num_pages: 424
description: Compiling the finest in frightening tales this unique anthology offers a diverse selection of horror culled from the last 25 years. Hand selected from cutting-edge authors each work blends subtle psychology and mischievousness with disturbingly visceral imagery. In the classic Chattery Teeth Stephen King provides a tautly drawn account of a traveling salesman who unwisely picks up yet another hitchhiker while in Peter Straubs eerie The Juniper Tree a man whose nostalgia for the movies of his childhood leads to his stolen innocence. Renowned fantasy author George R. R. Martin weaves a sinister yarn about a young woman encountering a neighbor who is overly enamored with her in The Pear-Shaped Man. Combining acclaimed masters of the macabre such as Clive Barker Poppy Z. Brite and Thomas Ligotti with bold new talents to the genre including Kelly Link Neil Gaiman and Stephen Kings son Joe Hill this distinctive collection of stories will delight and terrify.Contents Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament by Clive Barker Dancing Chickens by Edward Bryant The Greater Festival of Masks by Thomas Ligotti The Pear-Shaped Man by George R. R. Martin The Juniper Tree by Peter Straub Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons The Power and the Passion by Pat Cadigan The Phone Woman by Joe R. Lansdale Teratisms by Kathe Koja Chattery Teeth by Stephen King A Little Night Music by Lucius Shepard Calcutta Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite The Erl King by Elizabeth Hand The Dog Park by Dennis Etchison Rain Falls by Michael Marshall Smith Refrigerator Heaven by David J. Schow ---- by Joyce Carol Oates Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) by Neil Gaiman The Specialists Hat by Kelly Link The Tree is My Hat by Gene Wolfe Heat by Steve Rasnic Tem No Strings by Ramsey Campbell Stitch by Terry Dowling Dancing Men by Glen Hirshberg My Fathers Mask by Joe Hill
language: English
title: Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
publisher: Tachyon Publications