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

Honorable Mentions: 1992

Aiken, Joan, “A Nasty, Muddy Ghost Dog,” Short Circuits.

Akagawa, Jiro, “Beat Your Neighbor Out of Doors,” Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine, March.

Alcala, Kathleen, “Gypsy Lover,” Mrs. Vargas & the Dead Naturalist.

———, “Reading the Road,” Ibid.

Alcock, Vivien, “Save the Elephant, the Ant, and Billikins,” Short Circuits.

Aldiss, Brian W., “Common Clay,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dec.

———, “Horse Meat,” Interzone 65.

Aldridge, Ray, “Winedark,” F&SF, Aug.

Ames, John Edward, “Cisisbeo,” Bizarre Sex & Other Crimes of Passion.

Amies, Christopher, “Rain,” The Weerde.

Andelman, Joan, “A Sunday in December,” Lovers & Other Monsters.

Ansary, Mir Tamin, ‘The Cooper Junction Loop,” Jabberwocky, spring/summer.

Anton, Karl, “The Dying God,” Weirdbook Encores 12.

Aquino, John T., “The Sad Wizard,” The Camelot Chronicles.

Arnzen, Michael A., “Spring Ahead, Fall Back,” Palace Corbie 2.

Arthurs, Bruce, “Shadows Do Not Bleed,” Sword & Sorceresses IX.

Atwood, Margaret, “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women,” This Magazine, Sept.

———, “There Was Once,” Ibid.

Baker, Scott, “The Lurking Duck,” (novella) Foundations of Fear.

Ballentine, Lee and Boston, Bruce, Gulling South,” New Pathways, winter.

Bannister, Jo, “A Poisoned Chalice,” EQMM, May.

———, “Howler,” EQMM, Oct.

———, “The Witness,” EQMM, March.

Barnham, Chris, “Barrowpath,” Darklands 2.

Barrett, Neal, Jr., “Uteropolis II,” Slightly Off Center.

Baudino, Gael, ‘ Tidings of Comfort and Joy,” The Magic of Christmas.

Baxter, Stephen, “In the Manner of Trees,” Interzone 62.

Beagle, Peter S., “The Naga,” After the King.

Beechcroft, William, “Turkey Durkin and the Catfish,” EQMM, Oct.

Begamudre, Ven, “Vishnu’s Navel,” A Planet of Eccentrics.

Behunin, Judith R., “Sometimes (Mood of June Morning)” (poem), Eldritch Tales 27.

Berman, Ruth, “Alder-Woman,” Fantasy Macabre 15.

Blanchard, Stephen, “The Fat People,” Interzone 61.

Blumenthal, Jay, “Parallel Universe” (poem), The South Carolina Review, spring.

Bograd, Larry, “The Reincarnation of Sweetlips,” Short Circuit.

Bond, Jonathan, “SYSTEMatic Shocks,” Pulph ouse 9.

Boren, Terry, “Three Views of a Staked Plain,” Interzone 57.

Borton, Douglas, “Venice, California,” Freak Show.

Boston, Bruce and Frazier, Robert, “Aerial Reconnaissance of a Conflagration at the Heart,” Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest.

Boston, Bruce, “Clothed and Naked in the Mutant Rain Forest,” Dreams & Night mares 38.

———, “What Trees Dream About in Their Prodigious Sleep,” Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, August.

Braly, David, The Ominous Stroll,” Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Feb

———, “The Cattleman's Club,” AHMM, July.

Braunbeck, Gary A., “By Civilized Means,” Cemetery Dance, spring.

———, “Drowning with Others,” Dark Crimes 2.

———, “Natural Enemies,” The Tome, summer.

Breque, Jean-Daniel, “Coffee,” Darklands 2.

Briggs, Pamela, “Party of One,” The Urbanite #2: The Party Issue.

Brite, Poppy Z., “The Sixth Sentinel,” Borderlands 3.

———, “How to Get Ahead in New York,” Gauntlet 4.

Brown, Molly, “The Vengeance of Grandmother Wu,” Interzone 61.

Brown, Simon, “Shadows,” Aurealis 7.

Bryant, Edward, “Country Mouse,” F&SF, March.

Budrys, Algis, “Grabow and Collicker and I,” F&SF, May.

Burke, John, “One Day You’ll Learn,” Darklands 2.

