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Post by dem bones on Mar 28, 2008 15:45:55 GMT
Stuart David Schiff (ed.) - Whispers II (Jove, 1987: Doubleday, 1979) Stuart David Schiff - Preface
Karl E. Wagner - Undertow
R. A. Lafferty - Berryhill
Avram Davidson - The King's Shadow Has No Limits
Richard Christian Matheson - Conversation Piece
Jack L. Chalker - The Stormsong Runner
James Sallis & William Lunde - They Will Not Hush
Russell Kirk - Lex Talionis
Joseph Payne Brennan - Marianne
Hugh B. Cave - From The Lower Deep
Charles L. Grant - The Fourth Musketeer
Ray Russell - Ghost Of A Chance
Carl Jacobi - The Elcar Special
Lee Weinstein - The Box
Dennis Etchison - We Have All Been Here Before
Ken Wisman - Archie And The Scylla Of Hades Hole
Manly Wade Wellman - Trill Coster's Burden
Ward Moore - Conversation Piece
Fritz Leiber - The Bait
Ramsey Campbell - Above The World
David Drake - The Red Leer
David Campton - At The Bottom Of The GardenIncludes: David Campton - At the Bottom of the Garden: A truly horrible tale of a little girl who befriends a ... something which attempts to cure her headaches and fix her wonky eye. Unfortunately, her parents disturb the strange surgeon when she's reached the tricky stage of the operation. Richard Christian Matheson - Conversation Piece: Q and A session with a man who's given nineteen years to medical research as a paid volunteer. "I never liked work much. Maybe that's why selling parts of my body was so easy for me." Even so, it's hardly a lucrative line of work and the sacrifices are considerable ..... Ramsey Campbell - Above The World: Keswick. Knox returns to the Swan Hotel where he'd honeymooned and where his once wife did likewise when she married for a second time before she and her new husband, Tooley, met their deaths by exposure when they were lost in the mist on one of the hills. Knox is reunited with the pair when he to is stranded on a mist shrouded peak. Eerie conclusion, with the slate replicas of his former wife and Tooley closing in on the terrified Knox. Joseph Payne Brennan - Marianne: Marcellus stands gazing out to sea trying to pinpoint the spot when his beloved drowned, howling her name, willing her to return. Will the bloated corpse respond to his call? R. A. Lafferty - Berryhill: The reclusive Berryman family attract the scorn and loathing of the townsfolk due to their "strangeness" and are widely held to be responsible for the several disappearances in the area. Little Jimmy Ware strays into their domain and is invited to stay for something to eat. "It's been a long time since we had a boy for dinner .... "
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