num_pages: 223
description: Short horror stories selected as the year's best by Karl Edward Wagner.Contents 11  Introduction: The Year of the Anthology and Beyond  essay by Karl Edward Wagner 15  The Monkey  (1980)  novelette by Stephen King 54  The Gap  (1980)  short story by Ramsey Campbell 67  The Cats of Pere LaChaise  (1980)  short story by Neil Olonoff 77  The Propert Bequest  (1980)  short story by Basil A. Smith 123  On Call  (1980)  short story by Dennis Etchison 132  The Catacomb  (1980)  short story by Peter Shilston 144  Black Man with a Horn  [Cthulhu Mythos]  (1980)  novelette by T. E. D. Klein 185  The King  (1980)  short story by William Relling Jr. 194  Footsteps  (1980)  short story by Harlan Ellison 208  Without Rhyme or Reason  (1980)  short story by Peter Valentine Timlett
language: English
title: The Year's Best Horror IX
publisher: DAW