Contents:

• Hardshell by Dean R. Koontz
• The Calligraphy Lesson by Joyce Harrington
• The Rubber Smile by John Shirley
• The Defiance of the Ugly by the Merely Repulsive by James Kisner
• Mind Slash Matter by Edward Wellen
• Goddam Time by J.N. Williamson & Scott Fogel
• The Society of the Scar by Edward D. Hoch
• Life Near the Bone by Billie Sue Mosiman
• Slasher by F. Paul Wilson
• To Die For by Ed Naha
• Mistaken Identity by T.L. Parkinson
• Dead Things Don’t Move by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• The Man Who Collected Knives by John Gregory Betancourt
• The Roadside Scalpel by Thomas F. Monteleone
• The Pharaoh’s Crown by Christopher Fahy
• Slit by Richard Laymon
• Rubies and Pearls by Rick Hautala
• Old Blood by Gary Brandner
• Heroes by Richard T. Chizmar
• Valentine by Daniel Ransom & Rex Miller
• The Ecology of Reptiles by John Coyne

Edited by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg