The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Fifth Annual Collection

Honorable Mentions: 1991

Abe, Kobo, “Intruders,” Beyond the Curve.

——―, “Record of Transformation,” Ibid.

———, “The Irrelevant Death,” Ibid.

Akhurst, Julia, “Small Pieces of Alice,” Darklands.

Albright, Dawn, “Black Ribbon,” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine #14.

Alcala, Kathleen J., “Sweetheart,” Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, March.

Aldiss, Brian W., “FOAM,” New Worlds #1.

Allyn, Doug, “Speed Demon,” Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine, Oct.

Amery, Francis, “Self-Sacrifice,” Interzone 54.

Anderson, Dana M., “Cafe Purgatorium,” Cafe Purgatorium.

Antczak, Steve, “Break Down the Walls of the World,” After Hours #9.

Antieau, Kim, “Medusa’s Child,” Final Shadows.

Armstrong, Michael, “The Kikituk,” Cold Shocks.

Arnzen, Michael A., “Brazilian Night,” (poem) Dreams and Nightmares.

―——, “Eye for an Eye,” Outlaw Bikers Tattoo Review #16.

Athkins, D. E., “Blood Kiss,” Thirteen.

Atwood, Margaret, “Death by Landscape,” Wilderness Tips.

Austin, A. J., “. . . But Fear Itself,” Aboriginal SF, Dec.

Ballard, J. G., “Dream Cargoes,” Omni Feb.; War Fever.

Bankier, William, “A Lot of Hurt Feelings,” EQMM, June.

Barker, A. L. “I’ll Never Know,” Winters Tales: New Series 7.

Bechard, Gorman, “Tabith Watching,” After Hours #11.

Beckert, Christine, “Baggage,” After Hours #12.

Beckett, Chris, “La Macchina,” Interzone 46.

Beechcroft, William, “Torrent,” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Nov.-Dec.

Berry, Michael, “Kessel’s Party,” Psycho-Paths.

bes Shahar, Eluki, “Spellbinder,” Sword & Sorceresses VIII.

Betancourt, John Gregory, “Tap Dancing,” Weird Tales, Spring.

Bishop, Michael, “Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats,” Omni, Sept.

―——, “Thirteen Lies About Hummingbirds,” Final Shadows.

Bisson, Terry, “Press Ann,” IASFM, Aug.

Blackburn, Eric, “Wild Thing,” Newer York.

Blaylock, James P. and Powers, Tim, “The Better Boy,” IASFM, Feb.

Bloch, Robert and Kuttner, Henry, “The Grab Bag,” Weird Tales, Spring.

Block, Lawrence, Something to Remember You By,” New Mystery Magazine

Boston, Bruce and Frazier, Robert, “Holos at an Exhibition,” Amazing Stories, July.

Boyle, T. Coraghessan, “Hope’s Rise,” Harpers, March.

Bradfield, Scott, “Didn’t She Know,” The New Gothic.

Brandner, Gary, “Darke Street,” Invitation to Murder.

―——, “Milestone’s Face,” Masques IV.

―——, “The Ice Children,” Cold Shocks.

―——, “To Have and to Hold,” Hotter Blood.

Branham, R. V., “Chango Chingamadre, Dutchman, & Me,” Full Spectrum 3.

Brantingham, Juleen, “Patterns,” Weird Tales, Summer.

―——, “Something About Camilla,” Final Shadows.

Braunbeck, Gary A., “For Want of A Smile,” Not One of Us #8.

———, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me,” Eldritch Tales 25.

Brennan, Joseph Payne, “Where Nettles Cling,” (poem) Weirdbook 26.

Brown, Molly, “Neon Nightsong,” After Hours #10.

Brown, Warren, “Mayfly Night,” Ibid.

Bryant, Edward, “Colder Than Hell,” Cold Shocks.

———, “Country Mouse,” Copper Star.

———, “Down Home,” Obsessions.

———, “Fetish,” Axolotl Press chapbook.

———, “The Great Steam Bison of Cycad Center,” Fires of the Past.

Bryant, Taerie, “The Vampire Child,” Prisoners of the Night 5.

Buchanan, Carl, “Kidsgame,” (poem) Xenophilia 3.

Budz, Mark, “The War Inside,” Pulphouse Weekly, June 6.

Burros, Deborah, “Masks,” Swords and Sorceresses VIII.

Cadger, Rick, “Through a Glass,” Fear #29.

Cady, Jack, “A Sailor’s Pay,” Final Shadows.

———, “The Sons of Noah,” Omni, Jan.

Cail, Carol, “Where is it Now?” Hawaii Review, Spring.

Campbell, Ramsey, “A Street Was Chosen,” Weird Tales, Summer.

———, “Another World,” Iniquities, Spring.

———, “Wrapped Up,” Cemetery Dance, Fall.

Carpenter, Leonard, “Torso,” IASFM, Nov.

Carroll, Jonathan, “The Moose Church,” A Whisper of Blood.

Carter, Angela, “The Merchant of Shadows,” The New Gothic.

Castle, Mort, “Love, Hate, and the Beautiful Junkyard Sea,” Masques IV.

Caves, Sally, “Fetch, Felix,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July.

Chappell, Fred, “Alma,” More Shapes Than One.

———, “Ancestors,” Chronicles: Magazine of American Culture, March.

Charnas, Suzy McKee, “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” A Whisper of Blood.

———, and Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, “Advocates,” Under the Fang.

Cirone, Patricia B., “The Sweet Taste of Her Skin,” Pulphouse Wkly, June 1.

Cisneros, Sandra, “Eyes of Zapata,” Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.

———, “Little Miracles, Kept Promises,” Ibid.

Clegg, Douglas, “People Who Love Life,” The Scream Factory #6.

———, “Where Flies Are Born,” Tekeli-li #2.

Clemence, Bruce, “No Way Street,” Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #15.

Collingbourne, Huw, “Blue Narcissus,” Fear #30.

Collins, Nancy A., “Dancing Nitely,” Under the Fang.

———, “Demonlover,” Hotter Blood.

———, “How it Was With the Kraits,” Cold Blood.

———, “Iphigenia,” There Wont Be War.

———, “Raymond,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

———, “The One-Eyed King,” The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood.

Connolly, David T., “Julia’s Touch,” Masques IV.

Constantine, Storm, “In the Dark Storm,” (poem) Now We Are Sick.

Cooney, Caroline B., “Where the Deer Are,” Thirteen.

Coulson, Joseph and Relling, William, Jr., “Mama’s Little Soldier,” Cemetery Dance, Spring.

Counsil, Wendy, “Stigmata,” F & SF, April.

Cover, Arthur Byron, “A Murder,” Pulphouse Weekly, Aug. 17.

Coyne, John, “Burn this Flag,” 2AM, Spring.

Crispin, A. C. and O’Malley, Kathleen, “Pure Silver,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

D’Ammassa, Don, “Wake Up Call,” Eldritch Tales 25.

Daniel, Tony, “Words,” IASFM, Feb.

Dann, Jack, “Voices,” Omni, Aug.

deCormier-Shekerjian, Regina, “Ritual,” (poem) The Nation, March 11.

Dedman, Stephan, “But Smile No More,” Aurealis #12.

Del Carlo, Eric, “Up Round the Bend,” After Hours #10.

de Lint, Charles, “The Boys of Goose Hill,” (lyrics) Authors Choice Monthly #22.

———, “Coyote,” Desert Moments.

———, “Death Leaves an Echo,” Cafe Purgatorium.

———, “The Graceless Child,” Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Weefolk.

———, “Pity the Monsters,” The Ultimate Frankenstein.

———, “We Are Dead Together,” Under the Fang.

———, “Winter Was Hard,” Pulphouse #10.

DeMarinis, Rick, “Rudderless Fiction: Lesson One,” The Voice of America.

Denton, Bradley, “Blackburn and the Blind Man,” Pulphouse Wkly., Aug. 17.

———, “Rerun Roy, Donna, and the Freak,” F & SF, Oct./Nov.

———, “Skidmore,” F & SF, May.

Donnelly, Marcos, “Tracking the Random Variable,” Full Spectrum 3.

Dorr, James S., “Milk Carton Monsters,” New Mystery Magazine #1.

———, “Romance Unlimited,” Borderlands 2.

———, “When the Cats Are Away,” Haunts, Fall-Winter.

———, “The Wellmaster’s Daughter,” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Nov.

Dowling, John, “Pandemonium,” After Hours #11.

Duggins, David, “Black Coffee,” Fear #27.

Dunham, Jere, “East of the Dawn,” Swords and Sorceresses VIII.

Dunn, }. R., “The Other Shore,” Omni, Dec.

Dyer, S. N., “The July Ward,” IASFM, April.

Easter, Richard, “Amy,” Dark Voices 3.

Egan, Greg, “Appropriate Love,” Interzone 50.

———, “Blood Sisters,” Interzone 44.

———, “Fidelity,” IASFM, Sept.

———, “The Infinite Assassin,” Interzone 48.

Elflandsson, Galad, “The Good Ship ‘Revenge’ or, What the Crew Don’t Know Won't Hurt Me,” Now We Are Sick.

Elliott, Tom, “Roadkill,” Cemetery Dance, Spring.

———, “The Web on Creque Bayou,” Haunts, Spring.

Ely, David, “The Children,” Always Home.

Emshwiller, Carol, “If the Word Was to the Wise,” The Start of the End of It All.

———, “There Is No Evil Angel But Love,” Ibid.

Engstrom, Elizabeth, “The Pan Man,” F & SF, July.

Epperson, S. K., “The Son Also Rises,” Cemetery Dance, Spring.

Evans, Elizabeth, “Blood and Gore,” The Quarterly 17.

Farrington, Geoffrey, “Little St. Hugh,” Tales of the Wandering Jew.

Felice, Cynthia, “Second Cousin Twice Removed,” IASFM, Dec.

Finch, Marina, “The Scarecrow’s Bride,” Pulphouse #10.

Frazier, Robert, “He Who ...” (poem), Grue #12.

———, “Stigmata,” (poem) Omni, July.

———, “What Lives After,” Newer York.

Friesner, Esther M., “The Shoemaker and the Elves,” F & SF, March.

Frost, Gregory, “Attack of the Jazz Giants,” There Wont Be War.

Gaiman, Neil and Jones, Stephen, “Now We Are Sick,” (poem) Now We Are Sick.

Gallagher, Stephen, “DeVice,” Hotter Blood.

———, “Magpie,” Final Shadows.

Galloway, Janice, “The Meat,” Blood.

Gardner, Craig Shaw, “Day of the Wolf,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

Garton, Ray, “The Picture of Health,” Hotter Blood.

Gibbons, Richard Patrick, “The Two Senoras,” EQMM, Feb.

Gilden, Mel, “Moonlight on the Gazebo,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

Gluckman, Janet, “Castoff,” Midnight Zoo #3.

Goldstein, Lisa, “A Traveler at Passover,” Pulphouse #10.

Gores, Joe, “Sleep the Big Time,” EQMM, April.

Gorman, Ed, “Deathman,” Dark Crimes.

———, “Duty,” Under the Fang.

———, “The Coming of Night, the Passing of Day,” Masques IV.

Grant, Charles L., “Girl of My Dreams,” Obsessions.

———, “Peacemaker,” Borderlands 2.

———, “One Life in an Hourglass,” The Bradbury Chronicles.

———, “Make a Wish Upon the Moon,” Dead End: City Limits.

Grealy, Lucy, “In the Nick of Time,” The Sonoran Review #21.

Greenbaum, Jessica, “The Yellow Star that Goes with Me,” The New Yorker, March 25.

Greenland, Colin, “The Stone Face,” Final Shadows.

———, “You're Deceased, Father William,” (poem) Now We Are Sick.

Grey, Robert, “Lullaby,” After Hours #10.

———, “Sing I Die,” Prisoners of the Night.

Griffin, Peni R., “Books,” IASFM, Nov.

Griffith, Nicola, “Wearing My Skin,” Interzone 50.

Haber, Karen, “The Dark Places In Between,” Final Shadows.

Haldeman, Joe, “Images,” F & SF, May.

Hall, Melissa Mia, “The Looking Glass Hand,” Dead End: City Limits.

Hambly, Barbara, “Changeling,” Once Upon a Time.

Hand, Elizabeth, “The Bacchae,” Interzone 49.

———, “Snow on Sugar Mountain,” Full Spectrum 3.

Harrington, Barry, “The Competition,” Aberrations #1.

Harrington, Joyce, “Frankie Baby,” The Ultimate Frankenstein.

Hautala, Rick, “Sources of the Nile,” Masques IV.

Heaven, Alan, “The Hauler-in Susie M.,” Interzone 53.

Hendee, Barb, “Full Moon Hearth,” Deathrealm #14.

Henderson, C. J., “Whose Turn Is It?” Obsessions.

Hightower, Lynn S., “The Magic House,” Final Shadows.

———, “The Rose Elf,” F & SF, March.

Higney, Gene Michael, “Comes the Night Wind, Cold, and Hungry,” Cemetery Dance, Spring.

Hill, Richard, “Auntie Ethel,” (poem) Now We Are Sick.

Hodge, Brian, “Androgyny,” Borderlands 2.

———, “Cancer Causes Rats,” Cold Blood.

———, “Midnight Sun,” Under the Fang.

Hoffman, Nini Kiriki, “An Invasion of Angels,” Pulphouse #10.

———, “A Painting Lesson,” Amazing Stories, Jan.

———, “Unleashed,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

———, “Voices in a Shelter Home,” Amazing Stories, March.

———, “Zits,” Iniquities, Autumn.

Hoing, David, “City of the Dreadful Night,” F & SF, Aug.

Holder, Nancy, “Bring Me the Head of Timothy Leary,” Cold Shocks.

———, “Have You Seen Me?” Cemetery Dance, Summer.

———, “Lady Madonna,” Obsessions.

———, “Woman’s Little Wound,” Noctulpa 5: Guignoir and Other Furies.

Hood, Martha A., “Dust to Dust to . . .” Interzone 52.

———, “Fun Flesh,” Tales of the Unanticipated #8.

Hoppe, Stephanie T., “Old Night,” Tales of Magic Realism by Women.

Hopper, Jeannette M., “Swelter,” Copper Star.

Horvitz, Leslie Alan, “His N’ Hers,” New Mystery #2.

Howard, Clark, “Dark Conception,” EQMM, Oct.

Infante, Guillermo Cabrero, “The Phantom of the Essoldo,” A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes.

Irwin, Robert, “Waiting for the Zaddik,” Tales of the Wandering Jew.

Jablokov, Alexander, “Living Will,” IASFM, June.

Jafek, Bev, “The Statistician,” The Black Warrior Review, Spring/Fall.

Janifer, Laurence M., “Learning Experience,” Newer York.

Johnson, Kij, “l♥MY>” Tales of the Unanticipated #8.

Kaaberbol, Lene, “Puss,” Dark Voices 3.

Kilpatrick, Nancy, “When Shadows Come Back,” The Standing Stone Short Fiction Contest 1991.

Kilworth, Garry, “Hamelin, Nebraska,” Interzone 48.

Kimbriel, Katharine Eliska, “Triad,” F & SF, Aug.

Kisner, James, “Fugyu,” Night Visions 9.

———, “Splatter Me an Angel,” Masques IV.

Klein, Robert William, “Haunts Come Out,” AHMM, April.

Knapp, Kevin, “Egypt/Egypt,” (poem) Nyctalops, April.

Koja, Kathe, “Impermanent Mercies,” Dark Voices 3.

———, “The Neglected Garden,” F & SF, April.

Laidlaw, Marc, “Gasoline Lake,” F & SF, Oct./Nov.

Lane, Joel, “Common Land,” Darklands.

Langford, David, “Encounter of Another Kind,” Interzone 54.

Lansdale, Joe R., “In the Cold, Dark Time,” Obsessions.

Law, Stephen, “He Who Laughs,” Dark Voices 3.

Layefsky, Virginia, “This Place Belongs to You,” EQMM, Jan.

Laymon, Richard, “The Tub,” Hotter Blood.

Lee, Michael, “Stranger in the Green Chair,” F & SF, April.

Lee, Tanith, “The Mermaid,” Final Shadows.

———, “Venus Rising On Water,” IASFM, Oct.

Lepovetsky, Lisa, “Ghost,” (poem) Grue #14 supplement.

———, “Tracks,” Grue #14 supplement.

Lethem, Jonathan, “The Happy Man,” IASFM, Feb.

Ligotti, Thomas, “Miss Plarr,” Weird Tales, Winter/Grimscribe.

———, “Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel,” A Whisper of Blood.

———, “Netherscurial,” Weird Tales, Winter/Grimscribe.