Burns, Cliff, “Strays,” Premonitions 1.

Burrello, Dan, “The Songs of My Young,” Lovers & Other Monsters.

Cadigan, Pat, “A Deal with God,” Grails: Quests, Visitations, and Other Occurrences.

———, “Mother’s Milt,” Omni Best Science Fiction Two.

———, “Naming Names,” Narrow Houses.

———, “No Prisoners,” Alternate Kennedys.,

———, “New Life for Old,” Aladdin: Master of the Lamp.

Cahoon, Brad, “The Arachnarium,” Deathrealm #16.

Calvert, David, “Dispatches,” Midnight Graffiti, fall.

Campbell, Ramsey, “End of the Line,” MetaHorror.

———, “The Dead Must Die,” Narrow Houses.

———, “The Limits of Fantasy,” Gauntlet #3.

———, “Welcomeland,” Weird Tales, spring.

Cantrell, Lisa, “A Good Day’s Work,” New Mystery 3.

Card, Orson Scott, “Atlantis,” Grails.

Carroll, Jonathan, “Learning to Leave,” Narrow Houses.

———, “Uh-Oh City,” F&SF, June.

———, “The Life of My Crime,” Omni, Feb.

Cassutt, Michael, “Night Life,” Borderlands 3.

———, “Perpetual Light,” Grails.

Castro, Adam-Troy, “Synchronicity,” Pulphouse 9.

Chehak, Susan Taylor, “Coulda Been You,” Sisters in Crime 5.

Clarke, A. G., “Sirensong,” Intimate Armageddons.

Clawson, Calvin, “The Torcher,” Forbidden Lines 11.

Clayton, Ash, “Stand Not Alone Against Eternity,” Prisoners of the Night 6.

Collins, Barbara & Collins, Max Allan, “Cat Got Your Tongue,” Cat Crimes III.

Collins, Nancy A., “Cold Turkey” (novella), Crossroads Press.

Constantine, Storm, “A Change of the Season,” The Weerde.

———, “The Law of Being,” Eurotemps.

Cooper, Dennis, “Container,” Wrong.

Cornell, Paul, “Sunflower Pump,” The Weerde.

Coward, Mat, “Cold Calling,” Mind’s Eye.

Craig, Brian, “The Woman in the Mirror,” The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales.

Crawford, Dan, “Extra Cheese, and I Have Your Coupon,” AHMM, July.

———, “Local History,” Deathrealm 17.

Curtis, Ashley, “Anomalies of the Heart,” AHMM, July.

Daniel, Tony, “The Natural Hack,” Amazing, March.

Dean, David, “Angela’s Baby,” EQMM, Sept.

Dedman, Stephen, “A Death in Casablanca,” Strange Plasma 5.

de Lint, Charles, “Conjure Man,” After the King.

———, “Mr. Truepenny,” Cheap Street (chapbook).

Delaplace, Barbara, “Black Ice,” Aladdin.

Derose, Criss, “The Mystery of the Dark Comedian” (poem), Tekeli-li! 4.

Devereaux, Robert, “Spell Check,” Bizarre Bazaar ’92.

DiChario, Nicholas A., “The Winterberry,” Alternate Kennedys.

Doolittle, Sean, “A Safer Place,” Palace Corbie, Aug.

Dorr, James S. L., “Crumbs,” Palace Corbie, Autumnal.

———, “Fetuscam,” Abortion Stories.

———, “The Birdcatchers” (poem), The Tome, summer.

Dorrell, Paul, “Jason,” Constable New Crimes 1.

Dowling, Terry, “They Found the Angry Moon,” Intimate Armageddons.

Drago, Ty, “The Attendant,” After Hours 15.

Dumars, Denise, “Incident in a New York Office” (poem), Eldritch Tales 27.

Dunmore, Helen, “Annina,” Caught in a Story.

Edelman, Scott, “The Kindest Cut,” Suicide Art, Necronomicon Press (chapbook).

———, “Suicide Art,” Ibid.

Elflandsson, Galad, “Waiting,” Northern Frights.

Elko, Bronwynn, “Blueblood,” Writers of the Future Volume VIII.

Ellis, Mary, “Wings,” Glimmer Train 4.

Engstrom, Elizabeth, “Project Stone” (novella), Nightmare Flower.

———, “The Old Woman Upstairs,” Ibid.

