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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2015 18:37:25 GMT
Josepha Sherman & Keith R. A. DeCandido (eds.) - Urban Nightmares (Baen, Nov. 1997)  David Mattingly
Robert J. Sawyer - Gator
Laura Resnick & Kathy Chwedyk - She of the Night
Michael A. Burstein - The Spider in the Hairdo
Lawrence Watt-Evans - Sit!
Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Hook
Josepha Sherman - Doggedly
Mike Resnick & Jack Nimersheim - My Brother’s Keeper
Ellen Guon - Disney on Ice
S. M. & Jan Stirling - The Release
Keith R. A. DeCandido - How You Can Prevent Forest Fires ...
Susan Shwartz - Cold Shoulder
Barbara Paul - Payback
Larry Segriff & Ed Gorman - My Father’s Son
Christie Golden - The Remaking of Millie McCoy
Laura Anne Gilman - Along Came a Spider...
Billie Sue Mosiman - The Hook of Death
Adam-Troy Castro - What Happened Next
Bill Crider - What a Croc!
Mark A. Garland & Lawrence Schimel - Lover’s Leap
John J. Ordover - Tales from the White Castle
eluki bes shahar - A Ghost of Night and Shadows
S. P. Somtow - The Ugliest Duckling
Glenn Hauman - Dark of Night
Jody Lynn Nye - The Bicycle Messenger from Hell
Lois Tilton - My Naggilator
About the Authors
Bibliography Blurb: THE MODERN FACE OF FEAR
Are there really alligators in the sewers of New York? Do spiders make homes in beehive hairdos? Does a maniac with a hook instead of a hand haunt Lovers' Lane, looking for unwary teen victims? Folklore in the past has given body to ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, and other sinister creations of human fears and imagination. Modern urban legends provide a host of new menaces—and these terrors are not lurking in distant crumbling European castles or prowling on faraway moors, but are waiting for you down the block, in the office elevator, under the concrete of your street. Learn how alligators get in the sewers in the first place ... only they aren't alligators but something older and more dangerous. And is that air clanging the plumbing that you just heard, or some thing coming up from the dark depths of the city, up into your URBAN NIGHTMARES?Another one library-loaned several years ago, so pleased to have finally snagged a copy, even if I wasn't overly impressed first time around. You can't really go wrong with 'The Hook,' but am certain one of the versions here-in did just that. Susan Shwartz - Cold Shoulder: Begins like it intends Sport is Horror business, before mutating into a very drawn out equivalent of Dickie Lee's ghost-pop anthem, The Sweater (see Kenny Everett's contentiously titled The World's Worst Record Show). Tommy Foreman is the star player on the college football team, but everyone shuns him since he got sweet Laura McKelvey in trouble and refused to do right by her. Returning home from the match he meets the new girl in town, Mary Myrtle, and chivalrously offers her his jersey against the cold. The girl is almost supernaturally beautiful, so no surprise he offers to escort her home ...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 30, 2015 18:50:01 GMT
That is by no means the worst Baen Books cover I have seen. They seem to specialize in really awful cover art.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2015 19:26:51 GMT
It's no so bad at all. ISFDB has this as the only edition, but my library-loaned copy had very different cover artwork to this.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 30, 2015 20:47:09 GMT
No, by no means is it the worst.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2015 22:18:32 GMT
That is by no means the worst Baen Books cover I have seen. They seem to specialize in really awful cover art. Can you give us some examples? Only one I can think of at present is this accomplished Steve Hickman depiction of Manly Wade Wellman's John The Balladeer as Appalachian Johnny Cash, though I gather there are some ropey Cthulhu Mythos efforts? |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2015 7:36:15 GMT
Liked these.
Mark A. Garland & Lawrence Schimel - Lover’s Leap: Ghost of Miranda, an alleged suicide, spends the night dogging at a cliff-side Lover's Lane, a mile from where she met her doom. Handsome Nick, the college super-stud, is planning on making out with nervous Ellen, who can't believe that a great guy like him could be interested in her. Miranda's mercy dash from the beyond has dire consequences for her murderer.
