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The Year's Best Horror Stories XV

CONTENTS

Introduction: What's in a Name? • essay by Karl Edward Wagner

The Yougoslaves • (1986) • novelette by Robert Bloch

Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back • (1986) • shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale

Apples • (1986) • shortstory by Ramsey Campbell

Dead White Women • (1986) • shortstory by William F. Wu

Crystal • (1986) • shortstory by Charles L. Grant

Retirement • (1986) • shortstory by Ron Leming

The Man Who Did Tricks With Glass • (1986) • shortstory by Ron Wolfe

Bird in a Wrought Iron Cage • (1986) • shortstory by John Alfred Taylor

The Olympic Runner • (1986) • novelette by Dennis Etchison

Take the "A" Train • [Dennis Cassady] • (1986) • shortstory by Wayne Allen Sallee

The Foggy, Foggy Dew • (1986) • shortstory by Joel Lane

The Godmother • (1986) • shortstory by Tina Rath

"Pale Trembling Youth" • (1986) • shortstory by W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson (aka "Pale, Trembling Youth")

Red Light • (1986) • novelette by David J. Schow

In the Hour Before Dawn • (1986) • shortstory by Brad Strickland

Necros • (1986) • shortstory by Brian Lumley

Tattoos • (1986) • novelette by Jack Dann

Acquiring a Family • (1986) • novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes