Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams

Edited by Bruce Holland Rogers.

Nebula and Bram Stoker Award-winning fantasy writer Bruce Holland Rogers presents twenty-three works of disquieting fantasy illustrated by World Fantasy Award-winning artist Alan M. Clark. Among the contributors are Jane Yolen, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, Gary A. Braunbeck and Lucy A. Snyder. Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams features Ray Vukcevich's creepy and funny "We Retire to the Desert," Jerry Oltion's disquieting "Winners," tabloid horror poems by Michael Arnzen, and stories by talented newcomers.

Contents:

• Introduction
• We Retire to the Desert by Ray Vukcevich
• The Goblin King by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Fisherman by Elizabeth Engstrom
• The Lonely Gorilla by Melanie Tem
• My Mustache by Ray Vukcevich
• The Mouse's Bedtime Story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Kids Watch in Horror as Clown Chokes To Death on Balloon (poem) by Michael Arnzen
• Designated Hater by Leslie What
• Ceremony by Ray Vukcevich
• Winners by Jerry Oltion
• The Dead Boy at Your Window by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Sweet Kitty by Elizabeth Massie
• King for a Day by Leslie What
• Mousenight by Jill Bauman and Alan M. Clark
• Wasp Sting Makes Barber Slash Man's Throat (poem) by Michael Arnzen
• The Still-Life Drama of Passing Cars by Gary A. Braunbeck and Lucy A. Snyder
• Vargas County by Elizabeth Engstrom
• The Apple Golem by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Miracle by John Davis
• There's No Such Thing as Monsters by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Mouths to Feed by Rusty Nixon
• The Perfect Gift by Ray Vukcevich
• Souls by Jane Yolen