Epperson, S. K., “The Cause,” Gauntlet 4.

Fainlight, Ruth, “The Fishscale Shirt,” Caught in a Story.

Fearn, Michael, “Railway Mania,” The Weerde.

Fenn, Lionel, “The Awful Truth in Arthur’s Barrow,” Grails.

Ferguson, Andrew C., “The Devil’s Advocate,” Dementia 13.

Ferret, “God-Worm Coming,” New Pathways 20.

Ford, Steven M., “Set a Place for Arthur,” Aboriginal SF, fall.

Foster, Alan Dean, “Lay Your Head on My Pilose,” Future Crime.

Fowler, Christopher, “Black Day at Bad Rock,” In Dreams.

———, “Evil Eye,” Narrow Houses.

Fox, Daniel, “High-Flying, Adored,” Dark Voices 4.

Frey, Mary, “Behind the Waterfall,” Sword & Sorceresses IX.

Friesner, Esther M., “All Vows,” Asimovs Science Fiction, Nov.

Frost, R. J., "State of the Art,” Dementia 13.

Fuqua, C. S., “Mama’s Boy,” Cemetery Dance, spring.

Fusco, Adam Corbin, “Shell,” Cemetery Dance, fall.

Gaiman, Neil, “Chivalry,” Grails.

Gallagher, Stephen, “Homebodies,” Dark at Heart.

Gannon, S. R., “Jessie,” After Hours 14.

Garcia y Robertson, R., “Breakfast Cereal Killers,” IASFM, June.

Garnett, David, “Off the Track,” Interzone 63.

Gates, David Edgerley, “How to Electrocute an Elephant,” Story, summer.

Gleisser, Benjamin, “Restaurant of the Damned,” After Hours 15.

Goddin, Jeffrey, “The Soul of the King’s Daughter,” Weirdbook 27.

———, “The Straw Man,” Space & Time, summer.

Goldstein, Lisa, “Alfred,” ASFM, Dec.

Gordon, John, “Death Wish,” The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts.

———, “The Key,” Ibid.

———, “Under the Ice,” Ibid.

Gorman, Ed, “Mother Darkness,” Constable New Crimes 1.

———, “The Long Silence After,” Dark at Heart.

Gorodischer, Angela, “Letters from an English Lady,” translated by Monica Bruno, Secret Weavers.

Gramlich, Charles A., “The Lady Wore Black,” Prisoners of the Night 6.

Haldeman II, Jack C., “Ashes to Ashes,” Grails.

Haldeman, Philip, “The Composer in Residence,” Weirdbook 27.

Hall, David C., “He Waits for You,” EQMM, Sept.

Hand, Elizabeth, “Engels Unaware,” Interzone 66.

———, “The Have-nots,” IASFM, June.

———, “In the Month of Athyr,” Best Omni Science Fiction Two.

Harrison, M. John, “GIFCO,” MetaHorror.

Hellweg, Paul, “The Coke Boy,” IASFM, May.

Hensley, Chad, “Pilgrimage” (poem), Deathrealm 17.

Henighan, Tom, “Dark Christmas,” Strange Attractors.

Higgins, Graham, “Jabberwockish,” Villains!.

Hines, Judy, “Nearly Tomorrow,” Darklands 2.

Hodge, Brian, “Jocko,” Cemetery Dance, winter.

———, “Love Is Where You Buy It,” Gauntlet #3.

———, “Like a Pilgrim to the Shrine,” Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

Holder, Nancy, “The Ghost of Tivoli,” Pulphouse Short Story Paperback.

Holdstock, Robert, “The Silvering,” Narrow Houses.

Holliday, Liz, “Blind Fate,” The Weerde.

———, “Third Person Singular,” Temps.

Holt, Esther J., “The Orange Sofa,” AHMM, Sept.

Hopkins, Brian, “The Night Was Kind to Loretta,” The Tome, summer.

Howe, Robert J., “Little Boy Black and Blue,” Weird Tales, spring.

Huff, Tanya, “Underground,” Northern Frights.

Hughes, Philip, “Cut and Print,” Carnage Hall 3.

Hyde, Gregory R., “Do You Hear What I Hear?” The Blood Review Christmas Card.

Ings, Simon, “Bruised Time,” New Worlds 2.

Isle, Sue, “A Sprig of Aconite,” Intimate Armageddons.

Jenhoff, Marvyne, “Cinderella and All the Slippers: The Story of a Story,” The Fiddlehead, summer.

Jessen, Pamela J., “Cuttings,” Roadkill Press (chapbook).

Johnson, George Clayton, “The Ring of Truth,” MetaHorror.

Johnson, Kij, “Questing,” Tales of the Unanticipated 10.

Jones, Jenny, “Hide and Seek,” Eurotemps.

Jordan, Deane, “Making Change,” EQMM, Oct.

Joyce, Graham, “Last Rising Sun,” In Dreams.

———, “Under the Pylon,” Darklands 2.

Julian, Astrid, “Bringing Sissy Home,” Writers of the Future Volume VIII.

Kane, Kristopher P., “Side Show,” Deathrealm 16.

Katzir, Yehudit, “Fellini’s Shoes,” Closing the Sea.

Kaveney, Roz, “Totally Trashed,” Eurotemps.

———, “A Wolf to Man,” The Weerde.

Keefauver, Brad, “A New Dimension in Jogging,” Weirdbook Encores 12.

Kelly, Andrew, “The Cowgirl Who Rode the Lonesome Trail,” Doppelganger 14.

Kelly, Ronald, “Beneath Black Bayou,” Dark at Heart.

———, “Thinning of the Herd,” 2am, spring.

Kenan, Randall, “Things of This World; Or, Angels Unawares,” Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.

Kennett, Rick, “Out of the Storm,” Chills 14.

———, “The Outsider,” Ghosts & Scholars 14.

———, “The Seas of Castle Hill Road,” Eidolon 9.

Kernaghan, Eileen, “The Weighmaster of Flood,” Ark of Ice.

Kessel, John, “Man,” IASFM, May.

Kidd, A. F., “Saint Sebastian and the Mona Lisa,” Aurealis 9.

Kilworth, Garry, “1948,” Strange Plasma 5.

———, “The Cave Painting,” Omni Best Science Fiction Two.

———, “My Lady Lydia,” SF&F U.K. 2.

King, Stephen, “Chattery Teeth,” Cemetery Dance, fall.

———, “You Know They Got a Hell of a Band,” Shock Rock.

Klause, Annette Curtis, “The Hoppins,” Short Circuits.

Knight, Ellen, “Trompe-L’Oeil,” Weirdbook 27.

Koja, Kathe, “By the Mirrors of My Youth,” Universe 2.

———, “The Company of Storms,” F&SF, June.

———, “Leavings,” Borderlands 3.

———, “The Prince of Nox,” Still Dead.

Koman, Victor, “Bootstrap Enterprise,” F&SF, Feb.

Konrad, George, “On the Adolescence of Middle-Aged Men,” translated by Imre Goldstein, The Paris Review, spring.

Kress, Nancy, “Eoghan,” Alternate Kennedys.

Laidlaw, Marc, “The Vulture Maiden,” F&SF, Aug.

Lannes, Roberta, “I Walk Alone,” Still Dead.

Laymon, Richard, “Kitty Litter,” Cat Crimes II.

Le Guin, Ursula, “Climbing to the Moon,” American Short Fiction.

Lee, Tanith, “Beautiful Lady,” The Book of the Dead.

———, “Exalted Hearts,” Grails.

———, “The Glass Dagger,” The Book of the Dead.

———, “The Lily Garden,” Weird Tales, spring.

———, “The Moon Is a Mask,” The Book of the Dead.

Lewis, D. F., “Weggs Padgett,” Fantasy Macabre 15.

Lipinski, Miroslaw, “The Travelling Coffin,” Ibid.

Little, Bentley, “Big Al’s,” Eldritch Tales 26.

Livings, Martin J., “Ghost Card,” Eidolon 10.

Lovegrove, James, “The Landlady's Dog,” Narrow Houses.

Lovesey, Peter, “The Man Who Ate People,” EQMM, Oct.

Luft, Lya, “The Left Wing of the Angel,” One Hundred Years After Tomorrow.

Lyons, Rebecca, “Nana’s Magic,” After Hours 14.

MacGregor, T. J., “Wild Card,” Sisters in Crime 5.

Maclay, John, “Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” Borderlands 3.

———, “Meat Men,” Mindwarps.

———, “The Flats," Ibid.

