Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror

Acknowledgements

“Meathouse Man” © Damon Knight, 1976, copyright renewed in 2004. © 2004 by George R.R. Martin. Originally published in Orbit 18, 1976. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Night They Missed the Horror Show” © Joe R. Lansdale, 1988. Originally published in Silver Scream, 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Diary” © Ronald Kelly, 1990. Originally published in Cemetery Dance #3, 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Abed” © Elizabeth Massie, 1992. Originally published in Still Dead, 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“I am He that Liveth and was Dead … & Have the Keys of Hell & Death” (an excerpt from Duet for the Devil, 2000) © Randy Chandler and t. Winter-Damon, 1992. Originally published in Grue No. 14, Summer 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Xipe” © Edward Lee, 1993. Originally published in The Barrelhouse: Excursions into the Unknown, Winter 1993. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bait” © Ray Garton, 1993. Originally published in Cemetery Dance, Fall 1993, Volume 5 Number 3/4. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Painfreak” © Gerard Houarner, 1994. Originally published in Into the Darkness #1, April 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lover Doll” © Wayne Allen Sallee, 1994. Originally published in Little Deaths, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Spirit Wolves” © Charlee Jacob, 1995. Originally published in Into the Darkness #4, 1995. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Godflesh” © Brian Hodge, 1995. Originally published in The Hot Blood Series: Stranger By Night, 1995. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Every Last Drop” © John Everson, 1998. Originally published in Bloodsongs, Spring 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Blind in the House of the Headsman” © Mehitobel Wilson, 2001. Originally published in Brainbox 2: Son of Brainbox, 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“An Experiment in Human Nature” © Monica J. O’Rourke, 2001. Originally published in The Rare Anthology, 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Burgers of Calais” © Graham Masterton, 2002. Originally published in Dark Terrors 6, The Gollancz Book of Horror, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ecstasy” © Nancy Kilpatrick, 2004. Originally published in Master/Slave, Venus Books, 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Pop Star in the Ugly Bar” © Bentley Little, 2005. Originally published in Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sooner They Learn” © Wrath James White, 2005. Originally published in The Book Of A Thousand Sins, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Addict” © J.F. Gonzalez, 2006. Originally published in Insidious Reflections #5, January 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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