Caped Fear

They are superhuman champions: hyper-charged, meta-guardians of humanity; protecting the innocent from the corrupt, saving us from the sadistic; shielding us from human or inhuman evil in all its forms. But, what if the gleaming smile from the chiseled jaw was actually the animalistic baring of teeth? What if THEY were the nightmare threat? They are not superheroes, but superhorrors! This dark potential is revealed as we present tales of shock and the macabre from a roster that includes some of the greatest creative minds from the realms of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and comic-books. What sort of dark and chilling fates arise when those with powers far beyond mere mortals are the central figures not in tales of triumph, but of terror? Welcome to Caped Fear.

    Contents

    Introduction (Caped Fear: Superhuman Horror Stories) essay by Mark Waid
    Prologue: A Post-Moon-Age Nightmare essay by Christopher Sequiera
1. The Towers of Eden by Jack Dann and Barry N. Malzberg
2. The Omnivore by Colleen Doran
3. Proof of Bullets by Jim Krueger
4. Stuporman [Lefty Feep] (1943) by Robert Bloch
5. Just Another Day by the Potomac by Karen Haber
6. Call Me Titan (1997)e by Robert Silverberg
7. Captain Weird: The Sword and the Spider (1970) by Howard Keltner and George R. R. Martin and Jim Starlin
8. Holding Out for a Hero by Jonathan Maberry
9. The Lady and/or the Tiger (1992) by Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney
10. Super-Doc and the Ten-Day Cure for the Zombie Apocalypse by Heather Graham
11. Loveman's Comeback (1977) by Ramsey Campbell
12. The Medici Stiletto by Janeen Webb
13. Double Space by William F. Nolan
14. Mylakhrion the Immortal (1977) by Brian Lumley
15. The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down by Joe R. Lansdale