World Fantasy Award nominee 2001, British Fantasy Award nominee 2001.
Edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton.
Firmly established as the world's premier horror anthology series, this
latest volume is twice the size, presenting almost a quarter of a
million words of new fiction by some of the hottest names and most
talented newcomers in the field. Contributors to DARK TERRORS 5
include Peter Straub, Poppy Z. Brite, Ramsey Campbell, Mick Garris –
Stephen King's director of choice – Gwyneth Jones, Michael Marshall
Smith, Kim Newman, Gahan Wilson, Christopher Fowler and many, many more.
Contents:
- Introduction by Stephen Jones and David Sutton
- At Home in the Pubs of Old London by Christopher Fowler
- Valentia by Caitlín R. Kiernan (as by Caitlín Kiernan)
- Barking Sands by Richard Christian Matheson
- Everything, in All the Wrong Order by Chaz Brenchley
- Savannah is Six by James Van Pelt
- Now Day Was Fled as the Worm Had Wished by Brian Hodge
- Why Rudy Can't Read by David J. Schow
- No Story in It by Ramsey Campbell
- Witch-Compass by Graham Masterton
- The Proposal by Nicholas Royle
- Changes by C. Bruce Hunter
- The Abortionist's Horse (A Nightmare) by Tanith Lee
- The Handover by Michael Marshall Smith
- Pearl by Roberta Lannes
- Beauregard by Eric Brown
- Necromimicos by Nancy Kilpatrick
- The Bootleg Heart by Joel Lane
- Saturday by Cherry Wilder
- The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray by Gregory Frost
- Bottle Babies by Mary A. Turzillo
- Going to Series by Kim Newman
- Haunts by Lisa Tuttle
- My Present Wife by Dennis Etchison
- Alicia by Melanie Tem
- The Haunted Bookshop by Brian Stableford
- Starfucker by Mick Garris
- Destroyer of Worlds by Gwyneth Jones
- The Geezers by Peter Straub
- Honeysuckle by William B. Trotter
- Final Departure by Gahan Wilson
- Pelican Cay by David Case