Malzberg, Barry N., “Grand Tour,” Aladdin.

———, “On the Heath,” Ibid.

———, “Ship Full of Jews,” Omni, April.

———, & Dann, Jack, “Life in the Air,” Amazing, April.

Mandrake, Jill, “The Alligator People,” Event, spring.

Mapes, Diane, “Nesting,” Interzone 59.

———, “She-Devil,” Interzone 63.

———, “The Man in the Red Suit,” ASFM, Dec.

Marshall, Don, “As Ye Sow So Shall Ye . . .” AHMM, mid-Dec.

Massie, Elizabeth, “Abed,” Still Dead.

———, “Brazo de Dios,” Borderland 3.

———, “Meat,” The Tome, summer.

Masterton, Graham, “Laird of Dunain,” The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories.

Matheson, Richard Christian, “Groupies,” Shock Rock.

———, “Mutilator,” MetaHorror.

Mayfair, Linda Lee, “Dance with the Devil,” 2am, spring.

McCarthy, Wil, “Looking for Pablo,” Grails.

McConnell, Chan, “DONt/WALK,” Still Dead.

McCrumb, Sharyn, “Nine Lives to Live,” Cat Crimes II.

McDonald, Ian, “Brody Loved the Masaii Woman,” The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales.

McDowell, Ian, “My Father’s Face,” Amazing, July.

McHugh, Maureen F. “The Beast,” I ASFM, March.

McKillip, Patricia A., “The Fellowship of the Dragon,” After the King.

Metzger, Thom, “Body Body,” Final Warning.

Meyer, Adam, “Mind Games,” Doppelganger 14.

———, “Swimmer,” Souls in Pawn.

Michaels, Frank, “Mrs. Edgecliff,” AHMM, Aug.

Miller, Frances A., “Something Different,” Short Circuits.

Moler, Lee, “Drood Hollow, West Virginia,” Freak Show.

Monath, Jay, "A Clown’s Story,” Fiction International.

Monteleone, Thomas F., “Oyster Bay, New York,” Freak Show.

Morrell, David, Nothing Will Hurt You,” MetaHorror.

———, “The Shrine,” Dark at Heart.

Morris, Mary McGarry, “The Perfect Tenant,” Glimmer Train 1.

Morrow, James, “Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail,” Amazing, April.

Mullins, Kevin, “Love,” Darklands 2.

Naparsteck, Martin, “The 9:13,” EQMM, Feb.

Nasir, Jamil, “Sunlight,” Aboriginal SF, fall.

———, “The Heaven Tree,” IASFM, Feb.

Nelson, Amy, “Narcissus,” Fantasy Macabre 15.

Newman, Kim, “Organ Donors,” Darklands 2.

———,“Red Reign” (novella), The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories.

———, “Week Woman,” Dark Voices 4.

Nickels, Tim, “Born in the Forest,” Back Brain Recluse 21.

Noble, Carol T., “Beach Weather,” Ibid.

Norris, Gregory L., “Dorian’s Party,” The Urbanite 2: The Party Issue.

Novakovich, Josip, “Bricks,” Prairie Schooner, spring.

Oates, Joyce Carol, “Extenuating Circumstances,” Sisters in Crime 5.

———, “Schroeder’s Stepfather,” EQMM, April.

———, “The Artist,” Omni, June.

———, “The Ice Pack,” Raritan, winter.

———, “The Model,” EQMM, October.

———, “The Premonition,” Playboy, Dec.

Ocampo, Silvina, “The House of Sugar,” translated by Nina M. Scott, Secret Weavers.

Olson, Donald, “Deadly Wednesday,” EQMM, mid-Dec.

Olson, Lance, Losing Things” (poem), Weirdbook Encores 12.

Olujic, Grozdana, The Man Who Went Looking for His Face,” Conjunctions 18.

Osier, Jeffrey, “Sanctuary,” The Silver Web, summer.

———, What I Had to Do . . . .” Not One of Us 9.

O’Brien, Jr., Edward, “The Unpleasantness at Marlowe's,” Crypt of Cthulhu 80.

O’Driscoll, Mike, “Foreign Land,” Darklands 2.

Palmer, Stuart, ‘The Discontinuum Kitchen,” Interzone 55.

Parker, Mike, “The Stuntman,” Critical Quarterly Vol. 34 #1.

