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MacCulloch for Chillers for Christmas. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 Reflections by Jeffrey Goddin. Copyright © 1989 by Jeffrey Goddin for
Deathrealm #10. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Zombies for Jesus by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Copyright © 1989 by Nina Kiriki
Hoffman for Strained Relations. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Earth Wire by Joel Lane. Copyright © 1989 by Joel Lane for Winter
Chills 3. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Sponge and China Tea by D. F. Lewis. Copyright © 1989 by D. F. Lewis for
Dagon No. 26. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Boy With the Bloodstained Mouth by W. H. Pugmire. Copyright © 1989
by Nocturne for Nocturne, Secundus. Reprinted by permission of the author.
On the Dark Road by lan McDowell. Copyright © 1988 by Mercury Press,
Inc. for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1989. Reprinted by
permission of the author.
Narcopolis by Wayne Alien Sallee. Copyright © 1989 by Hell's Kitchen
Productions, Inc. for Narcopolis & Other Poems. Reprinted by permission of the
author.
Nights in the City by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Copyright © 1989 by
Jessica Amanda Salmonson for A Silver Thread of Madness. Reprinted by
permission of the author.
Return to the Mutant Rain Forest by Brace Boston and Robert Frazier.
Copyright © 1989 by Brace Boston and Robert Frazier for Masques III. Reprinted
by permission of the authors.
The End of the Hunt by David Drake. Copyright © 1989 by David A. Drake
for New Destinies, Fall 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Motivation by David Langford. Copyright © 1989 by David Langford for
Arrows of Eros. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Guide by Ramsey Campbell. Copyright © 1989 by Ramsey Campbell
for Post Mortem. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Horse of Iron & How We Can Know It & Be Changed by It Forever by
M. John Harrison. Copyright © 1989 by M. John Harrison for Tarot Tales.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy by David J. Schow. Copyright © David J. Schow,
1988, for Book of the Dead. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 Introduction:
Horror From Angst
To Zombies

Don't let anyone try to tell you that the horror boom is over.
A dozen years back when I started out as editor of The Year's Best Horror
Stories, I used to reserve space on one shelf for genre publications with room for
stories of note published outside the horror field. For 1989 hardcover and
paperback anthologies alone crammed one long shelf, while small press magazines
and booklets filled three Jack Daniels' cartons -- this in addition to the ordered
rows of monthly magazines ostensibly devoted to science fiction. This reflects a
yearly progression, and there's no sign of things leveling off. While one anthology
series dies, another takes its place; when one magazine folds, two more take its
place -- rather like the old story about the Hydra.
As a consequence, your overworked editor is being crowded out of his house
by tottering stacks of horrors. And you, gentle reader, need only to settle down in