An annual collection of short stories and novellas of supernatural and psychological terror by authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman and Tanith Lee.
Introduction: horror in 1998 / the editor -
Learning to let go / Christopher Fowler -
The wedding present / Neil Gaiman -
Adventures in further education / Peter Atkins -
Bondage / Kathe Koja -
The keys to D'Esperance / Chaz Brenchley -
The song my sister sang / Stephen Laws -
A Victorian ghost story / Kim Newman -
The dead boy at your window / Bruce Holland Rogers -
Ra*e / Ramsey Campbell -
Upstairs / Lawrence Watt-Evans -
Postcards from the King of Tides / Caitlin R. Kiernan -
Everybody goes / Michael Marshall Smith -
Yellow and red / Tanith Lee -
What slips away / Steve Rasnic Tem -
Inside the cackle factory / Dennis Etchison -
The specialist's hat / Kelly Link -
The boss in the wall : a treatise on the house devil / Avram Davidson & Grania Davis -
Objects of desire in the mirror are closer than they appear / Harlan Ellison -
Mr Clubb and Mr Cuff / Peter Straub -
Necrology: 1998 / Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.