows, to threaten her very life, and then she knows that the attack is in earnest and she must somehow solve this unbelievable mystery or sacrifice herself to a monstrous killer beyond the powers of this world.

Natalie Windsor was not your ordinary small-town librarian. Nor did she expect, on her arrival in the quiet New England town of Oxrun Station, to be swept off her feet by a six-and-a-half-foot policeman and into marriage, only to be widowed a little less than a year later, after her husband was grotesquely murdered.

Returning to her home in Oxrun Station to find her family considerably changed and the town noticeably quieter, Cynthia Yarrow begins to be followed by the Greybeast and discovers an awful secret.

There was one thing worse than loving the children,and that was trusting them.

They came to the toy shop in the tiny New England village in the steady stream-children somehow older than their years, money clutched in their little hands, buying a bizarre and unsettling selection of games, then vanishing to play with them in a world that no adult could enter.

Still, there seemed nothing to worry about. After all, children would be children.

Then the townspeople began to discover what else children could be-as the grown-ups themselves became the children's playthings...

Introducing Parric: an ordinary civil servant being ground up in a mill of paperwork, who is given a chance to work on an experimental government project -- to live secretly in a town entirely populated by androids -- whose very existence, if it were known, would disrupt society -- something the repressive society does not want.

But Parric is happy in his secret village, protected by a force-field from outsiders, in contact with only a few others in similar positions in other secret villages. Protected, until war breaks out and civilization outside calls in the horrifying Plaguewind. Then the experimental androids, affected by the plague in strange ways, become killers! Parric must escape his village, then trek across the desolated countryside, in danger from the surviving mobs of plague victims, to the control center of the secret android project, in an attempt to join other men in starting a new civilization.

A ROAD TO HELL

Dorrin Parric is dead, and his son Orion has sworn to avenge him. But first he must run a gauntlet of human assassins, blood-crazed androids and aging, paranoid dictators.

Petty tyrants rule the few straggling settlements where mankind holds out against the darkness. Time and again Parric eludes the strange traps set for him by the forces of decay. But his luck is running out. At the end of the road is Philayork, a bewildering metropolis wracked by fear and evil. Whatever had killed Orion Parric's father was also waiting for him in the ruins of earth's last great city.

The village had been called Town Central, where people learned to live with androids, and androids learned to live like humans. It had been an experiment to bolster a dying population, and it might have worked, given the chance.

But there was the Plaguewind.

And there was the Dying...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Naples - (1978) - short story by Avram Davidson
• The Gorgon - (1982) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Moving Night - (1986) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Jamie's Grave - (1987) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Sneakers - (1983) - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - (1981) - short story by Stephen King
• At the Bureau - (1980) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Mackintosh Willy - (1979) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Following the Way - (1982) - short story by Alan Ryan
• The Storm - (1984) - short story by David Morrell
• The Silent Cradle - (1983) - short story by Leigh Kennedy
• Wish - (1985) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• The Spider Glass - (1981) - novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - Charles L. Grant
• Naples - Avram Davidson
• The Little Voice - Ramsey Campbell
• Butcher's Thumb - William Jon Watkins
• Where All the Songs are Sad - Thomas F. Monteleone
• Splinters - R.A. Lafferty
• Picture - Robert Bloch
• The Nighthawk - Dennis Etchison
• Dead Letters - Ramsey Campbell
• A Certain Slant of Light - Raylyn Moore
• Deathlove - Bill Pronzini
• Mory - Michael Bishop
• Where Spirits Gat Them Home - John Crowley
• Nona - Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Saturday's Shadow - (1979) - novelette by William F. Nolan
• Night Visions - short story by Jack Dann
• The Spring - (1979) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Valentine - (1979) - short story by Janet Fox
• Mackintosh Willy - (1979) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Dragon Sunday - (1979) - short fiction by Ruth Berman
• The White King's Dream - short story by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• The Chair - (1979) - short story by Alan Dean Foster and Jane Cozart
• Clocks - (1979) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• Holly, Don't Tell - (1979) - short story by Juleen Brantingham
• The Old Man's Will - (1979) - short story by Lee Wells
• The Closing Off of Old Doors - (1979) - short story by Peter D. Pautz
• Dead End - (1979) - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• Seasons of Belief - short story by Michael Bishop
• Petey - (1979) - novella by T. E. D. Klein