———, “The Cocoon,” Ibid.

———, “The Dreaming in Nortown,” Ibid.

———, “The Night School,” Ibid.

Linaweaver, Brad, “Clutter,” Psycho-Paths.

Lipinski, Miroslaw, “The Cult of Puke,” Twisted #6.

Little, Bentley, “Bumblebee,” Cold Blood.

Lovesey, Peter, “Supper with Miss Shivers,” EQMM, Mid-Dec.

Lumley, Brian, “The Picknickers,” Dark Voices 3.

Lutz, John, “Mr. Lucrada,” The Ultimate Dracula.

MacLeod, Ian R., “The Family Football,” Interzone S3.

———, “The Giving Mouth,” IASFM, March.

Malzberg, Barry N., “Folly for Three,” A Whisper of Blood.

———, “How I Managed to Blunt the Alien Invasion,” Omni, April.

Mapes, Diane, “Remnants,” Interzone 50.

Markham, Marion M., “There Are Fantasies in the Park,” AHMM, Jan.

Markham, Robert J., “On the Edge,” (poem) Plexus, Oct.

Marr, Michelle, “Rope Trick,” The Sterling Web #6.

Massie, Elizabeth, “Hot Orgy of the Caged Virgins,” Iniquities, Spring.

———, “M is for the Many Things,” A Whisper of Blood.

Masterton, Graham, “Pig’s Dinner,” Cemetery Dance, Winter.

———, “Rococo,” Hotter Blood.

———, “The Heart of Helen Day,” Masques IV.

———, “The Sixth Man,” Cold Shocks.

Mayhar, Ardath, “Lonesome Canefield Blues,” New Mystery Magazine #1.

McCaffery, Simon P., “The Deep End,” AHMM, Dec.

McDevitt, Jack, “Valkyrie,” There Won’t Be War.

McDonald, Ian, “Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria,” Tales of the Wandering Jew.

McGrath, Patrick, “The Other Psychiatrist,” Winters Tales: New Series 7.

———, “Cleave the Vampire, or, A Gothic Pastorale,” I Shudder At Your Touch.

McLaughlin, Mark, “Leave Her Alone,” Not One of Us #7.

McNaughton, Brian, “Caput Mortuum,” Weirdbook 26.

Mecklem, Todd, “The Newt Fisher,” BBR #19.

Miller, Rex, “Dead Issue,” Borderlands 2.

Miller, Wayne G., “God Can Be a Cruel Bastard,” Chilled to the Bone.

Misha, “The Stone Badger,” Fiction International 20.

Monteleone, Thomas F., “Prodigal Sun,” Under the Fang.

———, “The White Man,” Dead End: City Limits.

Moon, Elizabeth, “Clara’s Cat,” Catfantastic II.

Morlan, A. R., “St. Jackaclaws,” Cold Shocks.

Morrow, Bradford, “The Road to Nadeja,” The New Gothic.

Mosiman, Billie Sue, “Pretty Boy,” Invitation to Murder.

Moss, David, “On the Rocks,” After Hours #11.

Murakami, Haruki, “The Elephant Vanishes,” The New Yorker.

Murphy, Earl, “Even Steven,” 2AM, Spring.

Murphy, Pat, “South of Oregon City,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

———, “Traveling West,” IASFM, Feb.

Murphy, Warren and Cochran, Molly, “A Nice Place to Visit,” Newer York.

Muth, Jon J., “Four Poems,” Words Without Pictures.

Nabors, Cecily, “Wolf’s Bane,” After Hours #9.

Nasir, Jamil, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Tales of the Unanticipated #8.

Natsuki, Shizuko, “Harder Than to Die,” New Mystery #2.

Neilson, Robert, “Pleasing Mister Ross,” Fear #34.

Nelson, Resa, “Lovepets, ” Pulphouse #11.

Newland, Mike, “The Carrion Eaters,” Copper Star.

Noble, Carol T., “Sign,” Not One of Us #7.

Nolan, William F., “Babe’s Laughter,” Cold Blood.

———, “Blood Sky,” (chapbook).

———, “Broxa,” Weird Tales, Fall.

Nutman, Philip, “Churches of Desire,” Borderlands 2.

———, “Pavlov’s Wristwatch,” Darklands.

Oates, Joyce Carol, “The Guilty Party,” Glamour, July.

