Contents

• Introduction, by Douglas E. Winter
• "The Night Flier
  The Night Flier
  "The Night Flier" is a horror short story by Stephen King, first published in the anthology Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror, and then in King's own 1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection....
  
  ", by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
• "Having a Woman at Lunch", by Paul E. Hazel
• "The Blood Kiss", by Dennis Etchison
  Dennis Etchison
  Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...
  
  
• "Coming to Grief", by Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  
• "Food", by Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier is an American writer of horror novels and short stories. He has also written poetry and drama.- Overview :...
  
  
• "The Great God Pan", by M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison
  M. John Harrison , known as Mike Harrison, is an English author and critic. His work includes the Viriconium sequence of novels and short stories, , Climbers , and the Kefahuchi Tract series which begins with Light . He currently resides in London.-Early years:Harrison was born in Rugby,...
  
  
• "Orange Is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity", by David Morrell
  David Morrell
  David Morrell is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...
  
  
• "The Juniper Tree", by Peter Straub
  Peter Straub
  Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
  
  
• "Spinning Tales with the Dead", by Charles L. Grant
  Charles L. Grant
  Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection...
  
  
• "Alice’s Last Adventure", by Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...
  
  
• "Next Time You’ll Know Me", by Ramsey Campbell
  Ramsey Campbell
  John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
  
  
• "The Pool", by Whitley Strieber
  Whitley Strieber
  Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about...
  
  
• "By Reason of Darkness", by Jack Cady
  Jack Cady
  Jack Cady was an American author. He is most known as an award winning fantasist and horror writer. In his career he won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award....
  
  

Publication history

• 1988, USA, New American Library
  New American Library
  New American Library is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948; it produced affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works, as well as popular, pulp, and "hard-boiled" fiction. Non-fiction, original, and hardcopy issues were also produced.Victor Weybright and Kurt...
  
   ISBN 0-453-00572-1, Pub date June 1988, Hardback
• 1988, UK, Bantam UK
  Bantam Books
  Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
  
   ISBN 0-593-01542-8, Pub date September 1988, Hardback, limited edition, 250 copies
• 1988, USA, Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. ISBN 0-937986-84-8, Pub date October 1988, Hardback, limited edition, 1,000 signed numbered copies
• 1988, USA, Science Fiction Book Club 13683, Pub date December 1988, Hardback
• 1989, USA, New American Library
  New American Library
  New American Library is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948; it produced affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works, as well as popular, pulp, and "hard-boiled" fiction. Non-fiction, original, and hardcopy issues were also produced.Victor Weybright and Kurt...
  
   ISBN 0-451-15909-8, Pub date April 1989, Paperback
• 1989, UK, Corgi ISBN 0-552-13474-0, Pub date October 1989, Paperback