The Year's Best Horror Stories 13

Thirteen is a lucky number for Series XIII, for some of the best horror tales of the last thirteen years were published in time to make this volume. As Karl Edward Wagner says, “I sifted through to find stories that hold the power to chill readers’ imagination—whether through icy terror or with a disquieting shiver. Here are the eighteen stories from 1984 that best succeeded in evoking a mood of horror.”Here is Stephen King, of Pet Semetary fame, with one of his scariest, Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut.Here is Ramsey Campbell, of Incarnate, with Watch the Birdie, a shocker.Here are Charles L. Grant, Dennis Etchison, and Gardner Dozois and a dozen more tellers of terrors!This is the Thirteenth!