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Charles L. Grant
• The Brown Recluse - (1980) - novelette by Davis Grubb
• To See You With, My Dear - (1980) - short story by Bruce Francis
• Avenging Angel - (1980) - short story by Ray Russell
• The Ghost Who Limped - (1975) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Janey's Smile - (1980) - short story by Juleen Brantingham
• Opening a Vein - (1980) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• The Partnership - (1980) - short story by William F. Nolan
• Wish Hound - (1980) - short story by Pat Murphy
• Ant - (1980) - short story by Peter D. Pautz
• Tell Mommy What Happened - (1980) - short story by Alan Ryan
• At the Bureau - (1980) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Cabin 33 - (1980) - novella by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1981) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - (1981) - short story by Stephen King
• Yours, -Guy - (1981) - short story by Robert F. Young
• The Belonging Kind - (1981) - short story by John Shirley and William Gibson
• Calling Collect - (1981) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Arthur L. Samuels
• Hearing Is Believing - (1981) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Threshold - (1981) - short story by Deirdre L. Kugelmeyer
• A Visit to Brighton - (1981) - short story by Alan Ryan
• Echoes From a Darkened Shore - (1981) - short story by Cherie Wilkerson
• The Blue Chair - (1981) - short story by Tabitha King
• Meow - (1981) - short story by Tanith Lee
• The Giveaway - (1981) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Need - (1981) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Waiting for the Knight - (1981) - short story by Beverly Evans
• Under My Bed - (1981) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• The Hour of Silhouette - (1981) - short story by Juleen Brantingham
• Snow, Cobwebs, and Dust - (1981) - short story by John Keefauver
• The Spider Glass - (1981) - novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1982) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• The Gorgon - (1982) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Stone Head - (1982) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Pieta - (1982) - short story by Alan Ryan
• Boxes - (1982) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• And I'll Be With You By and By - (1982) - short story by Avon Swofford
• Dark Wings - (1982) - short story by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Estrella - (1982) - short story by Terry L. Parkinson
• Singles - (1982) - short story by Marta Randall
• The Piano Man - (1982) - short story by Beverly Evans
• Following the Way - (1982) - short story by Alan Ryan
• Renewal - (1982) - novella by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1983) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• We Share - (1983) - short story by Lori Allen
• The Appearances of Georgio - (1983) - short story by Leslie Alan Horvitz
• The Touch - (1983) - short story by Wayne Wightman
• Sneakers - (1983) - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• Reunion - (1983) - short story by Jack Dann
• By the Hair of the Head - (1983) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• Dreams - (1983) - short story by Elisabeth Erica Burden
• Crutches - (1983) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie - (1983) - short story by Pat Cadigan
• Cold Heart - (1983) - short story by Peter D. Pautz
• Peppermint Kisses - (1983) - short story by Jesse Osburn
• A Last Testament for Nick and the Trooper - (1983) - short story by J. Michael Straczynski
• Mariana - (1983) - short story by Melissa Mia Hall
• The Man with Legs - (1983) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• The Silent Cradle - (1983) - short story by Leigh Kennedy
• But at My Back I Always Hear - (1983) - short story by David Morrell

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1984) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Mrs. Clendon's Place - (1984) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Stillwater, 1896 - (1984) - short story by Michael Cassutt
• The Haunting - (1984) - short story by Susan Casper
• Daddy - (1984) - short story by Earl Godwin
• Seeing the World - (1984) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Three Days - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Still Frame - (1984) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• Talking in the Dark - (1984) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• A Matter of Taste - (1984) - short story by Parke Godwin
• Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin' - (1984) - short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Decoys - (1984) - short story by Jere Cunningham
• Rapture - (1984) - short story by Melissa Mia Hall
• The Storm - (1984) - short story by David Morrell
• I Shall Not Leave England Now - (1984) - novelette by Alan Ryan

