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Twenty-eight spine-tinglers are showcased by the editors, both veteran horror writers,in this fine anthology, which runs the horror gamut from occult shocker to psychological thriller. Though it opens with a rather tasteless entry, K. W. Jeter's grisly "The First Time" (told with au courant splatterpunk brio), the collection redeems itself many times over with a score of tales that make the prerequisite suspension of disbelief a hair-raising pleasure. In Michael Marshall Smith's imaginative "The Man Who Drew Cats," a mysterious street-artist stretches his creativity to alarmingly grim lengths when an abused child wins his heart. Thomas Ligotti's fluently written novella, "The Last Feast of Harlequin," reveals the dark nature lurking just beneath the whiteface. The searing final image in "Cedar Lane," by Karl Edward Wagner, will invoke for many genre fans Ray Bradbury's classic "There Will Come Soft Rains." J. L. Comeau's riveting "Firebird" pits supernatural forces against a feisty ballerina who also happens to be a cop. In one of the collection's strongest entries, "Mister Ice Cold," cartoonist Gahan Wilson proves that a few thousand well-chosen words just might be worth more than a picture, after all.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Horror in 1990 - essay by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
• The First Time - (1990) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
• A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - shortstory by Peter Straub
• Stephen - (1990) - novelette by Elizabeth Massie
• The Dead Love You - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Jane Doe #112 - (1990) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shock Radio - (1990) - shortstory by Ray Garton
• The Man Who Drew Cats - (1990) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Co-Op - (1990) - shortstory by Melanie Tem
• Negatives - (1990) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 1/72nd Scale - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Cedar Lane - (1990) - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
• At a Window Facing West - (1990) - shortstory by Kim Antieau
• Inside the Walled City - (1990) - novelette by Garry Kilworth
• On the Wing - (1990) - shortstory by Jean-Daniel Brèque
• Firebird - (1990) - novelette by J. L. Comeau
• Incident on a Rainy Night in Beverly Hills - (1990) - novelette by David J. Schow
• His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood - (1990) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Original Dr Shade - (1990) - novelette by Kim Newman
• Madge - (1990) - shortstory by D. F. Lewis
• Alive in Venice - (1990) - shortstory by Cherry Wilder
• Divertimento - (1989) - shortstory by Gregory Frost
• Pelts - (1989) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• Those of Rhenea - (1990) - shortstory by David Sutton
• Lord of the Land - (1990) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Aquarium - (1990) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Mister Ice Cold - (1990) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
• On the Town Route - (1989) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• Necrology: 1990 - essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman

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