Karl E. Wagner - Years Best Horror XVII
Apr 15, 2007 5:48:39 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Apr 15, 2007 5:48:39 GMT -5
Karl E. Wagner (ed) - Years Best Horror stories XVII (Daw, October 1989)
J. K. Potter
Karl E Wagner - Introduction: Ten Years After
Brian Lumley - Fruiting Bodies
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Works Of Art
Harlan Ellison - She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother
Ian Watson - The Resurrection Man
Charles L. Grant - Now And Again In Summer
Dennis Etchison - Call 666
M. John Harrison - The Great God Pan
Brad Strickland - What Dreams May Come
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Regression
Don Webb - Souvenirs From A Damnation
Wayne Allen Sallee - Bleeding Between The Lines
Ramsey Campbell - Playing The Game
Ian Watson - Lost Bodies
Nicholas Royle - Ours Now
Elizabeth Hand - Prince Of Flowers
Robert Frazier - The Daily Chernobyl
Charles L. Grant - Snowman
Thomas F. Monteleone - Nobody's Perfect
Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air
Leonard Carpenter - Recrudescence
Harlan Ellison - She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother: "Then Camilla came to me, and settled down beside me and lifted my head and stroked my face with a bloody hand. And she kissed me. And I smelled the butcher's shop on her lipless mouth. I almost cried. She still loved me."
The narrator tells of his girlfriend's obsession with returning to Scotland. Her ancestral home is a cave where the descendents of Sawney Beane still lay in wait for unwary travelers.
Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air: A radio DJ is stalked around the studio after a late night callers requests that he play Screaming Lord Sutch's Hands Of Jack The Ripper.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Regression: David Masters decides to end his life. While waiting for his overdose to kick in, he wonders: "If I had a choice of a hereafter, which one would I choose?" Ruling out Heaven, Hell and the ghost world, he decides he'd like to return to the time when he was happiest. When he regains consciousness, he is back at his old school desk in 1936. To his horror, he realises that within a week his father will die under the wheels of a runaway lorry. Perhaps, though, he's been given a second chance to prevent the tragedy?
Ian Watson - The Resurrection Man: Jim Park's family's most treasured heirloom is the ear of William Burke which they've kept preserved in a jar down the years. Jim discovers that when he places the ear to his own he can hear events from the life of the notorious corpse-trader. Inspired, he goes about collecting parts from other bodies for similar use, unearthing them from cemeteries nationwide.
Dennis Etchison - Call 666: When the caller rings the number for Fantasy Mates in a sleazy contact mag, he or she are informed who they are required to kill.
Thomas F. Monteleone - Nobody's Perfect: "Going to cut you up' said the monster in the leather apron. His face moved to within inches of her own. His breath smelled of decay, his eyes as flat and dead as a shark, 'and then I'm going to eat you."
It's not looking good for Lydia, a beautiful woman but for her withered arm (she's a Thalidomide victim), who has been abducted by a cannibalistic serial killer, Salazar, whom she dated after they both enrolled at Books For The Blind. Manacled and horrified, she is helpless to prevent the maniac slicing away her clothing, but all the years of rejection bottled up inside her finally find release ...
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Works Of Art:The artist Cerveza auctions his works on the understanding that he can destroy each creation once he's completed a new one. Sally is so besotted with the sculpture she's acquired that, when the time comes for its destruction, her lover Lucy offers herself to Creveza's axe in its place.
Nicholas Royle - Ours Now: Yuppie horror. A commodity broker receives a stream of unsolicited porn magazines through the post depicting people with their private pats pierced in decidedly Psychic TV fashion. he is eventually lured to a house in Finchley where these extreme masochists live and has something very cringe-inducing done to him with his filofax.
Ian Watson - Lost Bodies: extraordinarily weird tale of a foxes head which continues to live despite its being torn off during the hunt. Two young couples are concerned that it is an alien spy - and the narrator wonders if his bashful wife, Karen, is one of the same kind ...
Wayne Allen Sallee - Bleeding Between The Lines: Blackly humorous account of Sallee's visit to his female psychiatrist, and the third in his trilogy concerning Cassady, "the dark side of my soul" (the series begins with Rapid Transit and continues with Take The A Train). The shrink remarks, "I also notice you mention Cassady in The Touch by having his name written on a bathroom wall." All four of the above appeared in the Years Best horror series, and I just found something called Blood From A Turnip in Greenberg's Dracula, Prince of Darkness.