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1985) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Everything's Going to Be All Right - (1985) - short story by Gene DeWeese
• Cycles - (1985) - short story by Kim Antieau
• The Tuckahoe - (1985) - short story by Nancy Etchemendy
• Between the Windows of the Sea - (1985) - short story by Jack Dann
• The Battering - (1985) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Shadow of a Hawk - (1985) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Toy - (1985) - short story by Bill Pronzini
• The Man Who Loved Water - (1985) - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• The Pooka - (1985) - short story by Peter Tremayne
• Sand - (1985) - short story by Alan Ryan
• Blood Gothic - (1985) - short story by Nancy Holder
• The Blue Man - (1985) - short story by Terry L. Parkinson
• A Demon in Rosewood - (1985) - short story by Sharon Webb
• Wish - (1985) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• The Blind Man - (1985) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• A Night at the Head of a Grave - (1985) - short story by Thomas Sullivan
• Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? - (1985) - novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1986) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• The Jigsaw Girl - (1986) - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• The Lesson - (1986) - short story by Christopher Browne
• On the Turn - (1986) - short story by Leanne Frahm
• Moving Night - (1986) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Sanctuary - (1986) - short story by Kim Antieau
• Now You See Me - (1986) - short story by Sheri Lee Morton
• The Fishing Village of Roebush - (1986) - short story by Leslie Alan Horvitz
• Icarus - (1986) - short story by Galad Elflandsson
• Ants - (1986) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Nor Disreguard the Humblest Voice - (1986) - short story by Ardath Mayhar
• The Skins You Love to Touch - (1986) - short story by Janet Fox
• Walk Home Alone - (1986) - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• The Father Figure - (1986) - short story by Terry L. Parkinson
• An Ordinary Brick House - (1986) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Overnight - (1986) - short story by Lou Fisher
• The Last Time I Saw Harris - (1986) - short story by Galad Elflandsson
• Tavesher - (1986) - short story by Peter Tremayne
• Bloodwolf - (1986) - novelette by Steve Rasnic Tem

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Charles L. Grant
• Jamie's Grave - (1987) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Apples - (1987) - short story by Nina Downey Higgins
• A World Without Toys - (1986) - short story by T. M. Wright
• Law of Averages - (1987) - short story by Wendy Webb
• The Fence - (1987) - short story by Thomas Sullivan
• Moonflower - (1987) - short story by Melissa Mia Hall
• Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming - (1987) - short story by Bob Leman
• The Finder-Keeper - (1987) - short story by Ken Wisman
• Just a Little Souvenir - (1987) - short story by Cheryl Fuller Nelson
• Like Shadows in the Dark - (1987) - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• Office Hours - (1987) - short story by Douglas E. Winter
• We Have Always Lived in the Forest - (1987) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Just Like Their Masters - (1987) - short story by Mona A. Clee
• Pigs - (1987) - short story by Al Sarrantonio

In the stunning final volume of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, editor Charles Grant closes a decade of award-winning fantasy with a last spectacular anthology of more than 450 pages of richly satisfying reading. Includes works by Tanith Lee, David Morrell, Michael Bishop, and other masters of the genre.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Charles L. Grant
• The Boarder - short story by Wendy Webb
• Magpie - short story by Stephen Gallagher
• Fastening - short story by Julie R. Good
• Past Tense - short story by Brian Hodge
• Under the Boardwalk - short story by Lori Allen
• The Picnickers - novelette by Brian Lumley
• Fry Day - short story by Melanie Tem
• Out Behind the Shed - short story by Bill Pronzini
• Fear a' Ghorta - short story by Peter Tremayne
• The Sweetest Rain - short story by Nancy Holder
• Wrong Side of the Road - short story by Norman Partridge
• Island of the Seals - (1977) - short story by Samantha Lee
• Thirteen Lies About Hummingbirds - short story by Michael Bishop
• The Stone Face - short story by Colin Greenland
• Medusa's Child - short story by Kim Antieau
• The Tape - short story by Jessica Palmer
• The Dark Places in Between - short story by Karen Haber
• I'll See You on Saturday Night - short story by Guy N. Smith
• Beijing Craps - novelette by Graham Masterton
• Samhain - short story by Bernard Taylor
• The Mermaid - short story by Tanith Lee
• Rescheduled - short story by Mike Chinn
• Going Away - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• A Father's Dream - short story by Chet Williamson
• The Magic House - short story by Lynn S. Hightower
• When They Gave Us Memory - short story by Dennis Etchison
• A Sailor's Pay - short story by Jack Cady
• Something About Camilla - short story by Juleen Brantingham
• Parallax - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Door - short story by Sharon Webb
• Photo-Call - short story by David Sutton
• Against the Skin - short story by Mark Morris
• Of Natural Causes - short story by Ashley McConnell
• Mulberry's Crystal - short story by Brian Mooney and Stephen Jones
• Together - short story by David Garnett
• The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves - novelette by David Morrell