A collection of the best horror and dark fantasy stories of 1991.

Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1991 by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell
• True Love by K. W. Jeter
• The Same in Any Language by Ramsey Campbell
• Impermanent Mercies by Kathe Koja
• Ma Qui by Alan Brennert
• The Miracle Mile by Robert R. McCammon
• Taking Down the Tree by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Where Flies Are Born by Douglas Clegg
• Love, Death and the Maiden [“Mädelein”] by Roger Johnson
• Chui Chai by S. P. Somtow
• The Snow Sculptures of Xanadu by Kim Newman
• Colder Than Hell by Edward Bryant
• Raymond by Nancy A. Collins
• One Life, in an Hourglass by Charles L. Grant
• The Braille Encyclopedia by Grant Morrison
• The Bacchae by Elizabeth Hand
• Busted in Buttown by David J. Schow
• Subway Story by Russell Flinn
• The Medusa by Thomas Ligotti
• Power Cut by Joel Lane
• Moving Out by Nicholas Royle
• Guignoir by Norman Partridge
• Blood Sky by William F. Nolan
• Ready by David Starkey
• The Slug by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Dark Land by Michael Marshall Smith
• When They Gave Us Memory by Dennis Etchison
• Taking Care of Michael by J. L. Comeau
• The Dreams of Dr. Ladybank by Thomas Tessier
• Zits by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Necrology: 1991 by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman