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The Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII

Contents

13 • Introduction: From Horror Angst to Zombies • essay by Karl Edward Wagner

17 • Kaddish • (1989) • short story by Jack Dann

30 • The Gravedigger's Tale • (1989) • short story by Simon Clark

40 • Meeting the Author • (1989) • short story by Ramsey Campbell

55 • Buckets • (1989) • novelette by F. Paul Wilson

76 • The Pit-Yakker • non-genre • (1989) • short story by Brian Lumley

99 • Mr. Sandman • (1989) • short story by Scott D. Yost

115 • Renaissance • (1989) • short story by Chico Kidd [as by A. F. Kidd]

135 • Lord of Infinite Diversions • (1989) • short story by T. Winter-Damon

137 • Rail Rider • (1989) • short story by Wayne Allen Sallee (variant of Third Rail)

142 • Archway • (1989) • novelette by Nicholas Royle

162 • The Confessional • (1989) • short story by Patrick McLeod

178 • The Deliverer • (1989) • short story by Simon MacCulloch

190 • Reflections • (1989) • short story by Jeffrey Goddin

207 • Zombies for Jesus • (1989) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

216 • The Earth Wire • (1989) • short story by Joel Lane

231 • Sponge and China Tea • (1989) • short story by D. F. Lewis

236 • The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth • (1989) • short story by W. H. Pugmire

238 • On the Dark Road • (1989) • short story by Ian McDowell

256 • Narcopolis • (1989) • poem by Wayne Allen Sallee

262 • Nights in the City • (1989) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

274 • Return to the Mutant Rain Forest • [Mutant Rain Forest] • (1989) • poem by Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier

279 • The End of the Hunt • (1989) • short story by David Drake

291 • The Motivation • (1989) • short story by David Langford

309 • The Guide • (1989) • short story by Ramsey Campbell

324 • The Horse of Iron & How We Can Know It & Be Changed By It Forever • (1989) • short story by M. John Harrison

342 • Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy • (1989) • novelette by David J. Schow