Search Worlds Without End

Dan, a poet and former cult member, is shocked by the sudden arrival of Jude, his long-since-dead high-school sweetheart, and learns of her intention to claim Dan and his family's souls.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Dennis Etchison
• Blue Rose - (1985) - novella by Peter Straub
• The Monster - short story by Joe Haldeman
• Lacunae - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• "Pale, Trembling Youth" - short story by W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Muzak for Torso Murders - short story by Marc Laidlaw
• Goodbye, Dark Love - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Out There - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Little Cruelties - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Man with the Hoe - short story by George Clayton Johnson
• They're Coming for You - short story by Les Daniels
• Vampire - poem by Richard Christian Matheson
• Lapses - short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• The Final Stone - short story by William F. Nolan
• Irrelativity - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Hands - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Bell - short story by Ray Russell
• Lost Souls - short story by Clive Barker
• Reaper - novelette by Robert Bloch
• The Transfer - short story by Edward Bryant
• Pain - novelette by Whitley Strieber

Don't Go near the darkside

The anonymous warning appears in your mailbox. A stone, marked with an ancient symbol, is hurled at your door. And your daughter creeps out of the house in the dead of night.

The horror has begun.

You have stepped into a terrifying nightmare. You are walking the razor's edge of death. Bit it is too late to turn back.

You have entered the darkside and there is no escape.

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Death (1982) edited by Stuart David Schiff. The story can also be found in the anthologies Fears (1983), edited by Charles L. Grant, The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI (1983), edited by Karl Edward Wagner, and In the Field of Fire (1987), edited by Jack Dann and Jeanne Van Buren Dann. It is included in the collections The Dark Country (1982) and Fine Cuts (2006).

Jenny and Lee Marlow are Hollywood writers. After years of research, they have finally solved the infamous Lizzie Borden case. But now Jenny's sanity -- and her survival -- are at stake, as the killings begin again. Is someone copying the bloody crimes of a century ago... or is the axe-murderess alive in modern-day Los Angeles?

This terrifying novel offers a brilliant solution to America's most famous unsolved murders, leading to a blood-drenched climax of horror and suspense.

A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror

Includes New Stories by:

• Ray Bradbury
• Graham Joyce
• Peter Crowther
• Kim Newman
• Sara Douglass
• Thomas Tessier
• M. John Harrison
• Gahan Wilson

The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters and hot new writers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2003) - essay by Ramsey Campbell and Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison
• The Hanged Man of Oz - (2003) - short story by Steve Nagy
• The Bone Ship - (2003) - short story by Terry Dowling
• Li'l Miss Ultrasound - (2003) - novelette by Robert Devereaux
• The Intervention - (2003) - short story by Kim Newman
• Blake's Angel - (2003) - short story by Janeen Webb
• The Obedient Child - (2003) - short story by George Clayton Johnson
• Sounds Like - (2003) - short story by Mike O'Driscoll
• The Wind Sall Blow for Ever Mair - (2003) - short story by Stephen Dedman
• "The Mezzotint" - (2003) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• The Lords of Zero - (2003) - short story by Tony Richards
• Smoke City - (2003) - short story by Russell Blackford
• Moments of Change - (2003) - short story by Thomas Tessier
• The Big Green Grin - (2003) - short story by Gahan Wilson
• The Big Green Grin - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• Both And - (2003) - short story by Gary Fry
• Love Is a Stone - (2003) - short story by Simon Brown
• Memento Mori - (2003) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Mistress of Marwood Hagg - (2003) - short story by Sara Douglass
• The Right Men - (2003) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Raptures of the Deep - (2003) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• Out Late in the Park - (2003) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Bedfordshire - (2003) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• Mr Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe - short fiction by Scott Emerson Bull
• Finishing School - (2003) - short story by Cherry Wilder
• Jennifer's Turn - (2003) - short story by Fruma Klass
• Mother's Milk - (2003) - short story by Adam Nevill
• No Man's Land - (2003) - short story by Chris Lawson and Simon Brown
• The Watcher at the Window - (2003) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• Coming of Age - (2003) - short story by Joel Lane
• Picking Up Courtney - (2002) - short story by Tim Waggoner
• Watchmen - (2003) - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Gardens - (2003) - short story by Melanie Tem
• Under the Bright and Hollow Sky - (2003) - novelette by Andrew J. Wilson
• The Dove Game - (2003) - novelette by Isobelle Carmody
• Tiger Moth - (2003) - short story by Graham Joyce
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited
• About the Editors - essay by uncredited