Oliver, Chad, “A Lake of Summer,” The Bradbury Chronicles.

Olson, Paul F., “Down the Valley Wild,” Borderlands 2.

O’Driscoll, Mike, “Prince of the Dying Night,” Fear #25.

O’Toole, John M., “Playing the Game,” EQMM, June.

Paradise, Sandra, “The Honeymoon,” Aboriginal SF, Jan./Feb.

Partridge, Norman, “Eighty-Eight Sins,” Amazing Stories, Dec.

———, “Guignoir,” Noctulpa 5: Guignoir and Other Furies.

———, “The Hollow Man,” Grue #13.

Peake, Tony, “Necessary Appendages,” Winters Tales: New Series 7.

Pendleton, Jan, “Teeth,” The Quarterly 17.

Perry, Stephani, “The Key,” Pulphouse #11.

Perry, Steve, “Chrome Bimbo,” Pulphouse Magazine 5.

Person, Lawrence, “Details,” IASFM, April.

Philbrick, W. R., “The Dark Rising,” The Ultimate Dracula.

Pickard, Nancy, “The Scar,” A Womans Eye.

Pilkington, Ace G., “Theseus Beyond the Labyrinth,” (poem) Weirdbook 26.

Pisacreta, Sharon, “The Subscription,” EQMM, Jan.

Powell, James, “Winter Hiatus,” EQMM, Oct.

Pritchard, John, “Nights,” Fear #26.

Pronzini, Bill, “Thirst,” Cemetery Dance, Winter.

Ptacek, Kathryn, “Sounds,” Masques IV.

Rains, Richard, “The Atonement,” Borderlands 2.

Raisor, Gary L., “Stigmata,” Ibid.

Rathbone, Wendy, “The Host,” Prisoners of the Night 5.

Reed, Diana, “Master Finlayson’s Boy,” BBR #19.

Reed, Kit, “Calling Hours,” Fires of the Past.

———, “The Protective Pessimist,” The Texas Review, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2.

———, “River,” IASFM, Sept.

Reeves-Stevens, Garfield, “Part Five,” The Ultimate Frankenstein.

Reichert, Mickey Zucker, “The Eranis Pipe,” Halflings, Hobbits ....

Relling, William, Jr., “The Injuries That They Themselves Procure Must Be Their Schoolmasters,” Dead End: City Limits.

Relton, Peter, “The Ninth Mask,” Dark Horizons #32.

Rendell, Ruth, “For Dear Life,” The New Gothic.

———, “Mother’s Help,” The Copper Peacock.

Resnick, Mike, “Winter Solstice,” F & SF, Oct./Nov.

Reynolds, Barry H., “The Trashman of Auschwitz,” Writers of the Future VII.

Rich, Mark, “Limits,” Tales of the Unanticipated, Winter-Summer.

Richards, Tony, “Hamadryad,” AHMM, Dec.

Roberson, Jennifer, “Riding the Nightmare,” Horse Fantastic.

Roberts, Keith, “The Will of God,” IASFM, July.

Rodgers, Alan, “Sleep,” (poem) New Life for the Dead.

Romath, Mike, “Electricity,” New York Press, April 17-23.

Royle, Nicholas, “Crispy Notes,” Obsessions.

———, “Moving Out,” Skeleton Crew, Jan.

———, “Parallax,” Final Shadows.

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, “Children of the Night,” The Ultimate Dracula.

———, “Dancers Like Children,” F & SF, Sept.

———, “Self-Protection,” Obsessions.

———, “The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long,” Invitation to Murder.

Russell, Ray, “The Collapse of Civilization,” Masques IV.

Russo, Richard Paul, “Celebrate the Bullet,” IASFM, Mid-Dec.

Sallee, Wayne Allen, “For Their Wives Are Mute,” Borderlands 2.

———, “With the Wound Still Wet,” Cemetery Dance, Summer.

———, and Lynch, H. Andrew, “The Pain Detail,” Iniquities, Autumn.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, “Small Repulsive Man,” Nyctalops, April.

———, “How Death Came to Inyar the Shepherd,” Weirdbook 26.

Sarrantonio, Al, “Richard’s Head,” Obsessions.

Sanders, Kate, “Jim’s Angel,” Revenge.

Schimel, Lawrence, “There Are Heroes Wrapped in Seaweed,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares.

