The Year's Best Horror Stories 21

TERRIFYING STORIES THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SHUDDERING AT EVERY BARELY GLIMPSED SHADOW—
Once again, Karl Edward Wagner has dared to prowl where many fear to
tread, seeking out the finest tales of terror by such masters of malice
and mayhem as Ramsey Campbell and Ed Gorman—haunting and harrowing
legends calculated to strike fear in the hearts of even the most
stalwart readers.
A photographer whose obsession with images may bring to life trouble
beyond his wildest fantasies.... A couple caught up in an ancient ritual
that offers the promise of unending health, but at a price that may
prove far too high.... A woman whose memory may be failing her with the
passing years—or for a far more unnatural reason.... These are just
three of the provocative, imagination-grasping stories included in this
year’s ghoulish gallery.