A collection of 23 original horror stories.

Contents:

• Introduction by Kirby McCauley
• The Mist by Stephen King
• The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison
• The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Dark Angel by Edward Bryant
• The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb
• Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale by Robert Aickman
• Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates
• Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein
• The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe
• Vengeance Is. by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Brood by Ramsey Campbell
• The Whistling Well by Clifford D. Simak
• The Peculiar Demesne vby Russell Kirk
• Where the Stones Grow" by Lisa Tuttle
• The Night Before Christmas by Robert Bloch
• The Stupid Joke by Edward Gorey
• A Touch of Petulance by Ray Bradbury
• Lindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe Haldeman
• A Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. Grant
• Owls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade Wellman
• Where There's a Will" by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson
• Traps by Gahan Wilson