The Mammoth Book of New Terror

Edited by Stephen Jones. Illustrated by Randy Broecker.

A chilling new collection of pure terror! Some of the world's most popular and successful authors of horror and dark fantasy have been brought together by multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones in this never-before-published volume showcasing the very best in modern macabre fiction. Within these pages you will meet vampires, zombies, witches, ghosts, serial killers, diabolical doctors, homicidal dwarves, ancient creatures from beneath the earth, and a child's terrifying incarnation of Santa Claus. From such contemporary classics of unease as 'The Fourth Seal' by Karl Edward Wagner and David Case's masterful novella 'Among the Wolves', through Brian Lumley's British Fantasy Award-winning 'Fruiting Bodies' and the World Fantasy Award-winning 'Under the Crust' by Terry Lamsley, to brand-new stories from Christopher Fowler, Graham Masterton, David J. Schow, Tanith Lee and others, this is a bumper crop of creepy tales that is certain to set pulses pounding and spines tingling as you step beyond the borders of sanity and enter a twilight realm where new terrors await...

Contents:

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION: RECREATING THE TERROR by Stephen Jones
• FRUITING BODIES by Brian Lumley
• NEEDLE SONG by Charles L. Grant
• TURBO-SATAN by Christopher Fowler
• TALKING IN THE DARK by Dennis Etchison
• THE CIRCUS by Sydney J. Bounds
• FOET by F. Paul Wilson
• THE CANDLE IN THE SKULL by Basil Copper
• THE CHIMNEY by Ramsey Campbell
• DARK WINGS by Phyllis Eisenstein
• REFLECTION OF EVIL by Graham Masterton
• MIRROR OF THE NIGHT by E.C. Tubb
• MAYPOLE by Brian Mooney
• UNDER THE CRUST by Terry Lamsley
• TIR NAN OG by Lisa Tuttle
• A LIVING LEGEND by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• WAKE-UP CALL by David J. Schow
• THE FOURTH SEAL by Karl Edward Wagner
• UNLOCKED by Tanith Lee & John Kaiine
• CLOSING TIME by Neil Gaiman
• IT WAS THE HEAT by Pat Cadigan
• FODDER by Tim Lebbon & Brian Keene
• OPEN DOORS by Michael Marshall Smith
• ANDROMEDA AMONG THE STONES by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• FLOWERS ON THEIR BRIDLES, HOOVES IN THE AIR by Glen Hirshberg
• AMERIKANSKI DEAD AT THE MOSCOW MORGUE OR: CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA–COLA by Kim Newman
• AMONG THE WOLVES by David Case