Schow, David ]., “A Week in the Unlife,” A Whisper of Blood.

———, “Scoop Bites the Dust,” Pulphouse Weekly #2.

Schwader, Ann K., “Blood Rights,” (chapbook).

Schweitzer, Darrell, “After the Night,” (poem) Grue #13.

———, “Savages,” Masques IV.

Scliar, Moacyr, “The Plagues,” A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes.

Sellers, Peter, “This One’s Trouble,” AHMM, July.

Sheffield, Charles, “Eighth Trimester,” Starshore, Spring.

Sherman, Delia, “Blood Kin,” Vampires.

Sheriff, John Paxton, “Fifth Time Dead,” A HMM, June.

Shirley, John, “Just Like Suzie,” Cemetery Dance, Summer.

———, “Pearldoll,” Hotter Blood.

———, “Woodgrains,” Obsessions.

Shwartz, Susan, “Dreaming in Black and White,” Psycho-Paths.

Siddall, Sylvia M., “Thylacine, Thylacine,” Interzone 44.

Silva, David B., “Alone of His Kind,” Obsessions.

———, “Slipping,” Borderlands 2.

———, “Bleed Red, Bleed White,” Cold Blood.

Simmons, Dan, “All Dracula’s Children,” The Ultimate Dracula.

———, “The Counselor,” Obsessions.

———, “My Private Memoirs of the Hoflfer Stigmatic Pandemic,” Masques IV.

Skinner, Brian, “De Natura Vana Perceptions, ” 2AM, Spring.

Slater, Judith, “Water Witch,” The Sonoran Review #20.

Slesar, Henry, “Deuce,” F & SF, June.

———, “Home Again,” EQMM, Nov.

Smythe, George W., “Under the Sun: Spotted,” Argonaut #15.

Snider, Clifton, “Aphrodite,” Blue Mesa Review #3.

Som, T. G., “Correctional Justice,” After Hours #9.

Soukup, Martha, “Dogs Life,” Amazing Stories, March.

———, “Ties,” Newer York.

Springer, Nancy, “The Most Magical Thing About Rachel,” Horse Fantastic.

Spruill, Steven, “Ysex,” Cemetery Dance, Fall.

Stableford, Brian, “Slumming in Voodooland,” Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #26.

Stanton, Mary, “The Czechoslovakian Pigeon Farmer and the Pony that Wasn’t a Paint,” Horse Fantastic.

Straub, Peter, “The Kingdom of Heaven,” The New Gothic.

Strickland, Brad, “And the Moon Shines Full and Bright,” The Ultimate Werewolf.

Stuart, Kiel, “Do Me Baby,” Aberrations #1.

———, “Juice,” Hotter Blood.

St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa, “The Spider’s Web,” Revenge.

Takashi, Atoda, “Woman With a Hobby,” New Mystery Magazine #1.

Taylor, Eleanor Rossi, “Kitchen Fable,” (poem) The New Yorker, March 11.

Taylor, Lucy, “Atrocities,” Hotter Blood.

———, “Blessed Be the Bound,” Noctulpa 5: Guignoir and Other Furies.

Taylor, Joe, “Welcome to the Pleistocene and Land,” Subtropical Speculations.

Tem, Melanie, “Daddy’s Side,” (chapbook).

———, “Fry Day,” Final Shadows.

———, “Secrets,” Cemetery Dance, Spring.

———, “Sitting with the Driver,” Copper Star.

———, “The Ice Downstream,” Cold Shocks.

Tem, Steve Rasnic, “Hearts,” Haunted Library.

———, “Adleparmeun,” Cold Shocks.

———, “Brutes,” Iniquities, Autumn.

———, “Celestial Inventory,” (chapbook).

———, “Cutlery,” Absences: Charlie Goode’s Ghosts.

———, “Daddy’s an Actor,” New Mystery Magazine #1.

———, “Jesse,” Psycho-Paths.

———, “Plainclothes,” Cemetery Dance, Fall.

———, “Robin in the Mists,” The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood.

———, “The Regulars,” After Hours #10.

———, “The Secret Flesh,” Pulphouse #11.

———, “Wanderlust,” Tales of the Wandering Jew.

———, and Tem, Melanie, “This Icy Region My Heart Encircles,” The Ultimate Frankenstein.

