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The Year's Best Horror IX

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Short horror stories selected as the year's best by Karl Edward Wagner.

Contents

11 • Introduction: The Year of the Anthology and Beyond • essay by Karl Edward Wagner

15 • The Monkey • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King

54 • The Gap • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell

67 • The Cats of Pere LaChaise • (1980) • short story by Neil Olonoff

77 • The Propert Bequest • (1980) • short story by Basil A. Smith

123 • On Call • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison

132 • The Catacomb • (1980) • short story by Peter Shilston

144 • Black Man with a Horn • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1980) • novelette by T. E. D. Klein

185 • The King • (1980) • short story by William Relling, Jr.

194 • Footsteps • (1980) • short story by Harlan Ellison

208 • Without Rhyme or Reason • (1980) • short story by Peter Valentine Timlett