Partridge, Norman, “Apotropaics, ” Cemetery Dance, winter.

———, Candy Bars for Elvis,” Cemetery Dance, spring.

———, “Johnny Halloween,” Cemetery Dance, fall.

———, “Last Kiss,” New Crimes 3.

———, “Mr. Fox,” Mr. Fox & Other Feral Tales.

———, “Tombstone Moon,” Souls in Pawn.

Penney, Bridget, “Sister Anne,” Honeymoon with Death & Other Stories.

———, “Spike and Scissors,” Ibid.

———, “Honeymoon with Death,” Ibid.

Philbrick, W. R., “The Cure,” Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

Pilkington, Ace G., “Half Sisters” (poem), IASFM, March.

Platt, Charles, “Dark Desires,” Pulphouse, July.

Plieger, C. Maria, “A Cold Fragrant Air,” Writers of the Future VIII.

Pronzini, Bill, “Liar’s Dice,” EQMM, Nov.

Ptacek, Kathryn, “Healing Touch,” Eldritch Tales 27.

———, “Palmomita, New Mexico,” Freak Show.

Purdy, James, “Kitty Blue,” Conjunctions 18.

Ragan, Jacie, “What Kind of Cook” (poem), Dreams & Nightmares 39.

Rainey, Mark, “The Grey House, Crypt of Cthulhu St. ]ohn s Eve.

Rainey, Stephen M., “The Herald at Midnight,” Not One of Us 9.

———, “The Last Show at Verdi’s Supper Club,” After Hours 16.

Randal, John W., “Dead Sky Eyes,” Aboriginal SF, winter.

Ransom, Daniel, “Night Cries,” Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

Raymond, Derek, “Changeless Susan, Constable New Crimes I.

Reed, Kit, “The Hall of New Faces,” F&SF, Oct./Nov.

Reeves-Stevens, Garfield, “Tear Down,” Northern Frights.

Reiter, Thomas, “Rootstocks and Cuttings” (poem), The Caribbean Writer, Vol. 6.

Resnick, Mike, “The Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies,” After the King.

Reynolds, Alastair, “Digital to Analogue,” In Dreams.

Richerson, Carrie, “A Dying Breed,” F&SF, Oct/Nov.

———, “Apotheosis,” Souls in Pawn.

Rios, Alberto Alvaro, “Susto,” Mid-American Review, Vol XXI, #1.

Rogal, Stan, “Skin Deep,” Glimmer Train 3.

Rowlands, Betty, “Here Comes a Chopper,” EQMM, May.

Royle, Nicholas, “Night Shift Sister,” In Dreams.

———, “Tracks,” Interzone 55.

Russell, Douglas, “The Sorcerer’s Remains,” Weirdbook 27.

Russell, J. S., “Undiscovered Countries,” Still Dead.

Russo, Patricia, “Mirror Images,” Tales of the Unanticipated 10.

Ryan, James, “The Laughing Man,” The Urbanite 2: The Party Issue.

Sallee, Wayne Allen, “Blood from a Turnip,” Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

———, “Every Mother’s Son,” Constable New Crimes 1.

———, “What Would Mamaw Say,” Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, “The Oak,” The Goddess Under Siege.

Sampson, Robert, “The Yellow Clay Bowl, Grails.

Saxton, Josephine, “A Strange Sort of Friend,” The Weerde.

Schossau, P. K., “Where Angels Fear,” AHMM, March.

Schow, David J., “Action,” Dark at Heart.

Schweitzer, Darrell & van Hollander, Jason, The Caravan of the Dead, Weirdbook 27.

Sequeira, George W., “Catch Me When You Can—From Hell,” Terror Australis 3. ’

Shepard, Lucius, “Beast of the Heartland,” Playboy, Sept.

Sherman, C. H., “Teacher,” Lovers & Other Monsters.

Shirley, John, “ 'I Want to Get Married!’ Says the World’s Smallest Man,” Midnight Graffiti.

Shockley, W. M., “A Father’s Gift,” IASFM, April.

Simmons, Dan, “Elm Haven, Illinois,” Freak Show.

———, “This Year’s Class Picture,” Still Dead.

Simpson, Helen, “Four Bare Legs in a Bed,” Four Bare Legs in a Bed.

Skipp, John & Spector, Craig, “The Ones You Love,” Still Dead.