Tepper, Sheri S., “The Gourmet,” F & SF, Oct./Nov.

Tessier, Thomas, “Infidel, ” A Whisper of Blood.

———, “The Dreams of Dr. Ladybank,” Night Visions 9.

Thompson, James, “It’s Gary’s Shambling Show,” Tekeli-li #1.

Tillman, Lynne, “A Dead Summer,” The New Gothic.

Tilton, Lois, “The Other Woman,” Masques IV.

———, “The Soldier’s Bride,” F & SF, Aug.

Travis, Tia, “Five in Whiskey Dog,” Noctulpa 5: Guignoir and Other Furies.

Twigg, Malcolm, “Digger,” Fear #5.

Urban, Scott H., “The Chute,” Noctulpa 5: Guignoir and Other Furies.

Vachss, Andrew, “Anytime I Want,” Invitation to Murder.

Van Helden, E. R., “The Tourist,” Aurealis #3.

Van Hollander, Jason, “The Hell Book,” Weird Tales, Fall.

Vandermeer, Jeff, “Flesh,” Fear #6.

———, “Welcome to the Masque,” Deathrealm #15, Fall/Winter.

Vernon, Steve, “Honey Jew, Hooney Jew,” Not One of Us #8.

Wagner, Karl Edward, “The Slug,” A Whisper of Blood.

Wakefield, Tom, “Dance of the Vipers,” Winters Tales: New Series 7.

Waldrop, Howard, “Fin de Cycle,” Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories.

Watson, Ian, “The Talk of the Town,” Fires of the Past.

Watt-Evans, Lawrence, “Parade,” Dead End: City Limits.

Webb, Don, “Avocation,” Figment #6.

———, “Letters from Sarah,” IASFM, Feb.

Webb, Wendy, “The Boarder,” Final Shadows.

Wentworth, K. D., “Due Process,” Aboriginal SF, Dec.

———, “The Ronnie,” AHMM, Aug.

West, Paul, “Banquo and the Black Banana: The Fierceness of the Delight of the Horror,” The New Gothic.

West, Suzi, K., “Eat In or Carry Out,” After Hours #10.

White, Ellen Emerson, “The Boy Next Door,” Thirteen.

White, Q. Kyle, “Where the Sky Never Cries,” Cemetery Dance, Fall.

Wiggins, Marianne, “Eso Es,” Bet They’ll Miss Us When Were Gone.

Wilber, Rick, “The Impaler in Love,” (poem) A Whisper of Blood.

Williams, Walter Jon, “Erogenoscape,” IASFM, Nov.

Williams, Sidney and Pettit, Robert, “Does the Blood Line Run on Time?” Under the Fang.

Williamson, Chet, “First Kill,” Cold Shocks.

———, “The Bookman,” Obsessions.

Willis, Connie, “Jack,” IASFM, Nov.

Wiloch, Thomas, “Marionettes,” World Letter Volume 1.

Wilson, Andrew J., “In the Maze of Faces,” Fear #34.

Wilson, F. Paul, “Home Repairs,” Cold Blood.

———, “The November Game,” The Bradbury Chronicles.

Wilson, Gahan, “Sea Gulls,” Masques IV.

———, “Them Bleaks,” Psycho-Paths.

Windsor, Patricia, “A Little Taste of Death,” Thirteen.

Wisman, Ken, “Jamie’s Hands,” Midnight Zoo.

Witcover, Paul, “Lighthouse Summer,” IASFM, April.

Wittington, Mary Kay, “Avhel,” Vampires.

Wolfe, Gene, “The Seraph from Its Sepulcher,” Sacred Visions.

Womack, Jack, “Lifeblood,” A Whisper of Blood.

Yamada, Amy, “Kneel Down and Lick My Feet,” Monkey Brain Sushi.

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, “Confession of a Madman,” Psycho-Paths.

———, “A Writ of Habeas Corpus,” The Ultimate Frankenstein.

Yolen, Jane, “Angels Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly,” (poem) IASFM, Mid-Dec.

———, “Great Gray,” Fires of the Past.

Zambreno, Mary Frances, “Miss Emily’s Roses,” Vampires.

Zilinskaite, Vytaute, “Sisyphus and the Woman” (translated by Debra Irving), Soviet Women Writing.