A collection of short works of fantasy and horror. Drawing on a very wide variety of sources, the editors have put together a selection of stories from arguably today's best story writers, including Gene Wolf, Ian Watson, Lucius Shepard, Ramsey Campbell, Joan Aiken and many more.
Contents:
Death is different / Lisa Goldstein --
Tale of the rose and the nightingale / Gene Wolfe --
It was the heat / Pat Cadigan --
Cutter / Edward Bryant --
Freezer Jesus / John DuFresne --
Voices of the kill / Thomas M. Disch --
Secretly / Ruth Roston --
Devil's rose / Tanith Lee --
Wempires / Daniel Pinkwater --
Scatter my ashes / Greg Egan --
Unfinished portrait of the king of pain by Van Gogh / Ian McDonald --
Shoo fly / Richard Matheson --
Thing itself / Michael Blumlein --
Soft whisper of midnight snow / Charles de Lint --
Roman games / Anne Gay --
Princess, the cat and the unicorn / Patricia C. Wrede --
Book and its contents / Robert Kelly --
Great god Pan / M. John Harrison --
Lost bodies / Ian Watson --
Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons --
Preflash / John M. Ford --
Life of Buddha / Lucius Shepard --
Appointment with Eddie / Charles Beaumont --
Fragments of papyrus from the temple of the older gods / William Kotzwinkle --
Spillage / Nancy Kress --
Snowman / Charles L. Grant --
Scar / Dennis Etchison --
Laiken Langstrand / Gwyneth Jones --
Last poem about the Snow Queen and Pinocchio / Sandra M. Gilbert --
Game in the Pope's head / Gene Wolfe --
Playing the game / Ramsey Campbell --
Faces / F. Paul Wilson --
Snowfall / Jessie Thompson --
Seal-self / Sara Maitland --
No hearts, no flowers / Barry N. Malzberg --
Boy who drew unicorns / Jane Yolen --
Darling / Scott Bradfield --
Night they missed the horror show / Joe R. Lansdale --
Your story / Rick DeMarinis --
Winter solstice, Camelot station / John M. Ford --
Boy who hooked the sun / Gene Wolfe --
Clem's dream / Joan Aiken --
Love in vain / Lewis Shiner --
In the darkened hours / Bruce Boston --
Golden net for silver fishes / Ru Emerson --
Dancing among ghosts / Jim Aikin.
A collection of short works of fantasy and horror. Drawing on a very wide variety of sources, the editors have put together a selection of stories from arguably today's best story writers, including Gene Wolf, Ian Watson, Lucius Shepard, Ramsey Campbell, Joan Aiken and many more.
Contents:
Death is different / Lisa Goldstein --
Tale of the rose and the nightingale / Gene Wolfe --
It was the heat / Pat Cadigan --
Cutter / Edward Bryant --
Freezer Jesus / John DuFresne --
Voices of the kill / Thomas M. Disch --
Secretly / Ruth Roston --
Devil's rose / Tanith Lee --
Wempires / Daniel Pinkwater --
Scatter my ashes / Greg Egan --
Unfinished portrait of the king of pain by Van Gogh / Ian McDonald --
Shoo fly / Richard Matheson --
Thing itself / Michael Blumlein --
Soft whisper of midnight snow / Charles de Lint --
Roman games / Anne Gay --
Princess, the cat and the unicorn / Patricia C. Wrede --
Book and its contents / Robert Kelly --
Great god Pan / M. John Harrison --
Lost bodies / Ian Watson --
Two minutes forty-five seconds / Dan Simmons --
Preflash / John M. Ford --
Life of Buddha / Lucius Shepard --
Appointment with Eddie / Charles Beaumont --
Fragments of papyrus from the temple of the older gods / William Kotzwinkle --
Spillage / Nancy Kress --
Snowman / Charles L. Grant --
Scar / Dennis Etchison --
Laiken Langstrand / Gwyneth Jones --
Last poem about the Snow Queen and Pinocchio / Sandra M. Gilbert --
Game in the Pope's head / Gene Wolfe --
Playing the game / Ramsey Campbell --
Faces / F. Paul Wilson --
Snowfall / Jessie Thompson --
Seal-self / Sara Maitland --
No hearts, no flowers / Barry N. Malzberg --
Boy who drew unicorns / Jane Yolen --
Darling / Scott Bradfield --
Night they missed the horror show / Joe R. Lansdale --
Your story / Rick DeMarinis --
Winter solstice, Camelot station / John M. Ford --
Boy who hooked the sun / Gene Wolfe --
Clem's dream / Joan Aiken --
Love in vain / Lewis Shiner --
In the darkened hours / Bruce Boston --
Golden net for silver fishes / Ru Emerson --
Dancing among ghosts / Jim Aikin.