The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 15

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2003 copyright © Stephen Jones 2004.

FEAR THE DEAD copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2003. Originally published in The Fear Within. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE HANGED MAN OF OZ copyright © Steve Nagy 2003. Originally published in Gathering the Bones. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MARA copyright © Michael Chislett 2003. Originally published in Conventional Vampires. Reprinted by permission of the author.

CELL CALL copyright © Marc Laidlaw 2003. Originally published in By Moonlight Only. Reprinted by permission of the author.

IN THE TUNNELS copyright © Pauline E. Dungate 2003. Originally published in Beneath the Ground. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HUNGER: A CONFESSION copyright © Spilogale, Inc. 2003. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

SEVEN FEET copyright © Christopher Fowler 2003. Origin-.illy published in Demonized. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CENTIPEDE copyright © Susan Davis 2003. Originally published in All Hallows 33, June 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE GOAT CUTTER copyright © Joseph E. Lake, Jr. 2003. Originally published in Greetings from Lake Wu. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MAYBE NEXT TIME copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2003. Originally published in More Tomorrow & Other Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

STORY TIME WITH THE BLUEFIELD STRANGLER copyright © John Farris 2003. Originally published in Borderlands 5: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HUNTER LAKE copyright © Gene Wolfe 2003. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

MR. SLY STOPS FOR A CUP OF JOE copyright © Scott Emerson Bull 2003. Originally published in Gathering the Bones. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE BEREAVEMENT PHOTOGRAPHER copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2003. Originally published in 13 Horrors: A Devil's Dozen Stories Celebrating 13 Years of the World Horror Convention. Reprinted by permission of the author.

KISSING CARRION copyright © Gemma Files 2003. Originally published in Kissing Carrion. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE WHITE HANDS copyright © Mark Samuels 2003. Originally published in The White Hands and Other Weird Tales. First published in substantially different form as «Amelia» in Black Tears No. 1, 1993. Reprinted by permission of the author.

WAYCROSS copyright © Caitlin R. Kiernan 2003. Originally published in Waycross. Reprinted by permission of the author.

LUCY, IN HER SPLENDOR copyright © Charles Coleman Finlay 2003. Originally published on MarsDust.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

DEAD BOY FOUND copyright © Christopher Barzak 2003. Originally published in Trampoline: An Anthology. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE HAUNTING copyright © Spilogale, Inc. 2003. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, John Hawkins and Associates.

DANCING MEN copyright © Glen Hirshberg 2003. Originally published in The Two Sams: Ghost Stories and The Dark: New Ghost Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, Anderson Grinberg Literary Management,Inc.

BITTER GROUNDS copyright © Neil Gaiman 2003. Originally published in Mojo: Conjure Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

CHILD OF THE STONES copyright © Paul McAuley 2003. Originally published on SciFi.Com, November 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE SILENCE OF THE FALLING STARS copyright © Mike O'Driscoll 2003. Originally published in The Dark: New Ghost Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

EXORCIZING ANGELS copyright © Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon 2003. Originally published in Exorcizing Angels. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

NECROLOGY: 2003 copyright © Stephen Jones and Kim Newman 2004.

USEFUL ADDRESSES copyright © Stephen Jones 2004.