Somebody just mentioned this on social media; I'm surprised there's no thread for it already. Unless there is & as usual I can't find it. I don't know why the ebook version is called "18 Stories..." when there are still 19, but go figure. It's on Arch*ve but only for 1 hour at a time; I know many of you prefer reading anthologies in small doses. I may or may not get this, some time.
Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more.
From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes a deadly contract. A comedy duo realizes that retribution is no laughing matter. And a single woman must face the shocking reasons for her solitary lifestyle.
Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow commissioned these and fourteen other tales from some of the most talented authors of our time to make up Lethal Kisses. Available for the first time in the United States, this is a collection of eighteen horrifying tales on evening the score.
Introduction - Ellen Datlow
...Warmer - A. R. Morlan
Anamorphosis - Caitlin R. Kiernan
A Grub Street Tale - Thomas Tessier
Back in the Dunes - Terry Lamsley
Leave Me Alone God Damn You - Joyce Carol Oates
Butcher's Logic - Roberta Lannes
A Lie for A Lie - Pat Cadigan
Keeping Alice - Simon Ings
A Punch In The Doughnut - David J. Schow
Unforgotten - Christopher Fowler
O, Rare and Most Exquisite - Douglas Clegg
Martyr and Pesty - Jonathan Lethem
Foreign Bodies - Michael Marshall Smith
Ships - Michael Swanwick & Jack Dann
The Dreadful Day of Judgement - Ruth Rendell
A Flock of Lawn Flamingos - Pat Murphy
Touch Me Everyplace - Michael Cadnum
The Screaming Man - Richard Christian Matheson
Rare Promise - M. M. O'Driscoll
A Biography of Ellen Datlow