Glenn Hauman - Dark of Night: When his childhood sweetheart leaves him, James VenDermeulen's post office employees transfer him to aptly named Hicksburg, Georgia, on the basis that, in a small town he will inflict less civilian casualties should he, as feared, go postal. But the transfer is the making of James in that the plight of the local retard, Sherwood 'the Brain Tumour Kid' Craig, inspires him to launch a send-a-dying-boy-a-letter crusade to boost office traffic. The campaign is such a massive success he tries it over and over, earning several promotions. But there's a fly in the ointment, namely VenDermeulen's colleague, Luther 'Lumpy' Wilson, whose job it is to deliver all this excess glorified junk mail.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2015 11:41:48 GMT
How about this.  |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2015 11:48:00 GMT
Or this.  |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2015 9:17:35 GMT
Point well made, Mr. L!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 4, 2015 7:39:56 GMT
Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Hook: So its not an urban myth after all. Forty years on, the killer, now a respectable University tutor and part time secret beast in the attic, reflects on the events of 12-31st October, 1954 in Louisiana, when a gang-bang escalated to murder. He lost a hand. Other parties came out of it far worse. Best horror story so far.
Mike Resnick & Jack Nimersheim - My Brother’s Keeper: As punishment for killing his brother, Cain must walk the earth indefinitely, cursed to avenge the victims of bullies. When God decides Cain has suffered enough, he sends Abel to break the news of his release. That works well.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 5, 2015 9:27:24 GMT
Robert J. Sawyer - Gator: David Ludlam, a palaeontologist moonlighting as a sewage worker, desperately seeks out the creature took a chunk out of veteran tunnel-man Paul Kowalski. The victim swears it was an alligator, but the evidence - a tooth - suggests a tyrannosaur ....
Michael A. Burstein - The Spider in the Hairdo: An arachnid race facing extinction seek out suitable planets to colonise. The invasion of Earth is accomplished via Peggy's beehive hairdo. She's gone retro in an attempt to win over her classmates and get school bully Roxanne off her back.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 17, 2015 9:37:19 GMT
Back with the phantom hitch-hikers &Co., and a strong best-of-book contender. It's the most morbid and horrific to date, that's for sure.
Larry Segriff & Ed Gorman - My Father’s Son: David, a doctor with an escalating drink problem, has always blamed his negligent parents for tragically early deaths of his brother and sister. Now, courtesy of a letter handed him by the least sensual French maid in history, he finally has proof. The family's wealth was built off the back of a Jamaican drug-dealer his father hung out to dry to the tune of $3,000,000, the injured party retaliating with a voodoo curse. If he despised mom and dad before, David is murderous toward them now. And then ... a fire breaks out late at night. He can hear the screams. He can also remember the combination to the family safe ....
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Post by dem bones on Nov 18, 2015 12:22:20 GMT
A The Hook double-feature, both good twisted fun.
Billie Sue Mosiman - The Hook of Death: McMurdo Sounds, Antarctica. To pass the time, Brian tells the new recruit some stories from his time back home in Alabama. Eventually he gets around to true ghost and horror tales, like that time the Hook - a deranged Viet vet known locally as Crazy Folcum - raped and butchered Betsy Ann, Brian's fifteen year old sweetheart. Although he was never prosecuted for the crime, Folcum disappeared from the scene sure enough, but his ghost lives on. Turns out Brian is not exactly the most stable of guys either.
Adam-Troy Castro - What Happened Next: "You look like about two hundred miles of bad luck." Foiled and humiliated by teenage lovers Brad and Debbie, our escaped lunatic (he shared a cell with Ed Gein) accepts a lift from a gorgeous young blonde. Too bad for her she doesn't realise he's the Hook! Too bad for him he doesn't realise she's the Door Handle Dragster!
Have read another short-short utilising essentially the same theme in one of the KEW-edited Year's Best Horrors (and the first sequence put me in mind of the And All Around The House episode in the Amicus classic, Tales From The Crypt), but am damned if I can remember the author/ title. It will bug me all day.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 18, 2015 13:56:00 GMT
Have read another short-short utilising essentially the same theme in one of the KEW-edited Year's Best Horrors (and the first sequence put me in mind of the And All Around The House episode in the Amicus classic, Tales From The Crypt), but am damned if I can remember the author/ title. It will bug me all day. I know what it is! No, maybe not. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 18, 2015 16:10:40 GMT
Have read another short-short utilising essentially the same theme in one of the KEW-edited Year's Best Horrors (and the first sequence put me in mind of the And All Around The House episode in the Amicus classic, Tales From The Crypt), but am damned if I can remember the author/ title. It will bug me all day. I know what it is! No, maybe not. No, not A Woman Seldom Found (without handcuffs) this time, JoJo, but thanks ever so anyway! It's Donald Tyson's Cruising in Years Best Horror XI |
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