Slatton, Diane T., Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, ” Abortion Stories.

Smeds, David, “The Flower That Does Not Wither,” Swords & Sorceresses IX.

Smith, Dean Wesley, “The Blind Poet,” 2am, spring.

Smith, William, “Pawned Teeth,” Dementia 13 #7.

Smyth, George W., “The Man from Madagascar,” Thin Ice XII.

Somtow, S. P., Hunting the Lion,” Weird Tales, spring.

———, “The Steel American,” Grails.

Springer, Nancy, “Damnbanna” (novella), Axolotl Press (chapbook)/F&SF, Dec.

———, “Don't Look Back,” F&SF, Oct/Nov. ’

Stableford, Brian, Salome, The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales.

———,The Innsmouth Heritage.” Necronomicon Press (chapbook).

———, Upon the Gallows-Tree,” Narrow Houses.

Starkey, David, “Flesh,” Aberations 6.

———, “Savior Complex,” Mean Lizards 1992.

———, A Disturbance in the Universe,” Tales of the Unanticipated 10.

Stevens, B. J., This Little Piggy Gets . . .” Terror Australis 3.

Stevens-Arce, James, “The Devil’s Sentrybox,” Amazing, March.

Strickland, Brad, “Okenfenokee Swamp, Georgia,” Freak Show.

Stross, Charles, “Execution Night,” Villains!

Sullivan, Thomas, “Deep Down Under,” Dark at Heart.

Taff, John F. D., “The Two of Guns,” Eldritch Tales 26.

Tarr, Judith, “Death and the Lady,” Grails.

Taylor, Lucy, “Deer Season,” Northern Frights.

———, “Games,” Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion.

———, “Heels,” Unnatural Acts.

———, “Rush,” Unnatural Acts.

———, “Slips,” Ibid.

Tem, Melanie, “Repentance,” Grue 14.

———, “Trails of Crumbs,” ASFM, Nov.

Tem, Steve Rasnic, “Breaking the Rules,” Narrow Houses.

———, Decodings, Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft.

———, “Going North,” Northern Frights.

———, “Guardian Angels,” Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft.

———, “Mirror Man,” Ibid.

———, “Squeezer,” New Crimes 3.

———, The Dying,” Jabberwocky, spring/summer.

———, “Vintage Domestic,” The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories.

———, Blue Alice,” The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales.

Temple, William F., “The Healer,” Interzone, Nov.

Tessier, Thomas, “Addicted to Love,” Shock Rock.

———, “In Praise of Folly,” MetaHorror.

———, “The Banshee,” Borderlands 3.

Thomas, Scott, “Little Mercy,” Elegia, fall.

Thompson, Joyce, “Synecdoche,” F&SF, August.

Thomson, June, “Secrets,” EQMM, March.

Timlin, Mark, “Ai No Corrida,” Constable New Crimes 1.

———, “Riders on the Storm,” In Dreams.

Tremblay, Mildred, “Ruby’s Child,” Dark Forms Gliding.

VanderMeer, Jeff, “Flesh,” Midnight Zoo, vol. 1 issue 2.

———, “Mahout,” ASFM, mid-Dec.

Vasey, Glen, “One Step at a Time,” Still Dead.

Velde, Vivian Vande, “Thanksgiving Troll,” Disney Adventure.

Wade, Susan, “Living in Memory,” Amazing, Oct.

Wagner-Hankins, Maggie, “Witch and Cousin,” AHMM, Dec.

Wainer, Jack, “Miss Ain’t Behaving,” Far Point 4.

Waldrop, Howard, “The Effects of Alienation,” Omni, June.

Wallace, Daniel, “In Heaven These Days,” Story Magazine, summer.

Wallace, Marilyn, “Reunion,” Deadly Allies.

Watson, Ian, “Looking Down on You,” F&SF, Oct/Nov.

———, “The Tale of the Peg and the Brain,” Narrow Houses.

Webb, Don, “Rest Cure,” bOING-bOING 8.

———, “The Photographer” (poem), Psychos.

Wehrstein, Karen, “Cold,” Northern Frights.

Weiner, Andrew, “The Map,” Ibid.

Wells, J. A., “Like Cats,” Prisoners of the Night 6.

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———, “The Gift of the Magicians,” Christmas Bestiary.

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