Stephen Jones- Keep Out the Night (2002, PS)

[pbsplatter]

Didn't seem like this already had a thread on here



Sorry for the tiny cover image!

Anyway, seems like an interesting, eclectic mix of horror stories. The title of the introductory essay makes it sound like it's SJ's attempt at reviving the Not At Nights. Haven't read this or almost any of the stories (not even "Needing Ghosts". . .need to fix that)


9 • Introduction: More Not at Night (Keep Out the Night) • essay by Stephen Jones

13 • Invasion from Inferno • (1937) • novelette by Hugh B. Cave

37 • The Viaduct • non-genre • (1976) • short story by Brian Lumley

51 • Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956) • (2000) • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan?

61 • Homecoming • (1975) • short story by Sydney J. Bounds

67 • Feeders and Eaters • (2002) • short story by Neil Gaiman

75 • Nothing of Him That Doth Fade • (2000) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite

83 • The Unfortunate • (2000) • novella by Tim Lebbon

133 • One of Us • (2001) • short story by Dennis Etchison

143 • Is There Anybody There? • (2000) • novelette by Kim Newman

158 • Dear Alison • (1997) • short story by Michael Marshall Smith

167 • The Gossips • (1973) • short story by Basil Copper

199 • Needing Ghosts • (1990) • novella by Ramsey Campbell

[dem bones]

It's since been recycled (with additional stories) as The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories.

[pbsplatter]

That sounds like it would be the much superior version, since the inclusion of "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" tends to improve any collection immeasurably.