Darker Masques

Terror hides its true form in the blackest of shadows, patiently waiting to unleash a never-ending nightmare upon those foolish — or daring — enough to uncover its evil visage. From the farthest reaches of twisted imaginations to the deepest, most intimate recesses of tortured minds, this collection of heart-stopping, bone-chilling tales reveals a world of unseen, unspoken horrors that will tear at your very soul, even as they grab you by the throat.

Join Ray Bradbury, Graham Masterton, Dan Simmons, F. Paul Wilson, and other masters of the macabre as they take you to the most hideous of realms to discover the evil that lurks behind...

Darker Masques.

Drifter / Ed Gorman for Michael Seidman

Reflections / Ray Russell

Happy family / Melissa Mia Hall and Douglas F. Winter

Dew drop inn / D.W. Taylor

Refractions / Thomas Millstead

Spelling bee / Adobe James

Better than one / Paul Dale Anderson

Ever, ever, after / Graham Masterton

Prometheus' declaration of love for the vulture (poem) / Alan Rogers

Long lips / R. Patrick Gates

Sinners / Ralph Rainwater, Jr.

Sunday breakfast / Jeanette M. Hopper

Third rail / Wayne Allen Sallee

Coochie-coo / Mark McNease

Wulgaru / Bill Ryan

Luckiest man in the world / Rex Miller

Boneless doll (poem) / Joey Froehlich

Skull / Diane Taylor

On 42nd Street / William F. Nolan

Safe / John Maclay

All but the ties eternal / Gary A. Braunbeck

Pop is real smart / Mort Castle

When the wall cries / Stanley Wiater

Return to the mutant rain forest (poem) / Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier

The willies / James Kisner

Drinking party / K. Marie Ramsland

Chosen one / G. Wayne Miller

Them bald-headed snays / Joseph A. Citro. Motherson / Steve Rasnic Tem

Kill for me / John Keefauver

Shave and a haircut, two bites / Dan Simmons

Orchid nursery (poem) / Amanda Russell

Of absence, darkness death: things which are not (poem) / Ray Bradbury

The pack / Chet Williamson

Children / Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Sea gulls / Gahan Wilson

Coming of night, the passing of day / Ed Gorman

Please don't hurt me / F. Paul Wilson

Splatter me an angel / James Kisner

Untitled still life with infinity perspective / Rex Miller

Pratfall / John Maclay

Heart of Helen Day / Graham Masterton

Nothing but the best / Brian MeNaughton [sic]

Somewhere / Denise Dumars

Milestone's face / Gary Brandner

Julia's touch / David T. Connolly

Savages / Darrell Schweitzer

Collapse of civilization / Ray Russell

Animal husbandry / Bruce Boston

Sounds / Kathryn Ptacek

Whispers of the unrepentant (poem) / T. Winter-Damon

Obscene phone calls / John Coyne

The children never lie / Cameron Nolan

Other woman / Lois Tilton

Love, hate, and the beautiful junkyard / Mort Castle

Sources of the Nile / Rick Hautala

Collaborationists / J.N. Williamson

My private memoirs of the Hoffer stigmaya pandemic / Dan Simmons

The secret / Steve Allen

• Author
• J.N. Williamson, Graham Masterton, Ray Bradbury, Dan Simmons, F. Paul Wilson, Ed Gorman, John Keefauver, R. Patrick Gates, Steve Rasnic Tem, William F. Nolan, Mort Castle, Alan Rodgers, Ray Russell, Thomas Millstead, Robert Frazier, John Maclay, Ralph Rainwater, Jr., Jeannette M. Hopper, Joey Froehlich, K. Marie Ramsland, Melissa Mia Hall, Douglas E. Winter, Rex Miller, Amanda Russell, Adobe James, James Kisner, Bill Ryan, Joseph A. Citro, Wayne Allen Sallee, Stanley J. Wiater, Gary Brandner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David T. Connolly, Brian McNaughton, John Coyne, Darrell Schweitzer, Gahan Wilson, Denise Dumars, Kathryn Ptacek, Rick Hautala, Chet Williamson, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lois Tilton, Paul Dale Anderson, G. Wayne Miller, Mark McNease, D.W. Taylor

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 574

• Publisher
• Pinnacle

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780786015054

• Genres
• horror, anthologies, collections, fantasy, fiction

• Release date
• 2002