J. K. Potter
Karl E Wagner - Introduction: Ten Years After
Brian Lumley - Fruiting Bodies
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Works Of Art
Harlan Ellison - She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother
Ian Watson - The Resurrection Man
Charles L. Grant - Now And Again In Summer
Dennis Etchison - Call 666
M. John Harrison - The Great God Pan
Brad Strickland - What Dreams May Come
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Regression
Don Webb - Souvenirs From A Damnation
Wayne Allen Sallee - Bleeding Between The Lines
Ramsey Campbell - Playing The Game
Ian Watson - Lost Bodies
Nicholas Royle - Ours Now
Elizabeth Hand - Prince Of Flowers
Robert Frazier - The Daily Chernobyl
Charles L. Grant - Snowman
Thomas F. Monteleone - Nobody's Perfect
Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air
Leonard Carpenter - Recrudescence
Harlan Ellison - She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother: "Then Camilla came to me, and settled down beside me and lifted my head and stroked my face with a bloody hand. And she kissed me. And I smelled the butcher's shop on her lipless mouth. I almost cried. She still loved me."
The narrator tells of his girlfriend's obsession with returning to Scotland. Her ancestral home is a cave where the descendents of Sawney Beane still lay in wait for unwary travelers.
Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air: A radio DJ is stalked around the studio after a late night callers requests that he play Screaming Lord Sutch's Hands Of Jack The Ripper.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Regression: David Masters decides to end his life. While waiting for his overdose to kick in, he wonders: "If I had a choice of a hereafter, which one would I choose?" Ruling out Heaven, Hell and the ghost world, he decides he'd like to return to the time when he was happiest. When he regains consciousness, he is back at his old school desk in 1936. To his horror, he realises that within a week his father will die under the wheels of a runaway lorry. Perhaps, though, he's been given a second chance to prevent the tragedy?
Ian Watson - The Resurrection Man: Jim Park's family's most treasured heirloom is the ear of William Burke which they've kept preserved in a jar down the years. Jim discovers that when he places the ear to his own he can hear events from the life of the notorious corpse-trader. Inspired, he goes about collecting parts from other bodies for similar use, unearthing them from cemeteries nationwide.
Dennis Etchison - Call 666: When the caller rings the number for Fantasy Mates in a sleazy contact mag, he or she are informed who they are required to kill.
Thomas F. Monteleone - Nobody's Perfect: "Going to cut you up' said the monster in the leather apron. His face moved to within inches of her own. His breath smelled of decay, his eyes as flat and dead as a shark, 'and then I'm going to eat you."
It's not looking good for Lydia, a beautiful woman but for her withered arm (she's a Thalidomide victim), who has been abducted by a cannibalistic serial killer, Salazar, whom she dated after they both enrolled at Books For The Blind. Manacled and horrified, she is helpless to prevent the maniac slicing away her clothing, but all the years of rejection bottled up inside her finally find release ...
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Works Of Art:The artist Cerveza auctions his works on the understanding that he can destroy each creation once he's completed a new one. Sally is so besotted with the sculpture she's acquired that, when the time comes for its destruction, her lover Lucy offers herself to Creveza's axe in its place.
Nicholas Royle - Ours Now: Yuppie horror. A commodity broker receives a stream of unsolicited porn magazines through the post depicting people with their private pats pierced in decidedly Psychic TV fashion. he is eventually lured to a house in Finchley where these extreme masochists live and has something very cringe-inducing done to him with his filofax.
Ian Watson - Lost Bodies: extraordinarily weird tale of a foxes head which continues to live despite its being torn off during the hunt. Two young couples are concerned that it is an alien spy - and the narrator wonders if his bashful wife, Karen, is one of the same kind ...
Wayne Allen Sallee - Bleeding Between The Lines: Blackly humorous account of Sallee's visit to his female psychiatrist, and the third in his trilogy concerning Cassady, "the dark side of my soul" (the series begins with Rapid Transit and continues with Take The A Train). The shrink remarks, "I also notice you mention Cassady in The Touch by having his name written on a bathroom wall." All four of the above appeared in the Years Best horror series, and I just found something called Blood From A Turnip in Greenberg's Dracula, Prince of Darkness.