Dark Screams: Volume Six is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2017 by Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar
“The Rich Are Different” by Lisa Morton, copyright © 2017 by Lisa Morton
“The Manicure” by Nell Quinn-Gibney, copyright © 2017 by Nell Quinn-Gibney
“The Comforting Voice” by Norman Prentiss, copyright © 2017 by Norman Prentiss
“The Corpse King” by Tim Curran, copyright © 2010 by Tim Curran
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“The Corpse King” was originally published separately by Cemetery Dance Publications in 2010.
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Darhansoff & Verrill, Literary Agents: “The Old Dude’s Ticker” by Stephen King, copyright © 2000 by Stephen King. Originally published in NECON XX 2000 in 2000 and in The Big Book of NECON (Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009). Reprinted by permission of Darhansoff & Verrill, Literary Agents.
John Hawkins and Associates, Inc.: “The Situations” (originally published as “Extenuating Circumstances”) from Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates (New York: Dutton, 1995), copyright © 1994 by The Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Hawkins and Associates, Inc.
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