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Frights (1976), edited by Kirby McCauley. The story can also be found in the anthologies The World Fantasy Awards, Volume Two (1980), edited by Stuart David Schiff and Fritz Leiber, The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992), edited by Stephen Jones, The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 (2012), edited by John Pelan. It is included in the collection The Dark Country (1982).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Dennis Etchison
• Blues and the Abstract Truth - (1988) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
• Are You Now? - (1992) - short story by Scott Edelman
• Stab - (1992) - short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Mutilator - (1992) - short fiction by Richard Christian Matheson
• Martyrdom - (1992) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• Briar Rose - (1992) - short story by Kim Antieau
• Replacements - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• Ziggles - (1992) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• End of the Line - (1991) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• Did They Get You to Trade? - (1992) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• GIFCO - (1992) - short story by M. John Harrison
• The Properties of the Beast - (1992) - short story by Whitley Strieber
• In Praise of Folly - (1992) - short story by Thomas Tessier
• The Visit - (1992) - short story by William F. Nolan
• The Ring of Truth - (1992) - short story by George Clayton Johnson
• Nothing Will Hurt You - (1992) - novelette by David Morrell
• Underground - (1992) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Bucky Goes to Church - (1992) - novelette by Robert Devereaux
• Dumbarton Oaks - (1992) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• Novena - (1992) - novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• The Ghost Village - (1992) - novelette by Peter Straub

Following the debut of the highly-acclaimed collection, The Dark Country, comes RED DREAMS, Dennis Etchison's seminal collection that redefined the short story in modern horror. From desert highways to dark urban landscapes, Etchison weaves a world of unlimited imagination.

This special "definitive" edition features a special introduction from Dennis' good friend, the late Karl Edward Wagner, and extensive story notes by the author, and the author's own preferred texts for all the stories.

Fourteen tales from the Master of Dark Fantasy-

• Talking In The Dark
• Wet Season
• I Can Hear The Dark
• The Graveyard
• One The Pike
• Keeper Of The Light
• Black Sun
• White Moon Rising
• The Chill
• The Smell Of Death
• Drop City
• The Chair
• Not From Around Here

Following his first two acclaimed collections, The Dark Country and Red Dreams, Etchison's much-anticipated third volume of wildly original stories continues to redefine modern horror. From the freeway off-ramps of Los Angeles to the darkest passages of the human heart, these are the visions of a writer whose imagination knows no boundaries.

Table of Contents:

• Call 666
• A Nice, Shady Place
• The Woman in Black
• A Walk in the Wet
• The Night of the Eye
• The Spot (with Mark Johnson)
• The Soft Wall
• Somebody Like You
• Bloodgame (aka Game Plan)
• Deadspace
• Home Call (with C. C. Palaski)
• The Olympic Runner
• The Blood Kiss

Etchison's fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award in 1982, the first time a single work received both major awards. Contents include 15 ground-breaking stories and an introduction by Ramsey Campbell.

Contents of this collection:

• It Only Comes Out at Night
• Sitting in the Corner, Whimpering Quietly
• The Walking Man
• We Have All Been Here Before
• Daughter of the Golden West
• The Pitch
• You Can Go Now
• Today's Special
• The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
• Calling All Monsters
• The Dead Line
• The Late Shift
• The Nighthawk
• It Will Be Here Soon
• Deathtracks
• The Dark Country

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Dark Terrors 2: The Gollancz Book of Horror (1996), edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (1997), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. It is included in the collection The Death Artist (2002).

First published as a limited-edition hardcover (DreamHaven Books, 2000), The Death Artist presents 12 daring, unforgettable tales that define the state of the art in modern horror.

"You have seen him but you did not recognize him. When he passed you on the street you would not look his way. He stood with you in the line and took a seat as the lights went down but when you heard his footsteps later, going home, you told yourself he was not there. He is the one who sent the letter, the one on the telephone who never speaks, the one who waits behind the door. He stops for every accident and never turns away from the chalk marks and the blood, for there is a lifemap in each dying and if he does not see it all his portraits will not be true. He wants to pass it on, the laughter and the cry in the night, so much the same at the end. It is not a hobby or a diversion. It is a method and an esthetic and a religion. He does not seek to convert you. He only wants you to know. He thinks you are ready. He is an artist and his subject is the high and the low rather than what lies between. You do not have to find him. He has already found you..."

Contents:

• The Dog Park
• The Last Reel
• When They Gave Us Memory
• On Call
• Deadtime Story
• Call Home
• No One You Know
• A Wind From the South
• The Scar
• The Detailer
• The Dead Cop
• Inside the Cackle Factory

A novelization of the 1980 John Carpenter film.

Tonight the fog that rises off the California coast is different. And deadly. A writhing icy mist pulsing with terror. It is too late to escape. Even now the people of Antonio Bay are cut off, engulfed. Along darkened streets, death searches them out. There is no sanctuary for the living. Those who are doomed will die horribly. Those who spared will suffer the endless fear of a soul-chilling night when the dead, finally, return for revenge.

"The Walk," by Dennis Etchison, is a neat little horror story about the dog eat dog world of Hollywood in which a director and writer have very different ideas of how their collaboration should proceed.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com.

Shadowman, a sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning story "The Dark Country," follows Jack Martin into an even deeper darkness in Shadow Bay, where the surf echoes against the shore, wild dogs howl and children tell ghost stories by firelight. Lissa Shelby works with disturbed children, and they are all afraid of the Man With No Face. The adults call him a fantasy -- until the hills collapse under a torrent of rain and buried bodies pour forth. Only one thing is certain: no one is safe...

WFA and BFA winning short story. It originally appeared in the fanzine Fantasy Tales V4n8, Summer 1981. The story can also be found in the anhtology The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982), edited by Karl Edward Wagner. It is included in the collections The Dark Country (1982) and Talking in the Dark: Selected Stories (2001).